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Milwaukee Native David Lowery’s ‘The Old Man & the Gun’ Opens at the Downer

Duane DudekOctober 9, 2018

Director and Milwaukee-area native David Lowery's latest movie may be Robert Redford's last. Or not....

Inside Milwaukee Filmmaker Cristina Costantini’s Award-winning ‘Science Fair’ Documentary

Duane DudekAugust 14, 2018

Cristina Costantini snagged a Sundance Festival Favorite award for a documentary inspired in part by her experiences at University School of Milwaukee....

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Director Keith McQuirter (center) at the 2016 Milwaukee Film Festival

Now Streaming: New Documentary ‘Milwaukee 53206’ Addresses the Personal Cost Of Incarceration

Duane DudekApril 18, 2018

The topic hit home for director Keith McQuirter while visiting a correctional facility where "everyone in the population looked like me."...

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Meet Adam Stockhausen, the Tosa Native at the Center of Two of 2018’s Most Talked About Films

Duane DudekApril 13, 2018

He's come a long way since Marquette....

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Milwaukee Filmmaker Cristina Costantini Just Won the Sundance Festival Favorite Award for ‘Science Fair’

Duane DudekFebruary 5, 2018

Milwaukee native Cristina Costantini is making quite a name for herself....

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‘The Florida Project’ is Already Striking an Unexpected Chord With Film-Goers

Duane DudekOctober 20, 2017

No film has moved me more since last year’s Oscar winning best picture. And this compassionate and heartbreaking work, opening at Milwaukee theaters Friday, couldn’t come at a better time. ...

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Film Fest Film Explains Milwaukee Man’s Dedication to ‘Lawsonomy’

Duane DudekAugust 4, 2017

Pioneer aviator Alfred Lawson created a philosophy that lives on in a collection of texts assembled by the last of its true followers, and in a film that will be screened at the Milwaukee Film Festival this fall....

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Film Fest’s ‘Wrecking Crew’ A 19-Year Love Song

Duane DudekOctober 6, 2015

The real obstacle was getting rights to the 110 songs in the film at a cost of about $700,000....

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John Axford Talks Film Fest, Kubrick and a Little Baseball

Duane DudekOctober 6, 2015

For the third year the former Milwaukee Brewer pitcher and film festival sponsor will present a film by the iconoclastic and reclusive late director Kubrick....

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Here’s Johnny! Axford Presents ‘Shining’ At MKE Film Fest

Duane DudekOctober 5, 2015

Former Brewer John Axford supports Cream City Cinema along with filmmaker and residents programs at Milwaukee Film. He hosts a screening of "The Shining" Tuesday at the Oriental....

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Film Fest Mystery ‘Uncle John’ A Tale Of Two Worlds

Duane DudekSeptember 30, 2015

Filmmakers and actor John Ashton to appear at Milwaukee Film Festival....

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End Of Road for Journal Sentinel and MKE Film Festival?

Duane DudekSeptember 29, 2015

The growth of the festival and the shrinking of the paper probably signal the end of their current sponsorship arrangement, which expires this year....

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