Six Films To See at the Milwaukee Film Festival
A member of the festival's program committee gives his recommendations.
Labor Day weekend marked the release of the Milwaukee Film Festival's Program Guide. The annual fest begins Sept. 22 and is set to feature more than 100 films from the Milwaukee area and around the world. Over 11 days, these films will play at four area theatres - The Downer and Oriental on Milwaukee's east side, Ridge Cinema in New Berlin and North Shore Cinema in Mequon. Over the summer, I had the great honor of serving on Milwaukee Film's Program Committee. We met twice weekly and screened over 50 films, which we judged in hopes of narrowing the festival's selections. Not every film we watched was great, but some of them were. Especially strong this year is the crop of entertaining and powerful documentaries. Here are my favorites, …
