Mary Louise Schumacher
May 17, 2016
Tap Milwaukee
Milwaukee filmmaker Chris Smith is tapping his inner Mark Zuckerberg and his Hollywood tastemaker friends to launch a new app that's about sharing cool stuff.
Called Rex, the free app launches officially Wednesday and allows chums to share — and keep track of — recommendations for books, movies, podcasts, restaurants and cultural doings like plays and museum exhibits.
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May 12, 2016
UWM Report
A television commercial made by students in the Peck School of the Arts is a finalist at the prestigious Art & Technique of the American Commercial show June 9 in New York.
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Christopher Clough
May 10
Green Bay Press-Gazette
Drew Britton isn’t “An American in Paris,” as says the title of the classic 1954 Gene Kelly movie musical. But Britton is playing a leading role in a story that could be titled “A Door County Film in Cannes.”
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Variety Staff
April 27, 2016
Variety
University of Wisconsin Milwaukee, Peck School of the Arts Milwaukee
The Department of Film, Video, Animation and New Genres at UWM focuses on maintaining artistic and intellectual curiosity among its students. The school partners with the Milwaukee Intl. Film Festival, Milwaukee LGBT Film and Video Festival and other groups throughout the university and community.
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Duane Dudek
February 8, 2016
Tap Milwaukee
No one plans to fill a niche.
Rather, people have a passion or obscure skill that no one cares about until they discover a need for it.
The niches filled by Kenosha native Caroline Kastelic are puppetry and stop-motion animation.
And the techniques she learned at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee led directly to working on the Oscar-nominated stop-motion film "Anomalisa."
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Ben Stanley
February 5, 2016
Biz Times Milwaukee
The University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee has joined the ranks of the nation’s most active research universities.
UWM was re-classified as a Tier 1 Research University in theCarnegie Foundation’s most recent Classification of Institutions of Higher Education, which was published Feb. 1.
The foundation releases classifications once every five years.
There are 115 Tier 1 research institutions, including the University of Wisconsin-Madison, Yale, Duke and Johns Hopkins.
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by Sky Hopinka, student filmmaker
1. I got into town Thursday night (January 21) just before my first screening on Friday at noon. It was a pretty quick turnaround before jumping into a theatre for a first screening. Below is a picture of the Q&A.
2. On Sunday (January 25), I had the privilege of having my work screened to the Native Lab Fellows, as well as some alumni from the group, including acclaimed director/writer/actor Taika Waititi.
3. Below are filmmakers Mike Olenick and UWM alum and adjunct Ben Balcom, who had a film running in the concurrent Slamdance Film Festival. We were seeing Deborah Stratman's screening of her new film, "The Illinois Parables."
4. One of my favorite films of the festival was "Cemetery of Splendor" by Apitchapong Weerasethakul. Below is a picture of the Q&A following the film. It's worth mentioning that actor/rapper Danny Glover sat right in front of me.
5. One week into the festival, I needed a break and wanted to see more of the region before returning home. I rented a car in Salt Lake City and drove north to the Spiral Jetty to enjoy some time alone with nothing around me but coyotes, jack rabbits and cows.
Tom Fuchs
12/22/15
Milwaukee Magazine
The end of the calendar year is always time for reflection on the twelve months that came before, and that certainly is the case in the film world, when everyone’s top ten lists begin to trickle out and the year’s finest achievements in film are celebrated (and the year’s most calculated works are trotted out for Oscar consideration). Doing so gives us the opportunity to reflect back on what has been a particularly momentous year in the local film world.
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