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Milwaukee Children’s Film Festival, presented by PNC, showcases quality children's cinema from around the world.
The Milwaukee Children’s Film Festival, presented by PNC, showcases quality children's cinema from around the world. Each screening includes discussions with filmmakers or educators, hands-on activities, and take-home guides! Young or old, this is a great opportunity to experience movies with your entire family.
MCFF also offers educational screenings to school groups on weekdays during the Milwaukee Film Festival. Student audiences engage in post-screening Q&As with special guests, and educators receive curriculum packets with media literacy activities for use in schools. Email education@milwaukee-film.org for more information.
The Milwaukee Children’s Film Festival 2011 Lineup
Mia and the Migoo (all ages)
Winner of the European Film Award for Best Animated Film, this stunningly beautiful and thrilling family adventure pits plucky, wild-haired young heroine Mia against profit-hungry developers, with the future of life on Earth in the balance.
A Cat in Paris (ages 7+)
This animated French festival hit is a frisky mystery that unfurls in the alleys and on the rooftops of the French capital, Paris, over the course of one adventurous evening.
The Crocodiles (ages 10+)
A live-action wild adventure-comedy film reminiscent of The Goonies follows a band of crime-fighting scrappy kids, adopted from the popular ’70’s German novel.
Kids Shorts: Size Small (All Ages)
This fun-filled program is bursting with musicals, thrilling tales, and whimsical feats of imagination.
Kids Shorts: Size Medium (Ages 7+)
A talking shell, a curious cat, a deceptive doll, and other unique characters parade across the screen in this top-notch collection of shorts.
Kids Shorts: Size Large (Ages 11+)
Kids meet runaways, bullies, and a boy who draws an entire world for his dreams in this blend of live-action and animated films.
Have you ever considered taking your students on a field trip to the movies? Milwaukee Film’s education screenings are a great way to expose students to different cultures and inspire their imaginations!
Calling all educators!
Have you ever considered taking your students on a field trip to the movies? Milwaukee Film’s education screenings are a great way to expose students to different cultures and inspire their imaginations!
Join us for the Milwaukee Children’s Film Festival and use the power of cinema to engage your students while reinforcing intellectual ideas. As part of the annual Milwaukee Film Festival (Sept 27 – Oct 11, 2012), the Milwaukee Children’s Film Festival presents inspiring, beautiful, and thoughtful films that raise the bar for Milwaukee youth multicultural programming.
Education screenings incorporate curriculum for areas such as:
- Language Arts: Reading, Writing, and Critical Thinking Skills
- Social Science: Global Cultures, Heritage, and Cross-Cultural Understanding
- Fine Arts: Media Literacy, Filmmaking, and Animation
- Foreign Languages: Communication, Culture, and Geography
Education screenings include a trip to the Oriental Theatre or Marcus North Shore and post-screening discussions with filmmakers or media educators. Participating teachers receive film-related curriculum packets, which include the Wisconsin Model Academic and Common Core State Standards that screenings and activities meet.
Screening Dates (all begin at 9:30am)
- Grades 1-3: Wednesday, October 3
- Grades 4-6: Tuesday, October 2 and Wednesday, October 10
- Grades 6-8: Monday, October 1
- Grades 9-12: Thursday, October 4 and Monday, October 8
Tickets
$1 per student if attending with a class.
Email susan@milwaukee-film.org for more details.
How Do You Sign Up?
1) Contact Susan Kerns, Milwaukee Film Education Director, at susan@milwaukee-film.org or (414) 755-1965 ext 203 OR fill out this form.
2) Let her know your name, school name, grade level, approximate number of students, and the date you’d prefer.
3) We understand that class sizes are subject to change, so reserving now holds your place for the entire class. We will confirm everything, including the film selection, and arrange for payment over the summer.
4) Last year’s screenings filled up quickly, so reserve spaces early!
This Year’s Films
Our programmers are currently considering three internationally acclaimed animated films, several live-action films about growing up in other countries, and a couple of terrific documentaries about young people that audiences won’t see anywhere else. Final selections will be made by August.
Last Year’s Films
Mia and the Migoo: Winner of the European Film Award for Best Animated Feature, this film screened in its original French language for elementary school students.
The Crocodiles: Middle-school students enjoyed this live-action German film, which has been compared to the beloved 80s classic The Goonies. This empowering movie engaged students while reinforcing lessons about acceptance and disability.
Louder Than a Bomb: This documentary about the Chicago-area high school poetry slam of the same name won the Audience Award at the 2011 Milwaukee Film Festival! Poets featured in the film performed for the high-school audience after the screening and answered questions about writing, being featured in a film, and life in general.
Questions?
If you have any questions, contact Susan Kerns, Milwaukee Film Education Director, at susan@milwaukee-film.org or (414) 755-1965 ext 203
Collaborative Cinema provides filmmakers at all stages with an enhanced understanding of the full process of filmmaking from script to screen.
Collaborative Cinema provides high school students, college students, and emerging film professionals with an enhanced understanding of filmmaking at all stages. Beginning with screenwriting and including all elements of filmmaking from pre-production to distribution, the program aims to educate and increase the diversity of the local film community while building a network of students and professional filmmakers to be the future of the Wisconsin film industry.
Screenwriting Program for Teens (Grades 9-12)
Local high school students submit short film ideas and work with professional mentors to turn ideas into scripts. Finished scripts become contenders to be made into a film during the summer film shoot.
Screenwriting Program for Adults
During workshops geared to strengthen the skills of writers at all levels, writers work with professional mentors to turn those ideas into scripts. Finished scripts become contenders to be made into a film during the summer film shoot.
Summer Film Shoot
One script from the screenwriting programs is made into a film using a cast and crew comprised of students, emerging professionals, and the best filmmakers in town. Emerging filmmakers can apply to direct the film with the guidance of a seasoned film director.
Filmmaking Workshops for Teens
Each semester, Collaborative Cinema sends a team of filmmakers into community centers and schools to create short films with students.
Filmmaking Workshops for Adults
Once a year, we host an intimate workshop designed specifically to meet the needs of underrepresented filmmakers in the Milwaukee area.
Milwaukee Film’s Collaborative Cinema education program is sponsored by the Richard and Ethel Herzfeld Foundation, the Mary L. Nohl Fund, Independent, and North American Camera.
Watch current and past Collaborative Cinema films—all written, directed, crewed and edited by Milwaukee filmmakers.
Watch current and past Collaborative Cinema films—all written, directed, crewed and edited by Milwaukee filmmakers. To see all films produced by Collaborative Cinema, visit our Vimeo channel.
A light-hearted, urban fable about a homeless man's attempt to connect to the busy world around him.
SPARE CHANGE
2010 Collaborative Cinema film
Screenwriter: Alexis Daubner
Director: Aaron Greer
Cinematographer: Mike Gillis
Best Wisconsin Film, Beloit International Film Festival 2012
Audience Choice Award: Best Short, Central Wisconsin Film Festival 2011
Documentary of the Milwaukee Film's Collaborative Cinema program in 2010, created by doc|UWM (Click here to see the long version).
Eric, institutionalized as a boy, spends his life searching for harmony.
WARD THREE
2009 Collaborative Cinema film
Screenwriter: Natalie Mullins
Director: Jason Satterfield
Cinematographer: Jimmy Sammarco
In a room full of strangers, people come and they go... while a young woman waits.
THE WAITING ROOM
2008 Collaborative Cinema film
Screenwriter: Emily Downes
Director: Tate Bunker
Cinematographer: Carlo Besasie
Audience Choice Award, The Milwaukee Show 2008
