Screening Thursday-Sunday, October 9th-12th!
Featuring Selected Work Created in Wisconsin and Workshops Lead by Wisconsinites.
2025 Venues and Films
Screenings and filmmaker talkbacks are scheduled alongside live performances and interactive demos, as well as panels on regional creative spaces, projects and resources (ft. local filmmakers, writers, actors and founders of regional creative spaces).
Friday October 10th — 6-10PM
6-9PM Interactive Workshop
CREATE Portage County
1300 Maria Drive, Stevens Point, WI 54481
Retro and Interactive Media Workshop!
Organized in partnership with The Wisconsin Computer Club, this workshop will feature rare and retro media of all-kinds, and multiple interactive stations/systems. This is your chance to get hands-on with rare tech, from the old virtual boy system to laserdisc and video on vinyl.
*Admission with any Fest Ticket
7-9PM Feature Film
Dreyfus University Center Theater
1015 Reserve St, Stevens Point WI 54481
Possession, a feature-length psychological horror/drama, screening alongside the fest as part of CREATE and UWSP’s monthly Revival House film series, featuring classic films from the Criterion Collection and beyond. $5 Ticket at the door or Free Entry with Fest Ticket
9PM-1030PM Short Film Screening
CREATE’s Great Hall - Get Tickets
1300 Maria Drive, Stevens Point, WI 54481
Featuring a selection of curated short films and filmmaker talkbacks. Enjoy Create’s Historic Great Hall and Cash Bar. See below for films screening this evening.
CREATE Portage County’s new headquarters and collaborative hub, home to new offices, labs, studios, and an upcoming commercial kitchen. This unique setting for work, meetups, and events houses a variety of professional tools and equipment to satisfy the most ambitious creators.
Friday SHORT FilmS
Scapegoat
A young couple goes on an ill-fated camping trip. Things are going well until they are ambushed by a violent cult looking for fresh blood for their ritual.
Paradox Chamber
Logan and Raquel live together but their relationship, and their lives, are put at risk when one of them makes a world-shattering claim
Grooms on Hold
The intimate, anxious final minutes of bachelorhood. A collage of audio and video repurposed from countless real wedding ceremonies.
GIN
Filmed in Mexico, Las Vegas, Nevada and Milwaukee, Wisconsin, Gin is a neo-noir detective film that takes place on the streets of Las Vegas, Nevada (Sin City).
Filmmakers in Attendance
Nate Sheppard
A multimedia creative with a focus on video and music production. Based in Rhinelander, Wisconsin, Nate was the 2019 recipient of the Northern Arts Council’s Indiviual Artist Grant and has worked on a wide range of projects including directing a feature-length documentary, creating an online arts festival, and designing multimedia art installations.
Winter Williams
Winter Williams (locally known as Ashley) is an award-winning American film and theater actress, best known for her breakout roles in cult horror The Human Centipede, revenge thriller Julia, and crime drama Albanian Gangster. Currently, Williams is co-creating a one-woman show with playwright Denmo Ibrahim, while continuing her film collaborations with her husband, filmmaker Matthew A. Brown. Ashley co-leads the Drama/Acting classes ages 5-18
Samuel Karow
After receiving his BFA in film from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, Sam is now a professional video artist based in Appleton, Wisconsin.Sam’s work has been exhibited nationally and internationally. His award-winning short film 3 Miles East was included in the 64th Cannes Film Festival Court Métrage.
Tj Hill
From stage, to musical composition, to live broadcast, to film, TJ Hill has had a love for storytelling in all mediums his entire life. His short films have been featuredin a variety of festivals, including the Cannes Short Film Corner in 2023.
Nels Lindquist
A Milwaukee-based filmmaker with deep ties to Wisconsin. He runs I’m Cold Productions where he creates everything from music videos to advertisements to documentary and fiction filmmaking.
Matt Osowski
A Central Wisconsin-based composer and musician. Matt has worked on projects in Seattle, WA; Los Angeles, CA; Minneapolis, MN; and throughout the state of Wisconsin.
Matthew A. Brown
Matthew A. Brown’s feature film directorial debut, Julia, was released in the US in AMC cinemas in October 2015 after winning multiple awards at the world’s leading genre film festivals and selling to over forty international territories. His sophomore feature, Albanian Gangster, was released in theaters via AMC Independent in October 2020, and he is currently in post on his third feature, Illyrian Blood, a sequel to Albanian Gangster. His next project, Killdeer, a dramatic thriller set on North Dakota’s Bakken oilfields, shoots this coming February, 2026.