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).
SAturday October 11th — 3-4PM & 7-930PM
3-4PM Studio Workshop
CREATE Portage County
1300 Maria Drive, Stevens Point, WI 54481
Join CREATE staff and Matt Osowski, a Central Wisconsin-based composer and musician, for a series of production demos in the photo/video studio and editing control room (with analog mixing boards and digital audio workstations). Get hands-on with tech, and learn some new techniques. Explore how beginners and pros alike can leverage resources in this community studio!
7-8PM Panel and Workshop
CREATE Portage County
1300 Maria Drive, Stevens Point, WI 54481
Join award-winning actress Winter Williams (The Human Centipede, Julia) and filmmaker Matthew A. Brown (Julia, Albanian Gangster) for a discussion on the art of authentic performance followed by an interactive workshop in line with the actor training they offer at In The Pines Studio - giving festival guests a taste of the creative process behind their classes. Workshop includes screening and discussion of Matthew's short film, Crush, made in Berlin, Germany and shortlisted for the Academy of Awards.
8-930PM 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
Saturday Short Films
Three Chicken Dinners
A young film production assistant from the city, has been tasked with getting food for set from a small-town Wisconsin dive bar.
Light Shines in the Darkness
A healing art and music project in response to the tragic shooting at Abundant Life Christian School in Madison Wisconsin.
Face Time
A troubled young woman battles her mother’s ever-changing personas—until a chilling discovery shifts the rules of their twisted family.
Strings
The Story of two people united by their deep love of poetry and shared experiences of loss and hope.
Stained Reputation
The story of Rebecca, a quirky young woman, who is fighting an office rumor that is ruining her image. How far will she go to clear her stained reputation?
A Date With Your Family
A dark comedy that twists a 1950s educational film into a surreal takedown of the idealized American household.
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.