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).
Sunday October 12th — 5-830PM
5-630PM 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
7-830PM 48-Hour Film Screening
Dreyfus University Center Theater
1015 Reserve St, Stevens Point WI 54481
Pointer Studios 48 Hour Film Fest
Kicking off and Screening at UWSP. Teams were given 48 hours to complete a short film over the course of the festival weekend, and this screening is the showcase of each team’s completed work — ready or not!
Sunday Short Films
Mendota:
Symphony of a Lake
Madison, Wisconsin's beautiful Lake Mendota—and the community that brings it to life—is documented and celebrated season by season.
Timun Mas
A quirky retelling of a Javanese folktale by the 4th and 5th grade students of Crestwood Elementary in Madison, WI.
Entrepreneur
The story of four interconnected businesses in a historic building, and their journey to get everything off the ground in a shared space.
Small Town Rockstars
A coming of age, coming out story set in the 80s in Wisconsin.
Wild Geese
Conflict arises when friends return to their childhood home to unearth the time capsule they buried as kids.
48-Hour Films
Kicking off and Screening at UWSP. Teams were given 48 hours to complete a short film over the course of the festival weekend, and this screening is the showcase of each team’s completed work — ready or not!
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.