Slapshot

Meet the MSOE Men’s Hockey Team, a D3 college hockey team who are halfway through their 2023-24 season. The team had a weekend of losses, and want to come back this weekend in St. Cloud, Minnesota. In this short documentary, Kameron Jones shows us how this team works through their weak points in practice, to […]

Clothed in History

Meet Mel and Tom, partners in life and co-owners of Handsome Hound Vintage. The pair opened their brick-and-mortar shop, located at the corner of Oakland and Hampshire avenues, in 2022. Because Handsome Hound is a small business that evolved from a traveling flea market booth, Mel and Tom’s greatest challenge has been getting their name […]

Tiny Tim – A Dickens of a Village

Every year in Greendale, Wisconsin people celebrate winter holidays with a public outing called A Dickens of a Village, where all the village shops open their doors and vendors host tables and tents with games, crafts and food. During the celebration, community members play a live enactment of Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Story, and part […]

Gina and the Pick

As pickleball continues to grow in popularity, this short documentary follows Gina Cilento’s experience as an Association of Professional Pickleball (APP) award-winner, instructor, and it gives us an inside view of her business: a pickleball athleisure brand that has Katy Perry as a customer.

The Fall Sound

25 year old Ashton Wilke has always been passionate about music. From a young age, he started a band with his friends in high school, but growing older comes with responsibilities and challenges. As an adult it can become difficult to follow your passions as you find yourself caught up with work, relationships, and the […]

The Washroom

In this short documentary, Liv Weiss takes us to a Milwaukee underground music venue called The Washroom. Once a basement laundry room, the venue opened up about a year ago and has created a valuable space for the local music scene to thrive.

The Northwoods Beast: The Hodag

In the 1800s, northern Wisconsin loggers claimed to see a creature with “spikes all the way down the entire length of its body with a fistful of needle-sharp pointed spears at the end of his tail… fangs that would rival a saber tooth tiger and could rip out the belly of the biggest bear.” As […]

Dominic the Food Reviewer

In this short documentary, Madelyn Heimsch introduces us to Dominic Dean, a high school senior who has always been passionate about food and loved trying new cuisines from a young age. Because he is on the autism spectrum, Dominic struggled with reading and writing, and when he entered high school, his parents and teachers came […]

The Home-brewer

In this short documentary, Joshua Groninger invites us into his house to meet his dad, Craig. During the pandemic, he learned how to brew beer and now his garage is the setting for this hobby that helps him ease his mind.

Resilience

Carole Dudek is a 76 year old woman who has gone through several medical emergencies (two knee replacements, quadruple bypass, back surgeries, cancer, etc), the death of her husband, and now the loss of sight in her right eye. In this short documentary, Morgan Betchkal shows us the experience of her elderly grandmother losing her […]

Commonwealth

Grace Pagel takes us on a trip to Madison, WI, where a local band invites us into their house and stage. Meet Commonwealth.