Special Projects

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.

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 […]

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 […]

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.

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 […]

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

People might think that being a member of the the Reserve Officers’ Training Corps (ROTC) is just waking up at 5 a.m, exercising, and going to college classes. But in this short documentary, Alexis Treadway shows us there is a lot more that can come from the program. 

Meet Tyler. He founded UWM’s only A Cappella group called Public Hearing. Through rehearsals and a final performance, they prove that A cappella is more than singing: there is choreography involved as well. Samantha Calderon tells us more in this short documentary.

LAC DU FLAMBEAU, Wisconsin — Sitting in his garage amongst old Folgers containers containing caulk and a multitude of fishing rods hanging from the ceiling, 81-year-old tribal elder and former Chairman Tom Maulson sits in a weathered maroon chair. The son of a German man and an Ojibwe woman, Maulson was one of the more […]

There is just something so special about the Wisconsin Northwoods. Snow blizzards blanket the land in winter months, birds beep and tweet during the springtime, fish wiggle and whirl down summer streams and fall foliage christens the cool autumn air. The pure beauty of the land makes time stop and busy brains quiet. However, that […]

Dave Miess and his wife moved north to Lac du Flambeau, Wisconsin from an area south of Madison in 2020, after finding a place that allowed him his own stand-alone photography studio. Frequenting the area on camping trips with their children, from the time they were in diapers until high school, strengthened their relationship with […]