2025 Venues and Films
Screenings and filmmaker talkbacks were 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).
Studio Workshop
CREATE Portage County
1300 Maria Drive, Stevens Point, WI 54481
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!
Panel and Workshop
CREATE Portage County
1300 Maria Drive, Stevens Point, WI 54481
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.
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
Narrative (Comedy) Directed by Ethan Kulinski
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
Music Video Directed by TJ Hill and Travis Agnew
A healing art and music project in response to the tragic shooting at Abundant Life Christian School in Madison Wisconsin.
Paradox Chamber
Narrative (Drama/Scifi) Directed by Matthew Balz
Logan and Raquel live together but their relationship, and their lives, are put at risk when one of them makes a world-shattering claim
Strings
Narrative (Drama) Directed by Nettie Dellheim
The Story of two people united by their deep love of poetry and shared experiences of loss and hope.
Stained Reputation
Narrative (Comedy) Directed by Jenavieve Plutz
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
Exp. Narrative (Found Footage) Directed by Joel Sacramento
A dark comedy that twists a 1950s educational film into a surreal takedown of the idealized American household.