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).
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
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
Exp. Documentary Directed by Levon Blackburn
Madison, Wisconsin's beautiful Lake Mendota—and the community that brings it to life—is documented and celebrated season by season.
Timun Mas
Animation Directed by Crestwood Art
A quirky retelling of a Javanese folktale by the 4th and 5th grade students of Crestwood Elementary in Madison, WI.
Entrepreneur
Documentary Directed by Nate Sheppard
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
Narrative (Drama) Directed by Daniel Ratcliff
A coming of age, coming out story set in the 80s in Wisconsin.
Wild Geese
Narrative (Drama) Directed by Ike & Rachel Winifred Sunu
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!