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

In the Pines Studio - Get Tickets
6746 Lone Pine St, Stevens Point, WI 54482

Featuring a selection of curated short films and filmmaker talkbacks. See the slideshow below for films screening this evening.

In The Pines Studio is an intimate, multifaceted gathering space which aims to inspire and nurture innovation, collaboration, and growth. The studio fosters creative community through a variety of classes, workshops and community meetups.

Visiting Filmmakers

Thursday SHORT FilmS

A Sick Beat

Experimental Narrative Directed by Samuel Karow
After getting ousted by friends, Chloe seeks sanctuary with her "Uncle Minty", but she finds a forgotten hermit; unhinged and unstable.

A Seething Underneath

Documentary Directed by Nels Lindquist
Water contamination is a quiet epidemic affecting millions of people across the nation. A Seething Underneath explores the stories of three Wisconsin communities grappling with this crisis.

See You Around

Experimental Narrative Directed by Sam Calaway
A young guitarist named Cooper confronts their grief and nostalgia as they begin to hear a familiar song.

You’ll Think of It

Music Video Directed by Leyf C Varga
A story and song about experiencing the border between sanity and otherwise

The Blood Trade

Narrative Drama Directed by Bowdie Bentz
A US Marshal and his deputy track down an outlaw, who has taken up fur trading in the wild.

Crush

Narrative Drama Directed by Matthew A. Brown
In the Pines Studio host, Matthew A. Brown, presents a short film made in Berlin, Germany and shortlisted for the Academy of Awards. A dark and beautiful fairytale about the coming together of two 14 year olds under very unusual and disturbing circumstances.


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