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HUGS is a tender animated short exploring connection, vulnerability, and human closeness, premiering in the Sundance Animated Shorts program.

At the Milwaukee Film Festival I sat down with Vince Lawrence , the central figure in Move Your Body The Birth of House Music , directed by Elegance Bratton . What followed was not simply a conversation about sound or nightlife but a powerful reflection on Black identity resistance and the environments that gave birth to a global movement. Lawrence spoke warmly about working with Bratton and producer Chester Algernal Gordon as they shaped a film centered on the earliest momen

At the Milwaukee Film Festival, Thomasville stood out as a quiet gut punch. A short film that doesn’t rely on spectacle, but instead sits in a fear many people carry and rarely voice. I caught up with writer-director Alex Woodruff to talk about where the film came from, why its dialogue cuts so deep, and what legacy really means to him. Woodruff describes Thomasville as being born from a personal nightmare: the fear that he would only have moments, or none at all to see his

At Sundance, animation isn’t just spectacle, it’s language. And few films in the Animated Shorts program speak as poetically as The Bird’s Placebo, a surreal and deeply human short from Tunisian animator and filmmaker Rami Jarboui.

At the Milwaukee Film Festival, Middletown arrived not just as a documentary screening, but as a timely reminder of what happens when young people are trusted to lead—and when their voices refuse to be ignored. I sat down with Fred Isaacs, the former high school teacher at the heart of Middletown , whose real-life classroom became the launchpad for a youth-led environmental movement in the 1990s. In the film, Isaacs appears alongside four of his former students, revisiting a