Pleased to announce our next Mission 1 Billion: Official Creator Network meeting will be Wednesday March 11. This meeting is free and open to the public. We encourage members and others invite filmmaker and actor friends! This meeting is at Schmidt’s Bar & Grill 16755 W. Lisbon in Brookfield, WI 53005. JOIN US and please be on time!
Arrive early and stay late networking with others.
Our Speaker is Dr Susan Kerns, Ph.d Dr is the Executive Director of Milwaukee Film and formerly a Professor of film and television at Columbia College Chicago where she co-founded the Chicago Feminist Film Festival.
She often speaks about film festivals and distribution, including on panels at SXSW, University Film and Video Association, and the European Network for Cinema and Media Studies. She is currently producing an experimental 16mm horror feature entitled Communicable, the feminist true crime documentary Uncoiled, and the VR project Scapegoat.
She also produced the documentary Manlife and has produced, directed, written, or been the intimacy coordinator on numerous films. As an author, she edited and contributed to ReFocus: The Films of Susan Seidelman, the first book devoted to the groundbreaking director, and her writing on Tank Girl is featured in Eureka!’s Blu-ray box set and The Routledge Companion to Gender and Sexuality in Comic Book Studies.
Over a dozen publications have included her work on gender and film festivals, media representations of conjoined twins, the silent Lon Chaney film The Penalty, and Dame Darcy’s Meat Cake comics. She has an article forthcoming on intimacy coordination and creative collaboration and holds a PhD from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee.
AGAIN, join us for another wonderful speaker event!
Big shout out and thank you to Bob Donnelly of North American Camera for hosting our February meeting at North American Camera! Members got to see his studio, hear from him and look over the equipment he demoed and discussed. It was a wonderful success. Members who attending provided great feedback and we certainly appreciate Bob inviting us into his studio and taking that time with us.
I also want to give a shout out to Schmidty’s owners Jeff and Vicki for generously allowing us to hold meetings there and supporting Mission 1 Billion. Plus, a big thanks to all the staff who help us have the meetings and who serve our members and guests! THANKS to all at Schmidty’s.
HOPE TO SEE YOU WED March 11, 7p, at Schmidty’s Bar & Grill. Enjoy!!!
