Last week I told you about Take One, Milwaukee's Film's children's festival that takes place during the larger event, Sept. 23 through Oct. 3, and Piemonte Cinema, the Italian film event I'm organizing at Discovery World on Nov. 11-12.
Milwaukee Film is set to release its festival program book soon, but has been letting some announcements slip out via its blog.
Also on tap this autumn is the 23rd annual Milwaukee LGBT Film/Video Festival, which runs Oct. 21-24, but will also feature some events that take place later.
The festival opens with the hit New Zealand documentary film, "Topp Twins: Untouchable Girls," at the Oriental Theatre on Thursday, Oct. 21. It closes at UWM's Union Theater on Sunday, Oct. 24, with the Bahamian drama "Children of God."
New this year is a free "Documentary Salon," which presents repeated screenings of award-winning documentaries chronicling LGBT life.
"We are thrilled to announce this year's Milwaukee LGBT Film/Video Festival line-up," says festival director and UWM Peck School of the Arts Film lecturer Carl Bogner.
"Our revised format gives us more opportunities to showcase LGBT films and videos -- new and classic -- all year long while still hosting a Festival that remains one of the annual highlights for the LGBT and film-loving communities. And, with many films celebrating music, dance, and theater, the Peck School of the Arts is the perfect host."
And for the first time ever, the festival continues after October's main event, with monthly screenings on the first Thursday of nearly every month, beginning Nov. 4.
Complete info on the films and more are at arts.uwm.edu/lgbtfilm.
Born in Brooklyn, N.Y., where he lived until he was 17, Bobby received his BA-Mass Communications from UWM in 1989 and has lived in Walker's Point, Bay View, Enderis Park, South Milwaukee and on the East Side.
He has published three non-fiction books in Italy – including one about an event in Milwaukee history, which was published in the U.S. in autumn 2010. Four more books, all about Milwaukee, have been published by The History Press.
With his most recent band, The Yell Leaders, Bobby released four LPs and had a songs featured in episodes of TV's "Party of Five" and "Dawson's Creek," and films in Japan, South America and the U.S. The Yell Leaders were named the best unsigned band in their region by VH-1 as part of its Rock Across America 1998 Tour. Most recently, the band contributed tracks to a UK vinyl/CD tribute to the Redskins and collaborated on a track with Italian novelist Enrico Remmert.
He's produced three installments of the "OMCD" series of local music compilations for OnMilwaukee.com and in 2007 produced a CD of Italian music and poetry.
In 2005, he was awarded the City of Asti's (Italy) Journalism Prize for his work focusing on that area. He has also won awards from the Milwaukee Press Club.
He has be heard on 88Nine Radio Milwaukee talking about his "Urban Spelunking" series of stories, in that station's most popular podcast.
