By Tim Cuprisin Media Columnist Published Sep 13, 2011 at 9:20 AM

The Milwaukee Film Festival will hold its opening night party at Discovery World on Sept. 22 from 8:30 p.m., following the screening of its opening film, "Natural Selection" at the Oriental.

The party will feature a "Previews Theater" screening festival trailers, music will come from WYMS-FM (88.9) and WMSE-FM (91.7), along with live music, burlesque dancing and New York-based DJ Rekha, host of Basement Bhangra at S.O.B.’s. The DJ marks the festival's "Passport: India" package of Indian films.

Tickets are $20, $10 with an ticket stub from the opening night film, and free with a festival pass.

Tickets for the Opening Night Party are $20, $10 with an Opening Night Film ticket stub and free with a Festival Pass. The full schedule for the party is available at the Milwaukee Film Festival website.

Tim Cuprisin Media Columnist

Tim Cuprisin is the media columnist for OnMilwaukee.com. He's been a journalist for 30 years, starting in 1979 as a police reporter at the old City News Bureau of Chicago, a legendary wire service that's the reputed source of the journalistic maxim "if your mother says she loves you, check it out." He spent a couple years in the mean streets of his native Chicago, and then moved on to the Green Bay Press-Gazette and USA Today, before coming to the Milwaukee Journal in 1986.

A general assignment reporter, Cuprisin traveled Eastern Europe on several projects, starting with a look at Poland after five years of martial law, and a tour of six countries in the region after the Berlin Wall opened and Communism fell. He spent six weeks traversing the lands of the former Yugoslavia in 1994, linking Milwaukee Serbs, Croats and Bosnians with their war-torn homeland.

In the fall of 1994, a lifetime of serious television viewing earned him a daily column in the Milwaukee Journal (and, later the Journal Sentinel) focusing on TV and radio. For 15 years, he has chronicled the changes rocking broadcasting, both nationally and in Milwaukee, an effort he continues at OnMilwaukee.com.

When he's not watching TV, Cuprisin enjoys tending to his vegetable garden in the backyard of his home in Whitefish Bay, cooking and traveling.