Geekiness: Dispatches from Wisconsin Women in Media

Geekiness: Dispatches from Wisconsin Women in Media

Yes, I’m a self-proclaimed film geek. As you’ve been reading in other posts, this field is extremely hard work. We wouldn’t do it if we didn’t love it, and love it in a cra...

Pulling Your Weight II: Dispatches from Wisconsin Women in Media

Pulling Your Weight II: Dispatches from Wisconsin Women in Media

Documentary filmmaking is mostly about relationships. You build a rapport with the people you want to film so they will show you a window into their lives. Being a woman in the ind...

Responsibility: Dispatches from Wisconsin Women in Media

Responsibility: Dispatches from Wisconsin Women in Media

The producer is the one who has to say yes as often as possible, no as rarely as possible, and has to keep the production rolling forward at all costs, whether there is a blizzard ...

That's Amore: Cooking (and Eating) Well in a Food Desert

That’s Amore: Cooking (and Eating) Well in a Food Desert

What most college students don’t realize, particularly in a place like Madison, is that where there is an abundance of food, especially local and organic, there may also be a foo...

Pulling your Weight in the Film Industry: Dispatches from Wisconsin Women in Media

Pulling your Weight in the Film Industry: Dispatches from Wisconsin Women in Media

I felt and was treated like a respected colleague among friends that varied from first-film-struggling-artists to seasoned veterans making a living off their personal work. It was ...




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Adoption Stories

  • No Matter What
    No Matter What

    When things get tough with your biological kid, you tough it out. But when things get tough with a foster kid, the assumption is that they can just be sent to another home. ...


Food Insecurity in Wisconsin

That’s Amore: Cooking (and Eating) Well in a Food Desert
That's Amore: Cooking (and Eating) Well in a Food Desert

What most college students don’t realize, particularly in a place like Madison, is that where there is an abundance of food, especially local and organic, there may also be a foo...

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Women and Girls Lead

Distribution with Outreach and Engagement: Dispatches From Women in Media

One of the great things about documentary is that you can create change. Documentary filmmaking is not just about entertaining people. Documentaries bring light and depth to issues...

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Prohibition

Maraschinos, as They Were: Prohibition Cocktails Pt. 2
Maraschinos, as They Were: Prohibition Cocktails Pt. 2

Maraschino cherries weren’t always so déclassé. Before Prohibition, they were downright chic, though they bore little resemblance to the neon orbs we know today....

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Sustainable Wisconsin

Spring Preview: Starting from Seed
Spring Preview: Starting from Seed

For the past few years, I've kept a garden journal to chronicle the first signs of life each spring....

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Best of Engage WI

The Realities of Adoption
The Realities of Adoption

I have been asked numerous times what may seem like a simple question: “Would you do it again?” What I want to leave you with is this: there is no easy answer when it comes to ...

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