Judges 2018
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Joshua Grover-David Patterson
WRITER BIO Joshua Grover-David Patterson’s films have won 13 awards and appeared in 29 film festivals all over the world. His screenplays have been finalists in multiple screenwriting competitions, and his articles on film have appeared in delight! magazine, The Post-Crescent, Bull Magazine, and Film Threat. He is also a bestselling Kindle novelist. FAVORITE QUOTE “We are the music makers, and we are the dreamers of dreams.” – Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory |
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John Jordan
RADIO BIO WAPL/WZOR On-Air Announcer WAPL Home Brewed Producer I grew up in the Oshkosh/Omro area - Graduated from Omro High School. I Attended The University of Wisconsin Stevens Point - Graduated with a B.S. in Communication (emphasis Broadcast Media/P.R.) and a Minor in Psychology. Worked on the campus TV/Radio station wrote for 'The Pointer' student newspaper. I shot a student film for a friend's Senior project at UWGB called "Access Denied" that resulted in thousands of dollars of changes being made to improve handicap accessibility on campus. I managed Skyline Comedy in Appleton for a period of 3 + years. I've Worked for WAPL/Woodward Communications for 15+ years. I'm am currently working on a passion project to bring the unheard music of the talented local/state musicians to a larger audience. I am a self-admitted comic book geek. Have collected for 40+ years. My favorite film genre is Horror. I have a DVD collection that has now reached 500+ (I may have a problem). I have lived in Appleton for the past 15+ years. OTHER THOUGHTS The art of Film, to me, is the melding together of everything I love… Music, Pictures, Literature and Imagination - that’s what makes Film the perfect medium. Every society needs storytellers and Filmmakers are those storytellers... whose tales resonate throughout society and across boundaries, religion, language and culture. The power of movies/Film (when its done right) to elicit emotion, whether it be fear, love, anger, hope, happiness, etc., is also what draws me back again and again. Plus, its only as limited as the filmmaker’s vision and imagination and thankfully that’s the one natural resource we will never run out of. |
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Richard Douglas Heil
PROFESSOR BIO Douglas Heil teaches scriptwriting, filmmaking, and aesthetics at the University of Wisconsin Oshkosh. He has won the Distinguished Teaching Award and the state-wide UW System Board of Regents Teaching Excellence Award. His book The Art of Stereography is being published by McFarland; his book Prime-Time TV Writing was published by Syracuse University Press. Last Fall, he and Diane Heil produced the independent feature Another Yesterday, which was written & directed by Steven Heil (it is currently in post-production). Doug’s website — which includes excerpts from his books, animated stereoview GIFs, Another Yesterday information and production stills, and his theme song from Another Yesterday (along with four additional song compositions) — can be accessed at http://www.uwosh.edu/facstaff/heil. OTHER THOUGHTS A general thought on the what the art of film means to you. (Why do you like movies?) Whether it’s a comedy like The Awful Truth or Two for the Road, a drama like Casablanca or Joe Wright’s Pride & Prejudice, or a dramedy like Silver Linings Playbook or Powwow Highway, my favorite films address our struggle to make the right choices in life. At their best, movies can pull off an amazing, bifurcated sleight-of-hand: they provide us with a needed escape from our everyday troubles, while inspiring us to do the right thing once we return to them. We all talk about art — painters, musicians, sculptors. How do films or filmmakers fit into that mix? How important are they to culture, history, etc.? Movies are the ultimate interdisciplinary art: they recruit writers often trained in playwriting or prose fiction, music composers, theater-trained production designers, art-trained graphic designers, theater-trained actors, and consultants from the social and natural sciences. If you’re the kind of person drawn to all of these areas, film is where you end up. I am proud to be associated with an art form that has so often embraced humanism while pushing for social justice. |
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Loren Baybrook
PROFESSOR BIO The current editor-in-chief, Loren PQ Baybrook (PhD, University of Virginia), comes to Film & History with a background in film studies, literary theory, and American poetry. He is Visiting Professor of Film Studies at Lawrence University. A former NEH Fellow at Harvard University, Baybrook joins an august team of scholars and teachers at F&H dedicated to exploring the historical, philosophical, aesthetic, and pedagogical roles of film and television in diverse cultures. OTHER THOUGHTS What the art of film means to me and to our culture: We've learned to tell stories using many kinds of media, from rock-wall drawings and pottery paintings to novels and theater stages, and each medium has its secret tools for moving audiences. Film represents the greatest combination in history of multiple crafts and technologies to produce a single art form, all for the purpose of moving us. So, for me, the question with each film is "move us where?" Finding the answer, which is unique to each film, is perhaps the greatest imaginative adventure a person can take. |