Sister Bay, Wis. (March 12, 2024) – A sold-out audience of almost 300 people came to Northern Sky’s Gould Theater to celebrate the art of filmmaking at the 15th Annual Door County Short Film Fest (DCSFF) on February 16 and 17.
This year’s festival had a specific theme for 2024: Love in Wisconsin. Many of the festival’s twenty-four short films, and each of the three feature-length films, were filmed in Wisconsin or created and directed by Wisconsin filmmakers. Twenty of the filmmakers attended this year’s festival and answered audience questions at the end of each film block.
At the conclusion of the festival, Chris Opper, Founder, and Executive Director of the Film Festival, presented the 2024 Viewer’s Choice Mug Award for feature film to Emma Siewert, director of “Love Differently”, a one-hour documentary about a young woman trying to change Wisconsin’s laws for adult adoptees who cannot find their birth families.
The 2024 Viewer’s Choice Mug Award for short film was awarded to director Wesley Morgan, of Madison, Wisconsin, for his film “Expiration Dates”, an eleven-minute short film about how the deceased are remembered, and the people who remember them.
The 2024 Golden Mug Jury Award went to director Toby Kearton, of Sudbury, United Kingdom for his short film “Kamerad”, a nine-minute film about two men awaiting their fate, as soldiers and human beings amid a great war of conscience.
Next year’s Door County Film Festival will once again be held at Northern Sky’s Gould Theater on February 14 – 15, 2025.
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