Monday, October 31, 2016

Missing Threads Earns Another Award

On Thursday November 17, Wisconsin filmmakers gathered at Madison's Bartell Theater to celebrate their craft with the WAVE Awards. This annual event is a program of the Madison chapter of the Media Communications Association - International.

The documentary Missing Threads: The Story of the Wisconsin Indian Child Welfare Act earned a WAVE Award in the Training and Informational category. This project's production team included Colleen Parquette (Shadow Collaborative, Mosinee), Michelle Danforth (Oneida Nation, Green Bay),  Brian Alberth (Left Effect Media, Madison) and Susan Reetz (Clear Focus Media, LLC, Weston - formerly of Rucinski & Reetz Communication). 

The film was shown at the Green Bay Film Festival, Vision Maker Film Festival (Lincoln, Nebraska), Albuquerque Film and Music Experience (AFME), and the McMillan Library Film Festival as well as numerous other community events. It received a Golden Reel in the documentary category from the Media Communications Association - International, was chosen as a finalist in the film category for a Media For a Jut Society Award from the National Council on Crime and Delinquency and was named 2016 Best Short Documentary at the Albuquerque Film and Music Experience.

 Click on the photo to watch Missing Threads.

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