Susan Holder will be making her student short directing
debut with Bottleneck, and she is very excited to share her vision with the
world. Finishing up her Junior year at UWM, Susan’s passions lie in art
direction and cinematography, but she plans to continue to direct after
graduation with the plan of making her own feature-length films. When she is
not making movies or thinking about making movies, Susan enjoys long walks
along Lake Michigan and rewatching Mad Max: Fury Road.
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Director of Photography: Sean McDowell
Sean McDowell is currently in his third year studying filmmaking with an emphasis on cinematography at the University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee’s esteemed Peck School of the Arts. Ultimately, what gets Sean up in the morning is the urge to create stimulating imagery and collaborating with other passionate artists and filmmakers. For Sean, filmmaking is about connecting with an audience and leaving a lasting impression on their lives - and that’s why he's diving headfirst into this perilous and wonderful world of movie-making magic.
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Production Designer: Diana Nunez
Diana Nunez is a junior at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, studying film. She loves all aspects of filmmaking, from producing to setting up lights, but production design what she’s passionate about. Creating new worlds and characters has always been a dream of hers and filmmaking helped her realize this. She has been able to create worlds and characters from the neon 80s to realistic fantasies. Diana hopes to learn in this production how to create real life sets while still having excellent and noticeable production design.
The Producers: Haley Kreofsky, Breianna Harvey, Shannon McInnis, Dana Shihadah, and Sydney Zahradka.
Haley, Breianna, Shannon, Dana, and Sydney are the producers and officers of Reel Women. They are a mix of Film and Film Studies majors, studying everything from cinematography to producing to business. Since forming Reel Women last October, they have dedicated themselves to creating a dialogue on gender inequality in the film industry and supporting Milwaukee's student filmmakers. While Bottleneck is their first production under Reel Women, they have made and produced a number of short films during their time at UWM.