thursday night IFP screening at the loft: McKnighty-Nights

IFP-MN is screening selected clips and works from two recent receipients of the McKnight Fellowship: filmmakers Dawn Mikkelson and Daniel Schneidkraut.  The screenings take place at The Loft this evening at 7pm.  The event includes a discussion with the filmmakers, moderated by producer and Werc Werk Works co-founder Christine Walker.  Here's some info on our award-winners:

Dawn Mikkelson’s documentaries are used as grassroots organizing tools around the world, from international conferences to house parties, on the topics of globalization, environmental justice, water rights, human rights, and LGBT rights. Her most recent film, The Red Tail (co-directed with Melissa Koch), is the story of a NWA mechanic who loses his job to outsourcing and goes to China to meet his replacement. Her latest project, Smooch, is a documentary film that illuminates stories of reconciliation and healing from around the world, as participants are photographed through the international effort to collect 10,000 photos of people kissing one another called “The Smooch Project.”

Dan Schneidkraut’s films have been reviewed as “uncomfortable to watch,” “sublime yet terrifying,” “disturbing,” “stunningly depraved,” and “the kind of thinky/sadistic exercise that even the dark prince of psychological horror Michael Haneke might find difficult to watch.”Seeking Wellness: Suffering Through Four Movements had its official world premiere in England at Filmstock International Film Festival and won the Special Jury Prize at The Melbourne Underground Film Festival. He is working on a feature, to be shot on BetaMax, about physical fitness and the obsolescence of traditional masculinity. His recent short, "Victory," is a simple narrative exploration of the psychology of coping in a post-traumatic environment.

The event is free, so come one come all.