The Wisconsin Film Festival has “summarily rejected” Christopher Ewingâ??s and Jacob Strunkâ??s films for years, as Strunk put it. This year they finally got in: Ewingâ??s “Thru” and Strunkâ??s “This Is the Place” screened as part of a series of five shorts Friday night at the Cinematheque.
Both filmmakers have local connections (Ewing graduated from UW-Madison, Strunk grew up in Oconomowoc) and live in Los Angeles doing film-related work and making shorts on the side.