Lenore Rinder-Photographer, filmmaker, Painter
MFA in Painting and filmmaking, University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee.
My careers include: professional ballet photographer, photojournalist, lecturer for the UW-Milwaukee Art and Film departments , and Video Producer-Director with Time Warner Cable’s Community Access Television.
My most challenging work was twelve years as a visual communications teacher for incarcerated teenage boys at Ethan Allen School, a Wisconsin State Juvenile Correctional facility.
After winning the “Best Short Film” award at the Athens, Ohio International Animation Festival, I received a grant for a short animated film from the Jerome Foundation in St. Paul, Minnesota, later earning honors at the Zagreb International Animation Film Festival for a sand animation called “Camel Music."
A three time recipient of a Milwaukee Foundation's Mary Nohl “Suitcase Travel Grant” I screened a film at the Indian Institute of World Culture in Bangalore India, March 2019 with audience Q&A, and in October, 2022 I received a second Suitcase Travel Grant to screen films at four schools and the Rotary Club in Bangalore. On my third travel grant, I screened all four films at Suchitra Cinema and Cultural Academy in Bangalore.
A November, 2022 interview highlights my film career in a Milwaukee Magazine article :
https://www.milwaukeemag.com/this-local-filmmaker-was-honored-at-a-film-festival-in-india/
Screenings: 2018- 2024
Island of Elephants - 17 minute documentary filmed at the Dubare Elephant rescue and tourist camp. Interview with elephant veterinarian and naturalist.
2024- Athvikvaruni International Film Festival - Award for Best Experimental Short Nature film,
Tamil Nadu, India
2024 - Jagran Film Festival, Official Selection, New Delhi, India
Monkey Eden - Short, experimental documentary about urban monkey problems and solutions
2024 - Ethnografilm International Film Festival,Official Selection, Paris, France,
Director’s festival w/Q&A
2023 - Athvikvaruni International Film Festival - BEST EXPERIMENTAL SHORT FILM
2023 - Rome Prisma International Film Festival, Rome, Italy - OFFICIAL SELECTION
2023 - Velunachi International Film Festival,Tamil Nadu, India - OFFICIAL SELECTION
Kagaraja - 13 minute video, featuring poacher crafts
2020-22 Screenings:
Rotary Club of Bangalore, India
Milwaukee International Short Film Festival
Official Selection, Rome Independent Prisma Award
Official Selection/Zoom Interview
Freeland Film Festival, Great Lake,Wisconsin
Outstanding Achievement Award winner, Druk International Film Festival, Nepal
Ethnografilm Official Selection, Director’s Documentary film festival
Paris, France
People of the Wild Tiger - 18-minute documentary about tiger conservation.
Videotaped in India.
2019-2022 Screenings:
2022 - Rotary Club of Bangalore, India
2020 - “People of the Wild Tiger”(Big Dogs version)
Winner-Short Documentary- Tagore International Film Festival
2019 - IIWC, Bangalore, India, screening and panel discussion
NO Studios, Milwaukee, Wisconsin
Official Selection, Oneota film festival, Iowa
Official Selection at Ethnografilm, Paris, France