It was an honor to be the featured guest at the kick-off of Marquette University’s Mission Week. The day of dialogue revolved around MILWAUKEE 53206 with 1,200 in total attendance. Beyond discussions of racial justice, I had a chance to dialogue with the Marquette film students about filmmaking and their aspirations to be directors and […]
Read MoreWe had a great screening and lively discussion at Google Creative Lab in NYC. It’s amazing the ideas that get generated when you bring dynamic creatives from different stratas together in one room. I’m so proud of my team and my cast and very excited by what’s to come.
Read MoreThe national ACLU and Congresswoman Gwen Moore invited the team of MILWAUKEE 53206 for a Congressional screening of the movie. Afterwards Dice Raw from The Roots joined us for a discussion on criminal justice reform.
Read MoreMIlWAUKEE 53206 screened in a special program called Mean Streets: Viewing the Divided City through the Lens of Film and Television at the Missouri History Museum during the St. Louis International Film Festival. Dr. Margaret Garb, professor at the Department of History at Washington University St. Louis and I spoke after the screening about how […]
Read MoreUS Congresswoman Gwen Moore spoke with The Huffington Post about the documentary MILWAUKEE 53206 and her leadership representing the most incarcerated ZIP code in America for black men.
Read More“McQuirter doesn’t propose a grand thesis about Milwaukee’s incarceration problems. But he is interested in its effects, in both presenting them and absorbing them…” — David Klein, film critic Lake Front Row
Read More“You might be expecting a gritty, depressing litany of statistics and tragedies about the city’s poorest zip code, but you’d be wrong.” — Cal Roach, Journalist Milwaukee Record
Read MorePanel discussion after the festival premiere of MILWAUKEE 53206 at the Milwaukee Film Festival. Both the cast and local leaders in the fight for change shared the stage to talk about solutions to many of the issues effecting our communities.
Read More“This past spring, a New York Times article attempted to uncover the enormity of the crisis by giving a glimpse with a staggering number: 1.5 million black men between the ages 25-54 are missing from daily life due to early death or incarceration…. This is a tsunami that must end.”
Read More“They’re not helpless people. They’re not hopeless people. Each of them is doing something to make change,” says McQuirter.
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