Messwood

Writer, Editor

Directed by Emily Kuester & Brad Lichtenstein
1 hr 35 min, 2021

Situated a mile apart on the same street, two Milwaukee high schools – one predominantly Black, the other largely white – join forces to field a football team. Against the backdrop of a nation’s painful racial reckoning, Messwood players navigate minefields of class, race and boyhood as they they try to win on and off the field.