Best of 2025

Former BAFS volunteer and film aficionado Vince LePlavy selects the best films from 2025: Best of 2025

Best Films of the First Half of the 2020s

Former BAFS volunteer and film aficionado Vince LePlavy selects the best films from the first half of this decade: “When people look back on the 2020’s, what will they remember? […]

Oscar picks for 2024

Former BAFS volunteer and film aficionado Vince LePlavy makes his Oscars picks for 2024: Here are my Oscar picks for 2024. It’s always hard to judge the categories with either […]

Making Mov(i)es

Hi everybody. My name is Trey Sorensen. I am the former secretary of the Bay Area Film Society, a position I served in over the two previous BAFS seasons. I resigned from the board earlier this spring, my exit accepted by my fellow board members more as an indefinitely-termed leave of absence. I love the film society and I love the Chequamegon Bay. I plan to come back, to both, someday.

For now, though, I’ve relocated to Chicago. The reasons for my move are many, but chief among them is that I don’t just love films–I want to make them, too. I want an active part in their development, production and release both in front of and behind the camera, and I want to make an income for my part in that process.

Our Favorite Moments in Cinema: 2023

For those first few months following any calendar year, the film industry is abuzz for what is referred to as awards season. With Hollywood’s biggest night, the Academy Awards ceremony […]