Michael Schultz

WNOV 860 AM/106.5 FM recently co-sponsored the Milwaukee Film Festival, which celebrated the groundbreaking career of legendary director and Milwaukee native, Michael Schultz. In a historic tribute, Schultz was presented with an award that will now bear his name: the Michael Schultz Award, to be presented annually to a distinguished Black filmmaker.

Schultz, 86, was honored at an in-person ceremony at the Oriental Theatre on September 13, where the first Michael Schultz Award will be formally presented. As part of the celebration, three of Schultz’s most iconic films — Cooley High, Car Wash, and The Last Dragon — were screened at the Oriental Theatre during the festival weekend.

A graduate of Riverside High School, Schultz studied at the University of Wisconsin-Madison a

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