Nate Sheppard Media

05/06/2025

One of my favorite Rhinelander events! And I got to make this highlight reel for them. Enjoy (and mark your calendars for next year)!

29/05/2025

SCAPEGOAT was just nominated for Best Editing and Best Atmopshere from the Independent Horror Movie Awards!

If you're not familiar, SCAPEGOAT is a 2024 short horror film directed by Andrew Egan (Inspire Digital Studios) with cinematography and editing by yours truly.

Special shoutout to Shelley Novotny for the stellar costume and set design that helped make the atmosphere top tier quality!

(If you're curious to see the film for yourself, you can find the link in the comments.)

28/05/2025

Sometimes I get to do some rather unusual things for my job. Finally finishing up these Kickstarter reward VHS boxes for “A Kingdom of Tea and Strangers,” a feature documentary I did the soundtrack for.

(You can watch the full film for yourself here: https://youtu.be/-iyGVHCPUrI)

21/05/2025

What a great conversation last night! It was the last Nate Show of the season, but join us again next fall for Season 5.

One year ago yesterday, our owners Nate and Andrea officially purchased a building in built by Otto Hilgermann in downtown Rhinelander.

Last night we celebrated our first anniversary by having a conversation with local historians Kerry Bloedorn and Bill Vancos about the history of the building and its builder.

Thank you to both Bill and Kerry for sharing your knowledge with us! We're honored to be a part of carrying on the Hilgermann legacy.

(The conversation was live-streamed last night but is not currently publicly available to watch. However, if you are interested in viewing it for yourself, let us know and we can send you a link!)

19/05/2025

Join us tomorrow night (May 20th) for The Nate Show!

The Nate Show is a talk show hosted monthly by yours truly at The Hilgermann Center in downtown Rhinelander. This month's special guests are local historians Kerry Bloedorn and Bill Vancos!

In honor of the one-year anniversary of my wife and I purchasing the Hilgermann building, I thought it'd be fun to have Kerry and Bill on to talk about the history of the building and its builder, Otto Hilgermann.

The show will be live-streamed as usual, but you are welcome to join us in person at the Hilgermann (25 S. Brown St. in Rhinelander) for this free event.

Doors open at 7:00PM.
Show starts at 7:30PM.

Let me know if you have any questions and we'll see you there!.

17/05/2025

Join us tomorrow (Sunday, May 18) for a fun afternoon of indie filmmaking at The Hilgermann!

At 1PM, producer Aaron Pickelmann will be talking about his new feature Hodag horror film shooting up here next year.

Then at 2PM we’re having our monthly Northwoods Filmmaking Society meetup to talk about editing (using footage we shot at our last meetup)!

Both events are free and open to anyone who’s interested. See you at 25 S. Brown St. in Rhinelander!

17/05/2025

I love seeing how much support and interest there is for indie films in the northwoods!

13/05/2025

Had a blast yesterday at Elcho School District for their first ever job fair!

10/05/2025

As of today, you can now watch “A Kingdom of Tea and Strangers” for free on YouTube! (Yes, the FULL FILM is available to watch completely free of charge! Link is below.)

If you’re not familiar, I had the privilege of composing and doing sound design for my friend’s feature documentary about a beautiful retreat center in the English countryside.

Congrats Houston and Debora Coley for finally letting your film out into the world! May it continue to bless and challenge people to think more deeply about community and what it means to live out of healthy spirituality in every aspect of life.

WATCH HERE: https://youtu.be/-iyGVHCPUrI?feature=shared

08/05/2025

Yesterday, I testified before the WI Assembly Committee on Ways and Means regarding Assembly Bill 231 which would establish Film Incentives and a Film Office for the state of Wisconsin. Here's my speech in full.

(Thank you to Nathan Deming for helping organize and for tracking down the video for me and thanks to Action Wisconsin for making it all happen!)

08/05/2025

A day in the life of a filmmaker.

This morning I had the opportunity to speak at the Wisconsin State Capitol to an Assembly Committee regarding a bill that provides film infrastructure for the state. It was very interesting to hear all of the different perspectives and needs for filmmakers all across the state and I was honored to represent the northwoods in the conversation.

Then I headed over to West Bend to shoot a proof of concept for a pretty interesting documentary I’m working on, but I can’t say more than that yet.

It was an exhausting but very fulfilling day. Thank you to Action Wisconsin, Nathan Deming and Paul Lee for your parts in making this day such a great success!

07/05/2025

What an absolute joy to share my love of languages with such an attentive group of students for my How to Make a Language Workshop at Nicolet College! We even had time to translate the same sentence into languages we each invented on the spot. So fun to meet other northwoods linguaphiles!

The sentence we translate was: “The brown fox fought two dogs.” Here were the results. Can you guess which was mine?

- Ihaxbleh moo bongblah aabixbleh inin wigkang.
- Kalle vihot husjut senten uskón ajo.
- Uth arth sylth embit deuce olafs.
- E onije annen fa’tannan la’imani.
- With two curs did the coffee colored vixen clash.
- Da brun foks hab ztu hunds gekamft.
- Se feigh dainn sabirre eichu.