The Film Department maintains artistic and intellectual connections within the University that include partnerships with the Departments of Visual Art, Music, Dance, History, Architecture, Anthropology, and English, the Center of 21^st Century Studies, the Center for International Education, and the Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies. The Film Department also works closely with such campus cultural institutions as the UWM Union Theatre and the Institute for Visual Arts. Regional partners include Woodland Pattern Book Center, the Milwaukee International Film Festival, the Milwaukee Art Museum, America's Black Holocaust Museum, Chicago's Video Data Bank and the Wisconsin Film Festival.

The Film Department frequently invites visiting makers, theorists, and curators to share their work with the Department, as teachers, as visiting artists.

Guests have included (* designates visiting faculty)