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Director Larry Charles, Producer/ Actor Jeff Garlin, festival co-founder Michael Moore, TCFF Director Deb Lake and others give their thoughts on Traverse City and the Traverse City Film Festival in this video by Scott Allman Video.

Absolute Michigan: On Location has much more coverage from the 2009 Traverse City Film Festival.

Our next stop is the 2009 Traverse City Film Festival (TCFF) which takes place July 28 through August 2 in Traverse City, Michigan.

This is the 5th year, and the annual festival has grown to become one of the largest film festivals in the Midwest and one of the most respected in the country. Last year, there were over 80,000 admissions to nearly 100 screenings, a number of them U.S. or world premieres. A special emphasis is given to foreign films, American independents, documentaries, and films which have been overlooked but deserve the attention of a public starved to see a good movie.

The festival also features some excellent panels with filmmakers and other experts exploring documentary filmmaking, comedy, the new film mecca of the West Bank and Gaza and other subjects.

We'll pay special attention to the Michigan Film Office Advisory Council Meeting which takes place on Friday, July 31st. Council members will hold their regular meeting and then take questions from the audience regarding the booming Michigan film industry.

There's also the new TCFF Film School, parties and even free outdoor movies. Through it all, Absolute Michigan will be there and we invite you to share your comments and also to share your photos in the Traverse City Film Festival Group on Flickr.

We'll also be featuring content from Interlochen Public Radio and the Traverse City Film Festival blog.

ABOUT THE DETROIT WINDSOR INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL

The DWIFF brings truth to the term "International", with an event that spans two metropolitan, international cities!

Our Inaugural event in 2008 was a huge success as we brought a bit of fun, film, fame and friendship to downtown Detroit! Film lovers mingled with film makers throughout the wonderful spaces of Detroit's University Cultural Center and in downtown Windsor. Wayne State University, College for Creative Studies, the University of Windsor, the Scarab Club, the DIA, the Detroit Public Library all combined in the perfect "campus" to celebrate film, friends and the future of our creative economy.

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This Sunday (July 12) from 9 AM - 8 PM Mirror Dog Productions (MDP), a new independent production company based in Michigan with an office in Los Angeles will hold "Dreamin' Big", a Hollywood Block Party focused on promoting Michigan made products,businesses, and charities and to give employment opportunities for Michiganders who are hoping to break into Michigan's film industry.

In addition to raising money for United Way of Southeast Michigan's Basic Needs family assistance program, through a silent auction fundraiser featuring "Experience Michigan" packages, the event will also allow potential cast and crew for MDP’s film "Fair Chase" to apply. Fair Chase is a romantic comedy with ties to Michigan history that is scheduled to begin filming in Michigan this fall.

MDP President Kim Marie is looking forward to the party and says that everything just came together with sponsors pitching in to provide Michigan food, wine and services for the benefit. She says that the event will also kick off the national Dreamin' Big contest that will allow one lucky aspiring actor to receive makeup and hair work, head shots, work with an acting coach and a role in the film! There will also be an opportunity for a 2nd prize winner to be part of the crew and a 3rd prize winner who will have all-access pass to see what happens behind the scenes on a movie production.

"Four years ago I started writing letters to the governor and even before the film incentives came through I was planning to move my business back to Michigan," Kim explained. "I think that our contest and production will help demonstrate that Michigan has the talent, technology and locations to support the development of an entertainment industry that can be part of a diversified economy."

Dreamin' Big will be held downtown on the northwest corner of Hall Road (M-59) and Van Dyke (M-53). It is located in western central Macomb County, 12 miles north of Detroit, and 11 miles east of Pontiac. Please visit the City of Utica's website for map and parking and check out Absolute Michigan's Film Page for more articles about the Michigan Film industry.

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Absolute Michigan contributor Scott Allman recently traveled to the Waterfront Film Festival in Saugatuck and brought back some cool footage from a record breaking year. If you didn't go this year then put it on your calendar for 2010!

About Waterfront Film Festival

Now in its eleventh year, the Waterfront Film Festival celebrates independent film and filmmakers in a noncompetitive environment. Located in Saugatuck, Mich., WFF is one of the leading destination film festivals in the Midwest, regularly hosting Midwest premieres of Academy Award-winning and -nominated documentaries. WFF is committed to education and features seminars designed to encourage the next generation of actors, writers and directors. In 2007, SAGIndie recognized WFF as one of its top five film festivals. For more information visit www.waterfrontfilm.org.

Waterfront Film Festival Boasts Record Numbers

The Waterfront Film Festival is very happy to announce that this year’s attendance levels exceeded previous years. The festival screened more than 70 independent films during its four-day run, and ticket sales topped 16,000, making this the best-attended Film Festival since its inception 11 years ago. “We are very happy that so many people were able to come out and enjoy the weekend and see so many of the films,” said Kori Eldean Rentz, one of the co-founders of the event. “This year we had increased individual ticket sales as well as day and weekend passes”.

This year Waterfront Film Festival placed more emphasis on the four seminars that were scheduled. These seminars gave anyone interested in the industry an opportunity to hear from industry professionals and attendees were able to ask questions and get valuable feedback. “We had great panel members this year and saw that the seminars were a huge success,” stated Kori. “We think that people have really wrapped their arms around the filmmaking industry and that there are more people now aware of the opportunities coming to Michigan”.

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Michigan Film Festivals

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Mitten Film Project & Festival
1st Tuesday of every month, Royal Oak

The Mitten Movie Project is committed to showcasing world class movies in Detroit, headquarters of the MiniDV Revolution.

Waterfront Film Festival
June 2009 in Saugatuck
Outstanding independent films from all over the United States are screened in casual, intimate settings every June in the resort village of Saugatuck. The Waterfront Indie Screenplay Competition is seeking screenplays that can be produced for under 5 million dollars, and that can be shot in Michigan. More about the Saugatuck Waterfront Film Festival from Absolute Michigan.

Detroit Windsor International Film Festival
June 25-28, 2009 in Detroit

The Detroit Windsor International Film Festival takes place at venues all around Detroit and Windsor and seeks to engage the community in the growth of the film culture of the region and to promote storytelling through film, video, games, the web, music and other channels through panels, workshops, special events, a job fair and (of course) screenings of all kinds of films!

Traverse City Film Festival
July 28-August 2, 2009 in Traverse City

The festival presents fulls days of the best independent, foreign, and documentary films available in several indoor movie houses and free, classic movies on a giant, inflatable outdoor screen overlooking Grand Traverse Bay. Panel discussions with directors, writers, actors, and other members of the film industry are offered daily.

Ann Arbor Film Festival
March 2010 in Ann Arbor
Established in 1963, this internationally-renowned festival showcases independent and experimental film and video and is the oldest of its kind in North America. Each year the festival attracts entries from artists worldwide and screens more than 100 films. Every year they select a four-hour program of awarded and highlighted films for the Ann Arbor Film Festival Tour that travels around the country from March through December to college classrooms and auditoriums, art theaters, and museums.

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East Lansing Film Festival
March 2010 in East Lansing
The ELFF was created in 1997 in cooperation with the City of East Lansing and Michigan State University, and is the largest and most diverse film festival in Michigan to screen independent and foreign feature, documentary, short and students films from around the world. The festival also holds the Lake Michigan Film Competition that gives cash awards to the filmmakers whose film was either filmed, produced, or financed in the states that border Lake Michigan.

Find out more about the 2008 East Lansing Film Festival right here on Absolute Michigan.

The June 10th, 2009 kickoff of the four-day festival will feature the documentary "Surfing 50 States". Actress Yeardley Smith, better known as the voice of Lisa Simpson, will be there, as will Miss America 2008 Kirsten Haglund and world renowned street artist Ron English. The opening-night party will also include a musical performance by South Florida rock band, Fallbrooke.

The festival itself will run June 11th-14th. Michigan's own Jeff Daniels will be there for the Midwest Premiere of his film, "Answer Man", and Daryl Hannah is scheduled to attend to promote her film, "Fierce Light".

Check out Absolute Michigan keyword Saugatuck for more about the festival and Saugatuck links and visit our Michigan Film Festivals page for many more film experiences!

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Lake Michigan Film Competition

One attraction is the Lake Michigan Film Competition, which offers cash awards to filmmakers whose film was at least 1/4 shot, produced or financed in the states that border Lake Michigan: Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, and Wisconsin. The categories for the awards are Feature, Documentary, Short Film and Student Film with a special award given by Message Makers to "The Most Promising Student Filmmaker" that includes a shooting and editing package worth over $10,000!. The Lake Michigan Film Competition (LMFC) was designed to encourage, foster, and help promote filmmaking in the Lake Michigan region. It is part of every East Lansing Film Festival.

Discovering the Short

Discovering the Short shows a selection of short films from the 2006 East Lansing Film Festival appeared on WKAR-TV and was produced by MSU students led by former student Randy Flick and faculty member Robert Albers of the MSU Department of Telecommunication, Information Studies, and Media.. The "short film" has long been the point of entry into the art of filmmaking and every year the East Lansing Film Festival offers aficionados a chance to view high quality short films made by professionals from all over the country.

Click here to view the embedded video.

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ELFF 48/5 contest entries - filmmakers write, shoot, edit, and premiere an original five-minute production in a mere 48 hours.

For much more on the ELFF, check out the ELFF Facebook page, elff.com, the ELFF MySpace Page, the ELFF on Flickr, the East Lansing Film Festival's B-Side Community. You may also be interested in MichiganFilm.org, a web site that highlights independent films from Michigan filmmakers and seeks to network those filmmakers and actors together.

More Michigan Film Festivals on Absolute Michigan's Michigan Film Festival Page.

More Michigan Film from Absolute Michigan.

More pics from the A2FF

The Ann Arbor Film Festival returns March 24 - 29, 2009. It's the longest-running film festival of its kind in North America and is internationally recognized as a premiere showcase for creative, inspiring, and influential films of all types: avant-garde and experimental, story-based narratives, documentaries, and animation. The New World of Independent Cinema trailer features music by Mark "Why Yes I Was in Devo" Mothersbaugh and was animated by Absolute Michigan Flickr pool member Martin Thoburn.

You can become a fan of the A2FF Facebook page and buy tickets and get all the details at the 47th Annual Ann Arbor Film Festival home page. In addition to a full schedule and film trailers, they have some cool features like How to Festival and the buzz, which shows you what tickets are hot.

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Wiretap's Jenny Lee has a great article called In Detroit: Arsenal of Creativity. It begins:

“Michigan will be the next film capitol of the world,” Clint Eastwood said in a recent interview following the release of his new film Gran Torino, shot in Detroit. The state’s generous tax incentives for film production have spurred a boost in jobs in a year that's seen declines in nearly every other industry. While it's exciting to see the rise of film-based enterprise in Michigan, we can't rely on it, or any single industry to fill the enormous hole left by the decline of the auto industry. Amid the current crisis we have an opportunity to fill the gap in our region's economy with diverse local initiatives, including community-based media, which thrives off the city's creative past and present.

It continues and ends well as it does a great job of introducing you to Allied Media Projects (AMP) and looking at some of last year's conference recommendations like building community wireless and broadband, cultivating local music and teaching media arts. You should go read it.

AMP hosts the annual Allied Media Conference in Detroit, which attracts North America's most creative and skilled media makers and social justice organizers. The 11th AMC takes place July 16-19, 2009 - check it out!

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They're coming, and they're liking what they're seeing and we have a chance to seed a new industry in the state of Michigan.
~Mitch Albom

Scott Allman has produced a great interview with Mitch Albom about the Michigan Film Incentive. Check it out below!

Kids, I think you can get extra credit for showing this to your teacher.

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The four-day event on the MSU campus will reach across the university to the local community and beyond to showcase films on important environmental issues that will inform, entertain and inspire.

Highlights will include feature films, family-friendly films, documentaries, student productions, special guests, and much more. This open community event will encourage dialogue about the environment, while showcasing our community's green points of pride.

The Mitten Movie Project is a monthly film night dedicated to screening independent films the first Tuesday of every month at the Main Art Theatre (118 N. Main Street, Royal oak, MI 48067). Presale tickets are available for $8. Tickets at the door are $10. A pre-screening reception starts at 6:30 p.m. in the Main Art lobby where moviegoers can mingle with the directors, industry professionals, and film enthusiasts. After the screening, a Q&A session will be conducted with the filmmakers in the theatre. An afterglow party will be held at Mr. B's (215 S. Main Street) to end the night's activities.

TENTATIVE LINEUP

Total running time: 1 hr, 40 mins.

In order of screening:

TOO DEAD TO DIE [trailer] – Bargain Basement Productions (Michigan 2008) (1:30) Directed by Jason Roth. It's guns, ghouls, and gore galore when low-rent Mafiosos go up against the scourge of the living dead! A full-length feature film which will premiere late 2008. Also see: www.myspace.com/mobvszombies

HELL WALKS THE EARTH [trailer] – Warbranch Productions (02:19) (Michigan) Directed by Larry E. Jones, Jr. A young man, Mike Torence, has his fiancé killed by a reckless driver. During his sorrow, he discovers a book hidden by his father years ago describing a spell he put on the town of Darkside. Unknowingly, Mr. Torence unleashes the spell, leaving people not born in the town to fight for their lives.

SOCK PUPPET ZOMBIES ATTACK 2: A TASTE FOR COTTON – Directed by Taryn Shick (06:36) (Michigan 2008) Written and directed by Taryn Shick. A silent film with sock puppets and sock puppet zombies. Starring Jeremy Ponti and Jamie Pasket.

THIRD GENERATION – Directed by Todd M. Gillissie (04:11) (Michigan 2008) In the near future, humans mysteriously become sterile, forcing human cloning as the only way to continue living. Three generations into it, the clones have become less than human.

THE HUNGRY DEAD – Best Little Ever (05:06) (Michigan 2008) An homage and parody of George Romero's classic zombie movie, "Night of the Living Dead." Written and directed by Michael R. Anderson.

AFRO-ZOMBIES – Fah Kauff Bono Films (05:31) (Michigan) Written and directed by Brian Papandrea. Move over, Blackula. Walk on home, Blackenstein. Make way for the . . . AFRO-ZOMBIES!! A blaxploitation/zombie film trailer from Fah Kauff Bono Films. www.myspace.com/fuck_off_bono

"THE SITE" BY INFRASTAR [music video] - Directed by Amber Fritz (04:39) (Michigan 2008) A music video featuring zombies.

AFTERNOON OF THE LIVING DEAD – Burchwatter Productions (12:08) (Michigan) Directed by Casey Watterworth. Cameras follow one day in the life of professional zombie hunter, Vernon Wagoner.

POULTRYGEIST: NIGHT OF THE CHICKEN DEAD [trailer] – Troma Entertainment (New York 2006) Directed by Lloyd Kaufman. Poultrygeist: Night of the Chicken Dead is cinema's first chicken-zombie horror-comedy . . . with musical numbers!

THE CEMETERY PRECINCTS – Directed by Michael Einheuser & Rob Gulley (12:00) (Michigan 2008) A liberal fantasia played in the key of Z, "The Cemetery Precincts" tells the story of what happens when a couple of political dirty tricksters try a bit of old-school election fraud and scare up more than they bargained for. Includes an homage to "Night of the Living Dead" and lots of blood effects by makeup artist Dan Phillips. Written by Nancy Nall-Derringer.

DEALBREAKER – Five Clover Films and TriOmega Productions (10:00) (Michigan 2008) Can zombies be intimidated by a martial arts master? Should a pack-a-day smoker even try to run from the tireless undead? Is an insatiable hunger for human brains a relationship dealbreaker? When Mandy and Jesse take refuge from a tornado, these are just a few of the questions they try to answer. Starring Karri Farris and Phil Sholtes. Directed by Mike Madigan and Matthew Peach. Also see: www.myspace.com/triomega

RUN LIKE HELL – Finnic Films (10:48) (Ontario) Directed by Michael Jari Davidson. Shot on super 16mm film. A young college student struggles to survive with two strangers as the rescue station they have taken refuge in is surrounded by an epidemic of undead violence. Starring Christina Notto, Nicholas A. Longstaff, and Robert Nolan.

SNIPPY WALKS WITH A ZOMBIE - Skeletons in the Closet Films (02:30) (Michigan 2008) Snippy investigates the paranormal with his flesh eating undead companion. Written, directed and animated by Tom Gurisko and John Mollon.

GORDON - Sob Noisse Movies (15:00) (Michigan 2007) Directed by Joel Potykus. Gordon dies, then returns from the grave. His family has moved away. Work won't take him back. It's winter now and too cold for a dead man to be on the streets.

Celebration events are scheduled for Ishpeming, Lansing, and Marquette during September and October.

The Lansing City Pulse has more on this in their feature Anatomy of a Murder, turns 50

The defendant was acquitted of first degree murder 50 years ago. To try him again would be double jeopardy, which is unconstitutional. And your honor — did we mention that he’s a fictional character? Objections overruled.

The people of the state of Michigan will never rest the case against Lieutenant Frederick Manion. It’s way too much fun. In spring 1958, “Anatomy of a Murder,” a quirky, racy, philosophical best-seller by a fly-fishing Michigan Supreme Court justice began a six-month run at the top of the New York Times bestseller list, until something even quirkier, racier and more philosophical — Vladimir Nabokov’s “Lolita” — toppled it in late September.

The following year, “Anatomy” became a full-scale cultural icon, inspiring a hit movie directed by Otto Preminger, with James Stewart, George C. Scott and Duke Ellington in featured roles.

The naughty-pine crime drama also gave Michigan’s Upper Peninsula its headiest (and only) hour of glamour. Author John Voelker (writing as Robert Traver) set the tale in his “remote and raffish” home peninsula, drawing on per sonal experience as a U.P. defense attor ney. A year later, he urged Preminger to drag cast and crew to the shores of Lake Superior, resulting in one of the most off beat and effective location shoots in film history.

The Hollywood wildfire burned out in Ishpeming 50 years ago, but the book and its reputation still tower like old growth.

Also see:
Anatomy of a Murder: JUSTICE EQUALITY A Trip Through Our Nation's Legal Justice System

Anatomy of a Murder at Wikipedia

TCFF2008 by tcfilmfest

tcff/blog is an great blog covering the the also great Traverse City Film Festival. This film festival is committed to showing "Just Great Movies" and helping to save one of America's few indigenous art forms — the cinema. TCFF blogger John Williams informs us that:

Day one of the TCFF panels was a hoot. It is a MUST to attend! Such wonderful brain power in one room, chatting for our benefit. I sat in the audience with film maker/ director/ wonderful person Laura Winter, creator of "Baghdad High" a film I can't wait to see. She is so astute. Her quote, describing the TCFF and Traverse City as " like slipping into a warm bath, so comfy and cozy". How poetic. We ARE worthy!

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From June 26th to the 29th, 2008, the inaugural Detroit Windsor International Film Festival takes place all around Detroit and Windsor. Screenings and events will be held at the Scarab Club, the Detroit Institute of Art, the Detroit Public Library and the campuses of Wayne State University, the College for Creative Studies and the University of Windsor.

The mission of the DWIFF is to engage the community in the growth of the film culture of the region and to promote storytelling through film, video, games, the web, music and other channels. To support that mission, there will be activities for students of film and media and also more industry professionals including panels such as director Josh Becker (Xena, Hercules, Evil Dead) and about Michigan as a location for making movies, workshops, demos, speakers and a job fair. The center of much of this activity will be the Cineflow TechFair at the College for Creative Studies which will include an opportunity to see the tools and workflow used in the production of modern cinema and new media.

There will also (of course) be a variety of film screenings and the Children's Program at the Detroit Public Library will present specially selected films from the East Lansing Children's Film Festival collection.

All in all, it looks like a pretty cool addition to Michigan's growing list of film festivals!

You can get a higher quality version from the official web site Asparagus: Stalking the American Life (where you can also buy the DVD which supports family farmers) and also at Media That Matters, where you can also read an explanation of this interesting project from director/poducers Kirsten Kelly and Anne de Mare, who write:

Three years ago, we set out to make a film about the self-proclaimed Asparagus Capital of the Nation, the tiny rural community in western Michigan where Kirsten grew up in the 1970s and 80s. As the daughter of an asparagus farmer, Kirsten spent her childhood working on the farm and was a proud member of the pre-teen asparagus dance troupe The Oceana Stalkers. There was no question that asparagus was huge in Oceana County. Hailed as Green Gold, it was exactly what this poor rural community needed - a spring cash crop at the end of a long cold winter.

Asparagus was king in Oceana County ... until the War on Drugs eliminated import tariffs on South American asparagus and kicked the bottom out of the market. This film is the story of the reaction of folks in Oceana County and one look at how broad US policies can have devastating and unintended impacts.

The annual National Asparagus Festival will be held June 13-15, 2008. In addition to a showing of the film at on Friday, June 13 at 7 PM at the Hart Middle School Auditorium, events include the Joan Glover Royale Parade (Saturday, 2 PM in Hart), an Asparagus Food Show and an Asparagus Fly-In Pancake Breakfast at the Oceana County Airport.

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My good friends Song of the Lakes have a new DVD titled Live at Interlochen. It features a full-length movie of Song of the Lakes 25th Anniversary concert by Rich Brauer & Brauer Productions and the documentary Journey to Joy by Rebecca Glotfelty of Real People Media.

The band will have a link to order the DVD from their web site. If you're in the Traverse City area, be sure to come to the State Theatre in Traverse City for the DVD premier on Tuesday, March 25, 2008!

Lake Michigan Film Competition

One attraction is the Lake Michigan Film Competition, which offers cash awards to filmmakers whose film was at least 1/4 shot, produced or financed in the states that border Lake Michigan: Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, and Wisconsin. The categories for the awards are Feature, Documentary, Short Film and Student Film. We are very pleased to offer the Message Makers Most Promising Student Filmmaker Award, a prize package worth $10,000.Once again, filmmakers from the Mid-Michigan area will come together to write, shoot, edit, and premiere an original five-minute production in a mere 48 hours. Participants will be given specified elements, such as a theme, prop, or line of dialogue at the start of the competition, and they must incorporate these elements into their finished film to be eligible for an award.

Discovering the Short

Discovering the Short shows a selection of short films from the 2006 East Lansing Film Festival appeared on WKAR-TV and was  produced by MSU students led by former student Randy Flick and faculty member Robert Albers of the MSU Department of Telecommunication, Information Studies, and Media.. The "short film" has long been the point of entry into the art of filmmaking and every year the East Lansing Film Festival offers aficionados a chance to view high quality short films made by professionals from all over the country.

Click here to view the embedded video.

Watch more of Discovering the Short on YouTube.

More Links...

ELFF 48/5 contest entries - filmmakers write, shoot, edit, and premiere an original five-minute production in a mere 48 hours.

Making the scenes: Local filmmakers race the clock for 48/5 - via Lansing City Pulse

For much more on the ELFF, check out elff.com, the ELFF MySpace Page, the ELFF on Flickr, the East Lansing Film Festival's B-Side Community. You may also be interested in MichiganFilm.org, a web site that highlights independent films from Michigan filmmakers and seeks to network those filmmakers and actors together.

More Michigan Film Festivals on Absolute Michigan's Michigan Film Festival Page.