Traverse City Film Festival

The Traverse City Film Festival is an annual film festival held at the end of July in Traverse City, Michigan. The festival was created as an annual event in 2005 to help “save one of America's few indigenous art forms—the cinema."[1] The event was co-founded by Michael Moore, the Oscar-winning film director, well known for his anti-establishment films and documentaries such as Fahrenheit 9/11, Bowling for Columbine, and Roger & Me, along with author Doug Stanton and photographer John Robert Williams.

2015 TCFF Opening Night downtown Traverse City

The mission of the Festival is to show "Just Great Movies" that represent excellence in filmmaking, particularly those rare independent films and documentaries by both noted and new filmmakers, that do not receive mainstream distribution. The Traverse City Film Festival is a non-profit organization, and is funded by businesses, community groups and individuals, in addition to ticket sales accumulated by various events. The Festival is headed by a committee of Michigan area filmmakers, writers, and creative professionals. Deb Lake has been the executive director of the Traverse City Film Festival since 2006, and is one of only three paid employees who work year round.[2] About 3,000 volunteers come together each summer to devote their time and efforts to making the festival happen. Traverse City Film Festival also showcases all volunteer music,[3] with over 60 regional artists featured in the 2016 event.[4]

Official selections

2005

The 2005 Traverse City Film Festival was held July 27–31. The 5-day event featured many independent films, plus four classic films. The independent films were shown in three indoor venues in downtown Traverse City: the State Theatre, the Old Town Playhouse, and the City Opera House. In addition, each night, a classic film was shown on a giant inflatable screen along West Grand Traverse Bay in the city’s Open Space Park. Broken Flowers, a winner at the 2005 Cannes Film Festival, was shown at the Traverse City Film Festival before being released to the general public. Other 2005 Traverse City Film Festival selections covered a gamut of film subjects ranging from period romances, unemployment, terrorism, among many other subjects.

2006

The second annual Traverse City Film Festival was held July 31 – August 6, 2006.

Stanley Kubrick Tribute:

Free Movies at the Open Space:

2007

The third annual festival was held July 31 – August 5, 2007.

Free Movies at the Open Space:

2008

The fourth annual festival: July 29 – August 3, 2008. Special appearance by Madonna, on August 2, 2008, introducing her film I Am Because We Are. Michigan Filmmaker Award went to Kurt Luedtke. Also world premiere for Religulous.

Free Movies at the Open Space:

2009

The fifth annual festival was held from July 28 – August 2, 2009.

Free Movies at the Open Space:

2010

The sixth annual festival was held from July 27 – August 1, 2010.

Opening and Closing Night:

TCFF 3D:

Comedy & Drama from Home and Abroad:

The Beatles at the Movies (A 40th Anniversary):

A Salute to Cuban Film:

Shorts Programs:

  • Short Documentaries
  • Shorts by Jon Alpert
  • Shorts by Rory Kennedy
  • Shorts by U of M Students
  • Short Fiction 1
  • Short Fiction 2
  • Shorts for Midnight

Dangerous Docs:

Midnight:

Special Screenings:

  • This Divided State - Mike's Surprise
  • Dodsworth: Jeff Garlin's Gems
  • Reel Injun Spirit Award, Nonfiction Jury Award/Special Founders Prize
  • The Last Command (with the Alloy Orchestra)

Kids Fest:

Free Movies at the Open Space:

2011

The seventh annual festival was held from July 26–31, 2011.

Opening and Closing Night:

US Indies:

New Foreign Cinema:

State Theatre Centennial Celebration:

  • L'Inferno
  • Wild & Weird: Alloy Orchestra's Favorite Short Silent Films

50th Anniversary of To Kill a Mockingbird:

Union! Our Salute to Public Employees:

100th Birthday Celebration of Roy Rogers:

Tribute to Jafar Panahi:

Lost Gems:

Special Screenings:

Kids Fest:

Dangerous Docs:

Experimental Film:

Midnight:

Kids Fest:

Shorts Programs:

  • Short Animation
  • Short Documentaries
  • Shorts by Students
  • Shorts by U of M Students
  • Shorts for Adults I
  • Shorts for Adults II
  • Shorts for Kids
  • Shorts for Midnight

Free Movies at the Open Space:

2012

The eighth annual festival was held from July 31 - August 5, 2012.

Opening & Closing Night and Centerpiece Screenings:

Hollywood Sneak Previews:

Friends Only Screenings:

Susan Sarandon Tribute:

Wim Wenders Tribute:

State Theatre Centennial Celebration:

Occupy the Cinema!:

Women:

US Indies:

New Foreign Cinema:

Dangerous Docs:

Midnight:

Experimental Film at Dutmers:

Special Screenings:

Kids Fest:

Shorts Programs:

  • Shorts - AAFF Michael Moore Award Winners
  • Shorts - Documentaries 1
  • Shorts - Documentaries 2
  • Shorts - Fiction 1
  • Shorts - Fiction 2
  • Shorts - Kids
  • Shorts - Midnight
  • Shorts - Occupy Wall Street
  • Shorts - Spike & Mike's New Generation Festival of Animation
  • Shorts - Spike & Mike's Sick and Twisted Festival of Animation
  • Shorts - U of M Student Films
  • Shorts - Wim Wenders
  • Shorts - Winsor McCay, Michigan Filmmaker Award Winner

Free Movies at the Open Space:

2013

The ninth annual festival was held from July 30 - August 4, 2013. Paul Feig was honored with the Michigan Filmmaker Award and Michael Apted with the Lifetime Achievement Award. Liana Liberato received the Discovery Award and Mark Cousins, Rob Epstein, and Jeffrey Friedman received the Visionary Award. The Festival added a new venue this year by renovating the former Con Foster Museum into a theater that was named Bijou by the Bay which opened in time for the 2013 Traverse City Film Festival.

Opening & Closing Night and Centerpiece Screenings:

Documentary:

American:

State Theatre Centennial Celebration:

Before the Code:

Michael Apted Tribute:

Tribute to Paul Feig:

Foreign:

Midnight:

Experimental Film at Dutmers:

  • Suitcase of Love and Shame
  • Your Day Is My Night — Buzz Wilson Prize for Best Experimental/Avant Garde Film

Special Screenings:

Kids Fest:

  • Moon Man
  • The Painting — Audience Award Winner Best Kids Film
  • Shorts for Kids
  • Victor and the Secret of Crocodile Mansion

Friends Only Screenings:

  • Sole Survivor
  • The World is Ours — Founders Prize for Best Comedy

TCFF Shorts:

  • The Battle of amfAR
  • Short Documentaries 1
  • Short Documentaries 2
  • Short Narratives
  • Shorts by Students
  • Shorts by U of M Students
  • Shorts for Kids
  • Shorts for Midnight
  • Waiting for Mamu — Audience Award Winner Best Documentary Short

Free Movies at the Open Space:

2014

The tenth anniversary festival was held from July 29 - August 3, 2014.

Opening & Closing Night and Centerpiece Screenings:

Documentary:

American:

State Theatre Centennial Celebration:

Special Screenings:

  • Bag of Rice
  • An Evening with Larry Charles
  • Mike's Surprise
  • Doug Loves Movies Podcast
  • LaDonna Harris: Indian 101
  • Yesterday and Tomorrow in Detroit

Kids Fest:

Free Movies at the Open Space:

Foreign:

Free Movies at the Buzz:

Midnight:

Experimental Film at Dutmers:

  • Focus on Infinity
  • The Forgotten Space
  • Karpotrotter
  • Purgatorio: A Journey Into the Heart of the Border

Friends Only Screenings:

TCFF Shorts:

  • Short Documentaries
  • Short Experimental Films
  • Short Narratives 1
  • Short Narratives 2
  • Shorts by MSU Students
  • Shorts by U of M Students
  • Shorts for Kids 1
  • Shorts for Kids 2
  • Shorts for Midnight
  • Shorts from the Ann Arbor Film Festival

2015

The eleventh annual festival was held from July 28 - August 2, 2015.

Opening & Closing Night and Centerpiece Screenings:

Documentary:

American:

State Theatre Centennial Celebration:

Native American Matinee:

Special Screenings:

  • The Benson Movie Interruption: Top Gun
  • Doctor Zhivago
  • Documentary Now!
  • Doug Loves Movies Podcast
  • Dusty Stacks of Mom
  • Jeff Garlin's Gem: The Old Dark House
  • Mike's Surprise
  • MSU Presents: (313) Choices
  • No More Road Trips?
  • Shaun the Sheep
  • Yesterday and Tomorrow in Detroit 5

Kid's Fest:

Foreign:

Midnight:

Friends Only Screenings:

Robert Altman Tribute:

Roger Corman:

Orson Welles Centennial:

Avant Garde:

  • Journey to the West - Buzz Wilson Prize for Best Avant-Garde Film
  • Mountain Spirits
  • The Owners
  • Speculation Nation

The Sidebar:

  • City of Gold
  • Good Things Await
  • King Georges
  • Sergio Herman, Fucking Perfect

Free Movies at the Open Space:

TCFF Shorts:

  • The Best Medicine
  • Character Study
  • Discipline - Founder's Prize Best Narrative Short
  • Dusty Stacks of Mom - Founder's Prize Special Mention Short
  • Films by Kenneth Anger
  • Finding Yourself
  • My Enemy, My Brother - Founder's Prize Best Documentary Short
  • Off the Grid
  • Peace Now
  • Shorts by MSU Students
  • Shorts by U of M Students
  • Shorts for Kids 1
  • Shorts for Kids 2
  • Shorts from the Ann Arbor Film Festival
  • Truth and Consequence
  • WTF

Notable filmmakers and guests

Board members

Staff

Main sites

References

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