Annual film festival in Traverse City, Michigan, US
Traverse City Film Festival Scene from outside the State Theatre
Status on hiatus Genre film festival Location(s) Traverse City, Michigan Country United States Years active Inaugurated 2005 (2005 ) Founders Michael Moore, Doug Stanton Website www.traversecityfilmfest.org
The Traverse City Film Festival was an[1] [2] 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 was 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 board of directors of filmmakers, writers, and creative professionals. Traverse City Film Festival also showcases all volunteer music,[3] [4]
Official selections 2005 Open Space film screening The 1st annual Traverse City Film Festival was held July 27–31, 2005. 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.
Free Movies at the Open Space:
2006 The second annual Traverse City Film Festival was held July 31 – August 6, 2006. Michigan Filmmaker Award went to Jeff Daniels .
Stanley Kubrick Tribute:
Free Movies at the Open Space:
2007 The third annual festival was held July 31 – August 5, 2007. Michigan Filmmaker Award went to Christine Lahti .
Free Movies at the Open Space:
2008 The fourth annual festival took place July 29 – August 3, 2008. There was a special appearance by Madonna, on August 2, 2008, in order to introduce her film I Am Because We Are Kurt Luedtke . Also this year was the world premiere for Religulous .
Free Movies at the Open Space:
2009 The fifth annual festival was held from July 28 – August 2, 2009. There were 123 screenings of films from over 30 countries. Michigan Filmmaker Award went to Rich Brauer.
About Elly The Answer Man Azur and Asmar The Baader Meinhof Complex Big Fan Blood in the Face Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice Burma VJ The Chaser Chomsky & Company The Cove — Best Documentary, Jury AwardCrude — Special Jury Prize for Environmental DocumentaryDead Snow Defamation — Stanley Kubrick Award for Bold and Innovative Filmmaking, DocumentaryDepartures — Best Fiction Film, Audience AwardEarth Days Eden is West The End of the Line — Best Foreign Documentary, Jury AwardEnemies, A Love Story Entre nos Everlasting Moments Examined Life Food, Inc. Football Under Cover The Garden The Girlfriend Experience The Greatest — Best Fiction Film U.S., Jury AwardHarmony and Me — Stanley Kubrick Award for Bold and Innovative Filmmaking, Fiction FilmHelen + Joy Herb & Dorothy Humpday In the Loop — Founders Prize for Funniest Fiction FilmJulie & Julia Laila's Birthday Learning Gravity — Michigan PrizeLemon Tree Mary and Max Free Movies at the Open Space:
2010 The sixth annual festival was held from July 27 – August 1, 2010. Michigan Filmmaker Award went to John Hughes.
Opening and Closing Night:
TCFF 3D:
Cane Toads: The Conquest U2 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:
8: The Mormon Proposition 11/4/08 12th & Delaware American Radical: The Trials of Norman Finkelstein Auto*Mate Budrus Cleanflix Collapse Czech Peace Draquila – Italy Trembles The Elephant in the Living Room GasLand Google Baby Harlan – In the Shadow of Jew Süss His & Hers (2009 film) — Best Nonfiction Foreign, Jury AwardHow to Fold a Flag — Best Nonfiction U.S., Jury AwardIranian Cookbook The Miscreants of Taliwood — Best Film, Nonfiction Jury AwardThe Most Dangerous Man in America: Daniel Ellsberg and the Pentagon Papers — Best Nonfiction Film, Audience AwardThe Oath Restrepo Rush: Beyond the Lighted Stage Smile 'Til It Hurts — Special Jury Prize, Nonfiction Jury AwardSouth of the Border Teenage Paparazzo The Tillman Story Waiting for "Superman" Midnight:
Special Screenings:
This Divided State Dodsworth: Jeff Garlin's Gems Reel Injun 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. There were films at the festival this year from every continent except Antarctica. This was also the first year of Kids Fest on the lawn outside of the newly renovated Lars Hockstad auditorium. Michigan Filmmaker Award went to Sue Marx .
Opening and Closing Night:
US Indies:
All Good Things Everything Must Go — Best Screenplay in a US Narrative Film, JuryHesher — Best US Narrative Film, JuryHigher Ground Rabbit Hole Rid of Me 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 :
Hey, Boo: Harper Lee To Kill a Mockingbird Union! Our Salute to Public Employees:
Brothers on the Line With Babies and Banners: Story of the Women's Emergency Brigade 100th Birthday Celebration of Roy Rogers:
Tribute to Jafar Panahi:
Lost Gems:
Special Screenings:
The Blob Habanastation Here Comes Trouble Book Reading — Mike's SurpriseTwo Spirits Kids Fest:
Dangerous Docs:
Experimental Film:
Midnight:
Bellflower Deadheads — Founders Prize for Best Horror FilmRabies Shorts for Midnight Trollhunter 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. Michigan Filmmaker Award went to Winsor McCay .
Opening & Closing Night and Centerpiece Screenings:
Hollywood Sneak Previews:
Friends Only Screenings:
Susan Sarandon Tribute:
Wim Wenders Tribute:
State Theatre Centennial Celebration:
Blackmail Richard III A Trip to the Moon The Extraordinary Voyage The Story of Film: An Odyssey — Stanley Kubrick Award for Bold and Innovative FilmmakingOccupy the Cinema!:
Ashes of America Poor America The Reluctant Revolutionary Shorts - Occupy Wall Street Tahrir: Liberation Square We Are Legion: The Story of the Hacktivists We Are Wisconsin Women:
US Indies:
New Foreign Cinema:
Dangerous Docs:
Midnight:
Experimental Film at Dutmers:
Special Screenings:
The Dictator — Special ScreeningAn Afternoon Stroll with Michael Moore — Mike's SurpriseUp Heartbreak Hill The War of the Worlds Kids Fest:
Circus Dreams The Crocodiles Legends of Valhalla: Thor 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:
The Last Days of Pompeii The Phantom of the Opera — with the Alloy Orchestra Before the Code:
Michael Apted Tribute:
Tribute to Paul Feig :
Foreign:
Midnight:
Cockneys vs Zombies The History of Future Folk Journey to the West: Conquering the Demons The Shining UnHung Hero Experimental Film at Dutmers:
Suitcase of Love and Shame Your Day Is My Night — Buzz Wilson Prize for Best Experimental/Avant Garde FilmSpecial Screenings:
Kids Fest:
Moon Man The Painting Shorts for Kids Victor and the Secret of Crocodile Mansion [de] Friends Only Screenings:
Sole Survivor The World is Ours — Founders Prize for Best ComedyTCFF 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 ShortFree Movies at the Open Space:
Across the Universe Apollo 13 — People's Choice WinnerIndependence Day Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl The Princess Bride Some Like It Hot
2014 The tenth annual festival was held from July 29 - August 3, 2014. Barbara Kopple was honored this year with the Mid-Life Achievement Award. The Buzz and Movies on a Boat were added as venues.
Opening & Closing Night and Centerpiece Screenings:
Documentary:
112 Weddings 1971' Al Helm: Martin Luther King in Palestine Bending the Light Bronx Obama The Case Against 8 Casting By Dangerous Acts Starring the Unstable Elements of Belarus Dinosaur 13 Don't Leave Me — Founders Prize Special AwardFed Up Finding Vivian Maier A Goat for a Vote Happy Valley The Internet's Own Boy: The Story of Aaron Swartz — Founders Prize Special AwardIvory Tower Letters to Jackie: Remembering President Kennedy Life Itself — Founders Prize Special AwardLove and Terror on the Howling Plains of Nowhere Meet the Patels Mission Blue Mitt The Newburgh Sting The Overnighters Point and Shoot Print the Legend' Return to Homs Rich Hill — Founders Grand Prize Best FilmRunning from Crazy Silenced — Founders Prize Special AwardSlow Food Story Supermensch: The Legend of Shep Gordon To Be Takei Two Raging Grannies The Unknown Known Virunga Walking Under Water 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:
Casablanca The Goonies Jaws Jurassic Park Star Wars: Episode IV - A New Hope — People's Choice WinnerThe Wizard of Oz
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:
Divide in Concord Human Capital 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. Robert Altman received the Visionary Award, Michigan Filmmaker Award went to Roger Corman, and Geraldine Chaplin received the Lifetime Achievement Award. The Woz interactive gallery was a new addition this year.
Opening & Closing Night and Centerpiece Screenings: Documentary:
20 Years of Madness Amy The Armor of Light - Founders Prize Special AwardBest of Enemies The Brainwashing of My Dad A Brave Heart: The Lizzie Velasquez Story - Audience Award Winner Best DocumentaryBreaking a Monster The Chinese Mayor A Courtship A Dangerous Game Deep Web The Diplomat Do I Sound Gay? National Lampoon: Drunk Stoned Brilliant Dead Fear Not the Path of Truth - Changemaker AwardFinders Keepers - Founders Prize for Best ComedyFrom This Day Forward Glen Campbell: I'll Be Me Hip Hop-eration Holbrook/Twain: An American Odyssey Hot Type: 150 Years of the Nation The Hunting Ground Indian Point Life May Be Listen to Me Marlon Monty Python: The Meaning of Life Night Will Fall Peace Officer Poverty, Inc. Prescription Thugs Raiders!: The Story of the Greatest Fan Film Ever Made Red Army Roseanne for President! - Founders Prize Special AwardThe Salt of the Earth The State-Mafia Pact The Student Body (T)ERROR T-Rex - Roger Ebert Prize for Best Film by a First Time FilmmakerThe Trials of Spring - Founders Prize Special AwardVery Semi-Serious The Wanted 18 We Come as Friends The Wolfpack American:
7 Chinese Brothers Digging for Fire Good Kill Kill the Messenger - Audience Award Winner Best American FilmThe Last Five Years - Founders Prize Special AwardLearning to Drive - Audience Award Runner-Up Best American FilmThe Overnight Tangerine - Stanley Kubrick Award for Bold and Innovative FilmmakingWhen I Live My Life Over Again 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:
Fiddlesticks - Stuart J. Hollander Prize for Best Kids FilmMinuscule: Valley of the Lost Ants —French César Winner for Best Animated Film
Foreign: Midnight:
Friends Only Screenings:
Robert Altman Tribute:
Roger Corman:
Corman's Surprise Corman's World: Exploits of a Hollywood Rebel The Intruder The Masque of the Red Death Orson Welles Centennial:
Avant Garde:
Journey to the West - Buzz Wilson Prize for Best Avant-Garde FilmMountain 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 ShortDusty Stacks of Mom - Founder's Prize Special Mention ShortFilms by Kenneth Anger Finding Yourself My Enemy, My Brother - Founder's Prize Best Documentary ShortOff 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
2016 The twelfth annual Traverse City Film Festival was held from July 26–31, 2016. This year's festival celebrated the historic State Theatre's centennial year and honored female filmmakers by featuring films directed by women for every selection in the Official US Documentary and Fiction sections.
Opening & Closing Night and Centerpiece Screenings: US Official Selection: Documentary:
All this Panic Audrie & Daisy The Black Panthers: Vanguard of the Revolution By Sidney Lumet The C Word - Roger Ebert Prize for Best US Documentary Film by a First Time FilmmakerCameraperson The Champions Command and Control Death by Design Democrats Do Not Resist Equal Means Equal - Audience Award Winner for Best US DocumentaryFlorence, Arizona Generation Startup Gleason Hooligan Sparrow Jeremiah Tower: The Last Magnificent The Last Laugh Life, Animated Men of Sparta MSU Presents: Sorta Late Norman Lear: Just Another Version of You - Founders Prize Special AwardObit Olympic Pride, American Prejudice The Pistol Shrimps Rosenwald Solitary Territorio Trapped - Founders Prize Special AwardTwo Trains Runnin' - Men Make Movies AwardUnlocking the Cage Walk With Me: The Trials of Damon J. Keith Weiner US Official Selection: Narrative
Foreign Official Selection: Documentary:
Censored Voices Confusion Cooking up a Tribute Dark Horse Disturbing the Peace - Founders Prize Best Foreign Documentary, Audience Award Winner for Best Foreign DocumentaryEat that Question: Frank Zappa in His Own Words Elephant's Dream The Event Francofonia Heart of a Dog Houston, We Have a Problem! I Am Belfast Ice and the Sky Kings of Kallstadt - Roger Ebert Prize for Best US Fiction Film by a First Time FilmmakerLo and Behold, Reveries of the Connected World Magnus Noma: My Perfect Storm Presenting Princess Shaw Reset Foreign Official Selection: Narrative
Avant Garde: Elephant's Dream The Event Heart of a Dog Sixty Six Territorio Free Movies at The Open Space:
Friends Only Screenings:
Midsummer in Newton Sweet Smell of Spring July 28, 2016- A Day in History:
The Doug Benson Movie Interruption: Kisses for my President Live - Hillary Clinton Acceptance Speech Kid's Fest:
Phantom Boy Oddball - Stuart J. Hollander Prize for Best Kids FilmLost Gems of 2015
Men Make Movies- The Struggle Continues
Michiganders Make Movies:
Do Not Resist Generation Startup Men of Sparta Midnight:
Here Alone The Doug Benson Movie Interruption: A Donald Trump Favorite- Bloodsport The Doug Benson Movie Interruption: Kisses For My President Premieres:
Gleason Hell or High Water Little Boxes Men of Sparta Sister Cities Walk with Me: The Trials of Damon J. Keith The Sidebar: Food on Film:
Cooking Up A Tribute Jeremiah Tower: The Last Magnificent Noma: My Perfect Storm State Theatre Centennial Celebration
Special Screenings:
#tween:
TCFF Shorts:
Shorts by MSU Students Shorts by U-M Students Shorts: Animated at the Ann Arbor Film Festival Shorts for All Kids Shorts for Kids 4+ Shorts: Art Best of Fests Breaking Curfew Fish out of Water Friends Indeed It's Complicated Love & Marriage & Baby Carriage Strange Planet
2017 The thirteenth annual Traverse City Film Festival was held from July 25–30, 2017. This year’s festival celebrated works from filmmakers all around the world, especially those from countries targeted by the US travel ban. 19 directors could not attend the festival due to the ban, but Skyped into festival screenings to discuss their work. Mariska Hargitay , Noel Wells , Leonard Maltin , and Gilbert Gottfried were added to TCFF Walk of Fame this year.
Opening & Closing Night and Centerpiece Screenings: US Official Selection: Documentary:
US Official Selection: Narrative
Foreign Official Selection: Documentary:
Ada for Mayor All Governments Lie: Truth, Deception and the Spirit of I. F. Stone Cause of Death: Unknown The Chocolate Case Fire at Sea Pecking Order A River Below Rumble: The Indians Who Rocked the World Foreign Official Selection: Narrative
Avant Garde: Austerlitz The Challenge Inaate/Se/It Shines it a Certain Way. To a certain place./It Flies. Falls./ Machines Stockholm, My Love Free Movies at The Open Space:
Friends Only Screenings:
Travel Ban
Student Screenings
MSU Presents: Stay With Me CMU Presents: The Climb Kid's Fest:
Into the Who Knows! Revolting Rhymes Midnight:
Premieres:
Gleason Hell or High Water Little Boxes Men of Sparta Sister Cities Walk with Me: The Trials of Damon J. Keith The Sidebar: Food on Film:
Dinner in Abruzzo/Knife Skills First Growth New Chefs on the Block Soul Wasted! The Story of Food Waste Special Screenings:
Awake, A Dream from Standing Rock Cool Hand Luke Doug Loves Movies Mike's Surprise Reservoir Dogs Speedy with the Alloy Orchestra To Be or Not to Be #tween:
TCFF Shorts:
Shorts by MSU Students Shorts by U-M Students Shorts for All Kids Shorts for Kids 4+ Best of Luck With the Wall Commodity City Cop Dog Hot Winter: A Film By Dick Pierre In a Nutshell Iron Hands Moom All the World's A Stage Fork in the Road Inside Flint Trip Abroad
2018 The 14th annual Traverse City Film Festival was held from July 31 - August 5, 2018. Jane Fonda, Dick Cavett, and Leon Vitali were added to TCFF Walk of Fame this year, and Nick Offerman was able to Skype in for the screening of Hearts Beat Loud. Jane Fonda received the Lifetime Achievement Award. The TCFF Student U program was launched this year.
Opening & Closing Night and Centerpiece Screenings: US Official Selection: Documentary
Ali & Cavett: The Tale of the Tapes Arthur Miller: Writer Bathtubs Over Broadway Bisbee ‘17 Bombshell: The Hedy Lamarr Story The Cold Blue / The Memphis Belle Cracked Up: The Darrell Hammond Story Crime + Punishment Filmworker Freaks and Geeks: The Documentary Hal Hillbilly Hitchcock/Truffaut Jane Fonda in Five Acts Minding the Gap A Murder in Mansfield One of Us Roll Red Roll The Russian Five Say Her Name: The Life and Death of Sandra Bland The Sentence Stranger Fruit Time for Ilhan Water & Power: A California Heist White Tide: The Legend of Culebra Won't You Be My Neighbor Wrestle US Official Selection: Narrative
Foreign Official Selection: Narrative
Foreign Official Selection: Documentary
Free Movies at The Open Space:
Friends Only Screenings:
Amateurs Skid Row Marathon Student Screenings
MSU Presents: Crandies Shorts by CMU Students Shorts by MSU Students Shorts by U-M Students Kid's Fest:
Jim Button and Luke the Engine Driver Maya the Bee: The Honey Games Shorts for All Kids Shorts for Kids 6+ Midnight:
Food on Film:
Special Screenings:
#tween:
TCFF Shorts Programs:
Shorts on Shuffle I Shorts on Shuffle II The Future is Shorts Shorts Save America
2019 The 15th annual Traverse City Film Festival was held from July 30 - August 3, 2019. Lily Tomlin received the Lifetime Achievement Award.
Opening & Closing Night and Centerpiece Screenings: Notable filmmakers and guests Board members Staff Festival Co-Directors: Susan Fisher and Meg Weichman References ^ Miligan, Beth. "TC Film Festival Ending, Moore Announces". Traverse City Ticker . Retrieved 2 May 2023 . ^ "Mission". Traverse City Film Festival . Archived from the original on 26 February 2008. ^ "2016 Music". Traverse City Film Festival . 2013-06-24. Retrieved 2016-10-29 . ^ "Traverse City Film Festival gets musical with Michigan bands". Local Spins . 2016-07-29. Retrieved 2016-10-29 . External links Geography Education Landmarks Transportation Culture Nationally recognized
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