Traverse City Film Festival

Giving Back

The Traverse City Film Festival is organized exclusively for charitable educational purposes. The festival strives to further the indigenous American art of cinema by bringing great movies and film education opportunities to northern Michigan.

Public Library DVD Program

Each year the festival donates the films shown during the festival to public libraries in the area so that everyone can see the festival's great movies for free. Inter-library loan programs expand the reach of the DVDs beyond the recipient libraries, and additional area libraries have provided funding for the purchase of sets of DVDs for their patrons. We hope to grow the program whenever funding or private donors allow so that the festival films will be available for free to as many people as possible. Click here for a list of available titles.

2009 Program

What is available of the 2009 program are in the following libraries. Additional titles will become available as they are released.

        Helena Township Library (Alden) - interloans with Elk Rapids & Kalkaska
        Traverse Area District Library (Traverse City) - interloans throughout Grand Traverse County
        Suttons Bay Bingham Area District Library
        Bellaire Public Library - donated by the Friends of the Bellaire Public Library

2008 Program

        Helena Township Library (Alden) - interloans with Elk Rapids & Kalkaska
        Traverse Area District Library (Traverse City) - interloans throughout Grand Traverse County
        Suttons Bay Bingham Area District Library
        Bellaire Public Library - donated by the Friends of the Bellaire Public Library

2007 Program

        Helena Township Library (Alden) - interloans with Elk Rapids & Kalkaska
        Traverse Area District Library (Traverse City) - interloans throughout Grand Traverse County
        Suttons Bay Bingham Area District Library
        Bellaire Public Library
        Leelanau Township Public Library (Northport)
        Beulah Public Library
        Leland Township Library
        Almira Township Library (Lake Ann)
        Glen Lake Community Library - some titles available courtesy Glen Lake Community Library

2006 Libraries
        Helena Township Library (Alden) - interloans with Elk Rapids & Kalkaska
        Traverse Area District Library (Traverse City) - interloans throughout Grand Traverse County
        Suttons Bay Bingham Area District Library
        Leelanau Township Public Library (Northport)
        Bellaire Public Library - courtesy Friends of the Bellaire Public Library
        Glen Lake Community Library - some titles available courtesy Glen Lake Community Library

2005 Libraries
        Glen Lake Community Library
        Helena Township Library (Alden)
        Traverse Area District Library (Traverse City)
        Bellaire Public Library - courtesy Friends of the Bellaire Public Library
        Leelanau Township Public Library (Northport) - courtesy FIM Group
        Suttons Bay Bingham Area District Library - courtesy FIM Group

Film Scholarships

The Traverse City Film Festival established a film student scholarship program to help graduating seniors with higher education costs as they continue on to college with a focus on film studies.

The festival awards $1,000 scholarships to three local high schools that offer film classes to their students. Applicants are asked to write a 500 to 750 word essay on the topic "What makes a great movie in America?" Winners are chosen by committees in their schools.

  Traverse Area District Library Director Michael McGuire

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