Whether it’s a tiny atomic change in your brain or a big bang in your heart, one great movie can change you. And with that we are proud to present the official 2015 poster, created by our incredible volunteer Art Director Gabriel Augustine. If the poster sets the tone for the year, then we couldn’t be more excited for […]
Grab some friends and a blanket, because our magical cinema under the stars will return once again to the Open Space this summer. And it wouldn’t be our free nightly movie series without our annual People’s Choice Night — the night we allow you, the people, to decide what’s shown on our 65-foot inflatable screen […]
The Traverse City Film Festival and its 11-year sponsor, FIM Group, invite filmmakers of all ages to submit to the sixth annual TCFF Bumper Contest for a chance to win cash prizes, including a Grand Prize of $1,000. A wonderful opportunity for aspiring and enthusiastic filmmakers looking to strut their stuff, and a great summer […]
The Traverse City Film Festival is seeking awesome, fun-loving people to join our team as Volunteer Managers for the 2015 festival! Please stop by our Volunteer Manager Open House on Wednesday, June 24 at 6 pm in the Basement Conference Rooms of the Park Place Hotel (300 E. State Street). We would love to meet you! If […]
Big thanks to MovieMaker Magazine for including us on their annual list of the “25 Coolest Film Festivals” in the world! Citing the grandeur of our home venue, the State Theatre, our programming, and one of the world’s most unique moviegoing experiences, Movies of a Boat, we join the ranks of a very eclectic list […]
Experience the festival through the eyes of a talented group of budding filmmakers! Each year, as part of the festival’s educational partnership with the Interlochen Arts Academy, the student Documentary Storytelling class works with a visiting TCFF filmmaker to create a short film about his or her festival journey. This year, however, the class decided […]
The most recent edition of “The Documentary Podcast” for the Detroit Free Press features a special report on location at the Traverse City Film Festival. Listen below to hear interviews with TCFF moderator and leading documentary programmer Thom Powers (Toronto International Film Festival, Doc NYC), TCFF Founders Prize Special Award winner James Spione (“Silenced”), and director Orlando von Einsiedel […]
The Traverse City Film Festival and 10-year sponsor FIM Group proudly announce the winners of the 2014 Bumper Contest. In case you didn’t get a chance to catch them all when they played before the screenings at this year’s 10th Anniversary festival, you can watch them here. First Place: Homemade Colin Campbell Second Place: Paper Movies […]
Take a bow — or take a nap — because you did it! 10 years of Just Great Movies, and we owe it all to you, our incredible volunteer army of love, now over 1,600 strong. In the 24,000+ hours you so generously donated to the film festival this year, you welcomed over 131,000 admissions across 12 venues at […]
Friends, Thank you for making the 10th Anniversary of the Traverse City Film Festival the best, most memorable, most awesome celebration of movies we’ve ever had. Over 131,000 admissions attended 250 screenings of 128 feature films and 85 shorts in our 12 venues — including this year’s immensely popular new additions, Movies on a Boat […]