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Traverse City Film Festival

Event:	Traverse City Film Festival
Date:	7.27.10 - 8/1/2010
Details:	TRAVERSE CITY FILM FESTIVAL founded and run by Academy Award-winning director and festival founder Michael Moore Now in its 6th year, the annual Northern Michigan festival promises to deliver what fans have come to expect over the years - "Just Great Movies." Academy Award-winning director and festival founder Michael Moore created the festival in 2005, in an aim to bring often undistributed national and international films to the public. This celebration of cinema has been an outstanding success, with last year's festival drawing the biggest crowd to date at over 95,000 admissions. Past filmmakers and panelists in attendance have included Phil Donahue (director - “Body of War”), Madonna (director - “I Am Because We Are”), David O. Russell (director - “Three Kings”), board members Larry Charles (director - “Borat”, “Religulous”) and Terry George (director - “Hotel Rwanda”), and comedian Jeff Garlin (actor/producer - “Curb Your Enthusiasm”). "All of the visiting filmmakers have told us over and over that Traverse City is the greatest film festival they have ever been to. They all say that Traverse City is such a welcoming, hospitable place, every year. And they spread the word," said Moore. With strong support from the quickly growing film community in Michigan, this year¹s Traverse City Film Festival looks forward to another great summer of movies. The full festival schedule will be released on July 9. Tickets for Friends of the Film Festival go on sale on July 11, and tickets for the public go on sale on July 17. For more information or media credential requests, please contact the Traverse City Film Festival office at (231) 392-1134 or visit www.traversecityfilmfest.org. The festival provides advertising opportunities for its movie, event and venue sponsors. For more information, contact sponsors@traversecityfilmfestival.org. About the Traverse City Film Festival: The Traverse City Film Festival is a charitable, educational, nonprofit organization committed to showing "Just Great Movies" and helping to save one of America's few indigenous art forms -- the cinema. The festival brings films and filmmakers from around the world to northern Michigan for the annual film festival in late July to early August. It was instrumental in renovating a shuttered historical downtown movie house, the State Theatre, which it continues to own and operate as a year-round, community-based, mission-driven and volunteer-staffed art house movie theater. The festival was founded by Academy Award-winning Director Michael Moore, who runs the festival and serves as president of the board of directors. Other board members are photographer John Robert Williams and New York Times best-selling author Doug Stanton, both Traverse Citians, and filmmakers Larry Charles (director, "Borat"), Terry George (director, "Hotel Rwanda"), Sabina Guzzanti (director, "Viva Zapatero!"), and Christine Lahti (actor, "Running on Empty").
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City:	Traverse City
Phone:	231-392-1134
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Website:	www.traversecityfilmfest.org
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