Traverse City Film Festival

     The Traverse City Film Festival is a charitable and educational non-profit organization that holds an annual event in one of the most beautiful areas of the country — Traverse City, Michigan. The festival is committed to showing "Just Great Movies" and helping to save one of America's few indigenous art forms — the cinema.

     The festival will presents the best of independent, foreign, and documentary films in several indoor movie houses, including the State Theatre, the City Opera House, and the Old Town Playhouse. In 2006, the festival offered 96 screenings of 67 feature films, up from 52 screenings of 31 films in 2005.

     The festival also presents classic movies free of charge on a giant inflatable outdoor screen overlooking Grand Traverse Bay in the Open Space Park at dusk.

     Panel discussions with directors, writers, actors, and other members of the film industry are offered daily.

The complete schedule of movies will be announced in June 2008, visit www.traversecityfilmfest.org/ for more information.