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TC Film Festival Gears Up For Fourth Year With Internship & Scholarship Programs, Trailers Contest

Traverse City, Mich. (April 18, 2008) - The Traverse City Film Festival is gearing up for another great year - and to kick things off, they're offering the public a number of ways to personally get involved with the festival.

Festival Founder and Oscar-winning filmmaker Michael Moore announced today that the organization would again offer internship opportunities for students during the 2008 festival.

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Shop Your Community Day 11/10/07

Saturday, November 10 is Shop Your Community Day in downtown Traverse City. From 10 am until 7 pm at participating stores, you can choose to donate 15% to the non-profit of your choice, and the Traverse City Film Festival is one of your options.

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Christine Lahti to Receive Michigan Filmmaker Award at TC Film Festival

Traverse City, Mich. (July 26, 2007) - Christine Lahti, Oscar-winning director and Best Supporting Actress nominee, will be presented with the 2007 Michigan Filmmaker Award at the third annual Traverse City Film Festival.

The festival's board of directors, including Michael Moore, Doug Stanton, John Robert Williams, Larry Charles and Terry George, along with former Michigan Governor William Milliken and Michigan Film Office Director Janet Lockwood, will bestow the award at the festival's opening ceremony on Tuesday, July 31. The ceremony will take place in front of the State Theatre at 3 p.m., followed by a ticketed V.I.P. reception at Federico Design Jewelers.

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Michael Moore Announces Lineup for 2007 Traverse City Film Festival

Traverse City, Mich. (July 11, 2007) - The Traverse City Film Festival is going bigger and better for 2007. The festival, founded and programmed by Oscar-winning filmmaker Michael Moore, will hold its third annual celebration of "great movies" on July 31-Aug. 5. Moore announced today that the festival will screen over 60 films in a variety of categories this year, including American Independent Cinema, New Foreign Cinema, Dangerous Docs, and Overlooked & Outstanding Films.

Also among this year's highlights: dedicated matinee screenings of Children's and Native American films; Midnight Madness, a selection of new cult-favorite horror films playing at special midnight showings; select screenings of classic films including a 40 th anniversary celebration of "The Graduate" and a screening of "The Bridge on the River Kwai" on its 50 th anniversary; and Mike's Surprise, a mystery film hand-picked by Moore to play closing night of the festival.

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TC Film Festival Announces Opening, Closing Night Films For '07 Festival

Traverse City, Mich. (July 6, 2007) - A Sundance Audience-Award winner and an acclaimed French costume drama will be the opening and closing night films at this year's Traverse City Film Festival, festival director Michael Moore announced today.

"Once," the surprise smash hit of this year's Sundance Film Festival, will kick off the 2007 TC festival on Tuesday, July 31. The intimate modern-day musical follows a street musician and an immigrant as they meet, fall in love, and begin chronicling their affair through music.

"It's possibly the best film I've seen this year," said Moore. "It's original, upbeat and very uplifting."

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Traverse City Film Festival to Hold Second Annual Student Workshop for Filmmakers

Traverse City, Mich. (June 26, 2007) - The Traverse City Film Festival announced today it is accepting applications to its second annual student workshop for filmmakers. Sponsored by the Herrington-Fitch Foundation, the workshop will take place on Tuesday, July 31, at 10:30 a.m. in downtown Traverse City and will be free to participating students.

Thirty students will be chosen to attend the workshop led by Oscar-winning filmmaker Michael Moore and the director of last year's hit comedy "Borat," Larry Charles. The directors will share tips and tricks of the filmmaking craft and answer questions in a private, closed-door session. Students will have the rare opportunity to ask questions of the directors during the workshop.

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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. Founded by Academy Award-winning filmmaker Michael Moore and co-founders local photographer John Robert Williams and New York Times best-selling author Doug Stanton, with filmmakers Larry Charles and Terry George rounding out the Board of Directors, the festival brings films and filmmakers from around the world to northern Michigan, creating a level of excitement one local paper said was "the best thing to happen here since the Ice Age left us Lake Michigan."

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