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Welcome to the 9th Annual Traverse City Film Festival! Hello Again Film Nuts!

Welcome to our ninth annual celebration of of film! We’ll show over 150 films this week and, yes, you are required to see them all! contents

This year we open the Bijou by the Bay, the 1 INTRO second year-round movie house run by 5 Major Sponsors the TCFF. We also added an extra night of 11 Box Office free outdoor movies at the Open Space. I’m especially proud of the films 13 Bijou by the Bay and filmmakers visiting us who are taking on the hot-button issues of 14 TCFF 10th Anniversary the growing security state, the end of privacy as we know it, and the corporate control (and censorship) of movies and people who decide to 15 FILMS explore what the heck is going on. 16 Free Movies at Open Space 18 Galas We are also proud to honor the great Michael Apted with this year’s 20 State Theatre Centennial Lifetime Achievement Award, and Mount Clemens-native Paul Feig 23 Honorees (“Bridesmaids,” “The Heat”) with our Michigan Filmmaker Award. Our 25 Films newly-minted Discovery Award will go to an incredible teenage actress 64 Shorts Liana Liberato (“Trust,” “Erased”). And the amazing Elaine Stritch will 68 Kids Fest accept our Legends Award at the festival’s Centerpiece Screening of “Elaine Stritch: Shoot Me” on Friday. 73 OFF SCREEN 74 Panels We dedicate this year’s festival to t wo friends we lost this past year: former 76 Film School Michigan First Lady Helen Milliken and former Traverse City Mayor Bryan 79 Cinema Salon Crough. Their titles don’t adequately express what they truly meant to us. 79 Festival on a Budget Not only were they instrumental to the founding and success of this film 80 Parties festival and our two movie theaters, they were also invaluable leaders and 82 Music visionaries who helped make Traverse City what it is today. Both Helen 90 Our Sponsors and Bryan are sorely missed by all, and especially by me. 96 Venues & Map 100 Schedule Next year we turn 10 years old! We have an amazing TCFF planned for you and you won’t want to miss a minute of it—so mark your calendars PROGRAM PUBLISHED BY: now for July 29-August 3, 2014. More movies, more stars, more fudge. What could be better when you’re 10?!

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WELCOME LETTERS

CITY OF TRAVERSE CITY

Another great week of movies and all the excitement that Traverse City has to offer should make your film festival week a memorable summer experience. Besides great movies, Traverse City and the Grand Traverse region offer a wide range of opportunities for all. World-class restaurants, wineries and brew pubs dot the region. Then there are those scenic drives up to the Sleeping Bear Sand Dunes & the Old Mission Peninsula, plus an extensive list of tours and recreational activities all available through the Convention & Visitors Bureau. Don’t miss jumping in the Bay or enjoying the boating opportunities at our newly refurbished Open Space. You’ll find our citizens neighborly, so don’t hesitate to ask questions and enjoy every minute of your time in our beautiful city by the Bay. Michael Estes | Mayor

STATE OF MICHIGAN

With an extensive variety of films and activities, the Traverse City Film Festival is a special way to enjoy summer in Northern Michigan. Over the past nine years, this festival has become a cultural beacon and an economic driver for the region. Last year, there were more than 90,000 admissions to the festival, experiencing the sights, tastes and sounds of Traverse City along the way.

Showcasing talented filmmakers in one of America’s most picturesque cities, this festival reinforces the reasons National Geographic named Traverse City a top summer destination in 2012. Please take the time to explore the majestic sights, rich culture and extensive entertainment Traverse City and the surrounding area offer.

Your continued support of the Traverse City Film Festival has helped make this event a premier film festival in the Midwest. I would like to thank the Festival Board and all of the hardworking volunteers who bring this exceptional filmgoing experience to Northern Michigan. Each year is a unique experience highlighting some of the best Pure Michigan has to offer—this year is no exception.

Thank you for visiting Michigan and the Traverse City Film Festival. Enjoy the show! Rick Snyder | Governor

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major VENUE SPONSORS DONORS RICHARD & Our sponsors make it DIANA MILOCK possible for us to keep the festival grassroots, focused on the art and love of movies. They also allow us to give back to the community with free and discounted programs during the film festival Herrington-Fitch family foundation ® and year-round at the State Theatre and the Bijou by the Bay, which LORI & REN LARS & MEGAN CITY OF are operated by our DOWNEY KELTO TRAVERSE CITY non-profit festival. Please thank our sponsors for the good work they do for the Traverse City Film Festival. WILSON ANTIQUES ®

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General Admission to Regular Films ...... $10 Open Space Films ...... FREE WILL CALL Panels ...... FREE Tickets held at will call can be picked up at any time at our Main Compliments of the Festival Screenings ...... FREE Box Office or at any of our festival movie theater box offices.

SPECIAL FILMS STANDBY ONLY & SOLD OUT Opening Night Gala – State 6 pm (“Blue Jasmine”) ...... $50 Nothing is ever sold out at TCFF! If a show is listed as sold Opening Night Film – Opera 7:30 pm & State 10 pm ...... $25 out or “standby only,” a standby ticket line will form one hour Centerpiece Gala (“Elaine Stritch: Shoot Me”) ...... $25 before each screening. So even if you hear that a show is Closing Night Gala (“Austenland”) ...... $25 sold out, our experience tells us that a few seats will open up. Hollywood Sneak Preview (“We’re the Millers”) ...... $15 Sometimes over 30 people from the standby line are seated! “Doug Loves Movies” Podcast ...... $15 VOUCHERS KIDS FEST Ticket vouchers can be purchased, good for any regular $10 Kids Fest Movies ...... $1 movie and good in the standby line. Vouchers must be used Kids Fest Lawn Party ...... FREE by August 4, 2013. Call 231-929-FILM (3456) for more information or to purchase vouchers. FILM SCHOOL Single Class ...... $5 FRIENDS OF THE FILM FESTIVAL $20 Two-Day Student Workshop ...... Your membership support makes it possible for the festival to bring great films and filmmakers to Traverse City while keeping PARTIES ticket prices affordable for the entire community. And here’s $500 Bijou Grand Debut ...... the best benefit of all: become a Friend of the Film Festival $50 Opening Night Party ...... * and you get to buy your tickets to next year’s festival a WEEK $50 Filmmaker Party ...... * before they go on sale to the general public! You’ll also receive FREE TCFF Closing Night Bash...... 50% off one or more festival party tickets, free tickets to the *Friends receive 50% off party tickets (1 or 2, depending on Friendship level) Friends Only Screening Party and other exclusive benefits. Join before 12 noon on Sunday, August 4 for a chance to win fabulous prizes, including a pass to next year’s film festival!

On September 1, 2013, prices for Good, Senior and Family Friend memberships double until the Friendship year expires after the 2014 festival (August 3, 2014)—so renew early! Please: Just one Friends membership per household.

TICKET PURCHASE & WILL CALL FRIEND LEVELS Good Friend - $60 ($120 after Sept. 1, 2013) MAIN BOX OFFICE & FESTIVAL STORE Senior Friend (65+) - $40 ($80 after Sept. 1, 2013) 128 S. Union Street, above 7 Monks Taproom Family Friend - $120 ($240 after Sept. 1, 2013) HOURS: Tuesday – Saturday: 9 am – 7 pm Special Friend - $500 Sunday: 9 am – 5 pm True Friend - $1,000 ONLINE: traversecityfilmfest.org PHONE: 231-929-FILM (3456) More information on the Friends of the Film Festival program, including specific benefits, can be found at VENUE BOX OFFICES traversecityfilmfest.org, at all movie screenings and at the Main Box Office. Join today! Support your festival and get your Each of our festival movie theaters has its own fully-functioning chance to win great prizes. box office. Venue box offices open one hour before the first film of the day and stay open through the start of the last show. Important Note: Friends of the Film Festival and State You can pick up or purchase tickets at any of these locations. Theatre memberships are separate, unrelated programs.

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This year’s festival marks a milestone for TCFF: we’re finally opening a much-needed second screen for the State Theatre, which was just named the number one theater in the world by the Motion Picture Association mark your place of America! AT THE BIJOU We’re restoring the Con Foster museum in Clinch Park, an 80-year-old (and long vacant) building— originally built by President Roosevelt’s Civil Works Administration—with the same loving care and with the same team that resurrected the State Theatre We’re narrowing in on our fundraising goal for in 2007. TCFF9 audiences will be the first to enjoy the Labor Day year-round opening of the Bijou. movies in our new venue, which we’re calling the Bijou If you can help us cross the finish line with a (“BE-zhu,” the French word for “small gem”). Then donation of $1 or more, thank you! Become a we’ll finish up the job in August, and open year-round part of history by picking up a Bijou donation on Labor Day weekend with a community celebration and card at any venue, or go to bijoubythebay.org to open house. donate online with a few simple clicks.

The Bijou by the Bay will be a unique and wonderful Donate Any Amount place to see a movie, and will greatly enhance the From $1 to $10,000, every donation helps. So moviegoing experience in Northern Michigan while we’ve made it easy to make a contribution of any making things infinitely better for the State Theatre, amount, online or in any venue. too. The Bijou means more foreign movies, more Buy a Brick documentaries, more obscure (but great) works, For your $500 donation, you or a loved one will more classics and more programs for students and be commemorated on an engraved brick outside local non-profits, at both the State and the Bijou. The the Bijou. possibilities are endless and exciting! Sponsor a Seat If you give $1,000 or more, a plaque with your name (or someone you’d like to dedicate it to) will go on one of the new seats inside the Bijou.

Become a Bijou Founder Pledge $50,000 and be forever named on the building as a Founder of the Bijou by the Bay.

Donations are 100% tax deductible. The Bijou by the Bay is a project of the Traverse City Film Festival, a non-profit 501(c)(3) organization. Thank you!

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TRAVERSE CITY FILM FESTIVAL tenth ANNIVERSARY

THE 10TH ANNUAL TRAVERSE CITY FILM FESTIVAL July 29-August 3, 2014

Come Celebrate a Decade of “Just Great Movies” with Us Next Year!

LEGENDARY FILMMAKERS AND STARS IN ATTENDANCE

STATE THEATRE CENTENNIAL EVENT AT THE OPEN SPACE One of the greatest films of all time with live symphony accompaniment.

BUILD YOUR OWN STATE THEATRE Free workshop open to community representatives from around the country who want to do what we’ve done in Traverse City.

48-HOUR MOVIE Sign up to make your own movie during festival week. Winners will be screened on the last day of the festival.

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movie magic on Grand Traverse Bay, free for everyone. The biggest screen, the biggest stars, the biggest sound—nothing is better than watching a Hollywood classic with friends and family on a 65-foot screen by the Bay. Come early for free music (page 82), entertainment and fun beginning at 7 pm.

ACROSS THE UNIVERSE 2007 | USA, UK | PG-13 | 133 min. The music of the Beatles tells the story of a romance between an upper crust American girl and a penniless Liverpudlian artist in director Julie Taymor’s breathtaking musical set amid the helter skelter days of anti-war protests and the civil rights movement. Our star-crossed lovers are torn from each other’s lives, but with a little help from their friends, they just may find their way back together. If all you need is love, let’s come together at the Open Space for a celebration of song. TUESDAY AT DUSK Sponsored by Jimmy John’s Gourmet Sandwiches

PIRATES OF THE CARIBBEAN: THE CURSE OF THE BLACK PEARL 2003 | USA | PG-13 | 143 min. If it’s a pirate’s life for you, then don’t miss our special waterfront screening of Disney’s swashbuckling epic brimming with humor, action, adventure and romance. Johnny Depp plays the world’s most eccentric pirate, the roguish yet charming Captain Jack Sparrow, on a mission to reclaim his old ship, the Black Pearl. Sparrow becomes unlikely allies with a virtuous blacksmith (Orlando Bloom) who is trying to save the woman he loves (Keira Knightley) from the clutches of Sparrow’s former crew—now cursed members of the undead. So come aboard, mateys, for a rollicking ride so thrilling you won’t even wonder why all the rum is gone. WEDNESDAY AT DUSK Sponsored by PNC Bank

SOME LIKE IT HOT 1959 | USA | NR | 120 min. Nobody’s perfect, but this film might very well be. After accidentally witnessing a murder, two Chicago musicians (Jack Lemmon and Tony Curtis) go on the run from the mob disguised as members of an all-girl band headed to Florida. With gangsters hot on their trail, mayhem ensues as the men try to keep up their gender-bending ruses while growing close to the oh-so-lovely Sugar Kane (Marilyn Monroe) and a millionaire who can’t seem to take a hint. A true treasure of American cinema and one of the greatest comedies of all time, “Some Like It Hot” proves that director Billy Wilder’s biting wit and cheery cynicism have only gotten better with age. THURSDAY AT DUSK Sponsored by North Peak Brewing Co.

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INDEPENDENCE DAY 1996 | USA | PG-13 | 145 min. This sci-fi extravaganza from the master of disaster Roland Emmerich has everything you could possibly want from a spectacular summer blockbuster: slick special effects, explosive action sequences, romantic subplots, an adorable child—and Will Smith. Aliens have arrived on earth, and, shockingly enough, they do not come in peace. Following the invasion, a disparate group of intrepid survivors— including a washed-up MIT graduate, the President, a local nutcase, an Air Force captain and an exotic dancer—band together to launch a counterattack that proves superior technology is simply no match for good ol’ American ingenuity. FRIDAY AT DUSK Sponsored by Nielsen

APOLLO 13 people’s choice winner 1995 | USA | PG | 140 min. Traverse City, we have a problem…if you don’t come out for the winner of this year’s People’s Choice vote. Based on the gripping true story of NASA’s ill-fated mission to the moon, “Apollo 13” stars Tom Hanks, Kevin Bacon and Bill Pullman as a trio of astronauts caught in a desperate struggle to survive after an explosion cripples their spacecraft. With little more than duct tape and cardboard to fix the ship, Mission Control races against time to bring the crew safely home. A thrilling example of humanity’s extraordinary achievements, we invite you and your family to dare to dream among the stars with us. SATURDAY AT DUSK Sponsored by Cherry Capital Airport

THE PRINCESS BRIDE 1987 | USA | PG | 98 min. It would be inconceivable to miss director Rob Reiner’s beloved (and highly quotable) bedtime story that proves even death cannot stop true love. This enchanting fairy tale, complete with pirates, magic, swordplay, fire swamps, rodents of unusual size, revenge, miracles, escapes and, yes, even its fair share of kissing, will delight the entire family with wit and wonder. So if you are looking for an evening filled with thrills and laughs—well, as you wish. We also invite you to join us starting at 7 pm for a bash to close the festival with live music, games, prizes, desserts and FREE popcorn for the first 500 attendees (page 81). SUNDAY AT DUSK Sponsored by Shanty Creek Resorts

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BLUE JASMINE 2013 | USA | PG-13 | 98 min. Woody Allen’s latest film finds America’s greatest, most beloved comic auteur back on home turf after a stretch of films on European soil. “Blue Jasmine” follows a New York socialite named Jasmine (Cate Blanchett) who moves to San Francisco to escape her faltering marriage to a crooked Wall Street executive (Alec Baldwin). On the West Coast, she settles into a modest apartment with her bohemian sister Ginger (Sally Hawkins) to get a fresh start on life, thinking that a change of coast, class and social status will help her put the ONE past aside and get herself back together again. Featuring a typically outstanding cast, including GREAT Peter Sarsgaard, Louis C.K., Andrew Dice Clay, Michael Stuhlbarg and Bobby Cannavale, this new comedy from Woody Allen offers a star-studded MOVIE kickoff to this year’s festival. In Person: Michael Stuhlbarg (schedule permitting).

CAN Tue 6 pm State Theatre Tue 7:30 pm City Opera House change Tue 10 pm State Theatre SPONSORED BY: Mark Newham & Cynthia Johnson (6 pm) Critter Control (7:30 pm) YOU The Ashken Family (10 pm) PRE-SHOW MUSIC BY: Ann Peterson (6 pm) Jennifer Westwood (7:30 pm) Stephan McNeil (10 pm)

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ELAINE STRITCH: AUSTENLAND SHOOT ME 2013 | USA, UK | PG-13 | 97 min. 2013 | USA | NR | 81 min. Thirty-something and single Jane (Keri Russell) One of America’s greatest Broadway legends has something of an unhealthy obsession with is coming to Traverse City to attend a special all things Jane Austen. Lucky for her, she’s not screening of a documentary that vibrantly alone. Welcome to Austenland, the ultimate portrays her backstage life. Follow the getaway for literary devotees, where visitors inimitable Elaine Stritch as she prepares for indulge in Regency-era fantasies provided by her latest club tour, “Singin’ Sondheim… One the British theme park. Jane sells her car and Song at a Time,” and sets out to prove that blows her savings so she can afford a trip to even at age 87, she can still put on quite the immerse herself in Austen’s world and fulfill show. Director Chiemi Karasawa crafts a her dream of meeting Mr. Darcy (or at least candid portrait of the brash and brassy grand a reasonable approximation). The directorial dame as she follows Stritch from rehearsals debut from “Napoleon Dynamite” screenwriter and a side gig playing Alec Baldwin’s mother Jerusha Hess is a rollicking romcom that plays on “30 Rock” to reveal the complex, wise and up America’s fascination with British culture, witty woman behind the legend. Intimate verité featuring a supporting cast including J. J. Feild footage is paired with interviews with Stritch’s (“Captain America”), Bret Mackenzie (“Flight of friends and admirers (including Nathan Lane, the Concords”) and Jennifer Coolidge (“Legally In Person: J. J. Tina Fey and Hal Prince) to capture the Blonde”) delivering big laughs. struggles and triumphs in the life of an Emmy Feild (schedule permitting). and Tony-winning performer, resulting in a documentary that is hilarious, poignant and Sun 6 pm State Theatre inspiring. In Person: Elaine Stritch; Rob Bowman; director Chiemi Karasawa. SPONSORED BY: Chris Dennos Fri 6 pm State Theatre

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PRE-SHOW MUSIC BY: Laurie Sears

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state theatre CENTENNIAL CELEBRATION

In 2016 our festival’s anchor venue and movie palace, the State Theatre, will celebrate 100 years of showing movies in downtown Traverse City! We’re continuing our five year pre-party with great films from the early days of cinema.

THE LAST DAYS OF POMPEII ALLOY ORCHESTRA PRESENTS 1913 | Italy | NR | 88 min. THE PHANTOM OF THE The epic, big-budget disaster film with a OPERA love triangle subplot is by no means a recent 1925 | USA | NR | 84 min. Hollywood development. It goes back 100 years to the earliest days of feature Roger Ebert called them “the best in the films—1913, to be exact. This sweeping Italian world at accompanying silent films,” and we saga chronicles the final hours in the lives of call them festival regulars we love to welcome a prominent statesman, a gorgeous woman, a back to Traverse City every year. In 2013, the pagan priest, a jealous witch and a blind beggar incomparable musical stylings of the Alloy before Mount Vesuvius unleashed her wrath Orchestra will accompany Rupert Julian’s on the unsuspecting people below. You won’t classic starring the man of 1,000 faces, Lon believe the opulence and intrigue that awaits Chaney. This early classic of the horror genre you in this last of the great tableaux films, with has been horrifying and fascinating audiences thrilling chariot races, brutal sword-and-sandal for almost 90 years. We are happy to present gladiatorial duels and one heck of a spectacular “Phantom” on a lovingly restored, hand-tinted volcanic eruption. 35mm print.

Wed 12 noon Dutmers Theater Sun 3:30 pm State Theatre

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PRE-SHOW MUSIC BY: Frank Pahl

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It’s the 80th anniversary of the final hurrah before Hollywood censorship! This era, known as pre-Code, was filled with moments so outrageous you’ll wonder, “How the heck did they get away with that?!” We’re showing these two pre-Code gems from 1933.

GOLD DIGGERS OF 1933 SHE DONE HIM WRONG 1933 | USA | NR | 97 min. 1933 | USA | NR | 66 min. No film better embodies the anything-goes In another pre-Code wonder from 1933, the spirit of the pre-Code era than this lavish matchless Mae West plays Lady Lou, a saucy backstage musical about a trio of showgirls saloon singer who never met a man—or a looking for their big break who will stop at double entendre—she didn’t like. This raunchy nothing to keep their show going—and to find comedy follows Lou’s efforts to dismantle a rich husbands. This sharp, funny and cynical former paramour’s prostitution ring, and the treat is a visual and auditory feast replete with cat-and-mouse game that ensues when Lou coin-wearing, scantily-clad showgirls and songs sets her eyes on a stalwart undercover cop, extolling the virtues of alfresco lovemaking, played by an utterly dashing young Cary Grant, starring Ginger Rogers, Ruby Keeler and Dick who is out to reform her wanton ways. But Powell, and featuring the inimitable magic of sexually liberated Lou won’t change for any Busby Berkeley’s choreography. man, and audiences get to enjoy a film oozing with West’s one-of-a-kind wit and eroticism Thu 9 am State Theatre that couldn’t have been made in Hollywood Sun 12 noon Dutmers Theater even a year later.

Thu 12 noon Dutmers Theater SPONSORED BY: In Memory of Helen Wallbank Milliken (Thu) Christine Struminski (Sun) SPONSORED BY: Allure Salon PRE-SHOW MUSIC BY: Grand Traverse Show Chorus (Thu) PRE-SHOW MUSIC BY: Angela Josephine

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lifetime ACHIEVEMENT AWARD

MICHAEL APTED

TCFF proudly welcomes renowned filmmaker Michael Apted. From revealing documentaries to his iconic work with James Bond, the TCFF is pleased to honor Britain’s great director by recognizing a career built on excellence and commitment. We’re honoring Michael Apted with a screening of the landmark “Up” series at Dutmers Theater (page 60), culminating with a screening of “56 Up” at the State Theatre (page 25).

michigan FILMMAKER AWARD

PAUL FEIG

From his work as writer and creator of “Freaks and Geeks” to directing blockbuster comedies like “Bridesmaids,” Mount Clemens native Paul Feig has become one of Michigan’s most successful Hollywood exports. We welcome Feig back to his home state for a screening of his latest hit film, “The Heat” (page 38), and to receive this year’s Michigan Filmmaker Award.

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Tribute to Michael Apted Documentary 56 UP THE ACT OF KILLING 2012 | UK | NR | 144 min. 2012 | Denmark, Norway, UK, Sweden, The latest installment of Michael Apted’s Finland | NR | 115 min. acclaimed “Up” series revisits its 14 British Following the Indonesian military coup in the subjects in their middle age, nearly 50 years 1960s, leaders of paramilitary death squads after Apted began filming them at age seven were responsible for killing more than a in one of documentary filmmaking’s crowning million alleged Communists and others who achievements. As they enter their autumn threatened those in power. Nearly 50 years years, Apted’s subjects reflect on the paths later, these crimes have gone unpunished, their lives have taken, and what choices and the perpetrators maintain a heroic and turns of chance have determined who view of the atrocities they committed. This they are today. Whether you’re new to the groundbreaking doc puts the cameras in the series or you’ve been following it all your hands of some of the most notorious of these life, you will be captivated by this portrait of gangsters, who delight in the opportunity to raw humanity elegantly put to the screen. glorify their past deeds by staging dramatic In Person: Director Michael Apted. reenactments of their crimes on film in surreal, B-movie fashion. The result is an astonishing Sat 6 pm State Theatre history lesson and a chilling view into the minds of mass murderers who only begin to SPONSORED BY: feel repentant after being confronted with the Grand Traverse Pie Company filmed record of their crimes. The Audience PRE-SHOW MUSIC BY: Award winner at this year’s Berlin Film Festival, Suzanne and Jim “The Act of Killing” is a testament to the power of filmmaking.

Fri 6 pm Old Town Playhouse Sat 9 pm Milliken Auditorium

In Indonesian, English with subtitles

SPONSORED BY: Pam and Bernie Stover (Fri) Jere and Gail Brown (Sat)

PRE-SHOW MUSIC BY: Fauxgrass (Fri) Kevin Reeves (Sat)

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A BAND CALLED DEATH BEFORE SNOWFALL 2012 | USA | NR | 96 min. (FØR SNØEN FALLER) Before the Sex Pistols and the Ramones 2013 | Norway, Germany, Iraq | NR | 105 min. defined punk for a generation, there was Generally speaking, films from Norway are so Death. Formed by three teenage brothers great that we scarcely need to watch them in a spare bedroom of their family home in a first, but we’re very glad we saw this one, and working class black neighborhood in Detroit, we won’t soon forget it. “Before Snowfall” the pioneering proto-punk band had dreams follows the dangerous journey of a 16-year- of making it big, and pressed their own record old Kurdish boy across Europe from Kurdistan in order to pitch to the big labels. But in the and Turkey to Germany and Norway as he era when Motown and disco reigned supreme, attempts to restore his family’s honor while Death was doomed to obscurity—until their moving between neighboring countries that dusty demo recording was discovered in an are as different from one another as night and attic 30 years later. A captivating and moving day. On his journey, he is smuggled across the tale of family and redemption, this epic borders with the help of a network of Kurdish rockumentary follows the band’s decades- immigrants, where he falls in love and comes long journey to being recognized as pioneers of age in a foreign land. All the while, we watch of punk by a new generation. In Person: Directors Mark Covino & Jeffrey Howlett. how two peaceful countries, Norway and Germany, deal with immigrants who are unable to leave their violent pasts behind. Don’t miss Thu 9 pm City Opera House this truly incredible film that will stay with you Sun 6 pm Milliken Auditorium long after you leave the theater.

SPONSORED BY: Wed 9 pm Dutmers Theater Jim and Chris Corgel (Thu) Thu 6 pm City Opera House Michael Sullivan (Sun) Sun 6 pm Bijou by the Bay PRE-SHOW MUSIC BY: Jake Allen (Thu) Jimmy Olson (Sun) In Kurdish with subtitles

SPONSORED BY: The Wilson Family & Rainbow Rehabilitation Centers Inc. (Wed) Janet Wolf (Thu) The English Inn, Restaurant and Pub Gary & Donna Nelson (Sun)

PRE-SHOW MUSIC BY: Awesome Distraction (Thu)

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Documentary Documentary BIG EASY EXPRESS BLACKFISH 2012 | USA | NR | 67 min. 2013 | USA | PG-13 | 82 min. The next wave of American folk music is out in In 2010, a SeaWorld trainer was killed full force in this exuberant road movie-slash- while performing with notorious orca concert film from veteran music doc director whale Tilikum, who was already responsible Emmett Malloy. This free-wheeling musical for two other human deaths since being adventure follows indie folk bands Edward captured nearly three decades earlier. In this Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros, Old Crow searing documentary, filmmaker Gabriela Medicine Show and Mumford & Sons on their Cowperthwaite takes Tilikum’s tragic story cross-country Railroad Revival Tour as they as a case study in a larger examination of the traverse six cities from Oakland, California practice of keeping killer whales in captivity, to New Orleans on a vintage train. The using testimony from animal behaviorists and picturesque landscape across the American numerous ex-SeaWorld trainers to launch an Southwest and the rhythmic clack of the train attack against the practice of keeping these wheels provide the perfect backdrop for the creatures for entertainment. As suspenseful bands to jam together and swap stories en as any thriller, this mesmerizing film offers route to jubilant, jam-packed concerts. a harrowing but necessary look into the lives of uncommonly intelligent animals in Wed 6 pm Old Town Playhouse captivity which challenges us to reconsider our Fri 9 pm City Opera House relationship with nature.

SPONSORED BY: Harriet and Clyde McKenzie (Wed) Wed 3 pm Lars Hockstad Dr. Robert Evans and Adria Badagnani (Fri) Fri 9 pm Milliken Auditorium

PRE-SHOW MUSIC BY: SPONSORED BY: Heartwell (Wed) Alan Collard (Wed) Blue Footed Booby (Fri) The Wilson Family & Rainbow Rehabilitation Centers Inc. (Fri)

PRE-SHOW MUSIC BY: Robin Connell (Fri)

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Foreign Foreign

THE BROKEN CIRCLE BYPASS BREAKDOWN 2012 | Spain | NR | 98 min. 2012 | Belgium, Netherlands | NR | 111 min. In this smartly-written romantic comedy, old Each year we see a couple of films that touch college buddies Xabi, Lukas and Jone reunite us in a way that will never let us go. This year, a in Bilbao after learning that their friend Maria Belgian tale, the Berlin Film Festival Audience is terminally ill with a congenital heart defect. Award winner, won our hearts and minds—and Lukas and Jone confide in Xabi that Maria it haunts us still. It’s the story of the glorious, has been secretly in love with him for years, intense, almost mythical love between so he decides to make her last days a bit Elise and Didier, two wild and passionate brighter by pretending to be in love with her people who discover that they fit perfectly as well. But when Maria makes a miraculous together, until circumstances beyond their recovery thanks to his affections, Xabi has to control change everything. Framed around a juggle between keeping up appearances in remarkable bluegrass soundtrack and several his new relationship and keeping his pregnant performances by Didier’s band, “The Broken girlfriend in Barcelona out of the loop. We like Circle Breakdown” will make you laugh and cry, this movie so much, we chose it for the special and will wash you in the power of grand love. screening we do for our valued volunteers. In Person: Director Patxo Telleria.

Wed 9 pm State Theatre Thu 6 pm Lars Hockstad Sun 6 pm City Opera House Sun 12 noon State Theatre

In Flemish, English with subtitles In Basque with subtitles

SPONSORED BY: SPONSORED BY: Paula & Bill Cordes and Anne & Bill Montgomery (Wed) Soelch Properties LLC (Thu) Bob & Judy James and Bob & Kay Stehouwer (Sun) CMK Enterprises Inc. (Sun)

PRE-SHOW MUSIC BY: PRE-SHOW MUSIC BY: M-23 Strings LeMoko (Thu) Miriam Pico and David Chown (Sun)

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Documentary Documentary

THE CENTRAL PARK FIVE CITIZEN KOCH 2012 | USA | NR | 119 min. 2013 | USA | NR | 87 min. On a spring night in 1989, a young white In 2010, the Supreme Court’s landmark ruling woman from New York’s Upper East Side was in Citizens United v. FEC lifted a century-long assaulted and raped in Central Park. With the restriction on corporate election spending, city’s residents and media demanding swift marking a new era in the ability of the wealthy justice, the NYPD was quick to round up a —and immensely wealthy in particular— group of five black and Latino teenagers from to cast their influence over the American Harlem, and after grueling interrogations, political sphere, threatening democracy as we coerce confessions out of each of them—in know it. Filmmakers Carl Deal and Tia Lessin spite of scant evidence to link the group to (“Trouble the Water,” TCFF ‘08) shine a light the crime. Masterfully directed by Ken Burns, on the aftermath of the ruling by following the along with his daughter Sarah and her husband standoff between Wisconsin state employees David McMahon, this riveting documentary and Republican Governor Scott Walker, who chronicles the Central Park Jogger case was bankrolled by billionaire industrialists through archival footage and interviews with David and Charles Koch. This politically the Five following their eventual exoneration charged doc recently had its funding cut by after years in prison, and offers a hard look at PBS, who feared that by showing the film they our system of justice in a city divided on race would upset David Koch—one of PBS affiliate and class lines. WNET’s largest contributors. In Person: Directors Carl Deal & Tia Lessin; subject Wed 3 pm Old Town Playhouse Brian Cunningham (Sat & Sun). Fri 12 noon Bijou by the Bay Wed 3 pm Bijou by the Bay SPONSORED BY: Sat 12 noon State Theatre The Wilson Family & Rainbow Sun 6 pm Old Town Playhouse Rehabilitation Centers Inc. (Wed) In loving memory of Helen Wallbank Milliken Governor William G. Milliken and SPONSORED BY: Joyce Braithwaite-Brickley (Fri) David Poinsett and Mary Salo (Wed) ShoreTrips (Sat) PRE-SHOW MUSIC BY: The Wilson Family & Rainbow Blake Elliott (Wed) Rehabilitation Centers Inc. (Sun)

PRE-SHOW MUSIC BY: Chris Vallillo (Sat) Susan and Bill Dungjen (Sun)

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Midnight Foreign

COCKNEYS VS ZOMBIES DANCING QUEEN 2012 | UK | NR | 88 min. 2012 | South Korea | NR | 124 min. With local London police otherwise engaged A box office mega-hit in its native country, in a little thing called the zombie invasion, this bubbly South Korean romantic comedy a gang of bank robbers on a mission to save follows housewife Jung-hwa, who put her their grandfather’s home from redevelopment lifelong fantasy of becoming a pop star on hold get more than they bargained for when they to raise her child while her husband got his stumble upon ground zero of the zombie career as a lawyer started. Fate is on her side, apocalypse. Meanwhile, their grandfather however, and a chance encounter gives her mounts an army of fellow pensioners to an opportunity to revive her childhood dream defend against the undead and prove that late in life by auditioning for an American Idol- these elderly Eastenders are still tough as nails. style show. But when her husband accidentally This clever, classic zombie flick is a riotous and becomes a public hero and is catapulted into blood-spattered horror comedy. the political spotlight, Jung-hwa has to decide between his dreams and her own. Starring two Thu 12 midnight State Theatre of Korea’s most popular actors, this charming comedy is the very definition of a feel-good SPONSORED BY: crowd pleaser. SAGIndie Wed 12 noon Lars Hockstad PRE-SHOW MUSIC BY: THUNDERCLAP! Sat 9 am State Theatre

In Korean with subtitles

SPONSORED BY: Yoga for Health Education, LLC (Wed) Judy Levin, Realtor (Sat)

PRE-SHOW MUSIC BY: The Accidentals (Wed)

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Documentary Documentary Special Event DIRTY WARS DOCUMENTARY DOUG LOVES 2013 | USA | NR | 86 min. SECRET MOVIES PODCAST Equal parts political thriller SCREENING Program Length: 90 min. and high-stakes investigation, ?? | ?? | ?? | ?? Join Doug Benson (“Last Comic this powerhouse documentary This year, you have the chance to Standing,” “Super High Me”), our follows reporter Jeremy Scahill see a truly special documentary own Michael Moore and other as he ventures into uncharted before anyone else in America special guests as they record a territory to uncover the rise of the gets to see it. It is a riveting podcast all about movies, live JSOC (Joint Special Operations murder mystery/detective story from the Old Town Playhouse. Command), a powerful wing of the about a chilling case of corruption We welcome Benson, a stand-up US military engaged in operations that took a nation by storm - sellout at this year’s Traverse City in hidden corners of the globe. —a gripping stranger-than- Winter Comedy Arts Festival, Scahill first caught wind of the fiction crime drama that is back to the now tundra-less JSOC while reporting on a night not to be missed. north for an evening of hilarity. Be raid gone tragically wrong in a sure to save time for this special remote area of Afghanistan, but Fri 3 pm Bijou by the Bay chance to experience a laugh- that was just the tip of the iceberg. out-loud conversation about As he digs deeper, a portrait of a With subtitles one of the greatest things in far-reaching covert battle with a life: the movies. Tickets for this SPONSORED BY: “kill list” that stretches over 45 special live event are $15. Niiice! In countries emerges. This fearless The Hollander Family Person: Doug Benson, Michael and uncompromising exposé in Honor of Stuart J. Hollander Moore, Graham Elwood. brings to light the chilling realities of modern war and its profound Wed 9 pm Old Town Playhouse consequences for citizens around the world. In Person: Director SPONSORED BY: Rick Rowley; subject Jeremy Old Town Optical Scahill (Sun). PRE-SHOW MUSIC BY: Wed 9 pm Bijou by the Bay DarlenYa Sun 3 pm Milliken Auditorium

SPONSORED BY: Anne Griffiths (Wed) Paulette and Grant Parsons (Sun)

PRE-SHOW MUSIC BY: The Nephews (Wed) Khalid Hanifi (Sun)

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Foreign American

DRAGON (WU XIA) THE EAST 2011 | Hong Kong, China | R | 115 min. 2012 | USA | PG-13 | 116 min. When a quiet, hard-working father of two Captivating from the onset, this high-stakes stumbles upon a robbery taking place in his espionage thriller follows Sarah Moss (Brit small town and summarily disposes of the bad Marling), a brilliant young ex-FBI agent who guys with what appears to be a combination of is hired by an elite private intelligence firm to dumb luck and fast reflexes, a local detective infiltrate The East, a mysterious and elusive decides there is more to this unassuming collective of radical anarchists with an eye-for- villager than meets the eye. The ensuing an-eye approach to taking down corporate investigation turns deadly after it catches criminal scum. But after Sarah succeeds in the attention of a secret society of assassins, working her way into their inner circle, she who descend on the once-sleepy town with a finds herself torn between her responsibility vengeance. Superstar Donnie Yen has never to her employers and the lure of The East’s been better than in this blockbuster martial dangerous brand of justice and its charismatic arts epic, with a series of escalating showdowns leadership. Director Zal Batmanglij once again leading to some of the best action set pieces proves himself to be a master of twists in this ever committed to film. zeitgeist catching hit featuring Ellen Page, Alexander Skarsgård and Patricia Clarkson. In Thu 12 midnight Old Town Playhouse Person: Director Zal Batmanglij and actress Sat 6 pm Bijou by the Bay Brit Marling (Thu).

In Mandarin with subtitles Thu 9:15 pm State Theatre Fri 6 pm Bijou by the Bay SPONSORED BY: U & I Lounge (Thu) Tim Werner and Petra von Kulajta (Sat) SPONSORED BY: Amical (Thu) PRE-SHOW MUSIC BY: Patient Care Specialists (Fri) Almost Free (Thu) PRE-SHOW MUSIC BY: THUNDERCLAP! (Fri)

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American American

THE ENGLISH TEACHER ERASED 2013 | USA | R | 91 min. 2012 | USA, Canada, Belgium, UK | R | 104 min. Julianne Moore stars as bookish spinster Linda Aaron Eckhart stars as an ex-CIA agent on the Sinclair, a high school teacher and hopeless lam in this taut international espionage thriller literary romantic who is more interested in that’s equal parts “Taken” and “The Bourne finding passion in the written word than in Identity.” After leaving his government post in her small town’s lackluster dating scene. Linda the US, Ben Logan (Eckhart) moves to Belgium is shaken from her routine when her former with his teenage daughter Amy (Liana Liberato, student Jason (Michael Angarano) returns “Trust”) to take a job with a high-level security home after failing to make it big as a playwright firm. Just a few weeks into his new gig, his in New York City, and is heading toward a path office is mysteriously shut down. Sensing foul to law school at the bidding of his overbearing play, Ben and Amy are forced to flee for their father (Greg Kinnear). Sensing the perfect lives as the two must learn to trust each other opportunity to inspire her students, Linda in order to survive. With a deftly written script decides to mount one of Jason’s plays with full of twists that take Ben and Amy on the lam the help of the high school drama department across Europe, this intelligent action film is one In Person: Actress Liana (led by Nathan Lane as the flamboyant drama of the year’s best. Liberato (Sun). teacher). First-time filmmaker Craig Zisk delivers a warm, whimsical and sweet comedy full of humor and heart. Wed 9 pm Milliken Auditorium Sun 9 pm Bijou by the Bay Wed 9 am State Theatre Sun 9 am Lars Hockstad SPONSORED BY: Sun 6 pm Lars Hockstad Diane Hubert and Richard Sutton (Wed) Cherry Republic (Sun) SPONSORED BY: Serratelli, Constantin, Kalat, and Rose (Wed) Avenue ISR (Sun 9 am) Dr. Julie Johnson (Sun 6 pm)

PRE-SHOW MUSIC BY: Angela Josephine (Wed) Barbara Faith Jordan (Sun 6 pm)

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Documentary Foreign

THE EXPEDITION TO FANIE FOURIE’S LOBOLA THE END OF THE WORLD 2013 | South Africa | NR | 96 min. (EKSPEDITIONEN TIL This crowd-pleasing South African romcom VERDENS ENDE) follows Fanie (a young white Afrikaner), who on a dare asks Dinky (a beautiful Zulu woman) 2013 | Denmark, Sweden | NR | 90 min. to accompany him to his pop-star brother’s In this gorgeously filmed travelogue, a wedding. She reluctantly agrees on the motley group of seafaring scientists, artists condition that he pose as her boyfriend so her and philosophers set sail in a three-masted traditional father will stop pressuring her into schooner for one of the most remote corners an arranged marriage. What begins as a ruse of the globe: the ords of northeastern turns into romance, and sparks fly between Greenland, which have only recently become the unlikely couple. They decide to find out if accessible thanks to global warming. On this their newfound love can survive their cultural exploratory mission to a land untouched differences, and if they can successfully by modern man, the sailors are confronted navigate the tricky tradition of lobola, a South by polar bears and melting glaciers, but at African dowry. This audience award-winning the heart of their journey lies less tangible film is a contemporary fairy tale about finding ponderings about man’s origins and our place love where you least expect it. in nature. The film is a rollicking, anarchical adventure full of hijinks and high-minded Thu 3 pm Lars Hockstad science on the high seas. Fri 6 pm City Opera House

Sat 3 pm Bijou by the Bay In Zulu, English, Afrikaans with subtitles Sun 9 pm Old Town Playhouse SPONSORED BY: Beth Collins and Jo Collins (Thu) In English, Danish with subtitles Subie Guys, Inc. (Fri)

SPONSORED BY: PRE-SHOW MUSIC BY: Ken’s Classic Films Corktown Popes (Thu) in loving honor of Ken Taylor (Sat) Heritage Sustainable Energy (Sun)

PRE-SHOW MUSIC BY: Chris Vallillo (Sat) Song of The Lakes and Susan and Bill Dungjen (Sun)

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Documentary Documentary

FAR FROM AFGHANISTAN THE FIRST MOVIE 2012 | USA | NR | 133 min. 2009 | UK, Canada | NR | 76 min. TCFF regular John Gianvito (“Vapor Trail In a remote Kurdish village in Iraq that had (Clark),” TCFF ‘11 and “Profit Motive and the been devastated by Saddam Hussein’s regime, Whispering Wind,” TCFF ‘08) returns with his filmmaker Mark Cousins (“The Story of Film,” latest documentary, a collaborative work with TCFF ‘12) set up an impromptu cinema to four other filmmakers that offers a big-picture screen classics for villagers who had never look at the decade-long US war in Afghanistan. experienced the magic of film. Taking his Inspired by the landmark 1967 film “Far From experiment one step further, he gave cameras Vietnam,” this anthology analyzes how the to the children and let them film. The images ongoing war has affected both sides through a that came back weren’t those of war and mosaic of poetic and experimental approaches, suffering, but rather they were filled with interweaving material from the five American children’s fantasies and boundless sense of directors with on-the-ground footage shot by wonder. This inventive, magical documentary Afghani filmmakers to present both a reflexive shows the power of cinema to inspire and is examination on the nature of war imagery a profound testament to the imaginations and and a forum to generate dialog about how US resiliency of children. In Person: Director foreign policy affects people around the globe. Mark Cousins. In Person: Director John Gianvito (Sat). Fri 3 pm Milliken Auditorium Wed 3 pm Dutmers Theater Sun 9 am Old Town Playhouse Sat 3 pm Milliken Auditorium In English, Kurdish, Farsi with subtitles In English, Pashto, Dari with subtitles SPONSORED BY: SPONSORED BY: Sue Brightheart & Mike McManus and Janet Borgerson (Wed) Delbert & Sally Michel (Fri) Farangiz Zand (Sat) Pat Sharpnack and Marilyn Baker (Sun)

PRE-SHOW MUSIC BY: Sue Wood and Lisa Johansson (Fri)

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American Documentary

FRUITVALE STATION GIDEON’S ARMY 2013 | USA | R | 90 min. 2013 | USA | NR | 96 min. Based on the tragic true story of the slaying of Fifty years ago, the landmark Supreme Court 22-year-old Oscar Grant by Bay Area transit ruling in Gideon v Wainwright mandated that police, this powerhouse drama follows Grant state courts provide counsel for those unable (Michael B. Jordan) over the course of New to afford representation. With millions of Year’s Eve in 2008 and the fateful night when Americans facing trial each year, the criminal he met his end. Opening with cell phone videos justice system is still struggling to keep up. This of the actual incident in the Fruitvale train documentary confronts the issue head on by station, the film rewinds to present the last 24 following the daily battles of three young public hours in Grant’s life as he squabbles with his defenders in the Deep South as they take on longtime girlfriend (Melonie Diaz), dotes on staggering caseloads and work long hours for his daughter and spends time with his mom low pay to uphold the notion of “Justice for (Octavia Spencer). First-time filmmaker and All.” An intimate and inspiring portrait of some Oakland native Ryan Coogler instills a personal of our country’s unsung heroes, this Sundance connection to the story as he captures life in award winner offers a reminder of the hard his Bay Area community with nuance and work that goes into maintaining the ideals of heart. Winner of the Grand Jury Prize and the US justice system. In Person: Director the Audience Award for dramatic feature Dawn Porter. at Sundance, this timely film is a powerful reminder of the violence and racial profiling Thu 3 pm Milliken Auditorium that still plague our country. Sun 3 pm Old Town Playhouse

Thu 9 am Milliken Auditorium SPONSORED BY: Sandy and Ned McClurg (Thu) Sat 9 pm Lars Hockstad Alton and Kathy Smith (Sun)

SPONSORED BY: PRE-SHOW MUSIC BY: Dr. & Mrs. David A. Kott and Barry F. LaKritz, P.C. (Thu) Roses and Evergreens (Thu) Pete Peterson (Sat) Susan and Bill Dungjen (Sun)

PRE-SHOW MUSIC BY: Susan Day (Thu)

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American Documentary Documentary THE GIRL ON THE GOD LOVES GOOD GARBAGE TRAIN UGANDA 2012 | Israel | NR | 91 min. 2013 | USA | NR | 80 min. 2013 | USA | NR | 83 min. Each day, garbage trucks take When documentary filmmaker In the American heartland, loads of trash from neighboring Danny Hart boards a train at a Kansas-based evangelical Israeli settlements to the landfill Grand Central Station, he has group begins a campaign to on Mount Hebron, where groups no reason to expect anything import the values of Christian of Palestinian men and boys pick more than a pleasant ride to fundamentalism halfway around through it in search of scrap upstate New York to interview the globe to Uganda, one of Africa’s metal and other recyclables. Two the subjects for his latest project. poorest and youngest countries. hundred families in the Palestinian But a chance encounter with With stunning access, this eye- village of Yatta unite in this daily a mysterious young woman opening exposé from Oscar- struggle to survive off of their leads him on a journey of a very winning filmmaker Roger neighbors’ garbage. Avoiding an overtly political message different sort. Within the blink of Ross Williams examines the in favor of intimate character an eye, his life of complacency is high-stakes culture clash study, this documentary charts left behind for a world in which the by following the intersecting the cycle of poverty brought on line between reality and fiction stories of Ugandan human rights by the occupation, and shows is blurred—a world of intrigue, activists, American missionaries the humanity of those who toil danger and the possibility of and the followers of a radical against it in hopes of a brighter blood. Produced by Leland Ugandan minister as a bill to make residents Rebecca Reynolds and future. In Person: Director homosexuality punishable by Shosh Shlam. Jim Carpenter and directed by death gains support in Uganda. TCFF regular Larry Brand, this This shocking documentary neo-noir mystery stars Henry Ian Thu 9 am Old Town Playhouse shows just what is at risk when a Sat 12 noon Bijou by the Bay Cusick, Nicki Aycox and Stephen country is won over by extremist Lang. In Person: Director Larry In Person: Director Brand; producers Rebecca values. Roger Ross Williams. In Arabic, Hebrew with subtitles Reynolds and Jim Carpenter. SPONSORED BY: Thu 3 pm Old Town Playhouse Entertainment Partners (Thu) That’sa Pizza (Sat) Wed 9 am Old Town Playhouse Fri 12 noon Milliken Auditorium Thu 9 pm Dutmers Theater PRE-SHOW MUSIC BY: SPONSORED BY: Ruby John (Thu) SPONSORED BY: Kathy & Bob Garvey and FEMA Kitties (Wed) Amanda & Paul Brink (Thu) The Wilson Family & Rainbow Steve and Mary Tuttle (Fri) Rehabilitation Centers Inc. (Thu) PRE-SHOW MUSIC BY: TC Sings! (Thu) Sue Wood and Lisa Johansson (Fri)

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Documentary Tribute to Paul Feig

GORE VIDAL: THE UNITED THE HEAT STATES OF AMNESIA 2013 | USA | R | 117 min. 2013 | USA | NR | 89 min. After revitalizing the female comedy with The life of fiery provocateur and ferocious “Bridesmaids,” director—and TCFF ‘13 thinker Gore Vidal is celebrated in this Michigan Filmmaker Award Winner—Paul fascinating documentary, which pays timely Feig returns to the screen with an inspired tribute to a man who was a thorn in the pairing of two of Hollywood’s leading side of the establishment and a major voice comediennes, Sandra Bullock and Melissa in our national debates. A multi-talented McCarthy. With a promotion on the line, writer whose work spans fiction, film, theater, an uptight and ambitious FBI Special Agent philosophy and politics, Vidal never shied away (Bullock) reluctantly partners up with a foul- from voicing his opinion on the state of our mouthed Boston Cop (McCarthy) to take democracy in trademark sharp-witted fashion. down a ruthless drug lord. Needless to say, Centered around one-on-one interviews mayhem ensues as these two incompatible that catch Vidal at his best, this spirited forces of nature close in on their perp, with documentary shows us why Vidal loomed so the most unexpected development of all In Person: large over our cultural landscape. being their newfound friendship. A bawdy, Director Nicholas Wrathall (Wed). belligerent and delightfully unhinged buddy movie that subversively defies its genre, “The Wed 6 pm City Opera House Heat” proves women can be just as outrageous Sat 9 am Milliken Auditorium and hilarious as the boys. In Person: Director Paul Feig. SPONSORED BY: Brilliant Books (Wed) Sun 12 noon Milliken Auditorium Dean & Cindy Robb (Sat)

PRE-SHOW MUSIC BY: SPONSORED BY: DarlenYa (Wed) Good Harbor Coffee & Bakery Khalid Hanifi (Sat) PRE-SHOW MUSIC BY: Jimmy Olson

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Foreign Midnight

A HIJACKING (KAPRINGEN) THE HISTORY OF FUTURE 2012 | Denmark | R | 99 min. FOLK The Danish cargo freighter MV Rozen is on 2012 | USA | NR | 86 min. a course for Mumbai when a band of Somali This lo-fi sci-fi film tells the (possibly pirates appear and commandeer the vessel, exaggerated) true story of two aliens who holding the crew and ship hostage for a are sent to Earth to exterminate the human ransom of $25 million. News of the ship’s race, only to abandon their missions after capture reaches the shipping company’s CEO, discovering Earth’s incredible invention of who rashly decides that his business acumen something called “music.” Future Folk comes makes him the best candidate to take the lead in peace as the universe’s first Hondonian in the negotiations. As the ransom talks wear bluegrass duo, but their days of playing in on for months on end, with the crew’s lives a small Brooklyn bar come to a halt when and millions of dollars hanging in the balance, their fellow Hondonians return. It’s up to our who will be the first to break under pressure? bumbling heroes to prevent an intergalactic Without resorting to traditional action set takeover in this quirky and absurd tale with an pieces, this gritty and authentic modern outstanding soundtrack that will win you over thriller is an intense and absorbing drama that with its warmth, charm and outright hilarity. will keep you riveted until the very end. Sat 12 midnight Old Town Playhouse Wed 6 pm Milliken Auditorium Thu 9 pm Bijou by the Bay SPONSORED BY: Grant and Terry Carrithers In Danish, Swedish, English with subtitles PRE-SHOW MUSIC BY: SPONSORED BY: LeMoko The Brothers Steven & Alan In Honor of Florence & Alaric Westerholm (Wed) EPS Security (Thu)

PRE-SHOW MUSIC BY: David Chown (Wed) Drive South (Thu)

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Documentary Documentary

THE HUMAN SCALE INEQUALITY FOR ALL 2012 | Denmark | NR | 77 min. 2013 | USA | NR | 100 min. In a world where half of the population lives Aiming to do for the economy what “An in cities—a figure that some estimate will Inconvenient Truth” did for the environment, increase to 80% in the next 40 years— this engrossing documentary offers an how should our urban areas be structured? engaging and playful examination into the Following the work of Danish architect Jan causes and consequences of the widening Gehl, who has studied human behavior in cities income gap in America. Former Secretary of for the past 40 years, this thought-provoking Labor Robert Reich acts as an affable tour documentary examines life in some of the guide through the current US economy, fastest-growing cities around the globe to showing how the 400 wealthiest individuals make a case for urban planning that prioritizes came to own half of the country’s total assets, people over cars. “The Human Scale” is a and the risks of continuing down the path beautiful and haunting look at the impending we’re currently on. With a deft and humorous issue of overpopulation, offering an alternative touch, he breaks down the complex issues to a future of corporate-backed megacities. our country faces to show what’s happening to the disappearing middle class, and what we Wed 9 am Milliken Auditorium can do about it. In Person: Director Jacob Thu 3 pm Bijou by the Bay Kornbluth; Robert Reich.

In English, Danish with subtitles Fri 3 pm State Theatre Sat 3 pm City Opera House SPONSORED BY: John Robert Williams Photography (Wed) Gary Howe For TC City Commission A Great Place. Made Better. (Thu) SPONSORED BY: PNC Bank (Fri) PRE-SHOW MUSIC BY: The Boles Family (Sat) Susan Day (Wed) David Jake (Thu) PRE-SHOW MUSIC BY: Chris Vallillo (Sat)

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Foreign Midnight

INTO THE WHITE JOURNEY TO THE WEST: 2012 | Norway | R | 101 min. CONQUERING THE Inspired by real events, this WWII-era drama DEMONS (XI YOU XIANG follows two groups of sworn enemies who MO PIAN) must put their differences aside in order to 2013 | China | NR | 110 min. survive. When two aircraft—one British, one From the brilliantly warped mind of Hong German—are shot down over a snow covered Kong legend Stephen Chow (“Shaolin Soccer,” expanse of wilderness in a remote area of “Kung Fu Hustle”) comes an offbeat take on a Norway, the crews of both planes take refuge timeless Chinese tale that fuses elements of together in an abandoned cabin. Tensions rise classic monster movies with romantic comedy as their confinement and continual struggle and martial arts. Hot on the trail of a series for power rages on in the cramped quarters of mythical demons, the wisecracking Tang of the cabin, but with a brutally harsh winter Sanzang—a wannabe demon hunter whose showing no sign of ending, the group must weapon of choice is singing nursery rhymes— band together to stay alive. Rupert Grint undergoes a transformative journey chock (“Harry Potter”) and Florian Lukas star in this full of jaw-dropping kung fu kick-assery. With beautifully shot Norwegian drama, a stirring plenty of laughs and elaborately constructed tale of survival and unexpected friendship. action set pieces that would make Rube Goldberg blush, this spectacular epic smashed Wed 12 noon Milliken Auditorium Chinese box-office records on its way to Fri 12 noon City Opera House Traverse City.

In English, Norwegian, German with subtitles Sat 12 midnight State Theatre SPONSORED BY: Dr. Joe & Leslie Cook and Bob Calt & Christie McGue (Wed) In Mandarin with subtitles W. Clark Bunting & Karen C. Bunting (Fri) SPONSORED BY: PRE-SHOW MUSIC BY: Miners North Jewelers and Red Ginger Roses and Evergreens (Wed) Ron Getz (Fri) PRE-SHOW MUSIC BY: Saldaje

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American Foreign

KILLING THEM SOFTLY KON-TIKI 2012 | USA | R | 97 min. 2012 | Norway, UK, Denmark, Germany, A mid-level gangster hires two bumbling ex- Sweden | PG-13 | 118 min. cons to knock over a card game run by hustler In 1947, Norwegian scientist and ethnographer Markie Trattman (Ray Liotta), but when mob Thor Heyerdahl set out to make history by higher-ups catch wind of the heist, they crossing the Pacific Ocean on the Kon-Tiki, a know they need to protect their investments. balsa wood raft, with an inexperienced five- Enter cool-headed Jackie Cogan (Brad Pitt), man crew. His mission on the voyage was to a professional hit man hired to restore order prove a theory that South American natives in in the criminal underworld. Directed by pre-Columbus times could have migrated over Andrew Dominik (“The Assassination of Jesse 4,000 miles by sea from Peru to Polynesia, as James by the Coward Robert Ford”), this the world waited anxiously to hear his fate. stylish, hard-boiled modern noir favors richly Based on the amazing true story of Heyerdahl’s developed characters over action sequences voyage, which spawned a best-selling book and features a top-notch A-list cast, including and an Oscar-winning documentary in 1951, Richard Jenkins and the late James Gandolfini this Academy Award-nominated drama is the in one of his last film roles. ultimate man vs nature adventure tale.

Fri 9 pm Bijou by the Bay Thu 3 pm State Theatre Sat 12 noon Milliken Auditorium

SPONSORED BY: Craig and Mary Rosenberg In Norwegian, English, French, Swedish with subtitles SPONSORED BY: Rhonda & Michael Estes (Thu) Dr. David Oakley, Dr. Marci Bultemeier, and Centre Street Cafe (Sat)

PRE-SHOW MUSIC BY: Andrew Sturtz (Thu)

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Foreign American

THE LAST DAYS LOVELACE (LOS ÚLTIMOS DÍAS) 2013 | USA | R | 93 min. 2013 | Spain | NR | 102 min. In 1972, “Deep Throat” took the world by A mysterious pandemic has spread across the storm as the first porn feature to make it planet, causing the world’s population to be big in the mainstream—produced for under stricken with a strange affliction that causes $50,000, the film went on to earn hundreds instant death as soon as anyone steps outside. of millions internationally. The unlikely star Young computer programmer Marc was in his behind it all was Linda Lovelace, an unknown office in Barcelona when the epidemic struck; actress who fled her strict religious family into three months later, he and his colleagues the arms of lowly hustler Chuck Traynor, the are still trapped in the building, and supplies man responsible for launching Lovelace into are running low. With nothing left to lose, the limelight for a brief and fraught stint as he sets off on a mission to find his girlfriend the world’s first porn star. Starring Amanda on the other side of town, but to get there, Seyfried and Peter Sarsgaard, the film charts he must navigate the lawless catacombs that Lovelace’s public successes and private have developed in the subway. Superb special hardships through her transformation from girl-next-door porn star to feminist advocate. effects transform Barcelona into a dystopian In Person: Directors Rob Epstein and Jeffrey wasteland in this action-filled post-apocalyptic Friedman. thriller.

Wed 9 pm Lars Hockstad Thu 9 pm Lars Hockstad Sat 6 pm Old Town Playhouse SPONSORED BY: The Braintrust In Spanish, Catalan with subtitles PRE-SHOW MUSIC BY: SPONSORED BY: Jeff Bihlman Gabe & Gretchen Augustine (Wed) Richard and Betty Seid (Sat)

PRE-SHOW MUSIC BY: Frank Pahl

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Native American Matinee Documentary

MAÏNA MARK COUSINS SECRET 2013 | Canada | NR | 103 min. SCREENING Six centuries ago, a girl named Maïna— ?? | ?? | ?? | ?? daughter of the clan leader of the Presque Documentarian, film historian, cinema Loups—embarked on a mission that would aficionado and all-around nice guy Mark change her life. After a violent confrontation Cousins (director of the TCFF ‘12 Kubrick between her clan and the “Men from the Prize winner “The Story of Film”) is back at the Land of Ice,” the young son of Maïna’s fellow festival this year with both his heartwarming tribesman is captured and taken to the documentary, “The First Movie,” and this top- frozen north. She sets out on the trail of her secret screening. We have sworn to keep its enemies to recover him, until she is taken contents under wraps, but we can tell you that prisoner herself by the Inuit clan leader Natak, it is a masterful, poetic film that will be loved by and is taken on a perilous journey to her everyone with a passion for global cinema. In captor’s homeland where she must discover Person: Director Mark Cousins. her inner strength in order to survive. In Person: Director Michel Poulette; actress Thu 6 pm Bijou by the Bay Roseanne Supernault.

SPONSORED BY: Sun 9 am State Theatre Christine and Mike Zenn

PRE-SHOW MUSIC BY: In Inuktitut, English with subtitles Drive South

SPONSORED BY: Grand Traverse Resort and Casinos

PRE-SHOW MUSIC BY: Ruby John

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Special Screening Documentary

MIKE’S SURPRISE MISTAKEN FOR ?? | ?? | ?? | ?? STRANGERS What surprise does Mike have in store for 2013 | USA | NR | 75 min. us this year? Festival founder, president and Every year we try to bring the best music docs programmer Michael Moore will show up to TC, and this year, one of our favorite films with... a sneak preview of a big Hollywood of the festival has so much more than just movie? A buried treasure that the public hasn’t great music. A documentary about making seen in years? A home movie? Nobody knows a documentary; a movie about the complex until the show begins, sometimes not even dynamics of sibling relationships; a behind the Mike. Whatever the surprise is this year, only scenes look at the breakout indie rock band the curious and the brave should attend. The National on tour; a portrait of the artist— ”Mistaken for Strangers” is all of those things, Sun 12 noon Lars Hockstad but most of all, it’s a hilarious, compelling, compulsively watchable, sweet and ultimately SPONSORED BY: JenTees Custom Logo Gear triumphant story about you, me and everyone in the form of Tom Berninger, the younger PRE-SHOW MUSIC BY: Al Jankowski brother of The National’s famous frontman, Matt. In person: Director Tom Berninger; producer and subject Carin Besser; producer Craig Charland.

Thu 6 pm State Theatre Sat 6 pm Lars Hockstad

SPONSORED BY: The Wilson Family & Rainbow Rehabilitation Centers Inc. (Thu) The Schroth Family (Sat)

PRE-SHOW MUSIC BY: Blue Eyed Sun (Thu)

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Documentary American

MORE THAN HONEY MUCH ADO ABOUT 2012 | Switzerland, Germany, NOTHING Austria | NR | 91 min. 2012 | USA | PG-13 | 108 min. Einstein once proclaimed that if bees were On a short break from shooting “The to disappear from the globe, mankind would Avengers,” director Joss Whedon brought soon follow. As the unexplained phenomenon together some of his famous friends in his of colony collapse disorder threatens to push home in Santa Monica for a 12-day stint to honeybees to extinction, the global ecosystem shoot a slick black-and-white adaptation of may hang in the balance. This captivating one of Shakespeare’s enduring classics. The documentary delves into the fascinating world result of their efforts is a sexy and stylish of honeybees by launching an investigation into modern take on the Bard’s comedy, which the mystery surrounding their recent decline. keeps the original text and moves the story With dazzling cinematography bringing the of quarreling lovers Beatrice and Benedick complexities of honeybee colonies into focus, to contemporary southern California, as “More Than Honey” takes us on a worldwide the comedy unfolds around a series of tour with stops in California, China, Switzerland misconceptions and misdirections. Whedon and Australia to examine the possible causes of proves his directorial skill and penchant for the species’ decline and ask broader questions filming quick-witted dialog, keeping the film about mankind’s place in the environment. In light and lively throughout while still packing Person: Director Markus Imhoof. an emotional punch in one of the best Shakespeare adaptations of the last decade. Fri 6 pm Milliken Auditorium Sun 12 noon Old Town Playhouse Fri 3 pm Lars Hockstad Sat 9 am Old Town Playhouse In German, Swiss German, English, Mandarin with subtitles Sun 9 pm State Theatre

SPONSORED BY: Christopher & Martha Kitchen (Fri) SPONSORED BY: Traverse City Big Boy and Ted & Maureen Robinson (Sun) Bill Rastetter & Cary Weed and Meg Staley & Jerry Gretzinger (Fri) PRE-SHOW MUSIC BY: Drs. William and Kathleen Steeves (Sat) Robin Connell (Fri) Hagerty (Sun) Robin Lee Berry and Glenn Wolff (Sun) PRE-SHOW MUSIC BY: Luke Winslow King (Fri)

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Foreign American

NO ORENTHAL: THE MUSICAL 2012 | Chile, USA, France, Mexico | R | 110 min. 2013 | USA | NR | 90 min. It’s 1988 in Chile, and after 15 years of Eugene Olivier is a “fairly successful” New dictatorship, Augusto Pinochet knows he York theater artist (at least in his own mind). has to allow a vote or face revolt. He decides Struck with an inspiration for the next great to allow the people to vote Yes or No on a American musical, Eugene heads to LA to referendum to keep himself in power, assuming enlist his childhood friends to help him stage that it would be a meaningless election. But the his most ambitious creation yet: a musical opposition party seizes the rare opportunity reimagining of “Othello,” framed through the and decides to run a 15-minute anti-Pinochet story of the OJ Simpson trial, that features ad on public TV. Led by a commercial-savvy songs like “If the Glove Don’t Fit (You Must adman (Gael García Bernal), they devise an Acquit).” This outlandish mockumentary unorthodox campaign to sell the Chilean follows the trials and tribulations of the cast as people on freedom and democracy. This smart they approach their opening night. “Orenthal” and sly look at the marriage of politics and is a rare bit of modern satire that will make you advertising was nominated for Best Foreign laugh and cringe in equal measure. In Person: Film at the Academy Awards. Director Jeff Rosenberg; actor Jordan Kenneth Kamp; actress Larisa Oleynik (Sun); Wed 12 noon City Opera House producer Spencer Houck. Sun 9 pm Milliken Auditorium Thu 9 pm Old Town Playhouse In Spanish with subtitles Sun 12 noon City Opera House SPONSORED BY: AAUW Book Group (Wed) SPONSORED BY: The Verellen 5 of TC (Sun) Soelch Properties LLC (Thu) Mary D. Fisher (Sun) PRE-SHOW MUSIC BY: Milagros (Wed) PRE-SHOW MUSIC BY: Olivia Verellen (Sun) The Overtones (Thu) Swallowtail (Sun)

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Documentary Documentary

OUR NIXON PANDORA’S PROMISE 2013 | USA | NR | 85 min. 2013 | USA | NR | 87 min. In the aftermath of the Watergate scandal, the In this provocative film, Oscar-nominated FBI seized a cache of over five hundred reels director Robert Stone makes a compelling of Super-8 home movies of Nixon’s years as argument in favor of nuclear energy as a President filmed by his top aides. Contained solution to the current climate crisis, and within the films were many historical events: a possible means to lift billions of people the administration’s first trip to China, the in developing nations out of poverty. moon landing, the RNC and more; but they Stone approaches his investigation into also captured a candid record of daily life in the nuclear power from the perspective of an Oval Office. In this mesmerizing all-archival environmentalist, making a persuasive case documentary, filmmaker Penny Lane combines for nuclear as a carbon-neutral alternative these home movies with the audio from the energy with the help of some of the world’s White House tapes and other rare footage top energy gurus. Whatever your current from the time to create an intimate portrait of stance on the energy debate, this film is sure the Nixon presidency and add a new dimension to challenge your assumptions. In Person: to America’s most scandalized President. In Director Robert Stone (Sat). Person: Director Penny Lane (Sat). Thu 12 noon Bijou by the Bay Thu 3 pm City Opera House Sat 6 pm City Opera House Sun 9 am Milliken Auditorium SPONSORED BY: Jon & Sue Kinne (Thu) SPONSORED BY: One of A Kind Cycle (Sat) The Wilson Family & Rainbow Rehabilitation Centers Inc. (Thu) PRE-SHOW MUSIC BY: Steve and Mary Tuttle (Sun) The Turtlenecks (Thu) Blue Eyed Sun (Sat) PRE-SHOW MUSIC BY: The True Falsettos (Thu) Mike Youker and Nic Vasquez (Sun)

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Documentary American

THE PERVERT’S GUIDE TO THE PRETTY ONE IDEOLOGY 2013 | USA | NR | 95 min. 2012 | UK, Ireland | NR | 136 min. Zoe Kazan does double duty as identical twin This year’s doc for the thinking person finds sisters Audrey and Laurel in this charming fairy filmmaker Sophie Fiennes matched with tale comedy from first-time director Jenée renowned philosopher and cinema connoisseur LaMarque. Shy and awkward Laurel has always Slavoj Žižek for an exhilarating and off-beat played second fiddle to her confident, stylish crash-course in the philosophy of film and the sister Audrey, and when the two are reunited ideological implications hidden within. Žižek’s at their birthday party, their differences are filmic analysis breathes new life into scenes brought into sharp relief. When tragedy from classic films (among them “The Sound strikes, Laurel rashly seizes the opportunity to of Music,” “Brazil,” “Full Metal Jacket” and step into her sister’s shoes, where she discovers “Jaws”), as Fiennes recreates sets and shooting Audrey’s life isn’t as perfect as it seemed. Kazan locations from these movies to liven up Žižek’s shines in her dual roles alongside a rakish Jake hilarious and insightful thoughts on capitalism Johnson (“New Girl”) in this warm and quirky and our modern world. film about finding your identity.

Wed 9 am Bijou by the Bay Wed 6 pm Lars Hockstad Thu 3 pm Dutmers Theater Sun 9 pm Lars Hockstad Fri 9 am Milliken Auditorium SPONSORED BY: Kitchen Choreography (Wed) SPONSORED BY: L. Mawby Vineyards (Sun) Longview Winery (Wed) The Wilson Family & Rainbow PRE-SHOW MUSIC BY: Rehabilitation Centers Inc. (Thu) Medicinal Groove (Sun) Karen Baja (Fri)

PRE-SHOW MUSIC BY: Ruby John (Wed 9 am)

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Documentary Documentary

PROPAGANDA RED OBSESSION 2012 | North Korea | NR (contains many 2013 | Australia, China, France, UK, extremely disturbing images) | 95 min. Hong Kong | NR | 76 min. If the best way to gain insight into yourself is In the world of red wines, Bordeaux has long to look through the eyes of another, you’re not reigned king, commanding respect and status likely to get a more unique and shocking look around the globe. As a luxury good, each at the West—and specifically the US—than year’s wine ratings for the Bordeaux region by watching this jaw-dropping, mesmerizing —affected by factors like climate and soil and skull-crunching film that was purportedly conditions—have made for fluctuations in the smuggled out of North Korea by defectors. If price of wine, but nothing could have prepared you dare, listen to the North Korean equivalent the vineyards for a new force in the market: of Noam Chomsky (his face blurred out to China. As the economic superpower’s vast new protect his identity) as he tells us Americans crop of millionaires looks for ways to flaunt who we are and what our impact is on the rest their status by buying up Bordeaux wines by of the world. The film works as propaganda on the crateful, prices skyrocket, with some wines so many levels, it’s easy to imagine yourself in a fetching upwards of $80,000 a bottle. China brainwashing camp in a far off country, with “A starts up its own burgeoning wine industry to Clockwork Orange”-style devices prying your capitalize on the new market as well, but can eyes open. And for all that, it’s one of the best they compete with established vineyards? made and most interesting films in the festival. Narrated by Russell Crowe, this insightful In Person: Director Slavko Martinov. documentary offers a fascinating look at the changing global economy and is a must-see for Wed 3 pm State Theatre any wine lover. Thu 6 pm Old Town Playhouse Sat 9 pm Dutmers Theater Wed 12 noon State Theatre Thu 6 pm Milliken Auditorium In Korean, English with subtitles In English, Mandarin with subtitles SPONSORED BY: Higher Grounds Trading Co. (Wed) SPONSORED BY: Charlene Abernethy and Denny Rohn (Thu) Mary Ann and Robert Gorlin (Wed) The Wilson Family & Rainbow Russell Jean “Rusty” Warren (Thu) Rehabilitation Centers Inc. (Sat) PRE-SHOW MUSIC BY: PRE-SHOW MUSIC BY: Ron Getz (Wed) Robin Lee Berry and Glenn Wolff (Wed) TC Sings! (Thu)

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Documentary Documentary

REMOTE AREA MEDICAL ROOM 237 2013 | USA | NR | 80 min. 2012 | USA | NR | 102 min. In a country where over 44 million people Stanley Kubrick’s 1980 horror film “The live without healthcare, who is looking out Shining” is considered crucial viewing for film for America’s uninsured? This documentary lovers everywhere. Over 30 years later, its follows the volunteer organization Remote cult following is still growing. Director Rodney Area Medical as they set up a popup clinic in Ascher takes us into the warped world of Bristol, Tennessee for three days. During that some of the most ardent devotees of “The time, the organization’s doctors, nurses and Shining” as they offer deconstructions of the support workers provide care for hundreds film’s hidden messages, presenting evidence of people who can’t afford routine medical for theories—which range from the moon checkups, and many other basic services like landing hoax to the mass killing of Native dental exams and prescription eyeglasses that Americans—over a mind-bending collection so many of us take for granted. As the national of clips and freeze frames. This fascinating and debate over the future of healthcare rages on, immersive documentary is a true celebration this moving documentary takes a step back of film fanaticism. What secret meaning lurks from the politics to give an emotional portrait deep within the frames of this horror classic? of those affected by our broken healthcare Decide for yourself at a midnight screening at system. In Person: Directors Farihah Zaman the State Theatre of “The Shining,” following and Jeff Reichert; Remote Area Medical “Room 237.” founder Stan Brock. Fri 9 pm Old Town Playhouse Sat 6:30 pm Milliken Auditorium Sun 3 pm City Opera House SPONSORED BY: The Overlook Hotel

SPONSORED BY: PRE-SHOW MUSIC BY: Mary Marois, Jan Warren, Susan Bailey-Carman, Susan and Bill Dungjen and Dennis Carman (Sat) Bob Brown (Sun)

PRE-SHOW MUSIC BY: Kevin Reeves (Sat)

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Foreign Foreign

A ROYAL AFFAIR SEVEN PSYCHOPATHS (EN KONGELIG AFFÆRE) 2012 | UK | R | 110 min. 2012 | Denmark, Sweden | R | 137 min. In this dark and absurdly funny comedy from This Oscar-nominated costume drama tells director Martin McDonagh (“In Bruges”), Colin the lavish true story of a forbidden romance Farrell stars as Marty, an Irish screenwriter that changed a nation. With the Age of toiling away in Los Angeles with a drinking Enlightenment just dawning in Denmark in problem and an epic case of writer’s block. the 18th century, the country is under the He’s got a title for his serial killer script, “Seven rule of a mad king and his new teenage bride Psychopaths,” but can’t commit a word to from the British Isles. The young queen falls the page. His free-wheeling actor buddy Billy passionately for German philosopher and (Sam Rockwell) and his dognapping cohort physician Johann Struensee, who was called Hans (Christopher Walken) inadvertently to the king’s court to see to his mental illness. provide a source of inspiration for Marty’s The queen and the doctor share a passionate script after running afoul of a dog-loving romance and a bond over their commonly held gangster (Woody Harrelson), who lets loose progressive ideals as they defy the throne to the unhinged criminal underworld of L.A. to push Denmark into modernity and change the track down the thieves. It looks like Marty will country for the better. get all the fodder he needs for a good crime story, if he survives long enough to get the Fri 9 am State Theatre story on paper... Sun 3 pm Lars Hockstad Wed 12 noon Old Town Playhouse In Danish, English, German, French with subtitles Wed 9 pm City Opera House

SPONSORED BY: SPONSORED BY: Dick and Marla Lavanture (Fri) Grant and Terry Carrithers (12 noon) The Village at Grand Traverse Commons (Sun) Absolutemichigan.com (9 pm)

PRE-SHOW MUSIC BY: PRE-SHOW MUSIC BY: Ron Getz (Sun) Jennifer Westwood and The Waycross Georgia Farmboys (12 noon) THUNDERCLAP! (9 pm)

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Midnight Friends Only Screening

THE SHINING SOLE SURVIVOR 1980 | UK, USA | R | 144 min. 2012 | USA | NR | 91 min. Stanley Kubrick meets Stephen King in this In the history of commercial airline travel, bravura vision of a descent into madness that there have only been 14 major plane crashes took the horror genre to new heights. Writer with a sole survivor. This stirring documentary Jack Torrance (Jack Nicholson) takes a job follows the journey of George Lamson, the as the caretaker in a resort hotel and moves sole survivor of the 1985 Galaxy Airlines Flight his family high into the Colorado mountains. 203 crash that claimed the lives of 73 others As the only residents of the hotel for the near Reno, Nevada. More than a quarter winter, what starts as a nice, quiet place to century later, George is still coping with the get some writing done takes a very sinister emotional and mental trauma brought on turn after his psychic son Danny begins to see by the accident, and reaches out to the 13 gruesome images of the ghosts who inhabit other sole survivors to find support, including the hotel, and a dark force gains influence Cecelia Cichan, who survived the Northwest over Jack. Required viewing for cinephiles, Airlines Flight 255 crash near Detroit in 1987. the film’s iconic imagery has inspired legions Together, the survivors open up to the camera of impassioned fans to deconstruct the film, and tell their miraculous stories. In Person: as explored in “Room 237.” Catch it before the Director Ky Dickens; subject George Lamson show at the Old Town Playhouse; you’ll never Jr.; producer Amy McIntyre. see “The Shining” the same way again. Sat 7/27 12 noon Lars Hockstad Fri 12 midnight State Theatre Sat 7/27 6 pm Lars Hockstad

SPONSORED BY: Max Fisher

PRE-SHOW MUSIC BY: THUNDERCLAP!

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Foreign Experimental

STARBUCK SUITCASE OF LOVE AND 2011 | Canada | R | 109 min. SHAME In this charming French Canadian comedy, 2013 | USA | NR | 70 min. middle-aged deliveryman David Wozniak is Imagine you purchase a cool-looking 1960s era shocked to learn that he unwittingly fathered suitcase on eBay. It arrives, you open it up, and over five hundred offspring thanks to a mix-up inside are 60 hours of reel-to-reel audiotape. at the sperm bank that he frequented in the Finding the right player to listen, you are late 1980s under the codename “Starbuck.” plunged into the tender, erotic, suspenseful Now, a group of 142 of his progeny have and discomforting story of a Midwestern banded together to find their biological father woman and her married lover, who used the by suing the fertility clinic to reveal David’s new portable recording technology of the identity. Equally panicked by the prospect of time to communicate, rather than expensive suddenly being the father of enough children and risky phone calls. Fortunately for us, this to start a small village, and also curious about happened to a filmmaker, and now we are all what his now twenty-something offspring are privy to her visionary reconstruction of this like, David finds a way to act as an anonymous cautionary tale. Two guesses as to whether guardian angel and learns what it means to be or not it has a happy ending. As mesmerizing a father in the process. and voyeuristic as cinema gets, this intimate documentary tells an absorbing story of Fri 12 noon Lars Hockstad forbidden love set during the American sexual Sun 9 pm City Opera House revolution. In Person: Director Jane Gillooly (Sat and Sun). In French with subtitles Thu 6 pm Dutmers Theater SPONSORED BY: Sat 6 pm Dutmers Theater Laura and Woody Rea (Fri) Mary’s Kitchen Port (Sun) Sun 6 pm Dutmers Theater

PRE-SHOW MUSIC BY: SPONSORED BY: Luke Winslow King (Fri) Carl and Emily Taphouse (Thu) M-23 Strings (Sun) Joanne and Joe Murphy (Sat) Dr. Jeffrey Szczepanski and Family (Sun)

PRE-SHOW MUSIC BY: Lena Wilson (Thu)

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American Foreign

SUNLIGHT JR. SUPERSTAR 2013 | USA | NR | 95 min. 2012 | France | NR | 113 min. Melissa (Naomi Watts) and her boyfriend Richie Humble, middle-aged bachelor Martin (Matt Dillon) are living in a motel room and Kazinski is nothing if not ordinary—he’s just scraping by between her minimum wage the personification of the everyman. That job and his monthly disability check, but they all changes one morning on his commute haven’t let their living situation sour their loving to work, when he suddenly and inexplicably relationship. The couple is initially overjoyed by finds himself being mobbed on the subway by the news that Melissa is pregnant, in spite of throngs of adoring fans. The more he tries to the obvious financial burden that comes with escape his stardom, or even find the reason a child—but their happiness is short-lived, as behind his sudden celebrity, the more famous circumstances conspire to push them further he becomes, and the more the media tries to into poverty. Laurie Collyer (“Sherrybaby,” profit from his situation. He finds a sympathetic TCFF ‘07) perfectly captures the real-life ear in ambitious television producer Fleur challenges faced by working class Americans in Arnaud, who knows just what to do with this powerful social drama, vividly realized by Martin’s newfound success. This delightful skillful, layered performances from Watts and high-concept French satire offers a hilariously Dillon, as well as a spectacular supporting turn spot-on parable of our celebrity culture, where from Norman Reedus (“The Walking Dead”) people are famous just for being famous. as Melissa’s abusive pill-pushing ex. In Person: Director Laurie Collyer. Wed 6 pm State Theatre Thu 12 noon Lars Hockstad Fri 9 pm State Theatre Sat 12 noon Lars Hockstad In French with subtitles

SPONSORED BY: SPONSORED BY: The Homestead (Wed) American Spoon (Fri) In Loving Memory of Henry and Ilse Adler by their children, Oryana Natural Foods Market and grandchildren, and great grandchildren (Thu) Grand Beach / Sugar Beach Resorts (Sat) PRE-SHOW MUSIC BY: PRE-SHOW MUSIC BY: Jennifer Westwood and Fauxgrass (Fri) The Waycross Georgia Farmboys (Wed) Corktown Popes (Thu)

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Foreign Documentary

SÜSKIND TEENAGE 2012 | Netherlands | NR | 118 min. 2013 | USA, Germany | NR | 78 min. Set in Amsterdam in 1942, this gripping In a society that puts its youth on a pedestal, WWII-era drama follows the true story of it’s hard to imagine that the concept of the Walter Süskind, a Jewish industrialist who teenager didn’t exist until the turn of the saved thousands of Dutch children from 20th century, when changes in child labor being deported and sent to concentration laws carved out a new division between camps. After escaping Germany, Süskind childhood and adulthood. Inspired by the considers himself lucky to have found a job highly acclaimed book by punk author Jon with the Jewish Council that offers protection Savage, this hip and innovative film leaves the from deportation —even though it means traditional talking heads documentary style collaborating with German soldiers. But after behind, instead employing vintage archival discovering what terrible fate awaits those footage and first-person accounts of life as being sent away to Germany, he develops a a teenager in the Western world (narrated cunning plan to double-cross German officers by actors Jena Malone, Ben Whishaw, Julia Hummer and Jessie Usher) to show how and save countless children from certain death. today’s youth culture came to be defined by Thu 12 noon Milliken Auditorium rebellious pioneers. Sat 9 pm Bijou by the Bay Sat 12 noon Old Town Playhouse Sun 9 am Bijou by the Bay In Dutch with subtitles

SPONSORED BY: SPONSORED BY: John and Susan Boles (Thu) Sandra and Mike McDonald (Sat) Bette and Ben Munger (Sat) Brian Rathke, DDS Bellaire Family & Cosmetic Dentistry & Elk Rapids Esthetic Dentistry PRE-SHOW MUSIC BY: and Angela Schuler & Randy Chapman (Sun) Roses and Evergreens (Thu) PRE-SHOW MUSIC BY: Lauren Jones (Sat) Olivia Millerschin (Sun)

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Documentary Documentary

TERMS AND CONDITIONS THIS IS WHAT WINNING MAY APPLY LOOKS LIKE 2013 | USA | NR | 79 min. 2013 | USA | NR | 90 min. If you’ve ever used a service online or on your With US forces scheduled to withdraw from phone—be it Google, Facebook, iTunes or any Afghanistan next year after over a decade of a number of increasingly ubiquitous digital at war, this investigative report takes a look products —chances are you’ve blindly agreed at the difficult transition as US Marines hand to pages and pages of legalese referred to as over the responsibility of safeguarding the “terms and conditions.” Director Cullen Hoback country to the Afghan army and police. On a peels back the jargon to reveal what exactly military base in Sangin, inexperienced Afghan we’ve all been agreeing to and how much of security forces have been tasked with taking our privacy is at stake. Hoback’s investigation the lead in keeping Taliban forces at bay; the takes a trip down the rabbit hole to uncover few American soldiers who remain are meant the vast amounts of personal data for sale to act merely as consultants. But the rampant to the highest bidder and show the real-life corruption, drug abuse and sexual misconduct implications of government policies that have among Afghan forces makes hope for a increased the surveillance on all of our online stable Afghanistan following withdrawal seem interactions. All the more relevant in light of increasingly unlikely. By showing our soldiers recent revelations about the NSA’s data mining in their own words, this powerful documentary operations, this informative and alarming confronts hard truths of what we’ll be leaving documentary is the perfect primer for anyone behind. In Person: Director Ben Anderson. concerned with their privacy in the internet age. In Person: Director Cullen Hoback. Thu 12 noon Old Town Playhouse Sun 12 noon Bijou by the Bay Wed 3 pm City Opera House Fri 9 am Old Town Playhouse SPONSORED BY: Antrim County Democratic Party and Grand Traverse Democratic Committee (Thu) SPONSORED BY: Bill & Carin Northway and Northway Orthodontics (Sun) Traverse Legal (Wed) Mark & Karen Lundmark and Lou Anne Ford PRE-SHOW MUSIC BY: Assoc. Broker Century 21 Northland (Fri) Ruby John (Thu) Olivia Millerschin (Sun) PRE-SHOW MUSIC BY: DarlenYa (Wed)

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Documentary American

THE TRIALS OF TRUST MUHAMMAD ALI 2010 | USA | R | 106 min. 2013 | USA | NR | 93 min. Suburban teen Annie (Liana Liberato, “Erased”) In the 1960s, as the Civil Rights movement lives a fairly sheltered life with her advertising was gaining momentum, a young boxer named executive father (Clive Owen) and loving Cassius Clay powered his way onto the sports mother (Catherine Keener). She thinks she’s page. After aligning himself with the Nation of found her first love in a boy she meets online, Islam and changing his name to Muhammad but when they meet in person, she discovers Ali, his status changed from boxing superstar he’s not who he claimed to be. After he takes to American legend. Along with his conversion advantage of her in a motel tryst, her parents to Islam came a choice to refuse to serve in the are left to pick up the pieces of her shattered Vietnam War, a decision that would mark the life. A chilling but fiercely honest drama dealing beginning of a hard-fought legal battle with with the emotional aftermath of sexual abuse, the US government. More than a boxing film, this first feature from David Schwimmer this rousing documentary confronts issues of (“Friends”) features a breakout performance race, faith, politics and identity at a time when by teen actress Liana Liberato, who will receive In Americans faced jail time for standing up for our Discovery Award at this year’s festival. Person: Actress Liana Liberato (Sun). their beliefs. In Person: Director Bill Siegel.

Fri 3 pm City Opera House Thu 12 noon State Theatre Sat 3 pm Old Town Playhouse Sun 3 pm Bijou by the Bay

SPONSORED BY: SPONSORED BY: The Wilson Family & Rainbow Traverse Bay Children’s Advocacy Center (Thu) Rehabilitation Centers Inc. (Fri) Jayne McPhilimy (Sun) Alan and Susan Kirby (Sat)

PRE-SHOW MUSIC BY: Big Rand (Sat)

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American Documentary

TRUST ME TWA FLIGHT 800 2013 | USA | NR | 90 min. 2013 | USA | NR | 92 min. Howard Holloway’s past as a child star should On July 17, 1996, commercial airliner TWA put him in the perfect position for a successful Flight 800 departed from JFK Airport heading career as a child-actor agent, but life hasn’t for Paris when it burst into flames just minutes gone as planned. In the twisted world of after takeoff, claiming the lives of all 230 people Hollywood’s elite and scheming agents, on board. Years of speculation have followed Holloway’s bumbling career has stalled, thanks as the cause of the tragic crash has remained in no small part to rival agent Aldo Shocklee shrouded in mystery—despite an official poaching his most promising clients. He investigation from the National Transportation finally catches a break when he signs Lydia, a Safety Board declaring the crash was probably troubled young teen with a big role coming caused by an accidental fuel tank explosion. up in a “Twilight”-esque franchise, but it turns This investigative documentary delves into out there’s more to Lydia than meets the the mystery and presents compelling new eye... Directed, written by and starring actor evidence by interviewing witnesses to the Clark Gregg, and featuring a fantastic cast tragedy, as six whistleblowers come forward that also includes Sam Rockwell, Amanda with startling revelations suggesting a cover- Peet, Allison Janney and Felicity Huffman, this up at the highest level. In Person: Director dark dramedy offers an acerbic skewering of Kristina Borjesson. the seedy side of Hollywood and the price of chasing stardom. Fri 12 noon Old Town Playhouse Fri 12 noon State Theatre SPONSORED BY: Sat 3 pm Lars Hockstad The Wilson Family & Rainbow Rehabilitation Centers Inc. SPONSORED BY: Great Lakes Striping & Sealing (Fri) Mike and Colleen Wolfe (Sat)

PRE-SHOW MUSIC BY: Blake Elliott (Fri) The Bergamot (Sat)

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Midnight Tribute to Michael Apted

UNHUNG HERO THE UP SERIES 2013 | USA | NR | 86 min. Featuring: Seven Up!, 7 Plus Seven, 21 Up, 28 When Patrick Moote’s girlfriend rejected his Up, 35 Up, 42 Up, and 49 Up marriage proposal on a Jumbotron and footage Since its inception in 1964, Michael Apted’s of his humiliation went viral online, he thought groundbreaking “Up” series has followed the he could sink no lower—until his (now ex-) trials and tribulations of a group of British girlfriend revealed the reason for her refusal children from across the country and a variety was the inadequate size of his member. Bound of backgrounds, taking a snapshot of their lives and determined to put the embarrassment every seven years. This awe-inspiring series behind him once and for all, Patrick embarked of films captures the evolution of the human on a global journey to consult experts about spirit like no other. Please join us for these his size issue (with advice ranging from surgery free screenings of each installment of the “Up” to pumps and pills to, er, weight training). A series at the Dutmers Theater from Friday at hilarious, personal and humble film about a 3 pm to Saturday at 3 pm, culminating with a man’s quest to be comfortable in his own skin, screening of the latest film in the series, “56 “UnHung Hero” asks the question: does size Up” at the State Theatre on Saturday at 6 pm. really matter? In Person: Patrick Moote. See full schedule on page 101. Wed 12 midnight State Theatre Sat 9 pm Old Town Playhouse SPONSORED BY: Judy Trentham and Dick & Marla Lavanture SPONSORED BY: Saturn Booksellers (Wed) PRE-SHOW MUSIC BY: Bill & Allison Arnold and Ward & Mary Gillett (Sat) Dennis Palmer (42 Up) and Dolph (49 Up) PRE-SHOW MUSIC BY: M-23 Strings (Wed)

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Foreign Documentary

WADJDA WAR ON 2012 | Saudi Arabia, Germany | PG | 97 min. WHISTLEBLOWERS: FREE The first feature film ever shot entirely in Saudi PRESS AND THE NATIONAL Arabia and the first by a female Saudi filmmaker, SECURITY STATE this sparkling movie tells the story of a free- 2013 | USA | NR | 66 min. spirited 10-year-old girl named Wadjda, who lives in the suburbs of Riyadh. She has her During President Obama’s time in office, heart set on buying a beautiful green bicycle the Department of Justice has indicted more people for violating secrecy under the so she can race her friend Abdullah, but her Espionage Act than all previous administrations mother won’t allow it, fearing repercussions combined. In a time when people like Edward from a society that says women can’t ride Snowden and Bradley Manning have become bicycles. In an effort to raise the money herself, household names as much for their persecution Wadjda enters a Koran recitation competition by the government as for their fight against at her school, where she must pose as a wrongdoing, what safeguards are left against pious model student to achieve her goal. corruption? This timely doc takes a look at the This groundbreaking film offers a fascinating consequences faced by four whistleblowers window into a closed society and is a story of whose lives were forever changed after they hope and progress. exposed government misconduct, as well as interviewing many top journalists who covered Wed 6 pm Dutmers Theater Thu 9 pm Milliken Auditorium the leaks, including the New York Times’ David Sat 9 pm City Opera House Carr and the New Yorker’s Jane Mayer. Sun 9 pm Dutmers Theater Wed 6 pm Bijou by the Bay SPONSORED BY: The Wilson Family & Rainbow Rehabilitation Centers Inc. (Wed and Sun) SPONSORED BY: G. Bob and Eleanor Miller (Thu) Center for Health Sam P. Copeland DO Mary’s Kitchen Port (Sat) PRE-SHOW MUSIC BY: The Nephews

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Hollywood Sneak Preview Foreign

We’re the Millers Will You Still Love Me 2013 | USA | R | 110 min. Tomorrow? (Ming tian David Burke (Jason Sudeikis) is a small-time ji de ai shang wo) pot dealer whose clientele includes chefs and 2013 | Taiwan | NR | 100 min. soccer moms, but no kids—after all, he has Who doesn’t love a great romcom? We his scruples. So what could go wrong? Plenty. certainly do, and this delightfully charming film Preferring to keep a low profile for obvious from Taiwan also includes the best karaoke reasons, he learns the hard way that no good scene we’ve ever seen in any film, ever. Feng deed goes unpunished when he tries to help and Weichung are married with a child, and out some local teens and winds up getting stuck in a rut. Feng thinks another child will jumped by a trio of gutter punks. Stealing his stash and his cash, they leave him in major give her life purpose, but Weichung’s mind is debt to his supplier, Brad (Ed Helms). In order elsewhere: mainly on an old friend Stephen, to wipe the slate clean—and maintain a clean who offers a tempting entrée back into his bill of health—David must now become a big- old gay lifestyle. Meanwhile, Weichung’s time drug smuggler by bringing Brad’s latest sister dumps her fiancé in a supermarket and shipment in from Mexico. Twisting the arms of holes herself up in her apartment, watching his neighbors, cynical stripper Rose (Jennifer TV and eating Ramen noodles. Infused with Aniston) and wannabe customer Kenny flights of fancy that represent the daydreams (Will Poulter), and the tatted-and-pierced we all share, it’s impossible not to root for streetwise teen Casey (Emma Roberts), he the happiness of all of the characters in this devises a foolproof plan. One fake wife, two upbeat, light and fun movie about meeting pretend kids and a huge, shiny RV later, the love where you find it. In person: Director “Millers” are headed south of the border for Arvin Chen. a Fourth of July weekend that is sure to end with a bang. In Person: Actor Will Poulter. Fri 9 pm Lars Hockstad Sat 3 pm State Theatre

Screening time to be announced In Mandarin with subtitles

SPONSORED BY: Dan and Debbie Edson (Fri) In Loving Memory of Bryan J. Crough (Sat)

PRE-SHOW MUSIC BY: Brett Mitchell (Fri) Ron Getz (Sat)

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Friends Only Screening Experimental

THE WORLD IS OURS (EL YOUR DAY IS MY NIGHT MUNDO ES NUESTRO) 2013 | USA | NR | 64 min. 2012 | Spain | NR | 84 min. Not many of us living in Northern Michigan You may sense something different about can imagine sharing our beds for half of the this laugh-out-loud Spanish caper comedy: day with roommates who work different maybe it’s the spot-on satire of the economic hours than we do. But immigrants living in situation in Spain, or perhaps it’s how fresh New York City’s Chinatown do this regularly, and goofy the characters are; but the main saving money by living with others in shift- difference is that this film doesn’t have that bed apartments. In this hybrid documentary, cookie-cutter, sequel/remake/retread quality director Lynne Sachs uses autobiographical of American comedies that get a few cheap accounts and improvised performances laughs at the expense of your intelligence. to recreate the realities of life in shift-bed This silly and over-the-top comedy follows apartments so we can experience the world two bumbling hoodlums trapped at the bank through these immigrants’ eyes, and hear their they meant to rob when an unemployed man stories about personal and political upheaval. arrives with explosives, looking to make a Visit the kitchens, bedrooms, wedding halls, political statement by blowing himself up— cafes and mah-jong parlors of Chinatown in along with everyone inside the bank. A great this eye-opening film about the creative ways look at the collapse of Spanish society, this is a people find to get by. In Person: Director comedy not to miss. Lynne Sachs.

Sat 7/27 3 pm Lars Hockstad Fri 12 noon Dutmers Theater Sat 7/27 9 pm Lars Hockstad Sat 9 am Bijou by the Bay Sun 3 pm Dutmers Theater In Spanish with subtitles In Mandarin, English, Spanish with subtitles

SPONSORED BY: Jonathan Schroeder (Fri) Martha’s Leelanau Table (Sat) Penny R. Milliken (Sun)

PRE-SHOW MUSIC BY: Halley Jenkins (Sat)

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THE BATTLE OF AMFAR 2013 | USA | NR | 40 min. This documentary from Academy Award-winning directors Rob Epstein and Jeffrey Friedman tells the story of the extraordinary moment when research scientist Dr. Mathilde Krim and Hollywood icon Elizabeth Taylor joined forces in the fight against AIDS. In the early 1980s, the country was in the darkest days of the AIDS pandemic, and two women decided to do something about it by forming America’s first AIDS research foundation, thereby changing the course of history. The screening will be followed by an extended Q&A. In Person: Directors Rob Epstein and Jeffrey Friedman.

SPONSORED BY: Marshall & Terrill Persky and Dennis & Sandy Stockemer Fri 9 am Bijou by the Bay

WAITING FOR MAMU 2013 | USA | NR | 40 min. In some parts of the world, children whose parents are sent to prison and who lack other guardians are locked away along with their parents. This eye- opening documentary tells the story of what it means for a child to grow up in prison and what hope exists for a better life. “Waiting for Mamu” follows internationally-lauded social worker and 2012 CNN Hero of the Year award-winner Pushpa Basnet, founder of a development center for children who would otherwise grow up behind bars in her native Nepal. This screening will be followed by an extended Q&A. In Person: Director Thomas Morgan; Pushpa Basnet.

SPONSORED BY: Kirsten Pappas Wed 12 noon Bijou by the Bay PRE-SHOW MUSIC BY: Jere Stormer

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A Story for the Modlins Sergio Oksman | Spain | 2012 26 min. Vladimir Putin in Deep Concentration Dana O’Keefe, Sasha Kliment USA | 2013 10 min. Who Shot Rock & Roll: SHORT DOCUMENTARIES 1 The Film Steven Kochones | USA | 2012 Program length: 81 min. 37 min. These four short documentaries find intersecting themes between You Can’t Always Get What between art, history and politics. “A Story for the Modlins” uncovers You Want the secret life of a background actor in “Rosemary’s Baby” through Scott Calonico | UK | 2013 discarded family photos and letters; “Vladimir Putin in Deep 8 min. Concentration” peels back the Russian leader’s manufactured mythology; “You Can’t Always Get What You Want” uses recently declassified White House audiotapes to create a fascinating portrait of President Johnson at work; and “Who Shot Rock & Roll” is an iconic history of rock through the photographers who captured it over the last 40 years. Filmmakers scheduled to attend. Wed 3 pm Milliken Auditorium

SPONSORED BY: Paul and Carol LaPorte PRE-SHOW MUSIC BY: Roses and Evergreens

Flutter Dara Bratt | Canada, USA, Vietnam | 2013 | 9 min. Irish Folk Furniture Tony Donoghue | Ireland 2012 | 8 min. Jujitsu-ing Reality Chetin Chabuk | USA | 2012 SHORT DOCUMENTARIES 2 7 min. Program length: 100 min. Marcel, King of Tervuren Featuring personal profiles and a captivating panorama of the world we Tom Schroeder | USA | 2012 6 min. live in, these eight mesmerizing documentaries include: “We Will Live Again,” a morbidly fascinating look at two men who run a cryogenics Primate Cinema: facility; “Primate Cinema,” a hybrid documentary that observes how Apes as Family Rachel Mayeri | USA, UK some of man’s closest animal relatives interact with video recordings; 2012 | 12 min. and “The Rider and the Storm,” a moving film about a Freedom Tower ironworker who lost everything to a fire during Hurricane Sandy The Rider and The Storm and who finds new hope in his community. Filmmakers scheduled David Darg, Bryn Mooser to attend. USA | 2013 | 15 min. Unravel Fri 3 pm Old Town Playhouse Meghna Gupta | UK, India 2012 | 14 min. SPONSORED BY: Old Mission Traders We Will Live Again PRE-SHOW MUSIC BY: Fauxgrass Myles Kane, Josh Koury | USA 2013 | 13 min.

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The Arm Reach Hyung-Gon Lee | South Korea | 2013 14 min. Dotty Mick Andrews, Brett O’Gorman New Zealand | 2012 | 11 min. Oh Willy... Emma De Swaef, Marc J. Roels | Belgium, SHORT NARRATIVES France, Netherlands | 2012 | 18 min. Program length: 100 min. Peach Juice Featuring a mix of live-action and animation, these eight festival Callum Paterson, Brian Lye, Nathan Gilliss Canada | 2012 | 8 min. favorite fiction shorts from around the globe skew towards the absurd and the hilarious. In “Setup, Punch,” Elijah Wood stars The River as a standup comic putting on the most daring act of his life Sam Handel | USA | 2013 | 12 min. alongside Alia Shawkat, and “RPG OKC” finds two 8-bit video RPG OKC game characters entering the weird world of online dating. Willy Emily Carmichael | USA | 2013 | 10 min. returns to his naturalist roots and goes on an epic pantsless journey of self-discovery in “Oh Willy…” and there’s nothing like Setup, Punch David Schlussel | USA | 2013 | 19 min. a dip in “The River” on a hot summer day. Talking Dog for Sale, 10 Euros Sat 12 noon City Opera House Lewis-Martin Soucy | France, Spain | 2012 8 min. SPONSORED BY: The Hollander Family in Honor of Stuart J. Hollander PRE-SHOW MUSIC BY: The Bergamot

The Battle of the Jazz Guitarist Mark Columbus | USA, Fiji | 2012 | 8 min. Cultivation Joshua Comeau | USA | 2013 | 10 min. Flash Point Colin Campbell | USA | 2013 | 9 min. Life Doesn’t Frighten Me SHORTS BY STUDENTS Stephen Dunn | Canada | 2012 | 13 min. Program length: 87 min. Stepsister These seven student shorts—both documentary and Joey Izzo | USA | 2013 | 18 min. narrative—may well represent the next generation of up-and- When the Song Dies coming filmmakers. “The Battle of the Jazz Guitarist” is a hilarious Jamie Chambers | Scotland | 2012 | 15 min. and offbeat profile of the director’s smooth jazz-loving father, A World for Raul and in “Stepsister,” a woman goes to great lengths to torment Mauro Mueller | Mexico, Switzerland, USA her stepbrother’s fiancée. “A World for Raul” finds two boys in a 2012 | 15 min. dangerous power struggle in Mexico; and the bittersweet “When the Song Dies” captures some of the last members in line in a long tradition of song and superstition in Scotland. Thu 9 am Bijou by the Bay

SPONSORED BY: Drs. Lou A. and Roy J. Simon PRE-SHOW MUSIC BY: Andrew Sturtz

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82 Calum MacDiarmid | UK 2012 | 6 min. The Captain Nash Edgerton, Spencer Susser Australia, USA | 2013 | 6 min. Dance Till You Drop Juan Cardarelli, Eric M. Levy | USA SHORTS FOR MIDNIGHT 2012 | 3 min. Fool’s Day Program length: 92 min. Cody Blue Snider | USA Brimming with twisted humor and tales of terror, this year’s collection 2013 | 19 min. of midnight shorts is worth staying up for. Nick Moran stars in “82” as a Oh Sheep! postman who’s been casing his neighborhood, but his quiet suburb isn’t Gottfried Mentor | Germany all it seems; a twisted history (and dystopian future) for the panda bear 2012 | 7 min. is envisioned in the animated “Pandas;” an elementary school class plays Pandas an April Fool’s joke that goes horribly, horribly wrong in “Fool’s Day;” Matúš Vizár | Czech Republic, and a quaint 1950s dentist hides a horrible secret from his patients in Slovakia | 2013 | 12 min. “The Root of the Problem.” Root Caleb Johnson | USA | 2012 | 12 min. The Root of the Problem Fri 12 midnight Old Town Playhouse Ryan Spindell | USA 2013 | 14 min. SPONSORED BY: Absolutemichigan.com Yardbird Michael Spiccia | Australia 2012 | 13 min.

Fender Bender Yaqi Ge | 2013 | USA | 24 min.

Open House Dustin Alpern | 2013 | USA | 29 min.

SHORTS BY U OF M STUDENTS Program length: 53 min. “Fender Bender” is a coming of age tale that follows self-absorbed, college-bound Jack Reedy, who finds himself stuck spending the summer fixing his dying grandfather’s cherished car with only his disabled uncle and a local waitress for company. Along the way, he gradually learns that broken relationships are much harder to fix than broken automobiles. “Open House” is a murder mystery set in a dark world of deceit, treachery and danger: a high school party. When the most popular jock in school is found dead at the party, a shy student must find the killer before the night is over to save the girl of his dreams. Thu 12 noon City Opera House

SPONSORED BY: Roberta Sue Steffen PRE-SHOW MUSIC BY: The True Falsettos

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VICTOR AND THE SECRET SHORTS FOR KIDS OF CROCODILE MANSION Program length: 73 min. 2012 | Germany | PG | 91 min. A perennial favorite, our collection of shorts When 11-year-old Victor and his family move for our youngest film lovers is sure to amaze into his great-uncle Gustav’s mansion, little and delight. “Peck Pocketed” follows a bird who could have prepared him for the world of devises a plan to get the luxury apartment of mystery that awaited. Inside the cavernous his dreams; a group of woodland animals learn house there are spooky stuffed crocodiles, capitalism and devise a plan to kick out the African masks and a dark secret waiting to be city folk from their territory in “Hedgehogs uncovered: 40 years ago, a long-lost relative and the City;” and in “Mud Crab,” a little boy died under mysterious circumstances at the catches his first crab with his dad—but how age of 11. With his detective instincts kindled, will he get it out of its cage without getting Victor sets out on a mission to discover the pinched? These shorts and the rest of the mansion’s secrets, leading him to a world of collection are appropriate for all ages. secret passageways, one-way mirrors and maybe even a long-lost treasure. A spine- Included Shorts: tingling mystery, “Victor and the Secret of Cicada Princess | Dia de los Muertos Crocodile Mansion” is a Hitchcockian thriller Fear of Flying | Hedgehogs and the City for kids and tweens. Josephine and the Roach | The Little Bird and the Leaf | Mud Crab | Peck Pocketed Wed 9:30 am Lars Hockstad Snap | Starfly | The Window

Dubbed in English Thu 9:30 am Lars Hockstad

SPONSORED BY: Edson Farms Natural Foods In English

PRE-SHOW MUSIC BY: SPONSORED BY: Taylor Fernandez and Tongue Family Band Traverse City Record-Eagle

PRE-SHOW MUSIC BY: Tongue Family Band

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MOON MAN THE PAINTING 2012 | France, Germany, Ireland | NR | 95 min. 2012 | France, Japan | NR | 78 min. This charming animated film tells the story of A film for anyone who likes to let their Moon Man, a lonely being in outer space who imagination run wild, this delightful and has no idea how much he is loved by children inventive animated tale tells the story of three everywhere. One night, he decides to leave types of creatures who live in the medieval his boring homeland by grabbing onto the tail world of a painting: the fully colored Alldunns, of a shooting star as it passes by. The comet the mostly-finished Halfies, and the Sketchies, sends him hurtling towards Earth, where his left incomplete by their creator. Between crash landing sets alarm bells ringing in the these figures, a class system has emerged, with presidential headquarters. The President of the Alldunns reigning as superior beings above the World, having just conquered everything all others. Three heroes from the different there is to conquer on his planet, won’t castes unite on a quest to find The Painter, tolerate this alien invasion from the moon. It’s who is the only one who can restore harmony up to an eccentric inventor and the children of to their world. Full of colorful wit and visual the world to save our intrepid voyager from humor, this film is sure to inspire the artist the clutches of the power-hungry president. in everyone. Based on the beloved bestseller by Tomi Ungerer, this lovely work of hand-drawn Screens with: animation is a magical illustrated marvel. Miss Todd (13 min.)

Fri 9:30 am Lars Hockstad Sat 9:30 am Lars Hockstad

In English In English

SPONSORED BY: SPONSORED BY: The Great Great Great Grand The Oh Family Nephew of Lars Hockstad PRE-SHOW MUSIC BY: Awesome Distraction

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Crocodile Make Your Community Mural Community Mural Pins with Own Mask with with KidzArt with KidzArt Blackbird Arts Blackbird Arts

Remote Fun Vehicle Fun with Great Lakes Control with Dip Fox Motors Children’s Museum TENT Robotics Grand Traverse Ball Wall

Robotics Escape Science Demo: Martial on the from the Bottle Arts FUN Lawn Smokehouse Rockets! Demo

MOVIE Flip Books Flip Books Star in Your Star in Your SET Starring You & Starring You & Own Scene: The Own Scene: The Your Friends Your Friends Green Screen Green Screen

ON THE 11:30 am: Drama 11 am: The 11 am: Puppet 11:30 am & 1 pm: Kids of Northern Accidentals Show by Little Drama Kids of FREE Michigan Artshram Northern Michigan STAGE 11:30 am & 1:30 pm: 12 noon: Marissa Fun with Safety 12 noon: The 12 noon: David Hammond Helmets Archipelago Project Stone and Ben Cockfield 1:30 pm: Martial 1 & 1:45 pm: Blue 1 pm: Storytelling Arts Demo Eyed Sun with Miss Jill

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KIDS FEST SPONSORS Academy 4 | The Accidentals | The Archipelago Project | ATA Martial Arts | Jill Berton | Isabella Biehl | Blue Eyed Sun Emily Bostwick | JP Bullock | Tom Ciluffo | Ben Cockfield | Drama Kids of Northwest Michigan | Families First Monthly Paul Fico | Fit For You | Magadalen Fossum | Marissa Hammond | Houdek’s Tuff Jon Rentals | Interlochen Students Head Line | Jill Justin | Kohl’s 4 Seasons Safety Program | Annette Leeder | Magic Mirror | Marshall Music | Max’s Service Maxbauer’s Meat Market | Ellie McPherson | Elise Nagy | Northwestern Bank | Oryana Natural Food Market | Joe Revnell Bob and Sue Sandtveit | Shawn Semelsberger | David Stone | The Talent Network | Tart Trails Inc. | Toy Harbor | Traverse City Area Public Schools | Traverse City Fire Department | Traverse City West Robotics Team | Up North Media Center

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free daily FILM PANELS Join our visiting filmmakers from Hollywood to New York and Berlin to Taiwan as they tell moviemaking stories, mixing it up with each other and the audience in sessions that range from the hilarious to the moving. Panels begin at 9:30 am daily Wednesday-Sunday, so you won’t miss lunch or your 12 noon movie. FREE tickets are handed out beginning at 8:30 am (maximum 2 per person); ticket holders may return by 9:10 am to line up in order. Topics and speakers are subject to change. MORNING FILM FESTIVAL PANELS—CITY OPERA HOUSE, 9:30 AM

WEDNESDAY FRIDAY BIG BROTHER ON FILM: CENSORSHIP, IT TAKES ONLY 21 HOURS TO GET TO TC: GOVERNMENT SPYING AND HOW MEET OUR FOREIGN FILMMAKERS! THE KOCH BROS CAN KILL YOUR FILM What does Traverse City look like on jetlag and cherry TCFF9 filmmakers tell harrowing stories about their wine? How do film festivals and filmmaking vary between fight to get their films made and seen in the age of New Zealand and the great American Midwest? One Edward Snowden, Julian Assange and Bradley Manning. of our favorite parts of festival week is meeting the Whether they’re fighting PBS, the US Consulate or moviemakers who come from all corners of the globe to some of the richest men in the country, the long tendrils share their stories and visions with us while we share our of government and corporate money reach into every fudge and Walmarts with them. secret—and not so secret—place. Find out how our Scheduled to Appear: Terry George, moderator; Arvin intrepid filmmakers are overcoming deeply entrenched Chen, “Will You Still Love Me Tomorrow?;” Markus Imhoof, obstacles to distribute their films. “More Than Honey;” Slavko Martinov, “Propoganda;” Michel Scheduled to Appear: Ira Deutchman, moderator; Carl Deal Poulette, “Maïna;” Shosh Shlam, “Good Garbage;” Patxo and Tia Lessin, “Citizen Koch;” Cullen Hoback, “Terms and Telleria, “Bypass.” Conditions May Apply;” Slavko Martinov, “Propaganda;” Robert Greenwald, “War on Whistleblowers.” SPONSORED BY: The Eisenberg Family SPONSORED BY: Bay Bread Co. and Bob & Carol Goff SATURDAY ONE ON ONE WITH ROBERT REICH THURSDAY Don’t miss Michael Moore’s conversation with one of the HOLLYWOOD’S NEW BREED: nation’s leading experts on work and the economy, the BRIT MARLING AND ZAL BATMANGLIJ man Time Magazine named one of the 10 most effective cabinet secretaries of the 20th century: President Two of the indie film world’s fastest rising stars are coming Clinton’s Secretary of Labor, Robert Reich. He is coming to Traverse City with their new film, “The East”—and to Traverse City with his documentary "Inequality for while they’re here, they’re going to drop by for a chat All," which is informed by his 13 books, including the with Michael Moore about their burgeoning careers as best sellers “Aftershock" and “The Work of Nations." filmmakers with a conscience. Coming from middle class Reich also founded The American Prospect magazine, backgrounds, they turned down Goldman Sachs and the and is chairman of Common Cause. This panel is sure to Hollywood hamster wheel to make their own films their be a one-of-a-kind event never to be replicated in the own way. You'll be hearing a lot about them in the coming festival's future. Don't miss it! years and you’ll be able to say you saw them here first! Scheduled to Appear: Michael Moore; Robert Reich, Scheduled to Appear: Michael Moore, moderator; Brit “Inequality for All.” Marling and Zal Batmanglij, “The East.”

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SUNDAY BONUS FREE PANEL MEET THE TCFF9 HONOREES: VISIONARY Park Place Hotel, Ballroom Dome, 10 am AWARD WINNER MICHAEL APTED & MICHIGAN FILMMAKER AWARD WINNER PAUL FEIG FRIDAY Following the screening of the entire series of “7 Up” films MICHIGAN FILM COMMISSION PUBLIC MEETING at Dutmers and the State Theatre, Michael Moore will join legendary director Michael Apted for a discussion about the You are invited to come and participate in the part of creation of one of the most ambitious and inspiring uses your government that is set up to support the art of of the film medium, and about a storied career that spans filmmaking. Attend the public meeting held bi-monthly by Hollywood blockbusters and intelligent dramas. Then, in the Governor’s Michigan Film Office Advisory Council— part two, Moore sits down with director, actor, writer and TCFF founder Michael Moore is a member. Hear the latest all-around hilarious guy Paul Feig, who returns to his home news about the film industry in our fair state. Audience state for a candid discussion on everything from his beloved members are encouraged to come ask questions and series “Freaks and Geeks,” to the challenges of making share ideas. smart comedy (he made "Bridesmaids" and "The Heat") in a dumbed-down world. Scheduled to Appear: Michael Moore; Michael Apted, “56 Up;” Paul Feig, “The Heat.”

SPONSORED BY: Dennis & Barbara Piskor and Longview Winery

NEW! EVENING FILM FESTIVAL PANELS Cinema Salon in Clinch Park, 6 pm FRIDAY I LOVE ROCK & ROLL...DOCS! THURSDAY TCFF loves its music docs—each year some of our best and most popular films explore the workaday world of WHAT’S SO FUNNY? THE TCFF COMEDY PANEL music, and this year is no exception. Join the filmmakers Because there’s nothing a little laughter can’t fix, join who take us backstage with The National and Death, and Austin filmmaking scene darling and TCFF regular Bob shorts filmmakers who follow acclaimed photographers Byington and friends for an evening of wisecracks, capturing musicians backstage, giving us a window into witticisms, humor and repartee as we explore the funny what it takes for musicians to create shows that move business of making comedy. audiences to great emotional heights, night after night, city after city. Scheduled to Appear: Bob Byington, moderator; Jeffrey Rosenberg and Jordan Kenneth Kamp, “Orenthal: The Scheduled to Appear: Bob Byington, moderator; Mark Covino Musical;” Doug Benson and Graham Elwood, “Doug Loves and Jeffrey Howlett, “A Band Called Death;” Tom Berninger Movies” Podcast; Patrick Moote, “UnHung Hero;” Arvin and Craig Charland, “Mistaken for Strangers;” Joe Russo and Chen, “Will You Still Love Me Tomorrow?” Steve Kochones, “Who Shot Rock & Roll: The Film.”

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Returning this year to Scholars Hall, thanks to our sponsor Northwestern Michigan College, our Film School offers twice-daily sessions at 12 noon and 3 pm, Wednesday through Saturday, featuring visiting filmmakers and professionals who will share their insight and experience with an audience of students of all ages. Tickets are just $5 per class.

WEDNESDAY THURSDAY 12 NOON: THE 87 DOS AND DON’TS OF 12 NOON: ADVANCED AUDIO WORKSHOP MAKING THE KIND OF DOCUMENTARY 10 For aspiring filmmakers, having great sound for your MILLION PEOPLE WILL WANT TO SEE film can separate it from the rest of the pack. This Everybody loves a good story, and most stories we tell workshop is perfect for filmmakers who want to up each other in our daily lives are non-fiction stories. So their game with audio on all levels, covering techniques why aren’t there more blockbuster documentaries out used in videos, documentaries and independent there? This class is a lesson in filmmaking for aspiring filmmaking, including choosing your equipment, documentary filmmakers who want to make movies capturing audio and post production techniques. for the masses and tell the great stories that need Presented by Shure Corporation and Roland Digital to be told. Instructors: Academy Award-Winning Group. Instructor: Adam Forgione (Audio Engineer, Filmmaker Michael Moore and Special Guest. Pennylane Productions). SPONSORED BY: SPONSORED BY: Linda L. Pylypiw Sarah and David Taft

WEDNESDAY THURSDAY 3 PM: MISTAKEN FOR FILMMAKERS: THE 3 PM: FILM SCHOOL CONFESSIONS MAKING OF “MISTAKEN FOR STRANGERS” The true story of how two teams of University In this film session, you’ll learn the nitty-gritty of of Michigan student filmmakers learned to write, low-budget filmmaking. Getting through low budget finance and produce two 30 minute shorts in a single filmmaking often means being very flexible. You have semester. They will share the challenges they faced, to be open to letting a film change direction and always the problems they solved and what they wish they keep in mind that almost any creative endeavor is bad could do over again. From the streets of New York until it’s good. The class will discuss story structuring, City to the Big House in Ann Arbor, their story is a editing for comedy, establishing tone and testing out road map for aspiring filmmakers and an inspiration rough versions of the film. Instructors: Director Tom for everybody who loves the art and craft of making Berninger and Producer Craig Charland. movies. Instructors: Jim Burnstein, Robert Rayher and U of M Students, including the 2013 Student SPONSORED BY: Academy Award-Winning Filmmaker Perry Janes. David and Rota Bump Family SPONSORED BY: B. Ellen Wesley, DO

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FRIDAY SATURDAY 12 NOON: SHOW ME THE MONEY 3PM: THE TCFF FILMMAKER ROUNDTABLE Filmmaker (and sometime producer) Terry George ANSWERS YOUR QUESTIONS discusses what he looks for in a great producer, why Join this year’s lively discussion with visiting the producer gets the Oscar for Best Picture, and filmmakers in an informal and interactive film school how come there are football teams of “producers” session. Bring your story ideas, questions on financing listed on poster and film credits. If you’ve ever your film, distribution, technical issues, questions wondered about what producers do exactly, and the about equipment, working with actors, location many obstacles they face as they take a film from scouting—you name it. Or just kick back and enjoy script to screen, this is the class for you. Instructor: the repartee and lively dialogue. Filmmakers: Russ Academy Award-Winning Filmmaker Terry George. Collins, moderator; Penny Lane, “Our Nixon;” Jeff SPONSORED BY: Rosenberg, “Orenthal: The Musical;” Dawn Porter, “Gideon’s Army;” Lynne Sachs, “Your Day Is My Night;” The Giffels Family Thomas Morgan, “Waiting for Mamu.” SPONSORED BY: Television & Digital Media Production (College of FRIDAY Education & Human Services, Ferris State University) 3 PM: CONSIDERING THE SCREENPLAY AS LITERATURE This session will explore the merits of the screenplay WEDNESDAY/THURSDAY as literature, and look at how writers can craft 3 PM: YOUNG FILMMAKERS WORKSHOP: screenplays that are not only enjoyable to read, but LIGHTS, CAMERA, ACTION! CLAYMATION effectively use language to create the movie that a ANIMATION (AGES 8-11 YEARS) writer imagines. Students in this session will get to In this special two-session filmmaking class, kids examine specific screenplay examples, including Dan aged 8-12 will design and bring their own three- and Stacy Chariton’s script for “The English Teacher,” dimensional claymation characters to life and create and leave with screenwriting exercises to engage Instructor: a short film from scratch. Learn how animators create their cinematic writing muscles. Lesley movement using traditional stop-motion techniques. Alicia Tye, Instructor of Creative Writing and Motion Fundamentals such as storyboarding, design, Picture Arts, Interlochen Arts Academy. animation basics and clay sculpture will be covered. SPONSORED BY: The short movie made by the class will be shown School of Digital Media (College of Education & Human Saturday morning on the big screen at Lars Hockstad Services, Ferris State University) during the Traverse City Film Festival! Instructors: Tom Mills, Mills Animation and Design; clay artist Phil Wilson; Melissa Johnson, Blackbird Arts.

SATURDAY SPONSORED BY: 12 NOON: ACTING FOR THE CAMERA Blackbird Arts From audition to final filmed scene, you too can be in the movies! One of the most popular film school classes is back with a new spin. Pamela Guest, a University of Michigan graduate and one of the few Hollywood casting directors who also performs, and Robert Rayher, noted experimental filmmaker and Senior Film Production Lecturer at the University of Michigan, return to the TCFF Film School for a hands- on acting class in which you’ll learn the ins and outs of acting for film. Instructors: Robert Rayher and Pamela Guest.

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CINEMA SALON SERIES DISCUSSIONS we invite you to join us for moderated but informal community-in-the-round discussions after select movies in our Cinema Salon series. Everyone is welcome to gather and talk about movies in the beautiful outdoor setting of Clinch Park, rain or shine, right outside the Bijou by the Bay and just a short walk from the downtown movie houses.

WEDNESDAY Following the 12 noon movie: Red Obsession (approx. start 1:45 pm) Following the 3 pm movie: Blackfish (approx. start 4:45 pm)

THURSDAY Following the 12 noon movie: Pandora’s Promise (approx. start 1:45 pm) Following the 3 pm movie: The Human Scale (approx. start 4:30 pm)

FRIDAY Following the 12 noon movie: TWA Flight 800 (approx. start 2:15 pm) Following the 3 pm movie: Doc Secret Screening (approx. start 4:45 pm)

SATURDAY Following the 12 noon movie: Citizen Koch (approx. start 2:15 pm) Following the 3 pm movie: Inequality for All (approx. start 5:30 pm)

SUNDAY Following the 12 noon movie: More Than Honey (approx. start 2:30 pm) Following the 3 pm movie: Remote Area Medical (approx. start 5:15 pm)

FESTIVAL ON A BUDGET

The TCFF is for everyone, no pocket book required! Using the tips below, you can enjoy world-class movie fun and excitement from morning to night for FREE, or at low cost, every day at the film festival.

FREE Movies at the Open Space Tuesday - Sunday at Dusk FREE Panels at the City Opera House Every morning at 9:30 am Afterglows at Fire Fly Late night parties Saturday & Sunday FREE Evening Panels at Clinch Park FREE Movies for Volunteers Thursday and Friday at 6 pm Work a few shifts, and enjoy a free movie or two, a FREE Discussions at the Cinema Salon t-shirt and a party! Following select 12 noon and 3 pm screenings FREE Park and Ride Shuttle FREE Music in Clinch Park Leave the driving to us Wednesday - Sunday On one of TC’s most popular beaches FREE Movie Screenings $5 Film School Classes Select screenings at the Bijou by the Bay and at Wednesday - Saturday at 12 noon and 3 pm Dutmers Theater FREE Kids Fest and $1 Films FREE Closing Night Bash Wednesday - Saturday Community party at the Open Space with music, Movies at 9:30 am, Lawn Party 11 am - 2 pm games, prizes and free popcorn for the first 500 attendees CINEMA SALON 79 TRAVERSE CITY FILM FESTIVAL

SATURDAY, JULY 27 TUESDAY, JULY 30 FRIENDS ONLY OPENING NIGHT PARTY SCREENING PARTY 8:30 pm – 12:30 am 12 pm, 3 pm, 6 pm & 9pm Front Street between Park and Cass Streets Lars Hockstad Auditorium Kick off the festival with a celebration of how “one great Our popular Friends of the Film Festival screenings are movie can change you” on Tuesday night. Front Street back again this year! We’ll have two screenings of two becomes a glamorous scene featuring local cuisine, films, free concessions and a special treat sure to start the libations and a variety of live entertainment. Enjoy an week off on an auspicious note. The ticketed Friends Only evening of festivities under the sparkling lights of the movies, “Sole Survivor” and “The World Is Ours,” are two State Theatre as we welcome visiting filmmakers from of the year’s best, and they won’t be shown anywhere around the world to experience the magic of Traverse Cost: $50 else at the fest. Sign up to be a 2014 Friend of the Film City. Festival and don’t miss this special day of movies next SPONSORED BY: year! Free for Friends H. Cox and Son Inc. & Stella Artois MUSIC BY: SUNDAY, JULY 28 B Steven MacNeil FOUNDERS PARTY Jennifer Westwood 1 pm Screening, State Theatre Detour 3:30 pm Party, Ciccone Vineyards & Winery The Wild Sullys with Spicy McHaggis The annual Founders Party for festival sponsors features SATURDAY, AUGUST 3 a sneak preview of one of the festival’s best films, “Kon- Tiki,” at the State Theatre downtown, followed by a party FILMMAKER PARTY hosted at one of the most beautiful spots in our area, 8:30 pm - 12:30 am Ciccone Vineyards and Winery, with delicious food by Century 21 Northland Parking Lot (at State and Park) Grandview Catering. Free for Sponsors Celebrate with visiting filmmakers in the magically transformed parking lot on the corner of State and SPONSORED BY: Park streets. Be there when the Founders present this Great Lakes Plastic Surgery Center, F. Matthew Smith, year’s festival awards to a group of incredibly talented MD FACS filmmakers. Featuring a smorgasbord of food, libations MUSIC BY: and entertainment, this star-studded party is destined to The Bergamot be an evening you won’t soon forget. Cost: $50 MONDAY, JULY 29 SPONSORED BY: Kathleen Glynn - Blue Lake Entertainment BIJOU GRAND DEBUT MUSIC BY: 8 pm Screening, Bijou by the Bay George Cole - Gypsy Jazz & Uptown Swing 10 pm Party, Clinch Park Rona Kenan and Tamar Eisenman Be among the first people to experience a film in Traverse AOK City’s new “gem” of a theater, the Bijou by the Bay. The event begins with a sneak preview of an upcoming SATURDAY, AUGUST 3 Hollywood hit, followed by an after-party on the beach SUNDAY, AUGUST 4 featuring music, drinks and gourmet edibles catered by AFTERGLOW PARTIES The Cooks’ House. Cost: $500 Late Night | Fire Fly Downtown Traverse City on the Boardman River SPONSORED BY: Keep the party going on Saturday and Sunday nights at Mario Batali and Susi Cahn MUSIC BY: Fire Fly, the festival’s official after-hours hot spot, located at 310 Cass Street. No cover charge. Billy Strings and Don Julin Laurie Sears Jazz SPONSORED BY: Fire Fly

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SUNDAY, AUGUST 4 MONDAY AUGUST 5 TCFF CLOSING NIGHT BASH VOLUNTEER PARTY 7 pm - midnight, Open Space Park 6 pm - 9 pm End the festival on a high note by joining us for our free Front Lawn, Village at Grand Traverse Commons community party in the Open Space, and stay for a special We celebrate our hard-working, amazing, generous and Sunday night screening of everyone’s favorite funny fairy talented volunteers at this post-festival homespun picnic. tale, “The Princess Bride.” There will be live music from Share stories with friends about your festival experiences some of TC’s top acts, games, prizes, free lemonade, a and celebrate the week’s success. Featuring some of the variety of delectable desserts available for purchase and top food and beverages from our area, this party is the free popcorn for the first 500 patrons courtesy of Grand best way to end a magical week. Be sure to bring your Traverse Resort and Casinos. You might even catch a SWAG Coupons to trade in for some awesome festival glimpse of yourself on the big screen. Free for Everyone gear! Free for Volunteers SPONSORED BY: SPONSORED BY: Grand Traverse Resort and Casinos Northwestern Bank

FOOD DONORS Grocer’s Daughter Chocolate Subway Apache Trout Grill Higher Grounds Trading Company The Towne Plaza Bare Knuckle Farm Jimmy John’s Tuscan Bistro Bay Bread Company La Becasse Xylo Bistro Cafe Bay Town Kitchen Leelanau Cheese Zakey Middle Eastern Cuisine Bella Fortuna North Light of Day Organic Farm and Big Boy Tea Shop LIBATIONS Bistro Foufou Little Bohemia Boone’s Long Lake Inn Maddy’s Tavern Bel Lago Winery Buffalo Wild Wings Mancino’s Pizza and Grinders Big Little Wines Cakes by Lori Kirk Martha’s Leelanau Table Brys Estate Vineyard & Winery Catering by Kelly’s / Williamsburg Mode’s Bum Steer Chateau Chantal Winery Bed Showcase Dinner Theatre Morsels Espresso and Edibles & Breakfast Centre Street Cafe Oleson’s Food Stores Chateau de Leelanau Cherry Republic Om Cafe Chateau Grand Traverse Cherry Stop / Old Mission Traders Opa Uptown Ciccone Vineyard & Winery Chocolate Exotica Oryana Natural Foods Market Forty Five North Winery Coldstone Creamery Outback Steak House Grand Traverse Distillery Deering’s Market and Deli Phil’s on Front H. Cox & Son, Inc. Edson Farms The Pi Biz Hawthorne Vineyard & Winery EuroStop Deli Cafe Pleasanton Brick Oven Bakery Jim Beam Spirits Firedog, LLC. Catering and Poppycock’s L Mawby Vineyards Concessions Schelde’s Grille & Spirits Laurentide Winery Fire Fly Shetler Family Dairy Leelanau Wine Cellars Food For Thought and Esch Silver Swan Homemade Foods Left Foot Charlie Road Foods and Gifts Northern Latitude Distillery Fresia Latina Slabtown Burgers Northern Natural Winery Full Moon Pizza Company Spaghetti Jim’s Grand Traverse Northern United Brewing Co Fustini’s Oils and Vinegars Pasta Works Stella Artois Georgina’s Spanglish Winery at Black Star Farms Grand Traverse Pie Company Spice Merchants Grandview Catering Stonehouse Bread PARTIES 81 TRAVERSE CITY FILM FESTIVAL

FREE MUSIC LIVE MUSIC ON tcff BEFORE THE FREE THE CLINCH PARK MOVIES AT THE MUSIC STAGE MUSIC OPEN SPACE Enjoy free concerts by some of our Enjoy great family entertainment area’s top musicians on the Clinch from 7 pm until the free Park Music Stage from 12 to 7 movies on the Bay begin at dusk pm Tuesday through Saturday, in a (approximately 9:45 pm). beautiful waterside park near the Bijou and Open Space, within easy TUESDAY walking distance of the festival’s ACROSS THE UNIVERSE downtown venues. 7 pm Beatles Covers 8 pm The Accidentals TUESDAY 8:30 pm Brett Mitchell with special 12 noon TC Sings! guests Andrew Sturtz and the 1 pm Jennifer Westwood Swan Brothers 2:30 pm Milagros 4 pm THUNDERCLAP! WEDNESDAY 5:30 pm The Overtones PIRATES OF THE CARIBBEAN: THE CURSE OF THE WEDNESDAY BLACK PEARL 12 noon Wink 7 pm Blue Footed Booby 1 pm Keith Scott 8 pm Corktown Popes 2:30 pm Brett Mitchell 9 pm Song of the Lakes 4 pm Sweetwater Blues Band 5:30 pm THURSDAY Robert Abate and the Bigtimers SOME LIKE IT HOT 7 pm Kevin Reeves THURSDAY 8 pm Grand Traverse Show Chorus 12 noon Taylor Fernandez 8:30 pm Encore Winds 1 pm Lauren Jones 2 pm Awesome Distraction FRIDAY 3 pm Academy Four 4 pm Scan with your phone for INDEPENDENCE DAY The Accidentals 7 pm information on purchasing Rona Kenan & Tamar Eisenman FRIDAY the Traverse City Film Festival 8:15 pm Almost Free 12 noon True Falsettos Music of the Festival CD. 9 pm Rona Kenan & Tamar 12:45 pm Sister Wilene Eisenman and Almost Free 1:30 pm Drive South 2:30 pm M-23 Strings SATURDAY 4 pm The Bergamot APOLLO 13 5:30 pm Khalid Hanifi

7 pm Jimmy Olson SATURDAY 8:30 pm The Bergamot 12 noon LeMoko SUNDAY 1 pm Yada Yada 2:30 pm Front Street Big Band THE PRINCESS BRIDE 4 pm Rona Kenan & Tamar Eisenman 7 pm Billy Strings and Don Julin 5:30 pm Medicinal Groove 8:15 pm K. Jones and the Benzie Playboyz

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TCFF 2013 VOLUNTEER PERFORMERS Georgia Farmboys | Jere Stormer | Jimmy Olson Keith Scott | Kevin Reeves | Khalid Hanifi | K. Jones The Festival Thanks Our and the Benzie Playboyz | Lauren Jones | Laurie Sears Talented Volunteer Musicians LeMoko | Lena Wilson | Luke Winslow King | Fr ank Pahl M-23 Strings | Medicinal Groove | Mike Youker and Academy Four | The Accidentals | Al Jankowski Nic Vasquez | Milagros | Miriam Pico and David Chown Almost Free | Andrew Sturtz | Angela Josephine The Nephews | New Third Coast | Olivia Millerschin Ann Peterson | AOK | Awesome Distraction | Barbara Olivia Verellen | The Overtones | Robin Connell Faith Jordan | The Bergamot | Big Rand | Billy Strings Robin Lee Berry and Glenn Wolff | Ron Getz | Rona and Don Julin | Blake Elliott | Blue Eyed | Blue Footed Kenan and Tamar Eisenman | Roses and Evergreens Booby | Brett Mitchell | Chris Vallillo | Corktown Ruby John | Saldaje | Sister Wilene | Song of The Lakes Popes | DarlenYa | David Chown | David Jake | Dennis Stephen MacNeil | Sue Wood and Lisa Johansson Palmer | Detour | Dolph | Drive South | Encore Winds Susan Day | Susan and Bill Dungjen | Suzanne and Fauxgrass | Front Street Big Band | George Cole - Jim | The Swan Brothers | Swallowtail | Sweetwater Gypsy Jazz & Uptown Swing | Grand Traverse Show Blues Band | Taylor Fernandez | TC Sings! | The True Chorus | Halley Jenkins | Heartwell | Jake Allen | Jeff Falsettos | THUNDERCLAP! | Tongue Family Band Bihlman | Jennifer Westwood and the Waycross The Turtlenecks | The Wild Sullys | Wink | Yada Yada

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Michael Moore Linda Price Terry Carrithers Founder Operations Director Alan Collard President Mary Fisher Programmer David Poinsett Mike & Ruth Assenmacher Keri Sabatini Fundraising Jay Vana State Theatre Jon Irvin Deb Lake Bijou Project Manager Executive Director Kathleen Christopher Louis Dickinson Lois Mainz Bijou Project Development Ian Hollander Bijou by the Bay Film Department Manager Shorts Programmer Bob Calt Sid Van Slyke Bijou Volunteer Coordinator Bryce Kennedy Susan Fisher City Opera House Business Manager Karen Ardery Jerry Penno Brandon David Guest Services Managers Meg Weichman Bob Sokolnicki Production Coordinator Old Town Playhouse Kit Hinz Filmmaker Venue Liaison Tia Shuyler Tom Dayton Communications Coordinator Lars Hockstad Auditorium Blythe Skarshaug Melanie Cypher Gabe Augustine Mike Biedenbach Green Room Managers Art Director Judy Trentham Milliken Auditorium Vicki Borke Lars Kelto Fran Merrell Pre-Show & Technology Director Carol Cavanaugh Shirley Williams Dianne Fowler Finance Katy Gwizdala Dutmers Theater Communications Director Joy Hyatt Karen Segal Office Manager Morgan Makowski Peggy Harold Public Relations Manager Open Space Michael Sullivan Entertainment Manager Diane Murray Charlie Wilson Film School Helen & Ken Andrzejewski Filmmaker Logistics Amy Cutter Linda Barry Events Max Fisher Liz Peron Mark Jensen Ombudsman Kids Fest Jess Abfalter Stephen Adcock Andy McFarlane Bob Brown Sales Media Director Warehouse Linda Koebert Michael Poehlman Carrie Bourdages Christie McGue Photography Manager Katie Tibaldi Box Office Managers Cinema Salon Morgan Burke-Beyers Harold Gurian Videography Manager Deb Polich & Russ Collins Transportation Moderator Managers

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BOSTON LIGHT & SOUND MODERATORS INTERNS Chapin Cutler Rod Birleson Lacy Bearden Technical Director Rich Brauer Erik Bebernes DJ Babb Bob Byington Lindsey Brendel Mike Babb Russ Collins Nicholas Burghdoff Daniel Beedy Shannon Cash Deborah Cutler Chuck Borek Paul Cecilio Leigh Downes Ira Deutchman Lauren Connor Vincent Pagliaro Mark Dragovich Evan Cover Chas Phillips Terry George Kayleigh Dietz Michael Rome Phillip Hallman Claire Edgley Jeffrey Thompson Terry Lawson Noelle Gibeson HILL TOP PRODUCTIONS Michael Mittelstaedt Courtney Gorter Bill Hill Michael Moore Jack Hagan Presentation Director Frank Pahl Mia Hagerty Ivy Hutchinson Jesse Pasternack Joaquin de la Puente Molly Jeszke Deb Polich James Faller Brit King Peter Halter Thom Powers Natalie LaPlant Adrianne Jorge V Prasad Dennis McClintock Carolyn Kaylor Robert Rayher Jeff McElmurray Damian Lopez-Gaston Rebecca Reynolds Julia Mogerman Michelle Puetz Terri Sarris Courtney O’Brien William C. Taggart Matthew Solomon Rachel Olson Scott Woodruff Oliver Thornton Anna Perrin Additional Projectionists Leslie Tye Brian Ross Billy Heck Alex Schmitz Billy Schofield Mike Olpin PROGRAM GUIDE Max Schwimmer Joe Perkette PHOTO CONTRIBUTORS Caitlyn Smith BLUEWATER Gabe Augustine Alex Vanderklipp TECHNOLOGIES Pamela V. Bevelhymer Jessica Walters Ben VanDonkelaar Geoffrey Brown Tricia Williams Corey Adomaitis Todd Church Colby Wittman Timothy Fraiser Dagmar Cunningham Hilary Young Mark Hubert Carrie Gengler Damon Jaroslawski Brian Harwood Jason Oliver Chris Holdwick OUTDOOR MOVIES Gary Howe Bob Deutsch Keri James Jake Cook Alan Newton Horacio Garcia Mark O’Shaughnessy Ken Voigt Michael Poehlman 3RD ST R&D Susan Jessica Rastelli PRODUCTION SERVICES John Russell Greg Carttar Kay Smith Char Harner Robert Stuckey Mike Hodges Maggie Szymanek Laura Teeple ELECTRICIAN Al Thompson

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Our most sincere thanks MEREDITH & COMMUNITY FOUNDATION DAN FALCONER BRUCE & JULIE FALCONER to the donors who have founders helped make a reality AN ORDINARY HERRINGTON-FITCH CITIZEN FAMILY FOUNDATION of our dream for a new venue for the film festival Rotary Charities of Cooke Sheet Metal Valerie Andrews Dan Brink and second screen for the Traverse City daltile Ken and Helen Jim and Vivian Jamie and Andrzejewski Brinkman State Theatre. The donors Polly Jo Kemler Deering Tree Service Sue Ann Mary Briody Ramin Sarrafizadeh listed here have made an .e4. Jim Ashmore James Brody Paul and Wendy invaluable contribution to Greeney EPS Security Olivia Asiala Stephen C Brown the success of the Bijou Eyewood Design Pamela Atsoff Jerry Beasley and Michael Moore Feyen-Zylstra Adria Badagnani Fleda Brown by the Bay. We celebrate City of Fitzmaurice-Garvin Pamela Bagwell Robert Bryson Traverse City Insurance Agency Susan Bailey- William Buc their generosity and DargaWorks, Inc. Foster Flooring Carman Wendy Buhr—Ella’s Thom, Nick and GreyStone Seating Ann Ballet Clark Bunting support. Becky Darga The Home Depot Roger Barnard Elizabeth Burbee Robert Stow, Architect PLC Laser Printer Thomas Barnes Rick and Mary Kay Technologies Burbee Boston Light & Dennis and Sound Lithonia Lighting Jeannette Bartlett Craig Burns Chapin Cutler McMillen Instant Jim and Ellen Doug Burns Framer Batsakis Kathleen Glynn Lori Burns MiTek USA, Inc. Alice Beeker Nannette Meyers Rhoda Bush Design MJS Painting Inc. Emily Bellingham Mac Calder NuArt Signs Nealis Engineering Nancy Belton Jackie Cantalupo Team Elmers Northern Fire Catherine Benkaim & Safety Dennis and Pam Charter Rebecca Berfanger Carney Communications Northern Michigan Glass J G Marc Bertrand Suzanne Carr Al Thompson MD Grant and Terry Electrical Otwell Mawby, P.C. Chuck and Terri Carrithers American Waste Pine Hill Village Bethea Janice Carter Gardens Between Friends IN KIND DONORS Plascon LLC Karen Casebeer Access Window, The River Ashok Bhagwat Ronald C Chao Door & Hardware Traverse City Tracy Bielaczyc Mon Chapeau Ace Hardware Seven’s Paint & Ulrich Binkert Randy Chapman Ace Welding Wallpaper Co. Gerald Bishop Harold Chase Advanced Vacuum Sparkle Wash of Karen Chase Center N.W. MI Elizabeth Black Carole Chirgwin Advantage Electric Trane U.S. Barbara R Bloomer Emmy Lou Cholak AFP Specialties Traverse Fran Bluhm Reproduction Judith Clark Alpers Insulation Rhonda Board & Supply Jessica Clifton Americrete Jim Bode VanDrie Home Ellen Cohn Arms and Cole/ Furnishings Sarah Boehm Scott Hardy Committee to Elect DONORS Sue Bohnhorst Gary Howe Arrow Roofing & Alfred Bonney Supply, Inc. Susan Conradson Barbara Abbott ML Bouckaert ASB Serivices, Inc. Shari Cope Midge Abel Valica Boudry Benbow Concrete Leeann Agost Karen M Coquillard Construction Anne Boychuck Ronnie Alff James Corgel Bouma Corporation David G Boyer Charlene Allen Therese Cousins Tom and Joyce Kay Boyne Jack and Saundra Boynton George and Nancy Allen Tom Boynton Crandall Brown Lumber Richard Brauer Jane Crowner Company Leslie S Allen Patricia Brauninger Curtis Cummins Bob Calt Gwenne Allgaier Mary Breckman Gail and Dan Carpet Galleria Beverly D Almquist 94 BIJOU BY THE BAY tcff

Dallolmo William Green David Kuhn Bonnie Nescot Deborah Ryel Patrick and Susie Peter Danly Nancy Griesinger Jana Laidlaw Jennifer Nestor Lyndon and Salathiel Tobin Erik Davidek Eddie Grim Ben Laird Kelly Nogoski- Mary Salo DVera Topol Anne Decker Mark Gustafson Christine Lake Porter Diane Samarasinghe Peggy Townsend Robert DeGabriele Cervini Haas Gallery Tim Lambert Tricia Noss Anita Samardich Trapline Productions Mary Dennos Pat Haber Stephanie Lamphere Mary Nykerk Richard Sanok Traverse Repro & Laura O’Brien Supply Tamara DePonio Karen Hague Sandra Langdon Linda Scamehorn Jocelyn Trepte Mike and Teckla Gloria Halligan William Lange Lisbeth A Oana Tom and Linda Dettmer Dawn Oh Scheuerman Herm Triezenberg Patricia Hamilton Lynn Larson Lewis Tripp Linda DeVillez Sally Hannert Harold Lassers Michelle Olman Sara Schmuldt Kevin Diels Clarine Olson Fred Schorr Kathy Tuckerman David Harris Nickolas Latorre Barbara Bradford Sue Dionne F Susan Harrison Jean Lave Eric Palmquist Judith Schroeder Turner Nancy Dotlo Dave and Mary Athena Schumacher James Hart Gordon and Marilyn Parrish Darlene Urso Robert Doughty Ruth Hartig Lawrence Marc and Tracy The Valdmanis Claudia Drake Susan Lemmen Paulette Parsons Schwimmer Family Mike Hartigan Nicole Payne Christopher Scussel Gail Drayton James and Loretta Anne Leonardi Charles Valleau Roy Drew Haslinger Connie Leutloff Kathy Peipert Lisa Sebright Judy and Rick Jim and Cindy Michael and Jeanne Tracey Lev-Ary Danielle Pelshaw Emma Seeley VanDeWeghe Dudek Haynes Judy Levin Elaine Penney Jack Segal Christine Varner Stephen and Betsy Steve Heckart James and Judith Lauren Perez Dennis and Polly Douglas Verellen Duede William and Mary Lewandowski Terrill Persky Selkoe Barbara Vinocur James Duff Heidbreder Rorie Lewis Kristen Peters Joseph Send Seth Vinocur Carolyn Dunnuck Daniel Heinz John Linnerson David Peterson Dolores Sierra Ralph and Margaret Jan Durkhanai Toni Hendrix Sheldon and VonWalthausen Sandra Lockwood Larry Peyton Susanne Simon Jeanine Easterday Janet Hethorn Ellie Long Ellen Pisor Don and Martha Cindy Elliott Christine Hill Jodi Simpson Vreeland Cathy Look Betty Plough Sean and Blythe Carol Wagner Lynn Elliott Kirk and Linda Heidi Lovy John Plough Skarshaug Louise Elsenheimer Hitchcock Kim Wagner Lynne Holmberg Luminations Katherine Plough Barbara Smith Thomas and Shirley Susan Empson Nancy Lyon M Montgomery Caren Smith Wall Rick English Diane Homan Plough Jack Hornbaker Hedges MacDonald Carrie Smith L. Kent Walton Gordon Evans David MacIntosh Linda Poindexter Julie Smith Nancy Waltz Jerry Evans Sarah Horness David Poinsett Jane Hrabak Mad Eagle, LLC Patty Smith Janet Ward Ruth Jeanine Ewert Deirdre Mahoney Carrine Pomaranski Dana Snith Russell Washburn Jennifer Ewing Lynn Huffman Mary Pope T Michael Jackson Kathleen Maly Jon Snow Debbie Watson Rebecca Ewing Sarah Mankowski Ann and Tom Post Leslie Sorstokke Bette Wattles Robert Fall Jennifer Jaffe Wynne Potter Wiliams Mark Jensen Arta Marek Wesley Souden Richard Fasi Ann Marlatt Gerald and June Meg Staley Kennard Weaver Gregory Fazzoni Richard Johnson Powley Julie Weeks Ursula Johnson Josephine Marquis Jane Purkis Leo and Linda Robert Fellows Sherri Masson Stallman Jamie & Phil Kathleen Fendt Muriel F Jones Roger Putman Herbert Steed Weichman Sylvia Jurecic Bradley Matson Margaret Quinn Jane Weldon Rosanne Fifarek Dana Matta Susan Steele Mary D Fisher Alison Horton and Linda Rachwitz Kathleen Steeves Tim Werner Kathy Kaczynski David McClary Vicki Radtke Steve Westerholm Mary Fisher Tim Keenan Meriwether Michael Stephens Dennis Fitzpatrick McClorey Sandra Ramee Monica Steury Marsha Wheaton Maureen Kelly Linda Rasmussen John Whittaker Nicole Fliss Patrick Kernan Kathy McCurdy Sandy Stockemer Marge Forgione Sally I McKinnon Polly Rea Robbin Stott Dave & Karen Wilk Jeffray Kessler Woody Rea Joan F Williams Sherri Freels Annette Kingsbury Michael D McManus Carolyn Strand Nancy A Freund Sherry McNamara Don Reinhard Joseph Suchoski Karen Williams Jon Kinne Don and Harolyn Bonnie Willings Claudia Fry Alan T Kirby Kathy Mead Reynolds Albert Svec Richard Fulmer Fran Merrell Julia Sytsma Lynn Wilsher Legrand and Rebecca Reynolds Julie Wilson Carol Gardner Jaqueline Kirk Lizbeth Messing Richard and Karen F Peter Szafran Gary Gardner Christopher Kitchen Samantha Meyer Roeper Carol Talbot Michael Wilson James W Gardziola Wayne and Barbara Mikolajczak Mark Rogers Carl and Emily David and Carolyn Ruthanne Kladder Taphouse Wollenhaupt John Gessner Lynne Mixer Sherry Rose Wendell Wayne Anne Giffels Brenda Knaack Linda Monahan Carol Ross Joan Taylor Woodard David Ginsberg Ann Christine Donna Moore Barbara Rossen Terrie Taylor Barbara Woodrow Konczal Roberta Teahen Tracey Goddeeris Betty Koons Gloria Morkin Gerald and Kathy Harry Wright, PhD Carol Goff Patricia Morris Roster June Thaden Christine Wurst Lillian Korbus Deborah Rough Randall Thomas Lorraine Golden Marlene Koskela Linda Mosketti Patricia M Ellen Golec Benson Munger Wayne Rowe Richard Thompson Yamaguchi Lois Kowalsky Jo and Pug Rundio Laren & Carol Christine Zenn Penelope P Gorden Donald Kuehlhorn Shirley Murray Thorson Ross Grahm Kathryn Myers Nicole Runyon Patricia Zigarmi BIJOU BY THE BAY 95 TRAVERSE CITY FILM FESTIVAL

STATE THEATRE 233 E. Front Street Originally built in 1916 and lovingly restored SPONSORED BY: to its former glory by Michael Moore and Richard and Diana Milock an army of volunteers, this 527-seat movie house is the perfect place to see a movie, and was recently named the #1 movie theater in the world by the MPAA.

BIJOU BY THE BAY 181 E. Grandview Parkway Opening for the first time at this year’s festival, SPONSORED BY: the Bijou by the Bay in the historic Con Foster Richard and Diana Milock Museum is a unique and wonderful place to see a movie. Starting Labor Day, this 184-seat “gem” will operate as a year-round community theater and sister screen to the State.

CITY OPERA HOUSE 112 ½ E. Front Street SPONSORED BY: Constructed in 1891, the fully restored City Northwestern Bank Opera House is a focal point of downtown and the balcony makes this beautiful and historic community treasure the festival’s third- largest venue with 465 seats.

OLD TOWN PLAYHOUSE 148 E. Eighth Street SPONSORED BY: Smith Haughey Rice & Roegge Home to the Traverse City Civic Players, and Lars and Megan Kelto and created in April 1960 to bring amateur theater to northern Michigan, the 320-seat auditorium is the festival’s most enveloping full-scale venue.

LARS HOCKSTAD AUDITORIUM 301 W. Seventh Street SPONSORED BY: Constructed in 1922 and recently renovated Country Inn & Suites by when the community matched a challenge Carlson Traverse City - TCMI grant from Michael Moore, Lars Hockstad is the festival’s largest indoor venue, featuring 750 comfy seats.

MILLIKEN AUDITORIUM 1701 E. Front Street SPONSORED BY: The Michael and Barbara Dennos Museum Grand Traverse Resort Center is the region’s premier cultural center. and Spa The museum’s 367-seat Milliken Auditorium offers perfect comfort and sight lines, a huge screen and excellent acoustics.

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DUTMERS THEATER 1701 E. Front Street Right inside the Dennos Museum Cen- SPONSORED BY: ter at Northwestern Michigan College, Lori and Ren Downey in the same building as Milliken Auditori- um, you’ll find our smallest, most intimate venue: a 35-seat screening room with a unique atmosphere.

OPEN SPACE Grandview Parkway at Union Street One of Traverse City’s most beautiful SPONSORED BY: public places, Open Space on the shores Ventana Charitable of Grand Traverse Bay is the perfect spot Foundation to watch the sunset, listen to great music and enjoy a free outdoor movie on a giant 65’ screen.

FILM SCHOOL IN SCHOLARS HALL 1701 E. Front Street Conveniently located just steps away SPONSORED BY: from Milliken Auditorium, Scholars Hall Herrington-Fitch at Northwestern Michigan College is host Family Foundation to the 118-seat TCFF Film School, bringing together people of all ages to share our passion for film.

MAIN BOX OFFICE & FESTIVAL STORE 128 S. Union Street Just a quick turn off Front Street you’ll SPONSORED BY: find friendly volunteers ready to help you Wilson Antiques and in our spacious box office. Browse festival Dingeman Dancer & merchandise or relax in the lounge provided Christopherson PLC by VanDrie Home Furnishings.

BOOKSTALL Inside the City Opera House Open every day of the festival, the TCFF SPONSORED BY: Bookstall provides much more than “the Brilliant Books book of the movie.” Run by Brilliant Books, you are sure to find something that enhances and extends the festival experience.

CINEMA SALON & MUSIC STAGE Clinch Park Each day after select 12 noon and 3 pm SPONSORED BY: Cinema Salon movies, filmmakers and Sullivan Entertainment moviegoers meet in Clinch Park for informal and insightful discussions. You can also enjoy free concerts from the festival’s volunteer musicians from 12 noon to 7 pm at our waterside music stage.

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Festival Venues OPEN THE FESTIVAL SHUTTLE GRANDVIEW PARKWAYSPACE

Parking MUSIC CINEMA STAGE SALON Festival Loop Bus Route CLINCH BIJOU BY PARK THE BAY GRAND TRAVERSE BAY Festival Loop Bus Stops WALKING Alternate Festival Loop TUNNEL Bus Stops (Friday Only)

Free day and night parking is STATE available in NMC’s Elm and THEATRE Dogwood lots and the FRONT FRONT Thirlby Field lot.

CITY PARKING NOINU

KRAP DECK SSAC The Festival Loop shuttle ENIP OPERA BOX HOUSE buses leave each stop OFFICE every 10 - 15 minutes. STATE STATE FREE PARKING

EAST SIDE NAMDRAOB AT NMC’S SIXTH DOGWOOD

AND ELM LOTS ENIP FREE SEVENTH PARKING KIDS FEST LARS WEST SIDE LAWN HOCKSTAD PARKING PARTY AT THIRLBY AUDITORIUM DECK LAKE FIELD EIGHTH EIGHTH OLD TOWN PLAYHOUSE

NORTHWESTERN DOGWOOD THIRTEENTH GRAND TRAVERSE BAY MICHIGAN / ELM LOT COLLEGE CAMPUS FREE PARKING

FILM SCHOOL

KAO THIRLBY FIELD MILLIKEN MARITIME CENTER AUDITORIUM ENIP E. FRONT & DUTMERS THEATER

CIVIC

DLEIFRAG CENTER

GRIFFIN THIRLBY LOT FREE PARKING FOURTEENTH EIGHTH

WHERE TO PARK FREE FESTIVAL LOOP Park for FREE on the east side in NMC’s Buses stop every 10-15 minutes to pick you Dogwood and Elm lots near Milliken Auditorium up and take you around the Festival Loop to or on the west side in the Thirlby Field lot off all of our venues Wednesday-Sunday from 14th & Pine—park all day and night without 8 am until the last filmgoers and volunteers are worry or cost, and ride the Free Festival Loop back to their vehicles. All buses are wheelchair shuttle around the festival. Downtown’s two accessible. It’s free, green and easy! parking decks are also on the Festival Loop. SMART COMMUTE For movies at Lars Hockstad Auditorium, please Park at designated lots and bike downtown. help us be good neighbors in this residential Bike racks are conveniently located around the neighborhood and exit quietly after nighttime city and at each venue. For full information shows. If you cannot use the free Festival Loop, about smart commuting, visit the Getting please park in the Old Town Deck, the lots along Around page on our web site at www. Union Street or in business lots after hours. traversecityfilmfest.org/attend/getting-around.

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WEDNESDAY JULY 31

9 am 12 noon 3 pm 6 pm 9 pm 12 midnight

STATE The English Red The Broken UnHung THEATRE Propaganda Superstar Circle Teacher Obsession CS Breakdown Hero

F BIJOU BY The Pervert’s Waiting for War on Citizen Koch Dirty Wars THE BAY Guide to Ideology Mamu F Whistleblowers

(9:30 am) Panel: Terms and Gore Vidal: The CITY OPERA Seven Big Brother No Conditions United States HOUSE Psychopaths on Film May Apply of Amnesia

OLD TOWN The Girl on Seven The Central Big Easy Doug Loves PLAYHOUSE the Train Psychopaths Park Five Express Movies Podcast

LARS (9:30 am) Victor HOCKSTAD and the Secret of Dancing Queen Blackfish The Pretty One The Last Days Crocodile Mansion CS

MILLIKEN Short The Human Scale Into the White A Hijacking Erased AUDITORIUM Documentaries 1

DUTMERS The Last Days Far From Wadjda Before Snowfall THEATER of Pompeii F Afghanistan

THURSDAY AUGUST 1

9 am 12 noon 3 pm 6 pm 9 pm 12 midnight

STATE Gold Diggers Mistaken for (9:15 pm) Trust Kon-Tiki Cockneys vs Zombies THEATRE of 1933 Strangers The East

F BIJOU BY Shorts by Pandora’s The Human Mark Cousins A Hijacking THE BAY Students Promise CS Scale CS Secret Screening

(9:30 am) Panel: Shorts by CITY OPERA Hollywood’s A Band Called HOUSE U of M Our Nixon Before Snowfall Death New Breed Students

This Is What OLD TOWN God Loves Good Garbage Winning Propaganda Orenthal: Dragon PLAYHOUSE Uganda The Musical Looks Like

LARS (9:30 am) Shorts Fanie Fourie’s Superstar Bypass Lovelace HOCKSTAD for Kids Lobola

MILLIKEN AUDITORIUM Fruitvale Station Süskind Gideon’s Army Red Obsession Wadjda

DUTMERS She Done The Pervert’s Suitcase of Love The Girl on the THEATER Him Wrong F Guide to Ideology and Shame Train

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FRIDAY AUGUST 2

9 am 12 noon 3 pm 6 pm 9 pm 12 midnight

UnHung Elaine Stritch: STATE A Royal Affair Trust Me Inequality for All Sunlight Jr. The Shining Hero THEATRE Shoot Me

CS The Battle of The Central Documentary Killing Them BIJOU BY The East THE BAY amfAR F Park Five Secret Screening Softly

(9:30 am) Panel: Into the The Trials of Fanie Fourie’s CITY OPERA Only 21 Hours Big Easy Express White Muhammad Ali Lobola HOUSE to get to TC

Terms and TWA Flight Short OLD TOWN Conditions May The Act of Killing Room 237 Shorts for Midnight PLAYHOUSE 800 Documentaries 2 Apply CS

(9:30 am) Much Ado About Will You Still Love LARS Starbuck TBA HOCKSTAD Moon Man Nothing Me Tomorrow?

The Pervert’s MILLIKEN God Loves More Guide to The First Movie Blackfish AUDITORIUM Uganda Than Honey Ideology

Your Day Is Seven Up! with 7 DUTMERS 21 Up 28 Up THEATER My Night Plus Seven F F F

SATURDAY AUGUST 3

9 am 12 noon 3 pm 6 pm 9 pm 12 midnight

Will You Still Love (9:30 pm) Journey to the West: Cockneys vs Zombies STATE Dancing Queen Citizen Koch 56 Up THEATRE CS Me Tomorrow? TBA Conquering the Demons

The Expedition Your Day Is My Good BIJOU BY to the End of the Dragon Süskind THE BAY Night Garbage World (9:30 am) Panel: One on One Short Inequality Pandora’s CITY OPERA Wadjda HOUSE with Robert Narratives for All CS Promise Reich

Much Ado About The Trials of Dragon OLD TOWN Teenage The Last Days UnHung Hero The History of Future Folk PLAYHOUSE Nothing Muhammad Ali

(9:30 am) Mistaken for LARS Sunlight Jr. Trust Me Fruitvale Station HOCKSTAD The Painting Strangers

Gore Vidal: The MILLIKEN Far From (6:30 pm) Remote United States of Kon-Tiki The Act of Killing AUDITORIUM Afghanistan Area Medical Amnesia

Suitcase of Love DUTMERS 35 Up 42 Up 49 Up Propaganda THEATER and Shame F F F

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SUNDAY AUGUST 4

9 am 12 noon 3 pm 6 pm 9 pm

STATE (3:30 pm) The THEATRE Maïna Much Ado Bypass Phantom of Austenland About Nothing the Opera

BIJOU BY This Is What THE BAY Teenage Winning Trust Before Snowfall Erased Looks Like

(9:30 am) Panel: CITY OPERA Orenthal: Remote Area The Broken HOUSE Meet the TCFF9 Starbuck The Musical Medical CS Circle Breakdown Honorees

OLD TOWN More Than The Expedition PLAYHOUSE The First Movie Gideon’s Army Citizen Koch to the End Honey CS of the World

LARS The English Mike’s The English HOCKSTAD A Royal Affair The Pretty One Teacher Surprise Teacher

MILLIKEN A Band Called AUDITORIUM Our Nixon The Heat Dirty Wars No Death

DUTMERS Gold Diggers Your Day Is Suitcase of Love THEATER Wadjda of 1933 F My Night and Shame

OPEN SPACE AND FILM SCHOOL

OPEN SPACE at dusk FILM SCHOOL 12 noon FILM SCHOOL 3 pm

TUESDAY Across the Universe

WEDNESDAY The 87 Dos and Don’ts of Making Mistaken for Filmmakers: The Pirates of the Caribbean: the Kind of Documentary 10 Million Making of “Mistaken for The Curse of the Black Pearl People Will Want to See Strangers”

THURSDAY Some Like It Hot Advanced Audio Workshop Film School Confessions

FRIDAY Considering the Screenplay Independence Day Show Me the Money as Literature

SATURDAY The TCFF Filmmaker Apollo 13 Acting for the Camera Roundtable Answers Your Questions

SUNDAY The Princess Bride

Cinema Salon Free Screening CS F Part of our outdoor discussion series Compliments of the Festival

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56 Up ...... 25 Killing Them Softly ...... 42 Short Narratives ...... 66 Across the Universe ...... 16 Kon-Tiki ...... 42 Shorts by Students ...... 66 The Act of Killing ...... 25 The Last Days of Pompeii ...... 20 Shorts by U of M Students ...... 67 Apollo 13 ...... 17 The Last Days ...... 43 Shorts for Kids ...... 68 Austenland ...... 19 Lovelace ...... 43 Shorts for Midnight ...... 67 A Band Called Death ...... 26 Maïna ...... 44 Sole Survivor ...... 53 The Battle of amfAR ...... 64 Mark Cousins Some Like It Hot ...... 16 Before Snowfall ...... 26 Secret Screening ...... 44 Starbuck ...... 54 Big Easy Express ...... 27 Mike’s Surprise ...... 45 Suitcase of Love and Shame...54 Blackfish ...... 27 Mistaken for Strangers ...... 45 Sunlight Jr...... 55 Blue Jasmine ...... 18 Moon Man ...... 69 Superstar ...... 55 The Broken Circle More Than Honey ...... 46 Süskind ...... 56 Breakdown ...... 28 Much Ado About Nothing ...... 46 Teenage ...... 56 Bypass ...... 28 No ...... 47 Terms and Conditions The Central Park Five ...... 29 Orenthal: The Musical ...... 47 May Apply ...... 57 Citizen Koch ...... 29 Our Nixon ...... 48 This Is What Winning Cockneys vs Zombies ...... 30 The Painting ...... 69 Looks Like ...... 57 Dancing Queen ...... 30 Pandora’s Promise ...... 48 The Trials of Muhammad Ali ..58 Dirty Wars ...... 31 The Pervert’s Guide Trust ...... 58 Documentary Secret to Ideology ...... 49 Trust Me ...... 59 Screening ...... 31 The Phantom of the Opera ...20 TWA Flight 800 ...... 59 Doug Loves Movies Podcast ..31 Pirates of the Caribbean: The UnHung Hero ...... 60 Dragon ...... 32 The East ...... 32 Elaine Stritch: Shoot Me ...... 19 The English Teacher ...... 33 Erased ...... 33 The Expedition to the End of the World ...... 34 Fanie Fourie’s Lobola ...... 34 Far From Afghanistan ...... 35 The First Movie ...... 35 Fruitvale Station ...... 36 Gideon’s Army ...... 36 The Girl on the Train ...... 37 God Loves Uganda ...... 37 Gold Diggers of 1933 ...... 21 Curse of the Black Pearl ...... 16 Up Series ...... 60 Good Garbage ...... 37 The Pretty One ...... 49 Victor and the Secret of Gore Vidal: The United States The Princess Bride ...... 17 Crocodile Mansion ...... 68 of Amnesia ...... 38 Propaganda ...... 50 Wadjda ...... 61 The Heat ...... 38 Red Obsession ...... 50 Waiting for Mamu ...... 64 A Hijacking ...... 39 Remote Area Medical ...... 51 War on Whistleblowers: The History of Future Folk .....39 Room 237 ...... 51 Free Press and the National The Human Scale ...... 40 A Royal Affair ...... 52 Security State ...... 61 Independence Day ...... 17 Seven Psychopaths ...... 52 We’re the Millers ...... 62 Inequality for All ...... 40 She Done Him Wrong ...... 21 Will You Still Love Into the White ...... 41 The Shining ...... 53 Me Tomorrow? ...... 62 Journey to the West: Short Documentaries 1 ...... 65 The World Is Ours ...... 63 Conquering the Demons ....41 Short Documentaries 2 ...... 65 Your Day Is My Night ...... 63

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