Mission

The Traverse City Film Festival is committed to showing "Just Great Movies" and helping to save one of America's few indigenous art forms — the cinema.

The Traverse City Film Festival believes that people love to go to the movies, but the movies these days don't seem to love the people.

We are committed to showing great movies that both entertain and enlighten the audience. We believe people will flock to good movies and pack the theaters that show great ones.

We need movies that seek to enrich the human spirit and the art of filmmaking — not the bottom line.

It is places like Traverse City, with neighborhood movie theaters, that made going to the movies the most popular form of entertainment in the world.

Something of that magic has been lost, and we seek to reclaim it. We believe the public will respond with enthusiasm if they are presented with great movies. Our goal is for people to leave the theater with the feeling that they just watched something special.

See you at the movies!