A video from the 2011 Traverse City Film Festival featuring everyone’s favorite silent movie star!

Another year, another festival! It’s hard to believe we’re already in our seventh year here at TCFF. It seems like just yesterday that Michael and Jeff Garlin were singing “House at Pooh Corner” at the Holiday Inn, or Madonna was posing for photos on the red carpet in front of the State Theatre, or we [...]

If only all Saturday mornings could be so magical! The sun was shimmering off the bay. People filled our downtown – tickets in their pockets and coffees in their hands. Families rode happily in long bike processions down Union Street to Central Grade School to the TCFF Kids Fest. It seemed more like a scene [...]

This year, the Traverse City Film Festival Awards Ceremony was held separately from the Closing Party in its own Saturday night event. Congratulations to the winners of these year’s festival awards: MICHIGAN FILMMAKER AWARD Sue Marx SHORT FILM JURY AWARDS Best Fiction Short Film THIEF Julian Higgins, USA Best Non-Fiction Short Film LIBRARY OF DUST [...]

Good morning filmgoers! We hope you loved the Open Space show of “Tangled” last night, complete with our resident Rapunzels! Tickets are still available for the Closing Night Party tonight! A recap of yesterday’s events can be found in the Daily Ticker. If you love all things Traverse City and want to be “in the [...]

Watch the amazing TC Lip Dub on YouTube featuring all kinds of people from Traverse City – vote it up on Reddit!

Good morning filmgoers! We hope you enjoyed the first annual People’s Choice Night at the Open Space last night Remember that Mrs. Doubtfire will be showing on Sunday evening to close out the festival. Tickets are still available for the Awards Ceremony tonight! A recap of yesterday’s events can be found in the Daily Ticker. [...]

Video from the 2011 Traverse City Film Festival featuring producer and film professor Ira Deutchman, director Anthony Baxter and TCFF co-founder John Robert Williams. Click here for more video.

Congratulations to Michael Biedenbach, our volunteer appreciation award winner for day two, July 28. Michael hails from Maumee, Ohio, but has been vacationing in Traverse City for twenty years. The Biedenbach family has been attending the TCFF since its second year. “In 2005, we arrived in town just in time to see the festival closing,” [...]

The Traverse City Film Festival (TCFF) has been honored as one of thirty U.S. film festivals this year to receive a grant from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.  The Academy has been awarding film festivals for the past eleven years; this is the first time TCFF has received a grant from the [...]