“You can’t see it all. And it’s okay.” That’s the closing line of the newest Traverse City Film Festival trailer, a short film that features a dad mapping out strategy like a war plan for getting family members …
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“You can’t see it all. And it’s okay.” That’s the closing line of the newest Traverse City Film Festival trailer, a short film that features a dad mapping out strategy like a war plan for getting family members …
The title pretty much says it all. “Movies from People who want to Kill Us.” The new, tongue-in-cheek category at this year’s Traverse City Film Festival may poke fun at the American perspective on Arab culture and its people, but five movies under the title are expected to give attendees something more to reflect on.
Filmmakers whose movies captured life and war in Iraq shared their insights with a Traverse City audience. An eight-member panel of documentary filmmakers gathered Thursday during the Traverse City Film Festival to sound off on the topic “Who Are These Terrorists, and Why Do They Make Movies?” But a packed audience at the City Opera House gleaned more than just a look into the mind of Middle East terrorists.
Hollywood screenwriter Dalton Trumbo was blacklisted during the post-World War II red scare and spent years selling screenplays under assumed names. Now his son Christopher Trumbo is here to present “Trumbo,” his own movie about his late father, telling the tale of that part of his life through letters his father wrote.
Olivia Jankoski came to last year’s Traverse City Film Festival with her family from New Jersey and bought a film festival sweater. This year the 11-year-old is on the other side of the counter, helping to sell film festival merchandise.
Funding for emergency services, passing a new zoning ordinance and a proposed electrical substation continue to dominate the political landscape in Elmwood Township.
Christmas cheer is lighting up nearly five months ahead of the holiday in downtown Traverse City. Traverse City’s Downtown Development Authority has a display of six various styles of holiday lights along the north side of State Street, across from the Park Place Hotel. But it’s not because they’re anxious for snowflakes.
The Great Lakes Renewable Energy Association will host a town meeting to discuss possible impacts of Traverse City Light and Power’s proposed wind farm on U.S. 31 south of Charlevoix.
A Traverse City man faces a larceny charge for the alleged theft of an inflatable raft from a boat moored in the Boardman River.