Moore receives John Steinbeck Award
TRAVERSE CITY — Hometown filmmaker Michael Moore is this year's recipient of the John Steinbeck Award.The award is given to writers and artists whose work captures Steinbeck's spirit of empathy, commitment to democratic values and belief in the dignity of people who by circumstance are pushed to the fringes of ...
SAN JOSE, CA (Sept 21, 2010) — Academy Award-winning filmmaker and best-selling author, Michael Moore, has been named the recipient of the Steinbeck Award by the Center for Steinbeck Studies at San Jose State University. Moore will formally receive the "In the Souls of the People" award on Thursday, October ...
Record Setting Year For T.C. Film Festival
TRAVERSE CITY, MI — The 6th Annual Traverse City Film Festival is touting its highest ticket sales yet.Officials say they wrapped up a groundbreaking year with more movies, more tickets, more admissions and more screenings.The six-day festival, which has gained a reputation for attracting the best in independent world cinema, ...
Film Festival Volunteers Get Party in their Honor
The Traverse City Film Festival may be over, but the volunteers aren't done quite yet. While they're closing the curtain on another successful year, they did it with a big "Thank You" to all the volunteers on Monday night. Hundreds of people put in thousands of hours working at events, ...
Awards, party accompany film festival's end
TRAVERSE CITY — Film fans picked their favorite pictures and toasted the end of the Traverse City Film Festival. The sixth annual festival concluded Sunday night with more movies, a closing night party and awards. The festival audience voted for "The Concert" for best fiction film and "The Most Dangerous ...
The roar of the Blue Angels F/A—18 Hornets fades into the background and is replaced with "I'm ready for my close-up, Mr. DeMille," with the Traverse City Film Festival. Living and working in Traverse City becomes a love/hate relationship starting on Memorial Day weekend and ending on Labor Day weekend. ...
Kids Fest bigger, more sophisticated
TRAVERSE CITY — Doug Spence put his children to bed late after the Open Space film. Then he woke them up early for the kids' movie at the State Theatre. "Exposing the kids to non-mainstream movies is what we like to do," said Spence, a family physician and father of ...
Filmmakers must deal with variety of obstacles
Traverse City — A record number of speakers took the stage at the City Opera House for the largest discussion panel in the Traverse City Film Festival's six-year history. Fourteen documentary filmmakers spoke about the challenges they face through their work, as well as the payoffs, even when they're not ...
Michael Moore Honors Cuban Filmmakers
HAVANA, Cuba — American documentary maker Michael Moore awarded the Keys to the City to filmmaker Ian Padron and actress Mirtha Ibarra, both from Cuba, during the opening night of the Sixth Traverse City Film Festival.After awarding the recognition, Moore invited the audience to attend the screenings of the Cuban ...
TRAVERSE CITY — A contingent of Cuban filmmakers here for the Traverse City Film Festival got a standing ovation Friday as they took the stage at the City Opera House for a morning panel discussion.Filmmaker Ian Padron, director of the Cuban baseball documentary "Dreaming in Blue," presented festival founder Michael ...
Quirky late-night shows attract unique crowd
Traverse City — Elsa Frank stood at the front of a line on Front Street with her face illuminated by the lights from the State Theatre's marquee. She anxiously waited for the Traverse City Film Festival's midnight movie, where the late-night fare tends to be a little different than other ...
Michael Moore working to revive downtown movie theaters
Traverse City, Mich. -- For generations, Americans viewed films in stately, single-screen theaters that were pillars of city business districts -- an experience that faded with the rise of suburban multiplexes and the decline of downtowns.Michael Moore wants to bring those theaters back. The Academy Award-winning documentary filmmaker has a ...
Movie premieres kick off Traverse City Film Festival
Traverse City -- The 2010 Traverse City Film Festival got under way Tuesday night with premieres of "Nowhere Boy" and "The Kids Are All Right," the first of more than 100 films being shown at the sixth annual northern Michigan festival through Sunday. "These are real, honest-to-goodness stories that leave ...
Crowds flock downtown for start of film fest
TRAVERSE CITY — The sixth annual Traverse City Film Festival had just started and already there were accolades. Founder Michael Moore dispensed awards in the form of golden movie reels, golden shovels, keys to the city and Michigan filmmaker honors before the screening of the first film Tuesday night. Moore, ...
For movie buffs, TCFF is ‘just the ticket’
TRAVERSE CITY – It’s one of northern Michigan’s most popular summer vacation weeks. You can spend six days exploring beaches, trails, waterways and wineries or six days sitting indoors watching documentaries, foreign films with subtitles and quirky independent (indie) flicks.Like bats to a cave, thousands of film festival attendees will ...
Thousands expected to attend Film Festival
TRAVERSE CITY — Marilyn Clark and Nancy Wells perused the brochures at the Traverse City Convention & Visitors Bureau for sightseeing ideas.The friends were in town Monday for the Traverse City Film Festival and said they plan to stay for the whole week in a rented condo with Wells' husband, ...
Michael Moore says story comes before stars at Traverse City Film Festival
TRAVERSE CITY -- Michael Moore does not underestimate the intelligence of the moviegoing public.You can tell by the way the famed filmmaker and Michigander programs the Traverse City Film Festival every year with foreign films, documentaries, shorts and classics that don't tread on typical Hollywood territory. The numbers back him ...
Ticket sales up for Traverse City film fest
Michael Moore used to believe that tough times produced great movies. The Depression years are often referred to as the Golden Age of Hollywood. The years surrounding the Vietnam War in the late 1960s and early 1970s saw the rise of the American independent film.So why, as artistic director of ...
Michael Moore's up to...something
Michael Moore is on the phone while driving around Traverse City. As always he's got lots to say and bounces from subject to subject with glee. But the one thing he doesn't want to talk about is what Michael Moore the filmmaker is up to these days. Last year at ...
Michael Moore's Traverse City fest offers expanded bill, free flicks, forums
When you see a movie at the Traverse City Film Festival, there's no question as to how that film got up on the screen. Michael Moore decided it should be there. "You're watching films that I selected, there's no hiding that fact," says the Oscar-winning filmmaker, who founded the film ...
Film Fest set to launch sixth season
TRAVERSE CITY - More than 100 films representing 25 countries will share six screens during the sixth annual Traverse City Film Festival (TCFF), July 27 through Aug. 1. From Vietnam and Singapore to Nigeria, Argentina and Cuba, movies which organizers say are often undistributed will be shown on the big ...
Michael Moore announces 2010 Traverse City Film Fest schedule
TRAVERSE CITY — Traverse City Film Festival founder Michael Moore has announced the line-up for the 2010 edition of the festival, now in its sixth record-breaking year.Moore, the Academy Award-winning director of “Bowling for Columbine” and “Capitalism: A Love Story,” launched the Traverse City Film Festival in 2005 in an ...
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June 5th, 2013
Here's How We Built a Movie Theater for the People – and Why the MPAA Says It's #1 in the World
This past week, the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA), the main federation of Hollywood's six major studios, posted on their web site a list of what they believe ...
March 23rd, 2013
This evening is going be a big moment in turning our country around on the issue of gun violence. That's why I desperately want you ...
March 21st, 2013
I am hosting a nationwide series of house parties this Saturday night where tens of thousands of people will gather together in living rooms to ...
March 15th, 2013
The response to my Newtown letter this week has been overwhelming. It is so very clear to everyone that the majority of Americans have had ...
March 13th, 2013
America, You Must Not Look Away (How to Finish Off the NRA)
The year was 1955. Emmett Till was a young African American boy from Chicago visiting relatives in Mississippi. One day Emmett was seen "flirting" with ...
February 26th, 2013
My Final Word on Buzzfeed and Emad Burnat's Detention at LAX
Thanks to everyone for bearing with me as I spend so much time on what happened to Emad Burnat. It's important to me because he's ...
February 26th, 2013
Michael Moore Responds to Buzzfeed Story on '5 Broken Cameras' Co-Director Emad Burnat
On Tuesday, February 19th, Emad Burnat, the Palestianian co-director of the Oscar-nominated documentary '5 Broken Cameras,' was detained with his wife and son at Los ...
September 11th, 2010
If the 'Mosque' Isn't Built, This Is No Longer America
OpenMike 9/11/10 Michael Moore's daily blog I am opposed to the building of the "mosque" two blocks from Ground Zero. I want it built on ...
December 14th, 2010
Why I'm Posting Bail Money for Julian Assange
Yesterday, in the Westminster Magistrates Court in London, the lawyers for WikiLeaks co-founder Julian Assange presented to the judge a document from me stating that ...
May 12th, 2011
Some Final Thoughts on the Death of Osama bin Laden
"The Nazis killed tens of MILLIONS. They got a trial. Why? Because we're not like them. We're Americans. We roll different." – Michael Moore in ...
November 22nd, 2011
Where Does Occupy Wall Street Go From Here?
This past weekend I participated in a four-hour meeting of Occupy Wall Street activists whose job it is to come up with the vision and ...
September 22nd, 2011
A STATEMENT FROM MICHAEL MOORE ON THE EXECUTION OF TROY DAVIS
I encourage everyone I know to never travel to Georgia, never buy anything made in Georgia, to never do business in Georgia. I will ask ...
December 16th, 2010
Dear Swedish Government: Hi there -- or as you all say, Hallå! You know, all of us here in the U.S. love your country. Your ...
November 2nd, 2010
This letter contains (almost) no criticisms of how the Democrats have brought this day of reckoning upon themselves. That -- and where to go from ...
'The East'
Why have you started a comedy festival in northern Michigan in the middle of winter?
Because if you were here in the dead of winter in the middle of nowhere (which is actually somewhere to us), you'd need a few laughs too ... Continue Reading
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