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Naomi Uman, Daniel Barrow, Nicky Hamlyn and LUX    The AAFF's curated special programs will present several acclaimed filmmakers and a featured distributor of avant-garde and experimental documentary work. Naomi Uman will present films from her series “Ukrainian Time Machine”, personal documentaries exploring life in a small Ukrainian village. Uman, formerly of Los Angeles, has lived in the

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Irina Leimbacher, Tomonari Nishikawa and Ben Russell The 48th AAFF filmmaker awards competition will be juried by three accomplished filmmakers and curators of experimental cinema. These jurors will award approximately $20,000 to filmmakers in the festival. They will each also present a free public program of their own works throughout the festival week.  Irina Leimbacher is a filmmaker, writer

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Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences Awards Ann Arbor Film Festival with Tribute to Kenneth Anger Legacies collide as 82-year-old Anger returns to Ann ArborThe Ann Arbor Film Festival has been selected as one of two dozen film festivals nationwide to receive a generous grant from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences. This award supports a tribute to American avant-garde icon Kenneth

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Dear Friends: Two years ago our community rescued the Ann Arbor Film Festival from extinction following a state funding crisis. This generous response to our “Endangered” campaign was a critical moment in the history of our film festival, and every contribution helped in a meaningful way. Now, during the most challenging funding climate faced by not-for-profits in our lifetimes, we turn to

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The Ann Arbor Film Festival (AAFF) has teamed up with the Ann Arbor Symphony Orchestra (A2SO) for a creative and collaborative competition for 2010: Sight & Sound.The competition consists of filmmakers visually "scoring" one of three winning musical compositions, as determined by the A2SO, created by students from the University of Michigan School of Music. The top rated video piece for each of

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Looking for the perfect holiday gift for your favorite friends and family? We have it! The Ann Arbor Film Festival continues to expand cinematic borders and cross genre boundaries with the release of its 2nd DVD collection Unexplored Territories. This collection presents nine award-winning and favorite short films from the 47th festival, totaling over 105 minutes of independent, experimental and

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SHADOWBOX CINEMA spans the wide-eyed world of indie and underground cinema with animated doses of disillusionment, experimental uppercuts of individualism, surreal excursions, and pulsating stories that may detonate upon contact.The Ann Arbor Film Festival (AAFF) and Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit (MOCAD) co-curated this hand-picked program with recent films never-before-screened by the Ann

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The word "cool" is tossed around rather liberally these days, but when MovieMaker magazine names the 25 Coolest Film Festivals you know it must be true. The acclaimed magazine has named AAFF among it's choice for the coolest in the Summer issue hitting stands now.Citing the AAFF's glorious main venue, the Michigan Theater, the festival's iconic history and risk-taking programming were also key

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The Ann Arbor Film Festival welcomes new Community Development Manager Becca Keating to our team. Becca will contribute tremendous energy to our creative efforts and brings strong experience with community outreach. A native of Toledo, Ohio and six-year resident of Ann Arbor, Becca has experience working with the Cannes Film Festival, SAG Indie and two years serving in key volunteer roles with

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The Ann Arbor Film Festival (AAFF) is presenting free public screenings in a variety of Michigan communities in August and September, through a MCACA funded edition of its annual traveling tour of short films.The goal of the Michigan edition of the 47th Ann Arbor Film Festival Tour is to bring award-winning, creative short independent films to screen publicly in Michigan communities that do not

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A month before the 47th Ann Arbor Film Festival, students from 826michigan participated in a workshop titled "Throwing Popcorn: Become a Film Critic of the Ann Arbor Film Festival" co-taught by Donald Harrison, Executive Director of the AAFF, and Jeff Meyers, lead movie critic for the Metro Times.Four films were selected for viewing and reviewing, following some samples and discussion about what

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The 47th Ann Arbor Film Festival would not be possible without the passion, energy and contributions of many tremendous individuals and organizations. We'd like to give credit where credit's due and provide our heartfelt thank you to each of the following:$10,000+ Bruce Baker & Genie Wolfson $5,000 - $9,999 Steve Warrington & Courtney Mandrake $1,000 - $2,499 Martha Darling & Gil Omenn Larry

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The special Sundance issue of the Hollywood Reporter featured an article about the state of film festivals in the economic recession. The Ann Arbor Film Festival received "top billing" in the article, with the story of our Endangered Campaign and our creative response to financial crisis (stemming from politically-motivated censorship and funding cuts) in 2007. While we appreciate the

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The Ann Arbor Film Festival premiered a new format for the popular Cinemasports film challenge, known as the "Iron Chef" of filmmaking. Partnering with EdgeFest, the Kerrytown Concert House's avant-garde music festival, musicians improvised live performances to short films conceived, shot and completed that day by enthusiastic filmmaking teams from Ann Arbor and beyond.Filmmaking teams assembled

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The Michigan Council for Arts and Cultural Affairs (MCACA) has awarded the Ann Arbor Film Festival a $7,200 grant that will fund a traveling tour of top short films from the upcoming 47th festival. Films will screen during the summer of 2009 in a dozen Michigan communities where regular access to artistically-inspired cinema is not typically available. Screenings will be free and open to the

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It's been a tip-top year for the Ann Arbor Film Festival, with inclusion in Variety magazine's "Top Ten Festivals We Love" and recently getting named in MovieMaker's "25 Festivals Worth the Entry Fee." We were also featured in this issue of MovieMaker as one of the world's oldest film festivals.

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The 46th Ann Arbor Film Festival shone brightly late March '08 with record attendance. Filmmakers descended in Ann Arbor from around the world, including Juan Camilo Gonzalez from Columbia premiering his animated film Los Tres Errantes, Jaehyung Ju from South Korea with his gorgeous experimental film Lucid Dreaming, and Maverick Litchfield-Kelly, producer of the suspenseful "i", visiting the U.S.

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Score another victory for non-profit media arts - on February 5, 2008 the Ann Arbor Film Festival reached its critical $75,000 goal for the Endangered fundraising campaign! We cannot express strongly enough our appreciation of the tremendous support we've received worldwide from our supporters and the press in helping get this story out. And while we've now fully recovered from the financial

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We recently received a major distinction at the International Film Festival Summit in Las Vegas. During his keynote address, Variety president and publisher Charlie Koones named the Ann Arbor Film Festival in a list of “10 Film Festivals We Love,” a list that was pulled from over 6,000 festivals around the world. In addition to the AAFF, the list (not ranked) included industry heavy-hitters such

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The Ann Arbor Film Festival announced today that it has settled a federal lawsuit, filed by the ACLU on its behalf, against the State of Michigan. In exchange for the state legislature repealing unconstitutional restrictions on arts funding, the AAFF and ACLU agreed to voluntarily dismiss the lawsuit. The new guidelines for arts funding, resulting from the AAFF’s lawsuit, mirror the National

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The video for Act of Audacity #2 is now online!See Giant Animals from the AAFF vs. Detroit Derby Girls inbone-crunching, techni-colorized, cinematic glory.Witness snow badminton at its finest!This Act of Audacity took place December 7, 2007 in Ann Arbor, MI as part of the Ann Arbor Film Festival's Endangered fundraising campaign. Upon reaching the campaign's second goal of $35,000, festival

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We hit our 2nd fundraising goal of $35,000, our supporters have voted, and we have a winner - Giant Animal Badminton!Friday, December 7th at 12:30pm we will perform Act of Audacity #2. Fearless festival employees, Chris and Donald, will square off as giant animals in a heated badminton match vs. two of Detroit's finest roller derby girls: Black Eyed Skeez and Crash Baby. Local coffee maniac and

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Last week we announced a generous $5,000 challenge matching gift from the Mosaic Foundation for the AAFF's Endangered fundraising campaign. And this week we're excited about OurStage.com's offer to help. They will pay the AAFF $2 each time someone signs up at our page on their website: http://www.ourstage.com/go/aaff.We like what they've built for artists - a purely democratic platform to judge

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Our first Act of Audacity is now online, in full glam-rocking glory. Enjoy!Big thanks to our dynamite performers, crew, and everyone who supported this Act of Audacity. We wanted to share a few of the comments we've received since the video went online: "It's the coolest campaign off Broadway." - Lynn Yates of Zingermann's Community of Business "I almost snorted coffee up my nose this

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The results are in from the first part of our Endangered campaign. Our community has spoken and we have a winner for Act of Audacity #1 – glam rock karaoke in the streets of Ann Arbor!So earlier today we shook the streets of Ann Arbor with wild outfits, wigs, and make-up...a lot of make-up. It's glam rock, after all. There were snarls, killer looks, over-dramatic dancing in the streets and a

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