The Volume 11 AAFF DVD, featuring award-winning and select short films from the 56th Ann Arbor Film Festival, has arrived! Now on sale, it’s just in time for your holiday shopping. Get yours today! Perfect for the cinephiles on your holiday giving list, you can also purchase the 10-pack of DVDs from the 46th through 55th festivals. Special offer (valid Oct 30–Nov 27): Purchase Volume 11—or the 10-pack—and receive a complimentary AAFF T-shirt. Contents of Volume 11: 601 Revir

Films from the 37th Black Maria Film Festival are coming to a screen near you in Ann Arbor! On Monday, October 22, featured selections from Program 1 of the festival will be showing at the Auditorium in the Art and Architecture Building at the University of Michigan from 12:00 p.m. until 2:00 p.m. The event is free and open to the public. Festival director Jane Steuerwald will be in attendance! The Black Maria Film Festival is an international competition for short films in

Hand-drawn by a fellow projectionist, this drawing was created to represent the late, great projectionist and teacher Peter Wilde, whose legacy lives on through the AAFF award given annually in Peter's name. “In my longish life, I have known only one genius: Peter Wilde. I shall never forget him or his influence on me, my students, and all the film community of Ann Arbor.” —Professor Hubert Cohen, University of Michigan Department of Film, Television, and Media (formerly Scre

For his film Fragments 83 (right), Richard Millen (left) received the \aut\ FILM Award for Best LGBTQ Film at the 56th Ann Arbor Film Festival. How did you come to know that film would be an important medium for you? It was a visceral reaction from having spent hours at the movies as a small child with my grandmother. Once you knew that, what did you do? Although I took a screenwriting class and several Super 8 / 16 mm workshops, the real training was both years as an activis

I blame Professor Marvin Felheim. He made me do it. No, this isn't some repressed memory of an illicit teacher-student relationship bubbling up from my subconscious. Back in my undergraduate days, I was one of the lucky few to take a cinema and culture course with Professor Felheim, an early and fervid supporter of the Ann Arbor 16mm Film Festival (as it was then known). He was an educator whose enthusiasm for his subject was as joyful as it was informed. His class was held i

AAFF is pleased to announce an extension of the deadline for film submissions for the 57th Ann Arbor Film Festival! The window of opportunity for film submissions will remain open until 11:59 p.m. on Sunday, October 7. Filmmakers will now have one more week to submit their films for consideration in the 2019 festival. The six-day festival presents nearly 40 programs, showing upwards of 180 films—of all lengths and genres—from more than 20 countries. The Ann Arbor Film Festiva