
Featured Intern: Linh Vu
Name: Linh Vu (she/her) Role: Video Production Assistant Meet our newest intern, Linh Vu! Linh brings immense talent to the team and we are so lucky to have her working at the AAFF. Learn more about Linh below. How long have you worked with AAFF? Since October of last year. What has your favorite project been? I am working on an interview project with our past award-winning filmmakers. It's been a pleasure to coordinate with different filmmakers, interview them, and edit the

The First-Ever AAFF Film Challenge!
It’s the first-ever Ann Arbor Film Festival Film Challenge! One of the volunteer groups for AAFF has been hard at work putting together this super fun and interactive way to participate with the film festival this year. We really wanted people getting out in the community and supporting local businesses in a way that was safe and fun for anyone and everyone involved.
The premise is fairly simple. There will be a series of prompts at various locations throughout downtown Ann


59th AAFF Sneak Preview on March 3
You’re invited to the online Sneak Preview, premiering on Wednesday, March 3 at 7:30pm. The Sneak Preview will feature excerpts from over a dozen films that will show during festival week (March 23-28). The Sneak Preview is free and open to the public for the first time ever!
Stick around for a live discussion with filmmaker and juror from last year’s 58th AAFF, Lynne Sachs and Festival Director, Leslie Raymond. Leslie and Lynne will be in conversation about what to expect

AAFF Receives NEA Grant
The Ann Arbor Film Festival (AAFF) has been approved for a $20,000 Grants for Arts Projects award to support the 59th Ann Arbor Film Festival. The 59th AAFF will present a survey of contemporary moving-image culture to a broad community of diverse audiences in March 23-38, 2021. Short and feature-length films in the festival’s competition programming, as well as in filmmaker retrospectives, reflect broad conversations occurring within the history of cinema and fine art. The c

The 59th AAFF Special Programs
The Ann Arbor Film Festival is pleased to announce the special programs to be presented online during the 59th festival week. Five Special Programs will be available for on-demand viewing on the AAFF’s Eventive platform March 23-31 unless otherwise noted. Passes are on sale now, tickets go on sale March 1. The AAFF special programs complement the films in competition programs by providing an additional opportunity for the festival audience to view avant-garde films outside of