The Ann Arbor Film Festival remembers and celebrates the life and remarkable creative legacy of filmmaker and longtime AAFF alumna Nancy Andrews, who passed away on July 11, 2026, at the age of 64. For nearly three decades, Nancy Andrews was a part of the Ann Arbor Film Festival community. Her work first came to AAFF in 1996 with Woods Marm, beginning a relationship with the festival that continued across generations of filmmakers, audiences, and programmers. Over the years,

September 4, 2026 Lets Art About It Workshop at CLUSTER Museum On a rainy Sunday in June, we convened a dedicated group of 18 Ann Arbor Film Festival constituents—including board members, committee volunteers, donors, members, and staff—for an art-therapy-based visionary workshop. Our goal? To dig deep and discover what truly matters to the AAFF community. This unique experiment was inspired by a recent UC Santa Barbara study highlighting the negative cognitive effects of end