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American Film Institute Shorts Showcase (FREE)
*FREE, DIRECTOR IN ATTENDANCE* The American Film Institute’s Directing Workshop for Women (DWW) is a hands-on film training program. All of the short films in this block are directed by DWW alumnae.
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The Phoenix Incident
*DIRECTOR IN ATTENDANCE, MICHIGAN PREMIERE* Inspired by true events, The Phoenix Incident is based on the largest UFO sighting in North America known as the Phoenix Lights. Blurring the line between fiction and reality, the fact based, sci-fi thriller revolves around a military conspiracy and the controversial missing person’s case surrounding the infamous 1997 event.
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How to Tell You’re A Douchebag
*MICHIGAN PREMIERE* Ray Livingston is a relationship-blogging hack responsible for Brooklyn’s infamous blog, “Occasionally Dating Black Women.” The well-written, if not controversial, blog has generated some notoriety, but Ray is chafing from an overextended stay in New York, romantic ennui, and a stagnating writing career.
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Embrace of the Serpent
At once blistering and poetic, the ravages of colonialism cast a dark shadow over the South American landscape in EMBRACE OF THE SERPENT. SERPENT centers on Karamakate, an Amazonian shaman and the last survivor of his people, and the two scientists who, over the course of 40 years, build a friendship with him.
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Wednesday, April 6
Symphonic Cinema: Disney in Concert (FREE)
FREE! The Lansing Symphony Orchestra performs live at the sixth annual Capital City Film Festival.
- Wed, April 6, 2016 7:00 PM
- Lansing Center
Thursday, April 7
Red Carpet Premiere Party (FREE)
Throw on your party dress and join us as we celebrate the sixth annual Capital City Film Festival with the FREE Red Carpet Premiere Party! Enjoy drink specials, delicious appetizers, and live music.
- Thu, April 7, 2016 5:00 PM
- Lansing Brewing Company
Weatherbox
Weatherbox hurls itself from a neutral space between pop and progressive, between vague and specific, ultimately leaving it up to the listeners to figure it out for themselves. They howl from the cave in some alien tongue, but the message is loud and clear.
The Adderall Diaries
*OPENING NIGHT FEATURE, MICHIGAN PREMIERE* As a writer stymied by past success, writers block, substance abuse, relationship problems and a serious set of father issues, Elliott's cracked-out chronicle of a bizarre murder trial amounts to less than the sum of its parts.
- Thu, April 7, 2016 7:15 PM
- Lansing Center
Peanut Butter Wolf
Peanut Butter Wolf got his start in the early 90s as the DJ/producer for Charizma in San Jose, CA until December 1993 when Charizma lost his life at the age of 20. After taking a break from music, Wolf eventually started Stones Throw Records in 1996.
Sci-Fi Shorts Block
A curated compilation of sci-fi short films. Selections include: Remedy, Circle, Whisper, The Edge, Roadside Assistance, Sleeping Wonder, Helio, In Memory
- Thu, April 7, 2016 9:30 PM
- Lansing Center
Friday, April 8
Here Come The Videofreex
In the 1960s and 70s, a group of renegade journalists known as the Videofreex democratized the future of the media as they deployed the first handheld video cameras to report and observe the world around them.
- Fri, April 8, 2016 6:00 PM
- Lansing Public Media Center
Animated & Experimental Shorts Block
A curated compilation of animated and experimental short films. Selections include: Madama Butterfly, POP, SRY BSY, Eye For An Eye, Scent of Geranium, 2.57k, The Cabinet Decision, Baggage Man, Anima Radix, B., The Beach Boy, Natural Attraction, Umbra (*NOTE: Despite animation, these films are not suitable for children.)
- Fri, April 8, 2016 6:00 PM
- Old Town Temple
American Film Institute Shorts Showcase (FREE)
*FREE, DIRECTOR IN ATTENDANCE* The American Film Institute’s Directing Workshop for Women (DWW) is a hands-on film training program. All of the short films in this block are directed by DWW alumnae.
- Fri, April 8, 2016 8:00 PM
- Lansing Public Media Center
Holy Hell
*MICHIGAN PREMIERE* Just out of college, Will Allen, a young idealist filmmaker, joined a secretive spiritualist community led by a charismatic guru. With his camera in hand, he documented 20 years of living inside a cult that changed how he would see the world forever.
- Fri, April 8, 2016 8:00 PM
- Old Town Temple
Destroy All Cinema LIVE – Top Gun
Sometimes you want to watch the world burn! Our star comedians will be channeling that spirit as we riff, trash and scorch part of the very fabric of our society by making fun of the classic 80s film, Top Gun.
- Fri, April 8, 2016 10:30 PM
- Old Town Temple
Saturday, April 9
Science of Cinema at Impression 5 (FREE)
*FREE* Dress up like your favorite movie character and join us as we explore the art and science of cinema!
- Sat, April 9, 2016 10:00 AM
- Impression 5 Science Center
Sci-Fi Shorts Block (Encore Presentation)
A curated compilation of sci-fi short films. Selections include: Remedy, Circle, Whisper, The Edge, Roadside Assistance, Sleeping Wonder, Helio, In Memory
- Sat, April 9, 2016 11:00 AM
- Surveyors Museum
He Named Me Malala (FREE)
*FREE, PANEL DISCUSSION* He Named Me Malala is an intimate portrait of Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Malala Yousafzai, who was targeted by the Taliban and severely wounded by a gunshot when returning home on her school bus in Pakistan’s Swat Valley. The then 15-year-old was singled out, along with her father, for advocating for girls’ education, and the attack on her sparked an outcry from supporters around the world.
- Sat, April 9, 2016 12:00 PM
- Old Town Temple
Sunset Song
*MICHIGAN PREMIERE* With World War I brewing and her family scattered across the countryside, a Scottish farm girl struggles to find her way.
- Sat, April 9, 2016 12:00 PM
- Lansing Public Media Center
Shorts Block [Alien]
A curated compilation of short films. Selections include: Twinsburg, It Has To Be You, Carpe Jugular, The Jacket, Best Mates, 3000, Baits and Hooks, Cloudstruck Drive, Two Windows
- Sat, April 9, 2016 1:30 PM
- Surveyors Museum
BLAT! Pack Documentary & Heartland Klezmorim LIVE
This unique program features Heartland Klezmorim performing live score to Georges Méliès short films! The BLAT! Pack Documentary will screen following their performance.
- Sat, April 9, 2016 2:30 PM
- Lansing Public Media Center
The Alchemist Cookbook
*FILMMAKERS IN ATTENDANCE, MICHIGAN PREMIERE* Young outcast Sean has isolated himself in a trailer in the woods, setting out on alchemic pursuits, with his cat Kaspar as his sole companion.
- Sat, April 9, 2016 3:00 PM
- Old Town Temple
Shorts Block [Bigfoot]
A curated compilation of short films. Selections include: Living Legend, Summer Haze, Sizarr-Scooter Accident, Some Girls' Mothers, Goodbye Papa, Julia, Nelly
- Sat, April 9, 2016 4:00 PM
- Surveyors Museum
Documentary Shorts Block featuring Skips Stones For Fudge
*FILMMAKERS IN ATTENDANCE* A curated compilation of documentary short films. Selections include: Keeping Balance, Kim Madrid, We Would End the Paintings, The Champion, A Passion of Gold and Fire, Skips Stones for Fudge
- Sat, April 9, 2016 5:00 PM
- Lansing Public Media Center
The Phoenix Incident
*DIRECTOR IN ATTENDANCE, MICHIGAN PREMIERE* Inspired by true events, The Phoenix Incident is based on the largest UFO sighting in North America known as the Phoenix Lights. Blurring the line between fiction and reality, the fact based, sci-fi thriller revolves around a military conspiracy and the controversial missing person’s case surrounding the infamous 1997 event.
- Sat, April 9, 2016 5:30 PM
- Old Town Temple
Shorts Block [Nessie]
A curated compilation of short films. Selections include: Bass Hunter, A Film by Vera Vaughn, Cottonmouth, The Culprit, The Treatment, Driven, The Fantastic Love of Beeboy & Flowergirl, The Problem of the Fastest Flight
- Sat, April 9, 2016 6:30 PM
- Surveyors Museum
Balance and Composure
Balance and Composure are an American alternative rock/melodic punk/post-hardcore band from Doylestown, Pennsylvania.
Embers
*MICHIGAN PREMIERE, TRIGGER WARNING* After a global neurological epidemic, those who remain search for meaning and connection in a world without memory. Five interwoven stories explore how we might learn, love and communicate in a future that has no past.
- Sat, April 9, 2016 7:30 PM
- Lansing Public Media Center
How to Tell You’re A Douchebag
*MICHIGAN PREMIERE* Ray Livingston is a relationship-blogging hack responsible for Brooklyn’s infamous blog, “Occasionally Dating Black Women.” The well-written, if not controversial, blog has generated some notoriety, but Ray is chafing from an overextended stay in New York, romantic ennui, and a stagnating writing career.
- Sat, April 9, 2016 8:00 PM
- Old Town Temple
The Blackcoat’s Daughter
*MICHIGAN PREMIERE* Beautiful and haunted Joan makes a bloody and determined pilgrimage across a frozen landscape toward a prestigious all girls prep school where Rose and Kat find themselves stranded after their parents mysteriously fail to retrieve them for winter break.
- Sat, April 9, 2016 10:00 PM
- Lansing Public Media Center
Viva
*MICHIGAN PREMIERE* Viva stars Héctor Medina as Jesus, a young hairdresser working at a Havana nightclub that showcases drag performers, who dreams of being a performer himself. Encouraged by his mentor, Mama (Luis Alberto García), Jesus finally gets his chance to take the stage.
- Sat, April 9, 2016 10:30 PM
- Old Town Temple
Sunday, April 10
Fortnight Film & Game Contest – Screening & Awards
CCFF is proud to present the Fortnight Film & Game Contest – a competition for teams of amateur, student and professional filmmakers, and game developers in Michigan – in conjunction with the 2016 festival!
- Sun, April 10, 2016 11:00 AM
- Lansing Public Media Center
Documentary Shorts Block (Encore Presentation)
A curated compilation of documentary short films. Selections include: Keeping Balance, Kim Madrid, We Would End the Paintings, The Champion, A Passion of Gold and Fire, Skips Stones for Fudge
- Sun, April 10, 2016 2:00 PM
- Surveyors Museum
Morris From America
*MICHIGAN PREMIERE* A heartwarming and crowd-pleasing coming-of-age comedy with a unique spin, Morris from America centers on Morris Gentry, a 13-year-old who has just relocated with his single father, Curtis to Heidelberg, Germany.
- Sun, April 10, 2016 2:00 PM
- Old Town Temple
Bulkland
*MICHIGAN PREMIERE* The party is drawing to an end. In ”Bulkland” migrant workers, factory owners and night club dancers struggle to carve out their slice of the pie in a city dedicated to bulk sales of cheap junk: Yiwu, the raw, throbbing heart of “Made in China”, where every day is a hustle.
- Sun, April 10, 2016 2:30 PM
- Lansing Public Media Center
Fortnight Film Contest Screening: The Next 10
Join us for a special screening of some 2016 Fortnight Film Contest entries! These shorts didn't make the cut for the top 12, but they're still pretty darn awesome.
- Sun, April 10, 2016 4:30 PM
- Surveyors Museum
Los Punks
*MICHIGAN PREMIERE* Punk rock is thriving in the backyards of South Central and East Los Angeles. A cobbled-together family of Hispanic teens and young adults comprise the scene: bands, fans, production, marketing, and security interwoven into a sub-culture of thrash and noise and pits.
- Sun, April 10, 2016 4:30 PM
- Lansing Public Media Center
Embrace of the Serpent
At once blistering and poetic, the ravages of colonialism cast a dark shadow over the South American landscape in EMBRACE OF THE SERPENT. SERPENT centers on Karamakate, an Amazonian shaman and the last survivor of his people, and the two scientists who, over the course of 40 years, build a friendship with him.
- Sun, April 10, 2016 4:30 PM
- Old Town Temple
The Funeral Guest
*CLOSING NIGHT FEATURE, MICHIGAN PREMIERE, FILMMAKERS IN ATTENDANCE* A lonely girl seeks love, connection and family by crashing other people's funerals.
- Sun, April 10, 2016 7:00 PM
- Lansing Public Media Center