2025 FESTIVALApril 2-12, 2025Lansing, MI

The Capital City Film Festival celebrates artists from around the world by curating outstanding multimedia experiences for the community.

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American Film Institute Shorts Showcase [FREE]

*DIRECTOR IN ATTENDANCE* The American Film Institute’s Directing Workshop for Women (DWW) is a hands-on film training program that educates and mentors its participants. Increasing the number of women working professionally in screen directing is the primary goal of this tuition-free program. All of the dynamic short films in this block are directed by women who are DWW alumnae. This event is free of charge at the 2018 Capital City Film Festival.

DATE
Saturday, April 14, 2018
TIME
5:00 PM
VENUE
The Fledge Lansing
TICKETS
FREE

The Good Time Girls
Joy Joy Nails
Scarlett-Angelina
Hail Mary Country
I See You

The Good Time Girls

In the Wild West, a trio of female vigilantes seek revenge against the gang of outlaws that ruined their lives.

DIRECTOR
Courtney Hoffman
YEAR
2017
RUNTIME
15 Minutes
LANGUAGE
English
COUNTRY
USA

Joy Joy Nails

Behind well-varnished facades, in upmarket strip malls, the Korean-run nail salon has become a staple of suburban privilege in the Tri-State area. But under the polish, everyone’s a victim at JOY JOY NAILS.

DIRECTOR
Joey Ally
YEAR
2017
RUNTIME
19 Minutes
LANGUAGE
Korean
COUNTRY
USA

Scarlett-Angelina

Scarlett-Angelina is a little girl who knows how to take care of herself, much to the dismay of the small-time crook who kidnaps her.

DIRECTOR
Loretta Bayle
YEAR
2017
RUNTIME
10 Minutes
LANGUAGE
English
COUNTRY
USA

Hail Mary Country

Macho Grandmother Irene Dandy has to defend her family of football fanatics when they are robbed by Nora (VERA CHERNY), a cocky thief with a posse of men in Speedos.

DIRECTOR
Tannaz Hazemi
YEAR
2017
RUNTIME
Minutes
LANGUAGE
English
COUNTRY
USA

Unbound

*DIRECTOR IN ATTENDANCE* In turn of the century in Japan, a young girl sacrifices her freedom in order to save her sick father, but soon finds herself entangled in a disturbing metamorphosis as she begins to transform into a silkworm moth.

DIRECTOR
Maggie Mahrt
YEAR
2017
RUNTIME
13 Minutes
LANGUAGE
English
COUNTRY
USA

I See You

A suicide bomber struggles with his decision on a crowded subway after he meets an innocent child and realizes the notion of the enemy isn’t that simple.