Featured Events
2014 Festival Schedule
Choose from over 150+ films and 100+ bands/musicians, and more.
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Thursday, April 10th
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Troppo
Red Carpet Premiere Party presented by MLive
Join the 4th annual Capital City Film Festival at its FREE kick-off party in downtown Lansing! Generously sponsored by MLive Lansing. Enjoy drink specials, delicious appetizers and live music! You'll be…
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Mac’s Bar
The Hard Lessons w/ The Legal Immigrants & Goat Machine
Five years on from those first four-track recordings in Augie’s dorm room, The Hard Lessons have finally completed the album they were destined to make all along.
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Lansing Center
Alive Inside
MICHIGAN premiere! As dementia continues to affect millions of elderly Americans, Alive Inside: A Story of Music & Memory reveals a remarkable, music-based breakthrough that has already transformed lives.
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The Loft
Break Science w/ GeoVybe & Sheepdogs in the Night
In October 2013, Break Science released their much-anticipated new album Seven Bridges, which meshes the classic sounds of hip-hop with cutting edge electronic production. The duos' energetic live performance has graced stages at Detroit Movement, Electric Forest, Electric Zoo and Summer Meltdown - and now CCFF.
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Lansing Center
Girl
U.S. festival premiere! Director Kandeyce Jorden and film subject DJ Sandra Collins in attendance. Kandeyce Jorden's exploration of a blossoming subculture of the electronic music scene slams her face to face with a connection that can only be found by getting completely lost.
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Harem Urban Lounge
After Party :: DJ Sandra Collins
FREE party! 21+ only. With her incessant worldwide touring, massive press coverage and hundreds of thousands of albums sold, Sandra has solidified her place as one of the most well-known female DJs in the world.
Friday, April 11th
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Lansing Public Media Center
MSU Media Sandbox Showcase & Judging
FREE event! Nine short films on civil rights in America will be shown to a panel of judges as part of the 2014 Media Sandbox Creative Challenge. Inspired by the 60th anniversary of the Supreme Court’s decision in Brown v. Board of Education and the 50th anniversary of the March on Washington, these films will cover several aspects of civil rights, including women and LGBT.
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Lansing Public Media Center
Shorts Block I
A curated compilation of short films. Selections include Sheltered Love, If We Were Adults, Where the Red Fox Lies, Old Town, The Coin, Zombie Nation, and Derniers Recours (Last-Ditch)
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Mac’s Bar
Skaters w/ Buddy and Bike & Dogs In Winter
Each member of SKATERS came from previously successful bands, but together the trio have developed an even more explosive identity in their live performances. The self-invented youthfulness of SKATERS has many claiming that these ragged bandits will be around for a long, long time.
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The Loft
Dessa w/ James Gardin & Quinn
From its first track, Dessa’s new full-length “Parts of Speech” announces itself as something different. The inveterate wordsmith - having proved her mettle in the fields of creative non-fiction, spoken-word and hip-hop - transcends all genre expectations. Dessa has truly coalesced as an artist, and her live performance showcases her astonishing multi-platform voice.
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Lansing Public Media Center
You or a Loved One
WORLD premiere! Director in attendance. Reeling from withdrawal effects after a pharmaceutical drug trial, a reclusive aspiring illustrator sets out to form a relationship with an outgoing gal despite his continuous efforts at solitude and isolation in this quirky relationship comedy.
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Dart Auditorium
Shorts Block II
A curated compilation of short films. Selections include Exile, The Secret Keeper, Person #74, Star Struck, The Island of Strange, and Stand-By Me
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Lansing Public Media Center
Valhalla
FREE screening! MICHIGAN premiere! Valhalla is the tale of one man’s search to rediscover the freedom of his youth. This film is a vivid explosion of color, character, snow, and nostalgic soul.
Saturday, April 12th
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Mustang Bar
Complex
Director in attendance! Complex follows Jeremy, a twenty-something who moves into his first apartment after being kicked out of his parent's house.
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Dart Auditorium
Koan of Spring
MICHIGAN premiere! A weapon master in Vietnam looks for his successor, and is advised to visit an old famous general. Of the general's two sons, both are well-trained. But the old general also has a daughter, whose swiftness of mind and charm flies far beyond her two brothers…
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Dart Auditorium
My Neighbor Totoro
FREE & family friendly! Miyazaki’s superbly animated tale is considered one of the best-loved family films of all time. The story follows Satsuki and Mei, two young girls who find their new home is by a mystical forest inhabited by a menagerie of fantastical creatures.
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Mustang Bar
Shorts Block III
A curated compilation of short films. Selections include Serve and Protect, Bodies in Irreversible Detriment, Welcome Yankee, Dirty Laundry, Only Thunder, and Hatboxes
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Lansing Public Media Center
Stealing Home
Director in attendance. To the City of Detroit, it's a nine-acre abandoned lot. But to generations of baseball fans, it still feels like home. After Tiger stadium was demolished in 2009, blight sprung up. A group of citizens took action - chopping down weeds, mowing the grass and lovingly maintaining the ball field.
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Dart Auditorium
Project: Ice
Filmmaker in attendance. Formed by ice, filled by ice, often covered by ice, the Great Lakes encapsulate human exploration, migration, development and where we're headed. PROJECT: ICE views North America's fresh water inland ocean through the prism of ice, from the crossroads of history, science and climate change.
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Mustang Bar
One Good Year
WORLD premiere! Director in attendance. ONE GOOD YEAR chronicles a season in the life of Humboldt County's back-to-the-land, marijuana farming community.
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Lansing Public Media Center
Shorts Block IV
A curated compilation of short films. Selections include A-Way, Tokyo Halloween Night, Taking It For Granted, Sidearoadia, The Proposal, Nervous Countdown, and Heartbeats of Fiji
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Dart Auditorium
Mobile in Black and White
MICHIGAN premiere! Filmmaker in attendance. Mobile in Black and White takes an alternative stance on how race remains a fundamental issue in American life, but offers that the solution doesn't require assignments of guilt or blame - only understanding, commitment and action.
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Lansing Public Media Center
Coherence
MICHIGAN premiere! On the night of an astrological anomaly, eight friends at a dinner party experience a troubling chain of reality bending events. Part cerebral sci-fi and part relationship drama, COHERENCE is a tightly focused, intimately shot film that quickly ratchets up with tension and mystery.
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Mac’s Bar
Flint Eastwood w/ Decades, Squirrel Shaped Fish & The MS80
Hailing from Detroit, Flint Eastwood's sound is a Frankensteined cohesion of parts one might think jarring conceptually, merging electronic dance beats with rugged, dirty blues, served with a slight western twang.
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Mustang Bar
Shorts Block: American Film Institute Women Directors Showcase
Filmmaker 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 Loft
Ultraviolet Hippopotamus w/ That Freak Quincy & Big Sherb
Ultraviolet Hippopotamus is an explosive five-piece progressive improvisational band. Described as “brightening the future of the jam band scene,” UV Hippo mixes tight, funky jams with new dance beats, heartfelt lyrics, compelling composition, eccentric effects and a vibrant light show for an incredible, one-of-a-kind musical experience.
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Lansing Public Media Center
Whitewash
MICHIGAN premiere! In the harsh, wintry woods of rural Quebec, Bruce, a down-on-his-luck snowplow operator accidentally kills a man during a drunken night joyride. Stricken with panic, he hides the body and takes to the deep wilderness in hopes of outrunning both the authorities and his own conscience.
Sunday, April 13th
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Lansing Public Media Center
Fortnight Film Showcase & Awards
Come watch the top 15 films created during the 2014 Fortnight Film Contest! After the screenings, the winners of the Fortnight are announced and $5,000 in cash prizes will be awarded.
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Mustang Bar
Shorts Block V
A curated compilation of short films. Selections include Into the Silent Sea, We Are the Land, Once Upon A Time... Forever, Dream With Me, In Everyone's Eyes, Sensei, and Second First Date
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Lansing Public Media Center
Une lettre ne s'écrit pas
MICHIGAN premiere! Julien and Nina sign a pact with the universe: they must enjoy life, whatever the cost. Will that decision lead them to happiness, or to their disappearance?
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Mustang Bar
Freeload
MICHIGAN premiere! Director in attendance. Freeload is a portrait of the modern train-riding culture. The film follows Blackbird, a lost teenager searching for the answers to life. Young lovers Ponyboy and Rachel attempt to settle down in Texas, but the freedom of the road lures them back. Brothers Skrappe and Christmas - separated most of their lives - try to rekindle their distant brotherhood. Dice, the soft-spoken mystic will risk everything to ride the rails.
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The Loft
Dan Croll w/ Panama Wedding & Wayne Szalinski
A British singer, songwriter, and multi-instrumentalist, Dan Croll combines blending folk elements and classic Paul Simon-like melodies with electronic beats, African polyrhythms, and guitar hooks. His music is of varying sounds and dimensions.
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Lansing Center
Ashes of Eden
SOLD OUT. WORLD premiere, full cast & crew in attendance! The troubled son of a police officer steals from a ruthless drug dealer to save his mother from financial ruin. His descent into the brutal drug world to raise the cash, he is hunted by the dealer, the police, and his own addictions. ASHES OF EDEN is a gritty tale of addiction, betrayal, love and redemption.
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Mac’s Bar
Jucifer w/ Cavalcade, Hordes & Failed
Jucifer, founded in Georgia in 1993, are pioneers of the sludge / doom metal two piece. They are notorious for their use of massive amplification, and for their entirely nomadic lifestyle.