2025 FESTIVALApril 2-12, 2025Lansing, MI

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POSTED: Mar 5, 2025

Black Metropolis

Black Metropolis is a feature length Documentary about the 30+ year career of pioneering Visual-Afrofuturist and graphic novelist, Tim Fielder. Fielder blazed a path as he worked the margins of science fiction, race, and technology within the comics and concept design mediums. Featuring revaling interviews with some of the groundbreaking cultural critics, afrofuturists, colleagues, and […]

POSTED: Feb 20, 2025

Walking on the Moon

A short documentary about a young man diagnosed with a rare form of cancer. His battle rages on until he is faced with his destiny or what seems to be left of it.

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Why My Dad Loves

At the age of 13, my father left his homeland, Laos, seeking a brighter future in the United States. Throughout the years, he devoted himself to supporting his family, seldom sharing the details of his past. This film intimately explores the experiences that shaped my father’s understanding of love.

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Your Tomorrow

With an historic public park set to close for redevelopment, an eccentric yet lovable group of park regulars and staff members live out its final year open to the public while confronting its controversial transformation into a private spa and waterpark. Filming for nearly 100 days with a fully observational approach, Your Tomorrow documents a […]

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The Forgotten: Sustainable Clean Energy for the Brazilian Amazon

“The Forgotten” is a documentary short showcasing the hard work and research of the team behind The Convergence for Innovative Energy Solutions project funded by the National Science Foundation under their Growing Convergence Research (GCR) program. Headquartered out of the Michigan State University in Michigan, the convergence team’s goal is to deliver transformative advances in […]

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The Invisible Mammal

Against the backdrop of the sixth mass extinction, an all-woman team of biologists set out to save bats from a deadly fungal disease, but when the COVID-19 pandemic interrupts their work, they are sent down a path of discovery that illuminates the connections between bat conservation and the spread of infectious disease.

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The Palestine Exception

As students across the country organize protests against Israel’s war on Gaza, decades-long taboos in academia around criticism of Israel–the “Palestine exception”–are shattered. This film features professors and students as they join calls for a ceasefire and divestment from companies that do business with Israel and face waves of crackdown from administrators, the media, the […]

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Toxic Art

Acid mine drainage is a pervasive problem, poisoning streams and killing wildlife, in American Appalachia. The technology and funding to remove these pollutants and bring life back to streams just didn’t exist, that is until fine art painter, John Sabraw rallied a team to address the issue in their local stream and develop a breakthrough […]

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True Believer

Born in 1981 just as the Religious Right’s culture war crashed into visibility, a then evangelical filmmaker discovers the true origins of the pro-life movement. While disbelief initiates her investigation into a veiled history of white supremacy, betrayal forces a deeply personal examination of her own identity, neither of which can be disentangled from the […]

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Myself Two Seconds to Cry

The digital presence left by people I knew who died young has vanished. Songs they uploaded, photo albums, public diary entries, all deleted and all that’s left is generic obituaries. When I think of these people, I think of a place. With two cameras, I’m capturing the outline of a memory we shared there in […]