Updates
The Green Team Keeps CCFF Clean!
Capital City Film Festival is not only pleasing our fest-goers. We’re keeping the environment happy and entertained as well. We know how important it is to be sustainable, and in order to be the best green festival we can be, we’ve enlisted the help of some environmental-savvy professionals. To make sure we have a minimal […]
Showing off student work is what we’re all about.
We’re down to the “3 days away” mark, and we couldn’t be any more excited about this week’s opening festivities. Between Thursday and Friday , we’re showing 12 films and featuring two sets of performances at the Loft. Your options really couldn’t get any better. Then, the weekend arrives, and along with it, two different student […]
Chasing Cotards, “The Biggest Short Film of all Time”
Here’s a funny story! While making copies of our films to hand to our selection committee, we accidentally copied the “Making Of” documentary rather than the actual film “Chasing Cotards”. Imagine my confusion when I started reading our selection committee’s comments! One in particular really had me scratching my head “I learned a lot about […]
The Film We Can’t Stop Talking About
Trying to describe Aardvark, from director Kitao Sakurai, is a lot like trying to describe a color. You: “What does red look like?” Me: “Red”. You: “What is Aardvark like?” Me: “Aardvark”. It truly is unlike anything I’ve ever seen before, and that fills me with a type of excitement about film I rarely feel. […]
TICKETS ON SALE FOR CCFF ’11
Tickets are NOW ON SALE for the Capital City Film Festival presented by Lake Trust Credit Union. Lansing’s first film festival is offering discounted full-festival passes and individual tickets that can be purchased ———-> here <———- that’s right, just click away. Ticket prices are comparable to what you’ll pay at the local theater and students get a special discount! […]
“I Can Feel the City Breathing”
Friday April 15th is sure to be a memorable night at the fest. We’ll be screening the Hip-Hop documentary Respiration(directed by Matt Ortlieb), followed by a full-on show featuring national and local favorites. Danny Brown, Buff1, Othello and the Third Coast Kings, SelfSays and Blat! Pack will all be taking the stage for a concert the likes of which Lansing hasn’t […]
Emotional War Doc Confirmed for CCFF
CCFF is excited to announce “Shepherds of Helmand”, a war documentary about an all-volunteer group of National Guard Soldiers from Oregon deployed to Afghanistan to train the Afghan National Army. This “information age” documentary, told from the soldiers’ perspective, relies heavily on footage shot by the soldiers themselves. The result is a strikingly honest and intimate […]
Bands confirm opening night for CCFF 2011
Listen up CCFF’ers ! I know this may sound weird, but the first major announcement from this year’s Capital City Film Festival is about music! Margot & the Nuclear So & So’s, Maps & Atlases AND The Blue Cords have all confirmed they will be performing at our opening night party on Thursday, April 14th. The party will be held at The […]