2025 FESTIVALApril 2-12, 2025Lansing, MI

Updates

You heard it here first! Check out the latest Capital City Film Festival announcements below.
POSTED: Jul 9, 2018

25 Coolest Film Festivals in the World

What an honor – CCFF was named one of the 25 coolest film festivals in the *world* by MovieMaker! The world is a big place, and it’s humbling to have Lansing recognized on such a stage in cohort with these other great global festivals. If you’ve enjoyed our annual hullabaloo for any amount of time, […]

POSTED: Mar 21, 2018

2018 Red Carpet Premiere Party

Get fancy with us as we celebrate the eighth annual Capital City Film Festival at the Red Carpet Premiere Party! Mingle with filmmakers, musicians, and artists as part of the five-day festival lineup. Plenty of beer, wine, and spirits on tap, appetizers to go around, and live music at this year’s party hosted by Troppo. […]

POSTED: Feb 28, 2018

The Big Lebowski 20th Anniversary

CCFF presents The Big Lebowski Bowl & View! Join us Tuesday, March 6th in the Capital Room at Spare Time Entertainment Center for bowling*, specials on White Russians and B. Nektar’s The Dude’s Rug on tap. Film will start at 7:30PM and will be shown on multiple screens, with full audio. This event coincides with […]

POSTED: Feb 27, 2018

2018 Concerts @ The Avenue

So, we’re going ALL out with music this year. (If you haven’t seen what’s on tap at The Loft and Mac’s Bar yet, check it out here.) CCFF is thrilled to bring you three shows at The Avenue during the 2018 festival! Check out the lineup below with Facebook event links. As always, you can grab a […]

POSTED: Feb 9, 2018

2018 Concerts @ The Loft + Mac’s Bar

We’re teaming up once again with Fusion Shows to bring you FIVE stellar shows during the 2018 festival! Keep scrolling for ticket links and Facebook events. As always, you can grab a $50 all-access pass [right here] for entry to ALL concerts, film screenings, and parties during the Capital City Film Festival – April 11-15, […]

POSTED: Feb 2, 2018

2018 Brew & View Series

Thaw out with us as we gear up for the 2018 festival with our annual Brew & View series! We’re doing a couple throwback flicks and some live music at one of our favorite watering holes, The Avenue. FREE and open to all – movies start at 8pm and music will immediately follow. Drinks and […]

POSTED: Jun 27, 2017

2017 Turner Street Outdoor Theater

Turner Street Outdoor Theater returns for its seventh season! Pull up a lawn chair, cooler, and some buddies and tune in for some sweet summer fun. All for FREE in Old Town Lansing’s Cesar Chavez Plaza (formerly Lot 56). Facebook event here FRIDAY, JULY 21 8pm: Live music by Luxury Flux 9pm: Live music by […]

POSTED: Mar 30, 2017

Interview: Guilty Simpson

  Detroit MC Guilty Simpson has been putting it down since the mid-90s for the city of Detroit and Michigan as a whole. Originating from the crew The Almighty Dreadnaughtz, Guilty has worked with some of most talented producers & MCs in the game, including J Dilla, Mr. Porter, Madlib, BlackMilk, Sean Price and Apollo […]

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Interview: Small Parks

A few friends getting together to write some songs is not an unusual story. And while lineup changes, stagnancy, and moving apart are often the death-knell of these friends turned into bands, that hasn’t been the case for Lansing’s Small Parks. In fact, the opposite is true. 2016’s Honest Light is Small Parks’ first full-length […]

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Interview: Zoos of Berlin

Formed in 2006 by vocalists Trevor Naud and Daniel I. Clark, along with drummer Collin Dupuis, keyboardist Will Yates and guitarist Matthew Howard, Zoos of Berlin sound touches on glam, jazz, Afrobeat, post punk, krautrock and more. The band operates a Detroit studio helmed by Dupuis (whose recent mixing credits include Angel Olsen’s My Woman […]