Updates

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, […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

2017 Symphonic Cinema
The Capital City Film Festival and Lansing Symphonic Orchestra bring you the 2017 Symphonic Cinema featuring Disney in Concert: Around the World ONE NIGHT ONLY! The Lansing Symphony Orchestra performs live with the big screen at the seventh annual Capital City Film Festival. From the cobblestone streets of France in Beauty and the Beast to under […]

2017 Red Carpet Premiere Party
Come one, come all – it’s time to get fancy and kick off the seventh annual Capital City Film Festival with the Red Carpet Premiere Party! Mingle with filmmakers, musicians, and artists as part of the five-day festival lineup. Plenty of craft beer, wine, and spirits on tap, appetizers to go around, and live music at […]

2017 Concerts @ The Avenue
Hey there! In addition to two shows at the The Loft, CCFF presents three concerts at The Avenue on Lansing’s Eastside during the 2017 Capital City Film Festival. We’re excited to be using this gem of a venue for the first time. Check out the shows we’ve got lined up (and click on each to invite […]

‘1984’ National Screening – United State of Cinema
Join the Capital City Film Festival alongside 100+ art house movie theaters across the country in the United State of Cinema – a special screening of the film 1984 (trailer) based on the 1949 novel by George Orwell. The protagonist Winston Smith (played by John Hurt who passed away in January 2017), begins keeping a forbidden diary […]