ANNOUNCEMENTS

KEYS TO MOZART
screenings: Rhythm and Vision film block
Everyone is familiar with Mozarts’ music. But what happens when we listen more closely? Pianist Daria van den Bercken and director Ivo van Aart show you the elegance in Mozarts’ compositions

RED LINE LOUNGE
screenings: Premier Night, Rhythm and Vision, Locally Crafted film blocks
Every day, Dave Russell, drummer and de facto leader of the Red Line Lounge Band, assembles his drum kit on the Jackson Red Line train platform. Once an international performer, now homeless, Dave shares his musical aspirations and personal philosophy.

SPOTLIGHT AWARD – an exceptional documentary focusing on a subject that is typically out of the public eye.

WRANGLING RUSSIA
screenings: Premier Night, Giveth and Taken Away film blocks
In 2011, Russia’s largest meat producer, Miratorg, began recruiting American cowboys to help restart a national beef industry that had been destroyed during the Soviet era.
Wrangling Russia follows four of these American cowboys as they attempt to train their Russian counterparts and create new lives for themselves and their families in this new unexpected Russian frontier.

MIDWEST FOX – An exceptional Midwest produced film

NORTH BRANCH
screenings: Premier Night, Locally Crafted film blocks
Throughout the 1970s, brothers Jerry and Jeff Kellogg of Muskegon, Michigan were a force to be reckoned with in the sport of marathon canoe racing. Growing up along the north branch of the Au Sable River as second generation paddlers, the brothers won their first local race as teenagers and never looked back.

EXCELLENCE IN DOCUMENTARY CINEMATOGRAPHY -Awarded to two films with visual excellence.

LOSING GROUND
screenings: Giveth and Taken away film block
Losing Ground documents how climate change, overgrazing, and the destructive mining processes that are currently being used in Mongolia are dramatically changing the traditional pastoral lifestyles of the many rural Mongolian families who depend on healthy and biologically diverse ecosystems for their survival.

NOBODY DIES HERE
screenings: Giveth and Taken away film block
Losing Ground documents how climate change, overgrazing, and the destructive mining processes that are currently being used in Mongolia are dramatically changing the traditional pastoral lifestyles of the many rural Mongolian families who depend on healthy and biologically diverse ecosystems for their survival.