Northern Film Festival Features Isle Royale Film
The Ninth Annual Northern Lights Film Festival will be held October 25-27 in the Rozsa Center on the Michigan Tech campus. This year’s festival features filmmaker George Desort, who will be presenting his new film about his 80 days on Isle Royale, FIFTY LAKES ONE ISLAND. Admission is free.Desort’s work from the island has appeared in The New York Times, Audubon Magazine, Backpacker, as well as on National Geographic television and PBS.
In addition to Desort, the festival will offer a weekend of a dozen independent films, including Joshua Oppenheimer’s acclaimed documentary, THE ACT OF KILLING, Sarah Polley’s STORIES WE TELL, and Andrew Bujalski’s COMPUTER CHESS. On Saturday, two documentaries produced locally will also screen: Suzanne Jurva and Erin Smith’s YOOPERA!, which tells the story of the Rockland Opera and Mary Wright’s Storylines project, and Matt Monte’s film EVERYTHING AT ONCE about artist Greg Green.
Visit the website for the full Northern Lights Film Festival schedule:http://hdmzweb.hu.mtu.edu/
For more information, contact Erin Smith at smitherin@mtu.edu or (906) 487-3263. The Northern Lights Film Festival is sponsored by the Michigan Tech Departments of Humanities and Visual and Performing Arts, the Rozsa Center for the Performing Arts, Cin/Optic Communication and Media Enterprise Team, and the Michigan Tech Film Board.
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