Capital City Film Fest: Everything you need to know

Mike Hughes
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The basics

  • Info is at www.capitalcityfilmfest.com; check for details and late changes .

  • In most cases, tickets are at the door for $5; a few special events are $10. The website also has all-access passes for $50 and patron passes for $100.

  • The three main sites are: the former Sears building, Frandor; the former Michigan National Guard building, 2500 S. Washington; and The Fledge, 1300 Eureka.

“Join or Die” is playing on April 8 at the Capital City Film Festival
“Join or Die” is playing on April 8 at the Capital City Film Festival

The start and finish

  • Opening film: “Hundreds of Beavers,” 6:30 p.m. April 5, Sears.

  • Closing film: “Hayseed,” 7 p.m., April 15, 2500 S. Washington.

What’s free?

  • Premiere party, 6-10 p.m. April 6, Sears; includes a DJ and (until 7:30) light appetizers.

  • Family-fun shorts, shown continuously at Impression 5, 9:30 a.m. to 4 p.m., April 8.

  • “Only I Can Hear,” noon, April 8, Sears. It’s a story of three teen CODA’s (children of deaf adults).

  • “Symphonic Cinema,” 5 p.m., April 8, 2500 S. Washington. Live music accompanying film.

  • “We Are Still Here,” 6 p.m., April 11, Sears. It weaves stories from 10 indigenous filmmakers.

  • An “Afterglow,” 10 p.m., April 14, Sears, with The Corzo Effect. Details are pending.

  • AFI shorts, noon, April 15, 2500 S. Washington. This has been an annual highlight; in an American Film Institute program, women who work in other movie fields make their directing debuts.

More full-length movies

  • April 7: “Everybody Wants to Be Loved,” 6 p.m., Sears; “The Sun Also Rises in the East,” 6 p.m., 2500 S. Washington; “Aliens Abducted My Parents and Now I Feel Kinda Left Out,” 8 p.m., Sears; ”Jack Has a Plan,” 8 p.m., 2500 S. Washington.

  • April 8: “Good Guy With as Gun,” noon, Fledge; “Join or Die,” 5 p.m., Sears; “Go Through the Dark,” 7:15 p.m., Sears; “Chasing the Ghost,” 7:15 p.m.,, 2500 S. Washington; “El Veezha Poonchira,” 9:45 p.m., Fledge.

  • April 11: “Reciprocity Project,” 8 p.m., Sears.

  • April 12: “The Broken Promise,” 6 p.m., Sears.

  • April 13: “Depraved Mind,” 9:30 p.m., Sears.

  • April 14: “Kasha,” 6 p.m., Fledge; “Audrey,” 8 p.m., Fledge.

  • April 15: “First Voice Generation” (documentary filmed in Holland, Mich.), noon, Fledge; “The Banality,” 2:30 p.m.,, 2500 S. Washington; “Kumina Queen,” 2:30 p.m., Fledge; “Soft,” 5 p.m., 2500 S. Washington.

Shorts

  • Packages: Music-videos and poetry, 8:45 p.m. April 5, Sears; “Just a Vibe,” 7 p.m. April 6, Sears; “Film Imitates Life,” 2:30 p.m., April 8, Sears; documentary, 2:30 p.m., April 8, Fledge; global, 7:15 p.m., April 8, The Fledge; animated, 9:45 p.m., April 8, Sears; “Heavy Hitters,” 8 p.m. April 12, Sears; “Comedy Oddities,” 6 p.m. April 14, Sears; “Wicked Thrillers,” 9:45 p.m., April 14, Fledge; “Reality Benders,” 5 p.m., April 15, Fledge.

  • The Fortnight Film Contest will screen its results and hand out awards at 5:30 p.m. April 13 at Sears, with an “afterglow” for filmmakers and artists afterward; details are pending.

  • Also, remember the AFI and family-friendly films, listed under “free.” And most feature will be preceded by a short.

Other performances

“Smomid,” 8 p.m., April 12, Robin Theatre, 1105 S. Washington. Computer concert by Nick Demopoulos, using instruments he built. Free, but reservations (at the festival website) are needed and donations to the theater are encouraged.

Quality Scary is a comedy group that overlays its comments on a film. This year has “Thirteen Ghosts,” a 2001 film with Tony Shalhoub, Matthew Lillard (a Quality Scary favorite) and Shannon Elizabeth. It will also include music performances; 8 p.m., April 14, Sears, $10.

“Dissonance,” the CCFF “afterparty,” starts at 9 p.m. April 15, Sears, $10.

This article originally appeared on Lansing State Journal: Capital City Film Fest: Everything you need to know