Traverse City Film Festival

Traverse City Film Festival
Scene from outside the State Theatre
Status	on hiatus
Genre	film festival
Location(s)	Traverse City, Michigan
Country	United States
Years active	18–19
Inaugurated	2005 (2005)
Founders	Michael Moore, Doug Stanton
Website	www.traversecityfilmfest.org

The Traverse City Film Festival was an^[1] annual film festival held at the end of July in Traverse City, Michigan. The festival was created as an annual event in 2005 to help “save one of America's few indigenous art forms—the cinema".^[2] The event was co-founded by Michael Moore, the Oscar-winning film director, well known for his anti-establishment films and documentaries such as Fahrenheit 9/11, Bowling for Columbine, and Roger & Me, along with author Doug Stanton and photographer John Robert Williams.

The mission of the Festival was to show "Just Great Movies" that represent excellence in filmmaking, particularly those rare independent films and documentaries by both noted and new filmmakers, that do not receive mainstream distribution.

The Traverse City Film Festival is a non-profit organization, and is funded by businesses, community groups and individuals, in addition to ticket sales accumulated by various events. The Festival is headed by a board of directors of filmmakers, writers, and creative professionals. Traverse City Film Festival also showcases all volunteer music,^[3] with over 60 regional artists featured in the 2016 event.^[4]