Thursday, August 14, 2008

The Shorts

Mike features 'short films' during the festival. They are shown before regular feature films. They are entertaining and help capture the 'adventurism of the mind' which is the real commodity Mike deals with during this festival.
Another feature of the experience is that it is 'commercial free.' Really commercial free, not like the cable station idea of commercial free, but, sincerely lacking any distraction from the purpose of attending great films.
There were always 'credits of the festival' at the beginning of any film at all the venues. These credits were 'Thank You Notes' to sponsors and to people no longer with the festival that were significant to its development.
It's nice at Traverse City for their annual film festival. Very nice.