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Mikey Moore Heads Michigan Film Fest as Career Turns Colder Than Ice
Director Michael Moore has been given permission to stage a hissy fit film festival in his US home state of Michigan. The Traverse City Film Festival in July will feature classics such as Casablanca on giant inflatable screens.

Moore, who has made third-rate Riefenstahl-aping propaganda films that have failed to sway the elections, dammit! documentaries including Fahrenheit 9/11, said the four-day event in the town would be strictly non-partisan. Suuuuurrrre.

The film-maker has said he hopes the festival will become an annual event for screening quality movies. Like Team America? He added that it could become a beacon for Americans who want to watch quality cinema. One word: Netflix.

Moore - who heads the Traverse City Film Festival committee - was given the go-ahead to use a park on the shores of Lake Michigan to stage the gala. The 51-year-old persuaded city bosses that the festival, which will screen some 30 films, would be solely for the promotion of his political views culture.

Family-rated films will be shown on giant screens in the park, while other films are being screened at a number of indoor venues across the city. The festival has a budget of $150,000 (£81,668), which is expected to be covered by box office returns and donations. Somehow, I don't think any of it came from Mikey...

Moore, who was also responsible for Osama's favorite film of 2004 Bowling for Columbine, made a film called Roger And Me about Flint, his home city. It chronicled its economic slump in the 1980s as car manufacturing was hit by job losses.

He now divides his time between New York and a rural county near Traverse City that wishes to remain anonymous.

His work has won him numerous awards, including best documentary Oscar for Bowling for Columbine, and the Palme D'Or at the 2004 Cannes Film Festival for Fahrenheit 9/11.

Posted by: Desert Blondie 2005-06-09
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