Television Event is a dynamic oral history of its making, capturing the clash of creative and commercial interests around a daring project.
• Hollywood Reporter •
There’s a smile that takes up early residency on a viewer’s face while watching Lily Topples the World, and that smile isn’t toppled until 90 minutes have passed.
• Hollywood Reporter •
The Velvet Queen is a gorgeously filmed visual experience.
• Pasatiempo •
Summer of Soul captures a moment of the past…in a way that feels wholly relevant and inspirational to the present. The movie is a gift.
• Boston Globe •
We are keenly aware of what’s on the line [for the fearless women] in Writing with Fire.
• Indiewire •
El Planeta is a bittersweet comedy of human behavior observed with a relaxed yet intently focused eye.
• Slant Magazine •
The Mole Agent‘s people are moving, and the payoff is compassionate, humane and worth heeding.
• The New York Times •
Subversive, gutting, and ultimately affirming, No Straight Lines conveys the…community that a band of supposed reprobates found in the drawn line.
• Film Threat •
All Light, Everywhere is a film of individual and immediate fascinations.
• The New Yorker •
Storm Lake is an elegiac heartland portrait…colored by the hope of endurance.
• Hollywood Reporter •
The Viewing Booth is a gauntlet thrown down to filmmakers with an old-fashioned belief in the truth.
• Rolling Stone •
The 10th annual 41 North Film Festival is made possible in part by a grant from Michigan Humanities, an affiliate of the National Endowment for the Humanities.
Major sponsorship provided by the Department of Humanities, the Department of Visual and Performing Arts, the College of Sciences and Arts, and the Rozsa Center for the Performing Arts.
Michigan Technological University is an Equal Opportunity Educational Institution/Equal Opportunity Employer, which includes providing equal opportunity for protected veterans and individuals with disabilities.
All events are free and open to the public. They will be held in Rozsa Center for the Performing Arts on the Michigan Tech campus. Please see the Festival Admission page for information about how to get in.
For more information about the festival, including how to become a festival sponsor or volunteer, please contact Erin Smith at ersmith@mtu.edu.
Visit the Archives to see festival programs from years past.