The traveling tour of the 63rd Annual Ann Arbor Film Festival makes its next stop at NIU, Wednesday, October 29. The traveling tour provides filmmakers the unique opportunity of having their work screened in front of audiences, for whom in many instances, the tour is their only access to this form of short-film art.
The AAFF touring programs feature a diverse selection of award-winning and noteworthy films from the latest edition of the festival.
The AAFF is a pioneer of the traveling film festival tour that launched in 1964 with screenings in Paris, Los Angeles and Berkeley, California.
The NIU tour stop will be held in the Founders Memorial Library Founders Gallery on the first floor. The event if free and open to the public, and is sponsored by the NIU Arts and Culture Fee.
Here’s a trailer from this edition of the Ann Arbor Film Festival which was held in March.
The short films in the exhibition to be held at NIU are:
Purgatorio | Stephanie Miracle, Auden Lincoln-Vogel, and Philip Rabalais (Iowa City, IA)
We Are Not Alone | Adebukola Bodunrin (Los Angeles, CA)
Desk Bugs | Hakhyun Kim (Shinjuku City, Japan)
My Exploding House | Liberty Nam-Do Smith (Bristol, UK)
Riding Day | Michael Alexander Morris (Granville, OH)
The Sunset Special 2 | Nicolas Gebbe (Frankfurt, Germany)
The Princess and the Peacock | Daniel Baker-Wells (Somerset, UK)
Uncle Bardo | Luke Mistruzzi (Hamilton,Canada)
Deluge | Meejin Hong (Los Angeles, CA)
Satellites | Gustavo Ramos (Santo André, Brazil)
