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TC Film Festival Announces Additional Screenings of Sold-Out Shows

Written by Beth Milligan

Thursday, 24 July 2008

Traverse City, Mich. (July 24, 2008) – After experiencing record-setting box office sales its first week, the Traverse City Film Festival has announced the addition of three more screenings of sold-out films to the festival's roster. "Up the Yangtze," "Idiocracy" and "The Diving Bell and the Butterfly" will each have second screenings at the festival after initial screenings sold out before tickets went on sale to the public. Friends of the Festival were able to purchase their tickets five days in advance of the public, resulting in sold-out shows for many festival screenings.
"Although we are thrilled that nearly 50 screenings have already sold out through Friends and public ticket sales," said festival president Michael Moore, "we felt it was only fair to make additional screenings available. We want everyone to have an opportunity to see as many films on their wish list as possible."
Moore added that many popular titles still have tickets available and that "there are still plenty of seats left at the festival, even if they're going fast." The festival has offered the use of its State Theatre Forum (http://statetheatre.ning.com) for the first time this year for festival attendees to buy, sell or swap festival tickets with other moviegoers online.
Tickets to the additional screenings go on sale at noon Thursday first to Friends of the Festival, then will be available to the public at noon Friday. Tickets can be purchased online at www.traversecityfilmfestival.org, by phone at 231-929-1627 or at the TCFF Box Office located at 300 E. Front St. in Radio Centre in downtown Traverse City. Tickets for all regular screenings are $9; opening and closing night films are $25. Opening and closing night party tickets are $50.
The fourth annual Traverse City Film Festival will be held from July 29 to August 3, 2008. For more information, please contact the Traverse City Film Festival office at 231-392-1134 or visit www.traversecityfilmfest.org

About the Traverse City Film Festival
The Traverse City Film Festival is a charitable, educational, nonprofit organization committed to showing "Just Great Movies" and helping to save one of America's few indigenous art forms – the cinema. The festival also owns and operates a year-round, community-based, mission-driven art house movie theater, the State Theatre. Founded by Academy Award-winning filmmaker Michael Moore and co-founders local photographer John Robert Williams and New York Times best-selling author Doug Stanton, with filmmakers Larry Charles and Terry George rounding out the Board of Directors, the festival brings films and filmmakers from around the world to northern Michigan. .

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