Detroit may be ailing, but a new film festival there intends to give it a good dose of positive attention. The Freep Film Festival, presented by the Detroit Free Press and the Detroit Media Partnership, which manages the newspaper's business operations, will screen around a dozen documentaries in four days, all of which focus on Detroit and its surrounding regions.
Themes range from the city's industrial wastelands to Michigan's abundance of new craft breweries to the city's music history, from Motown to the birth of techno pop raves.
"It seemed like a natural extension of what we do here at the newspaper," Kathy Kieliszewski, the festival's artistic director and the director of photography and video at The Detroit Free Press, said.
The films, which are still being selected, will be shown March 20 to 23, 2014, at the Detroit Film Theater at the Detroit Institute of Arts and at the Fillmore Detroit theater. The lineup includes the Free Press's own submission, "Packard: The Last Shift," which gives a history of the former automobile plant and its many incarnations. A launch party at the Fillmore on Nov. 7 will give patrons an early screening of "The Michigan Beer Film," which documents the growth of Michigan's craft beer industry.
The festival also intends to get community leaders and urban planners involved, with a series of post-film discussions with filmmakers.
"In Year One, we're going to be looking at a lot of things that are related to metro Detroit and Michigan. But those themes are pretty universal when it comes to, specifically, the Rust Belt and manufacturing towns across America," Ms. Kieliszewski said. "Everybody says Detroit's the canary in the coal mine."
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