WAR/DANCE - This documentary tells the story of Dominic, Rose, Nancy and their school in the Patongo Internally Displaced Persons camp as they take an historic journey to compete in Uganda's national music and dance festival. This powerful and vivid film received the Best Non-Fiction Film award at the 2007 Traverse City Film Festival. It is schedule to hit theaters nationally on November 2, and so this is an opportunity for people in Northern Michigan to once again see this film before its official release.

Donations will be accepted at the event on behalf of the Patongo Scholarship Fund, which is overseen by the co-director of War/Dance, Sean Fine, from Fine Films. Help us raise funds & spread the word.   Donation Card (PDF) Poster (PDF)

Saturday Night film is sponsored by Pleasanton Bakery.

Special Morning Presentations This year we will also have two additonal films Saturday and Sunday morning in Milliken Auditorium during our workshop times from 10-11:30. Saturday: Homeland Nearly all Indian lands in the U.S. face grave environmental threats – toxic waste, strip mining, oil drilling and nuclear contamination. But a handful of activists are fighting back. Sunday: Refusing to Be Enemies-The Zeitouna Story Come watch this 58-minute documentary about six Arab and six Jewish women who struggle to overcome their prejudices, fears, and anger through dialogue. Afterwards, have a chance to talk with the Ann Arbor filmmaker who produced and directed “Refusing To Be Enemies", Laurie White.       ___________ In our first year we screened The Take by Avi Lewis, and in 2006 we screened Favela Rising & When Fried Eggs Fly.