2008 International Tour

Beginning in July 2008 and continuing through January 2009, the Ann Arbor Film Festival will tour the globe visiting theaters, art house cinemas, museums, universities and microcinemas. The AAFF tour is a collection of the finest cutting-edge, independent and artistically-inspired short films from the 46th Ann Arbor Film Festival across all genres: experimental, documentary, animation and narrative.

The AAFF is a pioneer of the traveling tour concept, having launched tour shows in Paris, Los Angeles & Berkeley in 1964. Since that time, the tour has presented hundreds of influential works, including films by Barbara Hammer, Gus Van Sant, Sally Cruikshank, Don Hertzfeldt, Bill Brown, Ross McLaren, Paul Winkler, James Duesing, and Jay Rosenblatt.

The tour provides filmmakers the unique opportunity of having their work screened in front of audiences for whom, in some places, the tour venue is their only access to this form of film art. Each filmmaker participating in the AAFF Tour is also paid a rental fee of $1.50/per minute for each tour stop, thereby helping to directly support these remarkable filmmakers.

Tour Program

The AAFF Tour program is divided into two digital screenings, each with an option for additional films on 16mm. To view the films selected in order, by program, please click here. Click here to see the program

Tour Schedule

The tour visits cities across the country, check the schedule to find out when and where it will be in a city near you! Click here to see the schedule

Booking

You can book the tour as digital-only program, at either 90-minutes or 180-minutes (2 programs). Additionally, 16mm films can be added to each program, providing additional run-time and the kinesthetic beauty of film projection. To book the tour at your venue, or if you have questions, please email Maria Feldman at maria [at] aafilmfest.org.

Promotion

To assist with promotion of your AAFF Tour program, we can provide a one-hour DVD of a selection of films on the tour for press screening purposes. For all tour stops we supply a PDF to make printed programs of the films on tour, a PDF for making posters, festival graphics and copy. In addition, the AAFF promotes each tour stop on its website and monthly eNewsletter (12,000 active subscribers), and will conduct basic press outreach to each tour stops host city to help ensure media coverage.

To book the tour at your venue or if you have questions, please email Maria Feldman at maria [at] aafilmfest.org.