Ann Arbor Film Fest - On The Front Lines

Adrian Pittman
- Post No. 3
- Post No. 2
- Post No. 1
Albert Abbou
- Albert Abbou - Post 5
- Albert Abbou - Post 4: Explaining IP Law
- Albert Abbou - Post 3: Why Michigan?
- Albert Abbou - Post 2: What now?
- Albert Abbou - Post 1: My First Real Lesson in Life
Amanda Edmonds
- Post 2: Good Deeds = Good Seeds
- Post 1: Not Your Average Rosy Speech
Amanda Uhle
- Post No. 5: 826Michigan The Movie
- Post No 4: The Many Faces Of 826
- Post No 3: Tall Tales & True Stories (continued)
- Post No. 2: Tall Tales & True Stories
- Post No. 1: It's Really Free?
Amy Goodman
- Amy Goodman - Post 3: Literacy builds sustainable communities
- Amy Goodman - Post 2: The Case for Each One, Teach One
- Amy Goodman - Literacy In Michigan, It's Worse Than You Think
Andrew Brix
- Post 3: Keeping PACE
- Post 2: The LED Revolution
- Post 1: A Conservation State of Mind
Andrew Clock
- Say No to Small Government, Emergency Financial Managers
- Just What is a Community Festival?
- Who Should Hold the Keys to the City?
- Post 4 - Michigan Roots Jamboree: Politics, a name change, and pride
- Post 3: Spearheading the Water Street Trail
- Post 2: Long Live Ypsi!
- Post 1: The Model Volunteer
Andrew Clock
- How Did I Get Here Again?
Angela Barbash
- We Don't Pay You to Think, We Pay You to Sell
- If No One is Watching Your Money, Does it Make a Sound When it Crashes?
- How Reconnecting With Our Money is Revolutionary
Angela Kujava
- Angela Kujava - Post 3: Serve rather than preside
- Angela Kujava - Post 2: Speaking of those social safety nets
- Angela Kujava - Post 1: Employers—talk money even when there is none to give
Anya Dale
- Anya Dale Post 4: Washtenaw Avenue
- Anya Dale - Post 3: Washtenaw Avenue Potential
- Anya Dale - Post 2: Playing Up The Huron
- Anya Dale - Post 1: Who Is Ann Arbor For?
Aren Stobby
- Aren Stobby - Post 2
- Aren Stobby - Post 1
Ben Miller
- 360 Days Until the 51st Ann Arbor Film Festival
- Ann Arbor Film Fest - On The Front Lines
- Ann Arbor Film Festival - A Report From The Front Lines
- The Ann Arbor Film Festival is my annual secular holiday
Bena Burda
- How Maggie's Organics Was Rooted
- Operation Cooperative
- Fair Trade Routes
Bob Guenzel
- Post No. 4: Summer, Finally
- Post No. 3: The Eastern Leaders Group
- Post No. 2: Literacy in Washtenaw County
- Post. No 1
Brian Tolle
- Brian Tolle - Post 4: Spotting Opportunities for Innovation Final Exam
- Brian Tolle - Post 3: Business Dynamics Ripe for Innovation
- Brian Tolle - Post 2: Start Behaving…Like An Innovative Entrepreneur
- Brian Tolle - Post 1: To Be An Innovative Entrepreneur
Carless Commuters
- Post 4: Nancy Shore - The Commuter Challenge: What's the Point?
- Post 3: Lynne Fremont
- Post 2: Conan Smith
- Post 1: Jeff Gaynor
Catherine Juon
- Catherine Juon - Post No. 3: Is working in a woman owned company different?
- Catherine Juon - Post No. 2: Measuring the Yield of Your Online Marketing Efforts
- Catherine Juon - Post No. 1: Setting up your business for a great yields
Chad Wiebesick
- Chad Wiebesick - Post No 4: Ann Arbor Advertising Awards Show Honors the Best in Creative Excellence
- Chad Wiebesick - Post No 3: Michigan’s Growing Film Industry – How Ann Arbor Marketers Can Get a Sli
- Chad Wiebesick - Post No 2: How Would You Rebrand Detroit?
- Chad Wiebesick - Post No 1: Advertising & Marketing In A2
Conan Smith
- Post No. 4
- Post No. 5
- Post No. 3
- Post No. 2
- Post No. 1
Dan Wickett
- Post 3: Beyond the desk: Authors head up community outreach programs
- Post 2: New York is NIMBY and that's just fine
- Post 1: Dzanc Books Defined
Daniel Moulthrop
- Want to fix education? Start with teaching.
David Lahey
- Post 2: How Does Your Garden Grow?
- Post 1: Cafeteria fries be gone! New growth in the Farm to School Movement
Donald Harrison
- Post 3 - Ann Arbor Illuminated: 50th Anniversary of the AAFF
- Post 2: Film Beyond the Formulas
- Post 1: Michigan Plays Los Angeles
Doug Neal
- Post 2: Entrepreneurial Distractions
- Post 1: Simulate This
Drew YoungeDyke
- Making sense Out of "Greenalese"
- People, Places and Politics
Dug Song
- Dug Song - Post 2: Ann Arbor - The Curiously Startup (and Skatepark ;-) Deficient Community
- Dug Song - Post 1
Ed Vielmetti
- Post No. 2: Civic Wikis
- Post No. 1: Why I Blog
Eli Cooper
- Post 5: Transportation Map for 2041
- Post 4: Train commute talk isn't just whistling Dixie
- Post 3: One car = A dozen bikes
- Post 2: From celebrating a baby's first steps to celebrating all walks of life
- Post 1: Why we need to step in Complete Streets
Elizabeth Ziph
- Post No. 5: What's the culture of your small business?
- Post No 4: ISO 9001:2000 Certification
- Post No 3: Commercial Open Source Software?
- Post No 2: Evangelism & Choice
- Post No 1: So What Do You Do Here?
Emma Wendt
- Why Smaller Towns Make for Bigger Communities
- How to Get Your Stomach Through a Michigan Winter
- How an ABC (Anything But a Car) Philosophy Makes for a Closer Community
- Why Southeast Michigan Should be Packing in the Start-Ups
Gene Alloway, Robin Agnew, & Bill Castanier
- Bill Castanier - Book City, Ann Arbor
- Robin Agnew - The Bookseller Backbone of Ann Arbor
- Gene Alloway - Opening Up the Book Festival
Gretchen Driskell
- What Makes a 21st Century Community?
- We Built It So They Would Come
- Please Loiter
- The Train Stops Here
Ingrid Ault
- Local Procurement Policies are Good for Our Community!
- Shift Your Shopping: What is This? And Why is it Important?
- Internet Sales Unfair to Local Independent Retailers
Jan Gensheimer & Gerry Roston (NEF)
- Jan Gensheimer & Gerry Roston - Post 3: It’s who you know that really counts
- Jan Gensheimer & Gerry Roston - Post 2: Who are the professionals who serve entrepreneurs?
- Jan Gensheimer & Gerry Roston - Post 1: Who are the new entrepreneurs?
Jason Bing
- Post No 3: Washtenaw County’s "Deep Green" Talent
- Post No 2: Very Different Messengers, One Message
- Post No 1: A Municipal Energy Bond for A2?
Jason Molesworth
- The $1 Billion Question: How to Leverage Michigan's R&D Capability
- What Lets Us Buy Blueberries in February?
- Angels and Smart Zones Key for Capital Access for Early-Stage Firms
Jason Stewart
- Jason Stewart - Post No 2: Music Mecca
- Jason Stewart - Post No 1: Finding The Tech Community
Jeff Helminski
- Jeff Helminski - Post 4: What if we did something radical?
- Jeff Helminski - Post 3: If you attract them, prosperity will come
- Jeff Helminski - Post 2: Don't Assume It'll Happen
- Jeff Helminski - Post 1: Why I Live Here
Jeff Kass
- Post 3: One of the Big Problems I have with School
- Post 2: Reinventing the Ann Arbor Book Festival
- Post 1: A Perfectly Knuckleheaded Rationale
Jeff McCabe
- Jeff McCabe - Post 3: Investing In Our Farms
- Jeff McCabe - Post 2: From Plot To Plate
- Jeff McCabe - Post 1: It all started with pastrami
Jeff Meyers
- Jeff Meyers - What Is Ann Arbor's Artistic Identity?
Jennifer Cornell
- Jennifer Cornell - Post 3: Let's Joust
- Jennifer Cornell - Post 2: A Balanced Diet For Michigan
- Jennifer Cornell - Post 1: Dear Michigan
Jenny Koppera and Erin McDonald
- Post 3: Figuring out the In-Between
- Post 2: What is YOUR Truth?
- Post 1: Youth Voice In Our Community
Jeremy Peters
- On leadership: What is the real cost of obstructionism?
- On Place and Beauty: Or, Why I'm Voting for Proposal B, and You Should Too
- Jeremy Peters - Post No 3: Michigan's Unkindest Cuts
- Jeremy Peters - Post No 2: The tale of two (or more) downtowns
- Jeremy Peters - Post No 1: A Bit More Cooperation
Jeremy Peters
- On leadership: What is the real cost of obstructionism?
- On Place and Beauty: Or, Why I'm Voting for Proposal B, and You Should Too
- Jeremy Peters - Post No 3: Michigan's Unkindest Cuts
- Jeremy Peters - Post No 2: The tale of two (or more) downtowns
- Jeremy Peters - Post No 1: A Bit More Cooperation
Jesse Bernstein
- Jesse Bernstein - Post 3: The Future Is Ours
- Jesse Bernstein - Post 2: Let's Not Get Ahead Of Ourselves
- Jesse Bernstein - Post 1: Where Are We Going?
Jessica Soulliere
- Post 3: Getting on the Tour Bus
- Post 2: Connecting With the Rockstar in You, and Your Community
- Post 1: Rising Stars vs. Rock Stars
John Austin
- Post No. 5
- Post No. 4
- Post No. 3
- Post No. 2
- Post No. 1
John Petz
- Calling Young Leadership
- The Zoning and Development Divide
Jon Zemke
- Jon Zemke - Dear Mr. Mayor...
Josie Parker
- Josie Parker - Post 3: Will public libraries exist at the turn of the next century?
- Josie Parker - Post 2: Downtown Development & The Library
- Josie Parker - Post 1: The Fate & Funding of Public Libraries
Joy Naylor & Diane Bennett
- Post 3: Joy Naylor - Feng Shui Design is Energy
- Post 2: Artists Up Close and Personal
- Post 1: Art Speaks About Your Business
Justin Fenwick
- Post 3: Social Media, the Bellwether of Generation Gaps in Organizations
- Post 2: You Want Free? At What Cost?
- Post 1: A Third Way to Look at Art
Kari M. Smith
- Why Be a Small Farmer in Southeast Michigan?
- The Struggles of a Michigan Small Farmer
- Using Dollars to Support Community Instead of Corporation
Karim Motawi
- Post No. 5
- Post No. 4
- Post No. 3
- Post No. 2
- Post No. 1
Ken Kozora
- Ken Kozora - Post 2: EcoHistory
- Ken Kozora - Post 1: Horns For The Holiday
Kirk Westphal
- Post 3: Why Peak Oil is the most important thing you'll never hear
- Post 2: It's okay―I napped through Civics too
- Post 1: Why Banks And Offices Are The Bane of Downtown
Larry Eiler
- Post 3: Getting On The Right Path
- Post 2: How Things Turned Around
- Post 1: What A Difference A Decade Makes
Laura Rubin
- Post 4: Bringing it home
- Post No 3: Dams, Dams, Dams
- Post No 2
- Post No 1: So, How's The River
Lauren London
- Asking For It
- On Friendship and Business
- Let's Make a Deal
- Wanna Be Startin' Somethin'
- Let It Rain
Lawrence Almeda
- Lawrence Almeda - Post 3: Enhance Your Client Service Practices
- Lawrence Almeda - Post 2: More Work to be Done
- Lawrence Almeda - Post 1: A Defining Experience
Mahendra Ramsinghani
- Post No. 4
- Post No. 3
- Post No. 2
- Post No. 1
Mark Maynard
- Post No. 4
- Post No. 3
- Post No. 2
- Post No. 1
Mark Tucker
- Mark Tucker - Post 3: Festifools
- Mark Tucker - Post 2: Curing Visual Illiteracy
- Mark Tucker - Post 1: What's Your Visual Literacy
Matt Grocoff
- Matt Grocoff - Post 1: Ann Arbor’s Mission Zero
Matthew Naud & Jamie Kidwell
- Matthew Naud: Sustainability? NOT!
- Matthew Naud: Why the Huron is the cleanest urban river in Michigan
- Jamie Kidwell: How Do You Measure Zero % Waste?
- Jamie Kidwell: Ann Arbor has 200 sustainability goals... and counting
- Matthew Naud: Sustainability hums with the cross-pollination of city departments
Mel Drumm
- Mel Drumm - Post 3: Innovation – I’ll Choose Door Number…
- Mel Drumm - Post 2: Teamwork - Through the Eyes of a Cartoon Character
- Mel Drumm - Post 1: The Magic Of It All
Melissa Milton-Pung
- Collaboration Is Not a Dirty Word
- Will You Know This Place In 50 Years?
- Lessons From the Back Seat
Michael Benham
- Post 3: What can the Transit Master Plan do for you?
- Post 2: Sneak Preview – A Transit Vision for Washtenaw County
- Post 1: Mass transit isn't a horse of another color
Michael Drake
- Post 1: Welcome to Kyrgyzstan
Mike Finney
- Post No. 5
- Post No. 3
- Post No. 4
- Post No. 1
- Post No. 2
Molly Notarianni
- Post 3 - Food by the way of ice shanty: Farmers Market veterans brave the winter
- Post 2: Hand-to-Mouth Economics
- Post 1: Mixing Community with Your Vegetables
Moses Lee
- TechArb's Summer Crop of Student Startups
- Why I have a tech startup in Michigan
- How to Recruit College Students to Your Company
Nancy Shore
- Post No. 4
- Post No. 3
- Post No. 2
- Post No. 1
Nancy Short
- Post 4: From Ten Thousand Voices to Ten Million Voices
- Post 3: The State Answers Its Citizens
- Post 2: A New Year, A New Era
- Post 1: Ten Thousand Voices
Newcombe Clark
- Post No. 5
- Post No. 4
- Post No. 3
- Post No. 2
- Post No. 1
Pam Labadie
- Post 3: The United Nations of the Huron River
- Post 2: RiverUp! The Time Has Come
- Post 1: Save Water, Save Energy, Save Money, Save the Planet
Patrick McCauley
- Post 3: Old Buildings Aren't Throwaways!
- Post 2: Historic Neighborhoods, NIMBYs, and the Fleeing Young Professionals
- Post 1: What's the Difference Between Vermont and Michigan?
Pavan Muzumdar & Neal Fairbanks
- Post 1: Why Venture Capital Gravitates to High-Tech
- Post 2: The State of High-Tech in Michigan
- Post 3: What's Different About Michigan
- Post 4: Where do we go from here?
Phillis Engelbert
- Behind the Cart
- Vegan To Go
- How Food Carts Can Flourish in Washtenaw County
Prasad Gullapalli
- Financing Options for Going Solar
- Solarize Ann Arbor: Make it Home of "A Million Solar Panels"
Priya Gogoi
- Post 3: Children of the Dark Lord
- Post 2: How cancer led to innovation
- Post 1: The DeNovo Story: How an Indian, an Iranian and an American built an enterprise over tea
Rebecca Lopez Kriss
- Rebecca Lopez Kriss - Post 5: A Plug
- Rebecca Lopez Kriss - Post 4: My Three Favorite Marketing Ideas for Washtenaw County That No One Lis
- Rebecca Lopez Kriss - Post 3: Do something
- Rebecca Lopez Kriss - Post 2: Underground Parking Blues
- Rebecca Lopez Kriss - Post 1: When Trees Grow Out of Your Gutters
Richard 'Murph' Murphy
- Richard 'Murph' Murphy - Post 4
- Richard 'Murph' Murphy - Post 3
- Richard 'Murph' Murphy - Post 2: Educating for the local economy vs. education as export industry
- Richard 'Murph' Murphy - Post 1: The knowledge economy is not made up of hyphens and PhDs
Richard Murphy
- Post No. 5
- Post No. 4
- Post No. 3
- Post No. 2
- Post No. 1
Rick DeVos
- Rick Devos - Post No. 2: Why Michigan Needs To Support The Arts
- Rick Devos - Post No. 1: ArtPrize
Rob Cleveland
- Rob Cleveland - Post No. 3: Supporting Health Care Reform: The Small Business Perspective
- Rob Cleveland - Post No. 2: Film Industry Credits Take Time To Take Root
- Rob Cleveland - Post No 1: Tired of being number one? Tax incentives have to stay.
Robb Woulfe
- Post 3: Our Festival's Future, Or Will "Capital Steps" Be Back in 2025?
- Post 2: The Feds Are Using the "F" Word
- Post 1: Ah, Yes, The Business of Show
Ron Suarez
- Creating your own podcast
- So You're Thinking About Doing a Podcast
- A podcast is not just putting audio or video on a web page
- The Politics of Change and Upheaval in the Music Industry
- A Purely Digital Play Business in the Land of Manufacturing
Ryan Rybolt
Satish Malnaik
- Post 2: Preventive Maintenance for Health and Cars
- Post 1: If it's broke, DON'T fix it
Sean Mann
- Post 5: Having Fun Arguing For Cities, the Arcade of Fire, and the Sexiness of Density
- Post 4: Advocating for Michigan and Appreciating What We Have
- Post 3: Personal Action and a Culture of Opportunity
- Post 2 - Simply Put: Place Matters and We Need to Create Better Places
- Post 1: "The past is never dead. It's not even past."
Sean Reed
- From a Folding Chair to $55 Million in Funded Clean Energy Projects
- Life With the Maasai: Why Feeding the Starved Doesn't Work for Long
- "You Cannot Speak to a Frog in a Well about the Ocean"
Stephanie Chueh & Jordan Garfinkle
- Stephanie Chueh: What King David Could Learn From Efficiency
- Jordan Garfinkle: Passionate Young People as a Renewable Resource
Steve Pierce
- Does Your Customer Service Suck?
- Fire Your Employee
- Steve Pierce - Post 3: Ypsi Wireless spreads the gospel
- Steve Pierce - Post 2: Building Ypsi Wireless
- Steve Pierce - Post 1: Why Do Most Free Wireless Efforts Fail?
Steve Pierce
- Does Your Customer Service Suck?
- Fire Your Employee
- Steve Pierce - Post 3: Ypsi Wireless spreads the gospel
- Steve Pierce - Post 2: Building Ypsi Wireless
- Steve Pierce - Post 1: Why Do Most Free Wireless Efforts Fail?
Steven Pierce
- What I Found in My Name
- The Squelching of Self-Employment
- What I Think of Our Financial Collapse
Susan Westhoff
- Partnerships Take Flight
- Numbers Aren't Always a Factor of Success
- From Trumpet to Trees: Transformation and Evolution
Tamara Real
- Tamara Real - Post 4
- Post 3: What Bugs Me
- Post 2: The Business Of Art
- Post No 1: What I Know
The Concentrate Team
- Post No. 4: Dave Lewinski
- Post No. 3: Jeff Meyers
- Post No. 2: Newcombe Clark
- Post No. 1: Paul Schutt
Thomas Meloche
- Post No. 5
- Post No. 4
- Post No. 3
- Post No. 1
- Post No. 2
Tom Rieke
- It Isn't Easy Being Blur
- The Next 30 Years
- Planetary Coincidence
Tracy Koe Wick
- Post No. 5
- Post No. 4
- Post No. 3
- Post No. 2
- Post No. 1
Trenda Rusher
- Post No 3: Rethinking Customer Services In The Public Or Private Sector
- Post No 2: Washtenaw County’s Katrina
- Post No 1: Access Points
Trevor Staples
- Post 3 - FAVORS: Fundraising and Volunteering for Organizations
- Post 2: Yes, You Do Have a Care in the World
- Post 1: It's Yours To Do
Women’s Exchange of Washtenaw
- Post 5: Carole Baker - Taking the WORK out of Networking
- Post 4: Debra Power - The POWER of Women
- Post 3: Marisa Smith - Build Your Own "Old Girls Network"
- Post 2: Rebecca Lopez Kriss - Women Need to Know it Isn't Either-Or
- Post 1: Carrie Hensel - Do Women Really Do Business Differently Than Men?

Yesterday marked the opening of the 50th Ann Arbor Film Festival. In celebration we've asked long time fan and festival goer (and Ypsilanti librarian) Ben Miller to blog about what the festival means to him, why it's an important part of our local culture, why you should go, and what he's looking forward to seeing this year.

Ann Arbor Film Fest - On The Front Lines

Posted By: Ben Miller Posted: 4/1/2012

Blog: Ben Miller

Ann Arbor Film Fest - On The Front Lines