Capital Gains: Lansing Indie Film Hits the Big Screen

It's movie time! Lansing makes a notable big-screen debut on Sunday with the premiere of Michael McCallum's gritty new full-length, indie noir flick, Fairview St.

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When Fairview St. makes its big-screen debut on Sunday, Jan. 11, it'll be the culmination of nearly nine years of work for Lansing native Michael McCallum and a small army of fellow artists, friends, community leaders and family members.

And it was time well spent. The gritty feature film, screened for journalists on Jan. 4, chronicles the tortured road toward redemption traveled by fictional ex-con James Winton. Along the way, it artfully captures the quaint side streets, rich Downtown architecture and hidden back alleys of Lansing in mesmerizing black and white.

Fairview St. is the product of true independent filmmaking—an in-the-trenches entrepreneurial slog in which filmmakers compensate for shoestring budgets (to wit: the coffee can for donations on the counter at Lansing's Decker's Coffee) with solid storytelling, challenging characters and lots of old-fashioned pavement-pounding.

Read the entire article in Capital Gains here.