Cinetopia Film Festival 2019 Dates Announced!

Mike Tyrkus

6 years ago

Mark your calendar as the eighth annual Cinetopia Film Festival will kick off a month earlier this year than it has in the past. The 2019 festival starts on Friday, May 10, 2019 and concludes on Sunday, May 19, 2019.

Spanning ten days, the Cinetopia Film Festival brings more than fifty films to local theatres and venues in the Ann Arbor, Dearborn, and other surrounding Detroit areas—representing the best feature-length dramas, comedies, and documentaries from the world’s most revered film festivals, including Sundance, Cannes, Venice, Toronto, Berlin, SXSW, and Tribeca.

The festival is not submission-based; instead, the extensive festival program is selected by a team led by Indiewire Influencer Russ Collins from the nationally-renowned Michigan Theater in Ann Arbor. Created in 2011 for the people of Southeast Michigan, Cinetopia honors the rich heritage of cinematic culture and Michigan’s proud legacy of outstanding cinema artists through special pre- and post-film events, including presentations, discussion panels, and Q&A sessions with directors, writers, and actors.

This year also includes a new location and theatre—the Emagine Royal Oak Theatre located in the heart of downtown Royal Oak. This new venue is sure to bring the festival experience further into the Metro Detroit area. Previous venues of the festival have included the Michigan Theater and State Theatre in Ann Arbor, the Arab American National Museum and the Henry Ford Museum in Dearborn, the Detroit Film Theatre, the Charles H. Wright Museum of African American History, Cinema Detroit, and the College for Creative Studies in Detroit.

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Mike Tyrkus

Editor in Chief at CinemaNerdz.com

An independent filmmaker, co-writer and director of over a dozen short films, the Editor in Chief of CinemaNerdz.com has spent much of the last three decades as a writer and editor specializing in biographical and critical reference sources in literature and the cinema, beginning in February 1991 reviewing films for his college newspaper. He was a member of the Detroit Film Critics Society, as well as the group's webmaster and one-time President for over a decade until the group ceased to exist. His contributions to film criticism can be found in Magill's Cinema Annual, VideoHound's Golden Movie Retriever (of which he was the editor for nearly a decade until it too ceased to exist), the International Dictionary of Films and Filmmakers, and the St. James Film Directors Encyclopedia (on which he collaborated with editor Andrew Sarris). He has also appeared on the television program Critic LEE Speaking alongside Lee Thomas of FOX2 and Adam Graham, of The Detroit News. He currently lives in the Detroit area with his wife and their dogs.