The East Lansing Film Festival - ELFF
The East Lansing Film Festival (ELFF) is the largest and most diverse film festival in Michigan to screen independent and foreign feature, documentary, short and students films from around the world. The ELFF was created in 1997 in cooperation with the City of East Lansing and Michigan State University. Since then, ELFF has been dedicated to bringing quality foreign and independent films to the state of Michigan in order to expose our audience to diverse cultures, ideas, and creative works.
The 12th annual East Lansing Film Festival will take place March 19th through 26th, 2009. On the final day of the ELFF, the Lake Michigan Film Competition (LMFC) will be held. This competition gives cash awards to the filmmakers whose film was at least one quarter filmed, produced, or financed in the states that border Lake Michigan — Michigan, Illinois, Indiana, and Wisconsin. The categories for the awards are Feature, Documentary, Short Film and Student Film. We are very pleased to offer the Message Makers Most Promising Student Award, a prize package worth $10,000. This very popular event was created to encourage, foster and help promote filmmaking in Michigan and its neighboring states.
Please visit our Sponsors Page to see the many organizations that make ELFF and ELCFF possible.
General Information
Use the links on this page above to find out more about Tickets and Passes for the movies, Directions to the Film Locations, Volunteering for the Festival, the Organizers of the Festival, Advertising in the Program and on the web site, and how to submit films for the Festival via our Call for Entries. There is also general information About the Festival. Also be sure and check out our Sponsors Page for a list of those supporting the Festival.
Please see our important notes about parking for this year’s Festival.
Festival Program/Schedule
The East Lansing Film Festival has partnered with B-Side Entertainment to provide an expanded Festival Program here on the ELFF web site. Click on the “Program” link at the top of the Festival pages to go directly to the Festival Program.
Festival Community
The Festival Community pages provided by B-Side allow for expanded information about the Festival films, film-makers, and an online community with your fellow Festival-goers. By registering with B-Side on the Program pages, you can track the festival buzz, create your personal calendar, rate and review films, publish your own festival blog, and get recommendations for great films at the festival. You can create your own ”My Festival Page”. For more information about using the B-Side pages see the Festival Pages Help.
Registration is not required to view the Festival Program or Movie Listing.