Endangered campaign September 18, 2007 - February 3, 2008: $75,000 goal reached
In September 2007 we announced that the Ann Arbor Film Festival was an endangered species, threatened with extinction by funding cuts and government censorship. Thanks the incredible and generous support of our worldwide community, our campaign to financially recover succeeded.
As part of the Endangered campaign, the volunteers and staff of the Ann Arbor Film Festival performed several Acts of Audacity, which can be viewed here. The acts were chosen by donors, who voted each time they made a contribution (as explained in our instructional video).
The third and final donor-decided Act of Audacity will be executive director Christen McArdle going on a quest to "kidnap" Jon Stewart and hold him hostage until he writes and performs an original haiku. We expect this to go online by mid-March. To keep abreast of fest updates, news and goings on, sign up for our eNewsletter PROJECTIONS here.
While the festival is currently restored to health, we continue to work hard to champion independent filmmakers, artists, and showcase the most daring, visionary, inspired cinema in the world. Join with us to support the artists and ideals of the AAFF!
John Gianvito's Profit Motive and the Whispering Wind (USA, 2007, 58 min, DigiBeta) was selected as the Best Experimental Film of 2007 by the National Society of Film Critics last Saturday.
The Library of Congress (USA) has announced its 
Isidore Isou, the romanian-born french writer, passed away last July 28th in Paris. Isou, founder of the lettrist movement and author of the Manifeste du cinéma discrépant, which systematized the separation between image and sound in the cinema, had been very ill in the last years of his life.
The 