Published: July 28, 2009 10:35 pm      

Film Festival schedule: 07/29/2009

Today, July 29

Panel

"40 Years of Documentary Filmmaking" with Aung Htun ("Burma VJ"), Joe Berlinger ("Crude"), Cathal Black ("Learning Gravity"), Jim Czarnecki ("Soundtrack for a Revolution"), Michelle Esrick ("Saint Misbehavin': The Wavy Gravy Movie"), Emily Kunstler ("William Kunstler: Disturbing the Universe"), Kevin McMahon ("Waterlife") and Michael Moore ("Roger & Me" and the upcoming "Capitalism: A Love Story"). City Opera House. Tickets are handed out beginning at 8:30 a.m.; panel session scheduled to begin at 9:30 a.m. Free.

Kids Film Festival

"Azur and Asmar," 9:30 a.m., State Theatre, $6.

Film School

Screenwriting with Jim Burnstein ("Ruffian," "Renaissance Man") from the screenwriting program at the University of Michigan Department of Screen Arts & Cultures, 1-4 p.m., CenterPoint building on M-22. $3; check for availability at www.traversecityfilmfest.org.

Open Space movie

"Close Encounters of the Third Kind," PG, 137 minutes. Entertainment starts at 7 p.m.; movie begins at dusk. Free.

After Hours gig

Phenomenal Head and Mue Sephei, Li'l Bo's, Front Street, a block east of Division.