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At the closing night movie, Michael Moore announced next year's festival will be July 26-31, 2011. The festival will add another venue, probably the Traverse City Central auditorium. Admissions this year were 105,000, surpassing last year's total of 96,000. There's also plans for a Latin American film festival at the State Theatre in the spring, including some Cuban films.
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"The Girl Who Played With Fire" will return to the State Theatre.
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@EmmaKat: "Waiting for the between movies shuttle. It's like the jitney, without being named something stupid like 'jitney.'"
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Michael Moore said "everyone in town is talking about" director Juan Carlos Cremata Malberti's ("Viva Cuba") pants. One leg has the text from the first chapter of "Don Quixote."
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@traversetweet: "Too bad Sabina Guzzanti is leaving Traverse City #her humour @ the comedy panel is the best stand-up Ive seen all year."
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The Cuban filmmakers continue to be excited about the plan to raise money for their movies using a donation link off the film festival website, which should be operational later this week. Michael Moore quipped: "They've only been here five days, and they're already frigging capitalists."
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Tim Harrison, the animal control officer (among other duties) from "The Elephant in the Living Room" took the Q&A outside when he ran out of time and held an impromptu discussion on the lawn of Central Grade School.
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Michael Moore launched into a long introduction before the Sunday afternoon screening of his flick pick "Mike's Surprise" at Lars Hockstad. The tales he told? Well, they involved his theory on how God created man and woman and his encounters with Mel Gibson.
