Freep Film Festival - Detroit Does Documentaries – Freep Film Festival is a documentary-focused event, with special attention paid to films connected Detroit and Michigan — or with special resonance there. It believes great journalism and great documentary storytelling can inform, inspire and help push the region forward — shining light on its challenges and celebrating its achievements

2019 films

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‘A Thousand Thoughts’ with Kronos Quartet

‘Always In Season’

‘Behind the Curve’

‘Behind the Music Doc’ panel discussion

‘Boy Howdy! The Story of Creem Magazine’

‘Boy Howdy! The Story of Creem Magazine’ to open Freep Film Festival

‘Cooked: Survival By Zip Code’

‘Dare to Struggle, Dare to Win’

‘Epilogue: A Tribute to the Life & Work of Joel David Silvers’

‘Filmmaker Party: A Celebration of Film and Art in Detroit’

Ame

‘KTQ Labs’

‘Midwest Documentary Filmmaker Sustainability’ Conversation

‘Minding the Gap’

‘Mixtape America Vol. 1: Shorts Program 4’

‘Navigating the Freedom of Information Act’

‘This is Spinal Tap’: 35th Anniversary Screening

‘Women Behind the Camera’ panel discussion

‘Women In Film’ meet-up

‘Works-In-Progress’ discussion

‘All Together Now: Shorts Program 3’

‘America To Me’

‘American Factory’

‘An Armenian Trilogy’

‘Bathtubs Over Broadway’

‘Bill Traylor: Chasing Ghosts’

‘Birds, Bees, Trees & Sturgeon: Shorts Program 1’

‘Bob Lazar: Area 51 & Flying Saucers’

‘Brewmaster’

‘Bungalow Sessions’

‘Convergence’: Detroit Narrative Agency Shorts Showcase

‘Day of the Western Sunrise’

‘Desolation Center’

‘Detroit Tigers: The Roar of ’84’

‘Fire Music’

‘Freaks and Geeks: The Documentary’

‘God Said Give ‘Em Drum Machines: The Story of Detroit Techno’: Rough cut screening

‘Hail Satan?’

‘Harvest Season’

‘In Search of Greatness’

‘Inquiring Nuns’

‘Instant Dreams’

‘Jump Shot’

‘Live From Detroit: Shorts Program 2’

‘Live From the Astroturf, Alice Cooper’

‘Midnight Family’

‘Midnight In Paris’

‘Mike Wallace Is Here’

‘Miles Davis: Birth of the Cool’

‘Mixtape America: Vol. 2: Shorts Program 5’

‘Mr. Soul!’

‘My Turn’

‘Nailed It!’

‘Never Silent. Never Still.’

‘Standing in the Shadows of Motown’

‘The Cold Blue’

‘The Feeling of Being Watched’

‘The Heat: A Kitchen (R)evolution’

‘The Rest I Make Up’

‘The Show’s the Thing: The Legendary Promoters of Rock’

‘The Unafraid’

‘Tough Guy: The Bob Probert Story’

‘Untitled Amazing Johnathan Documentary’

‘Uppity: The Willy T. Ribbs Story’

‘What She Said: The Art of Pauline Kael’

‘When Arabs Danced’

‘Who Will Write Our History’

Detroit is Rock City on opening night of Freep Film Festival

DOC NYC’s ‘Make Your Documentary’ workshop with Thom Powers

Double feature: ‘Anatomy of a Murder’ / ‘Anatomy of “Anatomy” ’

Double feature: ‘I Am Richard Pryor’ / ‘Blue Collar’

Double feature: ‘The Five Heartbeats’ / ‘Making the Five Heartbeats’

Double feature: ‘The Last Truck: Closing of a GM Plant’ / ‘Poletown Lives!’