Traverse City Gets A New Film Festival In 2026
By Craig Manning | Oct. 18, 2025
Traverse City is finally getting a new film festival.
Next spring, from Thursday, April 30 through Sunday, May 3, Traverse City will host a satellite edition of Marquette’s Fresh Coast Film Festival, an outdoor-centric, conservation-focused, documentary-driven festival that has made a name for itself in the Upper Peninsula since launching in 2016. The Traverse City version, which organizer Joe Beyer says is intended to become an annual fixture, will maintain the spirit and traditions of the Marquette festival while adding its own spin – including spotlights on local filmmakers and a few forays into narrative films.
A Sundance Institute veteran, Beyer moved to Traverse City from Los Angeles in …
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