Northern Michigan's Movie Man: Rich Brauer Steams Ahead
By Art Bukowski | April 26, 2026
Times are changing. Rich Brauer can feel it.
New cameras, new technology, artificial intelligence…all coming in waves and promising to change movies (and perhaps everything else) forever.
But Brauer, a celebrated Traverse City-based filmmaker, doesn’t lose focus. Everything about actually producing a movie might very well change, but there’s one thing that never will.
“The most important thing, by far, is telling a good story,” he tells The Ticker. “It starts with the script. What is the story? Is it indeed a good story? Is it motivated by what I would consider to be the right things?”
Nail that down and the rest will follow, he says. And he would …
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