"One of the greatest living actresses is going to be coming to Traverse City," Traverse City Film Festival Founder Michael Moore tells The Ticker, "and I am excited personally both because of her film work and her work as a citizen."

The two-time Academy Award-winning Fonda will be honored with the festival’s Lifetime Achievement Award, to be presented during the festival’s 14th annual edition, running July 31 to August 5. 

Fonda’s body of work includes “Coming Home” (for which she won the Academy Award® for Best Actress in 1978), “Klute” (for which she won the Academy Award® for Best Actress in 1971), ”They Shoot Horses, Don't They?”, “Julia,” “The China Syndrome,” “On Golden Pond,” and “The Morning After” (films for which she received five additional Academy Award® nominations), and more than 40 other films. Since 2015, she has starred in the Netflix sitcom “Grace and Frankie,” and just this past spring in the film “Book Club.” 

She was also widely known as a vocal opponent of the Vietnam War.

Fonda is also the subject of the revealing new HBO documentary “Jane Fonda in Five Acts” directed by Susan Lacy, which will screen at the festival, with Fonda and Lacy in attendance.

The festival will also present a 40th anniversary screening of “Coming Home,” a screening of “Julia”, and a free nighttime screening of “Nine to Five” projected on a 65-foot screen at the Open Space.

Moore says he first met Fonda while he was in high school in 1971 when he attended a gathering of peace activists in Oakland County, and has met her many times since then.

He adds that this year's Film Fest has a lot of energy and momentum as he puts the final touches on this year's film lineup, set to be announced June 29. Tickets for this year’s edition will go on sale to the public on July 21.