Collins says Detroit and Ann Arbor serve as separate urban and suburban campuses for Cinetopia, an idea common to many larger film festivals. Wright Museum, Cinema Detroit and the Michigan Science Center. For the festival's third outing on June 4-8, organizers are upping the ante in Detroit by adding another 40 screenings at four new venues: the College for Creative Studies, the Charles H. Thirty films screened at Ann Arbor's Michigan Theater, State Theater and Angell Hall for last year's festival, while nine screened at the Detroit Film Theatre. And actually I think, just in terms of proximity and a lot of dynamics, we're pretty similar." "Sometimes I think people outside of Ann Arbor think of Ann Arbor more like Traverse City than they think of it like Royal Oak or Birmingham. "Ann Arbor's not Detroit, but I always felt like Ann Arbor was as linked to Detroit as any of the surrounding suburbs," says Cinetopia co-director and Michigan Theater executive director Russ Collins. ![]() But last year the nascent Cinetopia International Film Festival broke from that norm in a major way, building upon its inaugural year in Ann Arbor to offer a long weekend of film screenings in both cities. ![]() Although Detroit and Ann Arbor are separated by a drive of just 45 minutes, surprisingly few efforts of any sort bridge the two cities, let alone major public events.
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