40 Minutes Over Maui

Featuring films made in Michigan or made by Michiganders, this program gives us an opportunity to see our state through different eyes and highlights the experiences of those living around us. Discover Detroit’s surging street art and graffiti movement in Painting the Town - the Street Art of Detroit. In Detroit Hives, a young couple from East Detroit are working hard to bring diversity to the field of beekeeping by teaching their trade to fellow Detroit natives. Travel over to Lansing to learn about the world's first automobile manufacturing plant in RE Olds and the First Auto City. Famous in Michigan is a narrative short about an aging painter who has one last chance to make it big. The Sinkhole explores one man's experience in immigration detention. Birds of Detroit is an abstract look at some of the most beautiful wildlife in Detroit. Mrs. Saltzman Goes To Jail tells the absurd story of a grandma who was arrested in 2018 for marijuana possession because her medical marijuana card e

This bundle of fun narrative shorts is overflowing with charm, sincerity, and personality, and it offers empathetic and relatable stories with which we can all identify as humans living in this crazy world. On January 13, 2018, middle aged couple Larry and Penny are enjoying a relaxing vacation in Hawaii when their phones light up with a potentially world-ending message in 40 Minutes Over Maui. Amelie feels out of place when her favorite cousins brings a lover to their family reunion for the first time in Little Waves. Little Grey Bubbles offers a poignant interpretation of internet friendships, when Kim attends the funeral of her best friend Marlon—a man she’s never met. Revel in some drunken family drama in Stepdaddy. And in Westfalia, a couple embarks on an epic road trip in an attempt to gain more followers after their Instagram rivals' fame explodes overnight.