The East Lansing Film Festival (ELFF) has been the largest and most diverse film festival in Michigan screening independent and foreign features, documentaries, shorts and students films from around the world. The ELFF was created in 1997 in cooperation with the City of East Lansing and Michigan State University. Since then, ELFF has been dedicated to bringing quality foreign and independent films to the state of Michigan in order to expose our audience to diverse cultures, ideas, and creative works.

The Lake Michigan Film Competition (LMFC) is held during the festival. This competition gives cash awards to filmmakers whose film was at least one quarter filmed, produced, or financed in the states that border Lake Michigan — Michigan, Illinois, Indiana, and Wisconsin. The categories for the awards are Feature, Documentary, Short Film and Student Film. We are very pleased to offer the Message Makers Most Promising Student Award, a prize package worth $7,000. This very popular event was created to encourage, foster and help promote filmmaking in Michigan and its neighboring states.

THE CALL FOR ENTRIES FOR THE 2012, 15th Annunal ELFF, IS NOW OPEN!

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