Soo Film Festival announces 2022 lineup

NEWS RELEASE
SOO FILM FESTIVAL
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Soo Film Festival announces its selection of narrative and documentary features and shorts, music videos, and animation for 2022.

The festival places an emphasis on Great Lakes films and filmmakers, but entry was open worldwide.

Soo Film Festival is Sept. 14 - 18 in downtown Sault Ste. Marie, Michigan at the historic Soo Theatre and at Bayliss Public Library, a Superior District Library.

Featured selections will screen at the library Sept. 14 and 15 for free, all programs at Soo Theatre are ticketed. Dates and venues are subject to change.

Festival president Jason Markstrom: "We have a tremendous selection of films for 2022 and are excited to share them with everyone."

A full list of the films, their descriptions, and the schedule is available on the festival website, soofilmfestival.org.

Festival passes are available now, individual tickets go on sale Aug. 22. Complete ticket information is online at soofilmfestival.org. Ticket prices are:

$7 general admission (per block)
$5 seniors and students (per block)
$20 daily pass (admission to all blocks on a single day)
$50 Festival Pass (admission to all films and shorts programs, all days)

Films screened at Bayliss Library are free of charge.

The 2022 Soo Film Festival was awarded a grant totalling $2,500 from the Michigan Arts and Culture Council and administered by Eastern Upper Peninsula Planning Commission.

The grant was awarded through the MACC peer review process and was one of 559 applications to compete for fiscal year 2022 funding.

“On behalf of the Michigan Arts & Cultural Council, it is a pleasure that Eastern U.P. Regional Planning & Development Commission is able to support events such as Soo Film Festival through the Project Support mini-grant,” Ellen J. Benoit, Finance & Programs Manager, Eastern U.P. Regional Planning & Development Commission.

“We are grateful for the extra resources to make our festival even better and to support the motion picture arts in Michigan. We are also thankful for the efforts of Knepper Development Strategies to help get us this grant,” Jason Markstrom, Soo Film Festival president.

Organizations receiving a MACC grant award are required to match those funds with other public and private dollars. Local support of Soo Film Festival includes the Sault Ste. Marie Convention and Visitors Bureau and the Roberts P. and Ella B. Hudson Foundation.

The MACC peer review process allows for each grant application to be competitively considered by a panel of in-state and out-of-state arts and culture professionals.

This ensures the taxpayers, who support this project through legislative appropriations, and all other visitors or residents in Michigan will have access to the highest quality arts and cultural experiences.

A complete list of grant awards around the state is available by contacting MACC at (517) 241-4011, or by visiting the MACC website at michigan.gov/arts.

The most up-to-date festival news is online.

Find the festival on Facebook at facebook.com/SooFilmFestival and Twitter at twitter.com/SooFilmFest.

2022 Soo Film Festival Official Selections

Narrative Features

The Dinner Parting
Driftless
Hideout

Documentary Features

AMERICA YOU KILL ME
Imagining the Indian: The Fight Against Native American Mascoting
Iron Family
Unforgettable: A Celebration* of Michigan's Upper Peninsula by Bicycle Narrative Shorts
1992
All the Days of Summer Are Sad
And Again
Arbiter
The Arithmetic of Survival
The Bike
The Estate (2022)
Eviction Conviction
Firstborn
Friday Night Fish
From the Old Country
Haven't a Clue
In Darkness
Jalapeño
Last Train Home
The Light
Lone Wolf
M.O.M.
My First Day Being 23
Northbound: Hannah's Way
The Nyx
Old Friend
A Parcel for Del and the Singing Man in the Stairwell
Pendulum
Permission
Photalgia
Recurse
Santa Virus
A Simple Examination
Sinners and Saint
Snow Problem for a Yooper
A Summer's Day at Sherwood Park
Survivers
Triangle
...what it feels like
Wicked Plans
The Yellow Dress
You're Dead, Helen