Don’t worry, you still have until April 15 to submit your film to the festival, but we wanted to share some of the great films we’ve already locked down for the 2016 festival. One of the things we love about our festival is the diversity in our genres, filmmakers and the subjects they cover, and […]
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The discussion around the lack of diversity in Hollywood dominated the 88th Academy Awards Sunday. Host Chris Rock and other Hollywood elite spoke out against the fact spoke out against the fact that we aren’t seeing people of color, women or scripts that tell unique stories represented at the awards show. As an independent film festival, we […]
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2015 was good to Middle Coast. We hosted our third and biggest festival yet, and met incredible filmmakers from around the world and shared their work with our beautiful community in Bloomington, Ind. It was also a year that gave us plenty of fantastic films to watch- so many our festival director, Jessica Levandoski, had trouble […]
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It’s been 18 days since Thanksgiving, so if you’ve left your home or turned on TV you’re aware: Christmas spirit has been unleashed. And unlike Christmas music, which can get a little stagnant, the amount of movies set around the holidays is almost ENDLESS. So we’ve created a list of some of our favorites. We’re […]
Read More ›Part of the reason why Middle Coast is such a great event is because our local community in Bloomington will sit side by side with filmmakers from around the world to enjoy fantastic films. If you’re coming from out of town we want to help make your visit to Bloomington the best it can be. Here’s […]
Read More ›We’re less than a week away from the festival, and the team behind Middle Coast is getting excited to meet the filmmakers and festival goers. But before then, we wanted to give you a chance to get to know us and why putting on this festival in Bloomington is so important to our team. Jess Reed is the woman […]
Read More ›When filmmaker Katie Cokinos sat down to write the screenplay for I Dream Too Much, her husband and filmmaking partner, Alex Rappoport, gave her one request: write a movie that could be shot in their hometown of Saugerties, New York. The film, intended to be a convenient project for the couple, ended up turning into a feature […]
Read More ›As the festival date gets closer and closer, the team behind Middle Coast is getting excited to meet the filmmakers and festival goers. But before then, we wanted to give you a chance to get to know us and why putting on this festival in Bloomington is so important to our team. Over the next few weeks we’ll […]
Read More ›There’s a reason everyone has a favorite movie. It’s the same reason that an audience filing out of a theater after a great film is buzzing with conversation. Because film is personal. It shows us slices of the world we don’t know about. It introduces us to characters that act as mirrors to our own lives […]
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