The Hometown Hype train isn’t slowing down soon. Right after our premiere on the shores of Western Lake Michigan (Sheboygan 10/22 - RSVP in bio) we’re crossing the pond and hitting up Frankfort, Michigan on the Eastern shore.
October 23 @TheGardenTheater
Come out and celebrate the Great Lakes Surf community in Michigan.
Join us for the…
✅premiere of Hometown Hype: Northern Michigan by @kingxpinn
✅ free food
🎶 live music from @RambleTambleMQT
🏄 surfboard raffle from @migrationsurf to benefit @surfridernomi And samples from @whiteclaw
FREE TO ATTEND - RSVP REQUIRED - LINK IN BIO!!
#hometownhype2025
WOW!!! What a legendary night at the Premiere of Hometown Hype: Northern Michigan!! We are so grateful to everyone who came out and made this night so special - we are beyond* honored to be a part of this amazorama community! Thank you ❤️
Massive round of applause to @kingxpinn for putting so much heart and soul into this beautiful piece — you fully encompassed it, Mike! 👏
Enormous thanks to @thinertia & @whiteclaw for the incredible opportunity to come together, and for getting a glimpse of the life of a Great Lake Surfer up on the big screen ❕
🔥UPDATE: FULL FILM NOW LIVE AT THE LINK!🔥
📸 @rh.content 🙌
Fam! @freshcoastfilm is happening this weekend in Traverse City and we’re showing Hometown Hype!
It’s basically my two favorite things, cools films and Great Lakes water play.
Come hang, say what’s up, and enjoy the show with legends like Matt Mulligan, TC resident featured in this teaser! ⬆️
We’re in the Lake Life block:
Friday 10am at @silversprucebrewing
Saturday 12pm at @rightbrainbrewery
Tickets at the link in bio, you know the drill. Big thanks to @oldmissionculturecompany for bringing Freshcoast below the bridge!
This premiered last night at the @5pointfilm !
Skijoring through Estes Park with Rivian, and yes, it almost became my entire personality..
Really proud of this one. Grateful to make it with good friends.
Full film + write-up in bio.
@rivianofficial@linze3@chris_naum@britta.lizz
FCFF/tc FILM SPOTLIGHT: In honor of World Water Day, we’re highlighting some of our festival blocks focused on water today. First up is “Lake Life,” which has five short films highlighting the amazing and diverse stories of our Great Lakes and waterways. “Lake Life” will screen on Friday, May 1 at 10am at Silver Spruce Brewing Company and Saturday, May 2 at 12pm at Right Brain Brewery. The blocks are presented with support from the Conservation Resource Alliance and Northwestern Michigan College. Featured shorts include:
🎥 “Restoring Northern Michigan’s Rivers” by Jason Whalen and Fauna Creative: From Rugg Pond Dam on the Rapid River in Kalkaska County to the Crystal River in Leelanau County, this film follows the Conservation Resource Alliance’s River Care program and the Grand Traverse Band of Ottawa and Chippewa Indians as they restore Northern Michigan’s rivers. Director Jason Whalen will be in attendance.
🎥 “Shorelunch with Nate P: Daddy’s Little Fishermen” by Nate Pischke and Erik Sudheimer: Nate P’s father joins them on frigid Lake of the Woods to give Nate his first, and likely last, ice shack tattoo!
🎥 “Lake Michigan Gets Swell!-Hometown Hype Northern Michigan” by Mike King: Surfing in Northern Michigan? For most people, it sounds impossible. But for filmmaker and Hometown Hype: Michigan director Mike King, it’s a story worth telling. Director Mike King will be in attendance.
🎥 “Pulse of the Great Lakes” by Daniel Wroblewski: From scientists and sailors to weather forecasters and beachgoers, buoys play an integral role in responding to changing conditions on the Great Lakes. NMC Great Lakes Water Studies Institute Director John Lutchko will be a special guest at the Friday screening.
🎥 “Gales of November” by Joseph Augustine: Hear from the few people who have seen the Edmund Fitzgerald since the ship sank in Lake Superior 50 years ago. As historians and experts continue to debate why the ship sank, the answers could still be found in the wreckage…but there likely will never be another dive.
Tickets for “Lake Life” are on sale now at TC.FreshCoastFilm.com! (link in bio)
Fam! I’m hyped to show my film Feast or Famine before @claimcinema ’s Michigan’s Skiing Legacy tonight at the @thegardentheater and Saturday at @greatlakescfa ! Hope to see you out there!! This film feels like a life time ago, man I do miss getting after it I’m mountains with my friends. Thanks for the support and love on this project @protectourwinters@686@libtechski Tickets and details found in @claimcinema bio!
Northern Michigan! we have two ripping ski film nights happening this week!!!
My good friend @rbusch_man is premiering his documentary film ‘Michigan’s Skiing legacy’ and gave me the honors of opening the night with my film Feast or Famine!
Tomorrow Feb 26th at the @thegardentheater in Frankfort
Saturday Feb 28th at the @greatlakescfa in Bay Harbor!
Details and tickets found in @rbusch_man bio!
Northern Michigan! Come ride the Olympic wave and join myself, @kingxpinn and @challengemountain celebrating Michigan’s Skiing Legacy! Feb 28th! At @greatlakescfa !
Doors 530 starting with a social hour leading into the event at 7pm!
We are going to show Mike kings short film - ‘Feast or Famine’ Then screening a NoMi premiere of ‘Michigan’s Skiing Legacy’ by yours truly!
100% of ticket proceeds benefit Challenge Mountain - Michigan’s first adaptive winter sports program! They sure know how to carry a legacy❤️
Tickets can be found at the box office or link is on my website https://www.claimcinema.studio/michigans-skiing-legacy or link in bio! 20 donation minimum or pay more if you can :)
Fam! This Saturday, @nahli_curtis and I are back at the @cityoperahouse , almost exactly three years after we first shared that stage.
This time, I have the honor of MC’ing the night and opening it by showing Hometown Hype ahead of the world premiere of Nahli’s Evolution. I’m honored to return the love, after Nahli and @the_radical_family opened every screening during the Lake Effect tour. Northern Michigan, see you Saturday!
Photos of the City Opera House: @bethpricephotography
