Submissions for the 2016 festival are closed and we can’t wait to announce our full lineup of films with you! But while we continue to watch submissions and tweak our full program, we wanted to share the featured films that will headline the festival. These films screened at Sundance, SXSW and Cannes and are getting […]
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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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