Capital City Film Festival Capital City Film Festival The Capital City Film Festival (CCFF) is an annual film festival held in Lansing, Michigan. The festival is held every April using a variety of venues across the city as screening locations. Past venues have included: the Lansing Center, the Lansing Public Media Center, The Loft, Harem, The Exchange, Lansing Community College, the Michigan Historical Museum, and the Temple Building. The Capital City Film Festival was founded in 2011 in the hopes of screening and encouraging local shorts and feature-length movies being made in and about Michigan. The scope broadened immediately due to the response from
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