Michael Moore ends film festival 2 years after $1M grant

Michael Moore ends film festival 2 years after $1M grant - By Jamie A. Hope

• Taxpayers gave a cool million for anti-capitalist auteur’s movie shindig in Traverse City

"Just two years after receiving a $1M COVID grant, the Traverse City Film Festival is closing its doors.
Michael Moore’s Traverse City Film Festival is permanently closing its doors two years after nearly $1 million in taxpayer-funded COVID relief money. 

Only one film festival has been held since the $933,000 grant was awarded.
Michael Moore said back in June 2021 that the grant “literally saved the Traverse City Film Fest and our theaters.”

• Moore, who at one time was worth $50 million, has come under fire in the past for receiving state subsidies while filming an anti-capitalist documentary...