Madonna Attends The Traverse City Film Festival
Material Motown Girl Madonna brought her daughter, Lourdes Maria, and her new documentary I Am Because We Are to the Traverse City Film Festival in Northern Michigan this weekend. Co-founded by Flint, Michigan’s own documentarian Michael Moore, the Traverse City Film Festival, which is in its 4th year, scored a major coup by getting Madonna to show her documentary at their fest … here are a few pics of Maddy, Lola and Michael on the red carpet and at her screening in Traverse City this weekend:
She might be known worldwide as the Material Girl, but there’s more than a little of the small-town Michigan girl left in Madonna. The pop superstar arrived in this northern Michigan resort town Saturday to introduce her documentary, “I Am Because We Are,” a highlight of the Traverse City Film Festival. The event was co-founded by filmmaker, author and fellow Michigan native Michael Moore. Hundreds of fans cheered from behind barricades as Madonna, wearing a black dress, high heels and sunglasses, stepped out of a black sport utility vehicle that pulled up in front of the State Theatre. She hugged a waiting Moore, who sported an orange baseball cap, and posed for photos with him. Madonna and Moore shared the stage at the theater before a screening of the movie, which deals with the orphans of Malawi, the African nation where she and husband Guy Ritchie adopted a son. “It’s great bringing my movie to a place that I feel familiar,” Madonna told the audience. “Not like the Cannes Film Festival, where nobody’s speaking English, or the Tribeca Film Festival, where no one sits down. There’s something poetic about coming back to the place where I used to come for holidays — camping trips with my dad and stepmother and my very large family,” said the 49-year-old singer, born to the southeast in Bay City and raised in the Detroit suburb of Rochester Hills. Madonna was accompanied by her 11-year-old daughter, Lourdes, and the film’s director, Nathan Rissman. Ritchie was not present. Moore, who won an Oscar for his 2002 documentary “Bowling for Columbine,” said he was humbled to be able to call Madonna a friend. “She has such an incredible heart and such a generous spirit,” he said. “She does so much out of the glare of the lights to make the world a better place.” Madonna had praise of her own for Moore, 54, a Flint-area native who has a home near Traverse City. “There aren’t a lot of role models for us in the world, or people we can look up to,” she said. “People who are not afraid to stick their neck out, people who are not afraid to stand up for things and be unpopular, to go against the grain, think outside the box. And we need, and I need, Michael Moore in my life.”
Awww … sounds like a good old fashioned lovefest going on in the great State of Michigan. I think it’s very cool that Madonna agreed to screen her film in Traverse City for the Film Festival. It’s very rare for Maddy to step foot back in Michigan these days (the woman hasn’t even brought a concert tour to her homestate since the Drowned World tour) so it’s very nice for her to deign to return home again. Hopefully Madonna’s appearance and the Film Festival as a whole will bring a financial boon to the area … that’s my home, y’all :)
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August 3rd, 2008 at 10:11 am
I wish that Michael would let go of his “grey beard” look…Just wanted to say, Madonna looks GREAT here!
August 3rd, 2008 at 10:59 am
i live in bay city, and there have been many attempts to get her to come back here, but she wont come. it’s a great little town too. oh well. it would just make traffic bad anyhow.
August 3rd, 2008 at 12:29 pm
I see Madonna’s roots showed up as well as Lourdes’
*uni-brow*.
August 3rd, 2008 at 1:48 pm
It is nice to see Madonna back in Michigan.
August 3rd, 2008 at 6:40 pm
All that money doesn’t give you class eh. What’s with the black roots? Does she honestly think it makes her look cool? Or young? Madge, get to the hairdressers….pronto!
August 3rd, 2008 at 10:29 pm
The Film Festival A common mistake, Madonna think they need to predict to win – but of Traverse City this is simply hoping or guessing and is destined to see you lose. A financial boon you want to do is get the Film Festival this way. But remember the most sophisticated piece of role models and more important resource is the orphans himself.
August 4th, 2008 at 5:07 am
Madge needs a root job!
August 4th, 2008 at 10:56 am
i missed her by a day! i’ve been to her parents vineyard up there though, it’s nice :)
August 4th, 2008 at 9:21 pm
I live in Traverse City and I am here right now while she visited. Let me tell you…it was as if the town had been turned upside down. Everyone you could possibly think of was downtown and ready to completely overtake the streets as she made her appearance.
The girl’s got appeal, hahaha.