A decade of independents, irreverence and fun!
It’s hard to believe that we started this festival just ten short years ago. For our team, it’s always been about being original and exceeding expectations. It’s about including fresh ideas and enthusiastic people. It’s about keeping our audience entertained, engaged and even challenging their limits. It’s about elevating conversation, not dumbing it down. I […]
Yes, the Sundance Film Festival felt like Hell’s Half Mile
It was my first time at The Sundance Film Festival. The festival. It’s one of the biggest and most prominent film festivals in the world. It’s the film festival that kicks off the year’s hot film properties and launches careers, and it was my first time there. And, yes. I saw Robert Redford. But the […]
Detroit’s Jamaican Queens to Kick Off Music for HHM9
What better group to kick off the music side of the Hell’s Half Mile Film & Music Festival than this sensory-stimulating trio? Jamaican Queens—vocalist/multi-instrumentalist Ryan Spencer, guitarist/bassist Adam Pressley and drummer Ryan Clancy—deal in nuanced and trippy electro pop that is as catchy as it is experimental, merging disparate styles into an infectious concoction. Frequently bittersweet […]
HHM 2013 Award Winners
The jury awards have been decided and the audience ballots have been counted and we are very happy to announce the award winners from HHM8. This year we had one of our best film programs ever, making the choices for jury and audience award difficult. Here are our 2013 award winners: Jury Awards Best Feature: […]