The Catalina Wine Mixer of Film Festivals
Sunset in matching robes
The Directors’ Lounge
This year’s festival merch
Screening night at the beach house
Post-movie nap on the couch
Smooth Sailing Through Classic Cinema
The official Elk Lake mixtape
The aftermath of a great screening
Lake day on the pontoon
Three simple rules — Road House night
Live music lakeside
The annual shrimp boil
Lakeside highlights, 2024
Screening at the Elk Rapids harbor
Getting into character
The Sacred Scroll of the ERFF
And the award goes to…
No Ragrets at the marina
Golden hour at the harbor
The crew reporting for duty
Captain and first mate on lookout
Sunset selfie at the marina
Smooth sailing
Dockside golden hour
Another screening survivor
Theater takeover night
Lakeside vibes
The whole crew
Festival highlights, 2022
Festival-approved snacks
AMC field trip
Yacht Rock — the founders in white
Smooth operators
Yacht Rock — wading in style
Lake view from the deck
The floating cinema — drone’s-eye view
Post-screening power nap
The films were very… relaxing
The screen on the lake at sunset
The founders — matching green, 2021
The 2020 film vote results
SH=BT — festival tees in action
The late-night projectionist
Didn’t quite make it to the credits
Elk Lake Film Festival 2019 tee sighting
Bundled up — outdoor screenings get cold
The projector in a box — peak cinema tech
The year we adapted — ERFF face masks, 2020
Festival family on the porch
Festival fuel
The original napkin ballot
Local craft brew on the porch
Resting up for the next screening
Lake day — the water trampoline era
The founders lakeside — year of the first t-shirt
Where it all began — the first screening, 2014