Native son Michael Moore not invited to first-ever Flint Film Festival

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Missed the Sundance Film Festival in January? Couldn't get a hotel room in Cannes?

Consider Flint. But don't expect to rub elbows with native son Michael Moore while you're here. The blue-collar city of 125,000, the backdrop for Moore's 1989 documentary Roger and Me, is preparing for its inaugural Flint Film Festival. It begins Friday with an opening gala and concludes Sunday with an awards party. Festival-goers will have their choice of 29 works by independent filmmakers from as far away as Germany.

"People who've never been to a film festival will quickly find out this is the real heart of film making," said festival chairman Greg Fiedler.

But Moore, who now lives in New York, was not invited and his latest film, the anti-Bush documentary Fahrenheit 9/11, will not be shown, Fiedler said.

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Imagine that! Flint's claim to film fame is Michael Moore yet as they throw a film festival to build on that reputation, they snub Moore.