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Hell's Half Mile Film & Music Festival is an annual event happening the last weekend of September that features independent films, live music, parties, and panels. Filmmakers come to town from around the country with their films that screen in 3 venues, and include all genres. Comedy, drama, documentary, science fiction, action, coming-of-age, and more! Each night we also have live music from independent bands, and enjoy parties late into the night. In the late 1800's, a stretch of Bay City's riverfront was lined with raucous saloons and two-bit hotels where turn-of-the-century loggers and shipmen would go to blow off steam and take in more than a little local color. This strip was known to locals as Hell's Half Mile. Time has passed, but the same rough-and-tumble spirit of the day is reborn in the Hell's Half Mile Film & Music Festival. Today, the city boasts a beautiful downtown riverfront with boutiques, restaurants, theatres, pubs, hotel accommodations and other points of interest....a state of the art planetarium, art galleries, a thriving business community, and an active shipping lane for Great Lakes freighters...Downtown Bay City is alive with activity.