The festival the county founded and lost, and the university film record — both

2002–2026 · BOUNDARY-PRINTED

No film festival is seated in Granger, and the festival a Granger reader means belongs to the county's story: the River Bend Film Festival was founded in 2002 in South Bend by a group of filmmakers and enthusiasts, ran fourteen years there, and in 2016 relocated to Goshen, where its first season broke all previous attendance records and it continues at the Goshen Theater and downtown venues (the festival's own press kit). It was never held in Granger, and Arts's whole-place festival test — no Granger Days, no founders' day, no street fair in any primary record — covers the local side: TESTED NEGATIVE for a Granger-seated film festival, boundary whole for River Bend.

The university record across the line prints at pointer size. Notre Dame's Department of Film, Television, and Theatre runs the Student Film Festival, founded by Ted Mandell in 1990, its 38th edition tentatively dated January 29–31, 2027. Its media arm is Notre Dame Studios, in the Martin Media Center (opened August 2017), grown from Fighting Irish Media (2011) and producing some 125 athletic contests a year for the ACC Network and Peacock. All stands outside the CDP line, South Bend's and the university's whole. The founder-across-the-line test (the Kessler pattern: a Plymouth company, a South Bend founder, in that build) runs negative here in both directions — no film-company founder elsewhere is documented as a Granger resident, and the two seated firms' founders are unnamed in the record reached (GAP-FILM-2).

Sources:

1. River Bend Film Festival, press kit — founded 2002, South Bend; Goshen from 2016; Goshen College Record, corroborating; Arts (festival negative).
2. University of Notre Dame — FTT Student Film Festival record (Mandell, 1990; 38th edition, Jan. 2027); Notre Dame Studios and Martin Media Center record (2017; Fighting Irish Media, 2011).