Irish Filmmaker Cathal Black's award winning documentary -- Learning Gravity -- based upon the life and work of Thomas Lynch, has been selected by Michael Moore for screening at the Fifth Annual Traverse City Film Festival which runs from 28th July until the 2nd of August this year.  Tickets are available for the July 30th, 3PM showing at the City Opera House and the July 31st, 9PM showing at the Old Town Playhouse.  The 2007 documentary, which was made for RTE TV in Ireland and the BBC in the UK, has been featured at the Telluride Film Festival, the Dublin Film Festival, The Los Angeles Film Festival and San Francisco Irish Film Festival.   It won the Silver Trophy at the New York Television Awards in 2008.  Filmed on location in Milford, Michigan, where Lynch is the director of his family's funeral home, at Mullett Lake in Northern Michigan, and in Moveen, West Clare, Ireland where Lynch keeps an ancestral cottage,  Learning Gravity, traces the connections between Lynch's work as a funeral director and his literary work as a poet, essayist and fictionist.  It takes its name from a poem in Lynch's first collection, "Skating with Heather Grace."