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The Beaver Believers | 64m
Director: Sarah Koenigsberg The Beaver Believers shares the story of an unlikely cadre of activists - a biologist, a hydrologist, a botanist, an ecologist, a psychologist, and a hairdresser - who share a common goal: restoring the North American Beaver to the watersheds of the American West. Brought to you by the Scott River Watershed |
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Brimstone & Glory | 53m
Director: Viktor Jakovleski The National Pyrotechnic Festival in Tultepec, Mexico is a site of festivity unlike any other in the world. In celebration of San Juan de Dios, patron saint of firework makers, conflagrant revelry engulfs the town for ten days. Plunging headlong into the fire, BRIMSTONE & GLORY honors the spirit of Tultepec’s community and celebrates celebration itself. (In Spanish with English subtitles.) |
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Chasing the Taper | 83m
Director: Mark Allen Davis An intimate look into the obsessive and vanishing art of bamboo fly rod making, through the eyes of some of the greatest living rod makers in the world, as they struggle to preserve this magnificent, yet economically unsustainable labor of love. |
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Gun Runners | 89m
Director: Anjali Nayar When it comes to world-class marathon runners, Kenyans are considered the cream of the crop. But some of Kenya’s top runners aren’t running for fame and fortune. Some are wanted warriors, running for their lives. Told entirely by its central characters, Gun Runners is the American Dream, Kenyan-style. |
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Losing Ground | 55m
Director: Josh Comninellis Farmers and ranchers across the country are dealing with increasing urbanization of rural America.With that urbanization brings challenges and opportunities. Hear from six farm and ranch families about how urban sprawl has impacted them and American Farmland Trust CEO John Piotti about the issue as a whole. |
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Pioneers in Skirts | 59m
Director: Ashley Maria Pioneers in Skirts is an examination of gender parity in the workplace from the perspective of a female filmmaker. Not finding many answers within her profession, she decides to expand her search to include other industries and society in general. Brought to you by the Siskiyou Branch of the AAUW. |
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Run Wild, Run Free | 43m
Director: Shane Anderson Run Wild Run Free takes the viewer through the history to the present of the Wild and Scenic Rivers Act as told through experts, grassroots organizers, white water enthusiasts, and members of the Nez Perce tribe in Idaho. |
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The River and the Wall | 97m
Director: Ben Masters Five friends set out on an adventure through the unknown wilds of the Texas borderlands as they travel 1,200 miles from El Paso to the Gulf of Mexico on horses, mountain bikes, and canoes. As the group sets out to explore the potential impacts of a wall on the natural environment they come face-to-face with the human side of the immigration debate and enter uncharted emotional waters. |
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Well Groomed | 85m
Director: Rebecca Stern A year immersed in the visually stunning and humorous world of competitive creative dog groomers reveals that, no matter where or how, an innate passion for creative expression is universal. |
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When All That's Left is Love | 78m
Director: Eric Gordon The emotionally gripping story of a wife’s determination to care for her Alzheimer’s-stricken husband in their home. With unprecedented,behind-the-scenes access, the film reveals the toll that the disease takes on families coping with Alzheimer’s, while also showcasing the power of love that sustains both patients and caregivers. Brought to you by Dr. Noah Perlman. |
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Women of the Gulag | 53m
Director: Marianna Yarovskaya Women of the Gulag tells the compelling and tragic stories of the women – last survivors of the Gulag, the brutal system of repression and terror that devastated the Soviet population during the regime of Stalin. The Gulag was first captured by Solzhenitsyn in his opus, Gulag Archipelago. Never before have the stories of women and women’s experiences in these camps been told in an international documentary film. |
