The Book of George
Home Synopsis From Brooklyn’s concrete jungle to the heart of the Everglades, meet George McKenzie Jr., a Black photographer transforming his lens into a beacon of change. Swapping the weight of a gun for the promise of a camera, George found his calling amid nature’s raw grandeur, capturing everything from city pigeons and rats to […]
Restoring the Headwaters
Home Synopsis The Headcut in the Headwaters follows the story of wildlife biologists and stream ecologists as they take on the urgent challenge of repairing a stream headcut in the fragile sage-steppe ecosystem of the Big Hole Valley in Montana. What begins as an eroding scar in the landscape becomes a threat to drain wetlands, […]
Inaccessible
Home Synopsis In the remote reaches of Montana’s Crazy Mountains, professional skier Griffin Post embarks on a backcountry ski expedition, inspired as much by terrain as by history–where snowfields and couloirs are bordered not only by cliffs and cornices, but by centuries-old land ownership patterns currently being contested in the nation’s highest courts. What begins […]
Imperfect Offerings
Home Synopsis A queer, bi-racial artist embodies the spirit of birds and brine shrimp as she reflects on her relationship with Utah’s Great Salt Lake. In the face of ecological collapse, she shows us that resistance is most powerful when it’s shaped by love. Runtime: 16 minutes Language: English Country: United States Premiere: n/a Director: […]
First Light
Home Synopsis Residents of the world’s northernmost town, which is steeped in darkness four months per year, grapple with why they inhabit such a hostile place—and how their unique relationship to the sun changes the meaning of light and darkness within their own lives. Runtime: 33 minutes Language: English Country: Norway Premiere: n/a Director: Kristopher […]
CUT
Home Synopsis A excerpt from the feature documentary “Forever Is Now”. This short captures a poetic take on the life of water within the walls Zion National Park in the native Paiute language. The film serves as a unique and powerful collaboration between Zion National Park and the Kaibab Paiute Tribe from Southern Utah and […]
Arctic Alchemy
Home Synopsis “Arctic Alchemy” follows renowned Alaskan adventurer and climate scientist Roman Dial and his team on a 112-mile research expedition above the Arctic Circle. Traveling by packraft and foot through Alaska’s mighty Brooks Range, their goal is to find the source of a mysterious phenomenon poisoning watersheds in the Arctic. Along the journey, Roman […]