Join The Maine Outdoor Film Festival, presented by ReVision Energy, for a two and a half hour program of outdoor adventure and conservation short films, shown indoors, at SPACE.
DETAILS
The Starling Program | Shorts Block - 2023 Maine Outdoor Film Festival
SPACE Gallery
534-538 Congress St, Portland, ME 04101
Doors at 7:10 PM pm, films begin at 7:30 PM
Tickets are $15 in advance, $18 at the door
SCHEDULE OF FILMS
BORN CURIOUS - Julia de Guzman - 19 Min.
‘BORN CURIOUS’ explores the life of J.R. Harris, an explorer, psychologist, and self proclaimed "curious dude." He unwinds by getting WAY out there. Northern Alaska, Northern Sweden, Greenland, Lapland, the Alps, the Pyrenees, Tasmania, Patagonia, the Andes Mountains? Not only has J.R. been, but he's probably made friends with the locals and sipped cognac on top of the tallest mountain - which is a little unusual for a Queens kid from the projects.
REPURPOSED - Pierre-Luc Arseneau - 7 Min.
Once used for commercial logging, British Columbia’s vast network of forest service roads are being repurposed for gravel riding. In the face of climate change, however, the need to make tourism and recreation more sustainable has never been more pressing to the local community. ‘Repurposed’ is a short film that takes a closer look at the discipline of gravel riding, what it means to the community, and how it is transforming the way these logging roads are used to interact with the land.
STORIES FROM THE WOOD - Kevin Moehlenkamp - 4 Min.
Stories From The Wood profiles Chainsaw Artist, Josh Landry. Like a lot of folk art, chainsaw sculpting has been passed over, marginalized, and relegated to county fairs. Josh's talent elevates the art form and makes you look again with deserving reverence and wonder.
WADING FOR CHANGE - Sofia Jaramillo - 13 Min.
For Latino conservationist and angler Jr Rodriguez to become "like the pictures he saw in magazines," he had to leave behind what he loved the most. This is his story of pursuing his dream to become a fly fisherman and his efforts to make the sport more inclusive, sharing his perspective of what it is like to participate in outdoor sports in Western mountain towns as a person of color.
MARVIN GOES BOULDERING - Doug Graves - 7 Min.
Marvin uses bouldering as a way to cope with his mental health.
FLORENCE FANG COMMUNITY FARM - Ronan Furuta - 6 Min.
With only a plot of trash to start, two farmers create the only healthy food option in a neighborhood. This short documentary explores the stories of two founders of the Florence Fang Community Farm in the Bayview district in San Francisco. Established in 2014, the farm is the only healthy food option in the neighborhood.
FASCINATING MAINE FUNGI - Breanna Penney - 14 Min.
North Spore founder Eliah Thanhauser teams up with TikTok influencer, mushroom ASMR enthusiast, and PhD Biochemist and Molecular Biologist Dr. Gordon Walker (aka Fascinated by Fungi) for a visually stunning mushroom foray off the coast of Maine.
WOOD HOOD - Alexander Cullen - 16 Min.
DeVaughn is a 15-year-old kid from New York City who loves skateboarding and craves a "quiet place" to escape the chaos of his home, the city, and kids that steal from him. The film follows DeVaughn on a weekend-long group camping trip with Camping to Connect, a BIPOC-led mentorship program that teaches leadership, brotherhood, and inclusion in the outdoors, a space that is unfamiliar and historically inaccessible to these kids.
THE LAW OF 3 - André Costa - 45 Min.
The Law of 3 is an inspiring documentary about adventurer Raphael Fiegen's third attempt to cross the 500 km Kungsleden trail in Sweden with his team of four sled dogs
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