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Let’s go back in time, and watch films from the last three years of Fresh Coast. Let’s enjoy a few flicks all about that H2O.
The Films
The Center of Superior
- Year 2018
- Country USA
- Runtime 17 min
- Director Jake Youngman
FC Flashback
A Superior Island is a personal travel documentary with stunning nature cinematography sequences that tells the story of when two diabetics set off to the Upper Peninsula into the remote wilderness of Isle Royale National Park, with five pounds of medical supplies, eleven pounds of food, and twenty two pounds of camera gear.
The Birth of a Dugout Canoe
- Year 2017
- Country Latvia
- Runtime 14 min
- Director Jacob Dimiters
FC Flashback
This documentary features the difficult and time-consuming process of making a traditional expanded dugout canoe using mostly traditional hand tools and techniques. The woodworker is Rihards Vidzickis, an experienced green woodworker, wood sculptor and dugout canoe maker. Rihards’ passion for green wood and solid wood creations has only grown since his childhood days.
La Torche
- Year 2017
- Country France
- Runtime 6 min
- Director Hugo Manghes
FC Flashback
La Torche shows two crazy French surfers, surfing by night the famous spot of La Torche, one of the best in France.
Bloom Lagoon
- Year 2018
- Country Canada
- Runtime 9 min
- Director Andrew Wyton
FC Flashback
In the film, the world’s freshwater supply has become too toxic to support mass human life. A lone survivor is mystically transported back in time to the present day, where he and his surf pals were still able to enjoy the greatness of the lakes before the toxifying effects of agricultural and industrial pollution reached a tipping point.
Johanna
- Year 2017
- Country Finland
- Runtime 4 min
- Director Ian Derry
FC Flashback
Finnish freediver Johanna Nordblad holds the world record for a 50-meter drive under ice. Her love for the sport came through cold-water treatment after recovering from a mountain biking accident.
Cranberry Wake
- Year 2012
- Country USA
- Runtime 8 min
- Director Alex Horner
FC Flashback
Along with amazing wake skating imagery, you get to learn how cranberries get harvested. No berries were destroyed while making this. Cranberries are tough as hell, there was zero waste of food. As far as sanitation goes, it’s an open body of water. A few dudes in wetsuits won’t hurt a thing.
North Country Dreamland
- Year 2013
- Country USA
- Runtime 7 min
- Director Shawn Malone
FC Flashback
A northern Michigan celestial dark sky exposition from renowned night sky photographer Shawn Malone of Lake Superior Photo.
Great Big Minnows
- Year 2014
- Country USA
- Runtime 4 min
- Director John Arnold
FC Flashback
Fly fishing for carp along the remote Lake Michigan flats of Beaver Land.