The Films

• Year 2020
• Country United States
• Runtime 4 min
• Director Nick Loud & Chris Loud

Filmmaker in Attendance

Local farmers band together with the Leelanau Conservancy to preserve the land, environment, and way of life that defines Michigan’s Leelanau Peninsula, and thanks to their efforts, will hopefully do so for centuries beyond. Produced by The Boardman Review, the creative culture and outdoor lifestyle journal of northern Michigan.

• Year 2020
• Runtime 8 min
• Director Kristin Ojaniemi

Filmmaker in Attendance

United in stewardship, the Bad River Band of Lake Superior Chippewa join our neighbors in protecting the land, water, and original orders of creation. The decisions we make today should result in a sustainable world seven generations into the future.

• Year 2020
• Runtime 9 min
• Director Dominic Gill

Filmmaker in Attendance

Albertine Kimble is a duck hunter in Plaquemines Parish. Having worked for the parish, she knows the local wetlands better than almost anyone. In her own words, she explains how leveeing has prevented the Mississippi River from flowing its natural course and has deprived the wetlands of essential nutrients and sediment. As Albertine takes us to her favorite hunting spots, she shares how the dying marsh is disrupting the bird migration route, the Mississippi Flyway, and could eventually put New Orleans at risk.

• Year 2020
• Country United States
• Runtime 16 min
• Director Mike King

Filmmaker in Attendance, Subject in Attendance

Mike King presents “Feast or Famine”. A film that connects passion with purpose, as I’ve discovered the importance of protecting the places I love while chasing powder and big lines through British Colombia & the Pacific Northwest. Each summer I bring it back home for harvest on the farm in the Great Lakes.

This film is just a taste of my complex existence; a way to share my gratitude and concern for the places that feed my soul and my stomach. I’m no expert, but I believe some is better than none, and we need all action for change. I’m a wild and carefree diesel driving activist, and this is my story.

• Year 2019
• Country United States
• Runtime 10 min
• Director Whit Hassett + Chelsea Jolly

Runner and advocate Faith E. Briggs used to run through the streets of Brooklyn every morning. Now, she’s running 150 miles through three U.S. National Monuments that lay in the thick of the controversy around public lands. Accompanied by running companions who represent diverse perspectives in what it means to be a public land owner, she assesses what is at stake if previously protected lands are reduced and if the public is largely unaware. THIS LAND is a story about land access told through a journey of inclusion and empowerment.

• Year 2021
• Country United States
• Runtime 9 min
• Director Jason Whalen

Filmmaker in Attendance, World Premiere

Is wilderness more valuable than money? It depends on who you ask. Loon is a through hiking naturalist who understands what’s truly valuable in life. At 80 years old with more than 2,000 acres of wilderness to his name, he must decide what to do with this precious asset.

• Year 2020
• Runtime 13 min
• Director Lindsey Hagen

Filmmaker in Attendance

Faced with the ever pressing influence of technology Jim Henterly holds his post as the eyes and ears of the historic Desolation Peak Fire Lookout - in an effort to preserve the human narrative.