Pass it On

7 films in this block • 60 minutes

Showings

Fri, Oct 17 Fri, Oct 17

PWPL – Heritage Room

Sat, Oct 18 Sat, Oct 18

The Honorable Distillery

The Films

The Seven Grandfathers Teachings

  • Year 2025
  • Country USA
  • Runtime 5 min
  • Director City of Marquette Public Art Commission

Family Friendly, Michigan Premiere, Representative in Attendance

The Seven Grandfathers Teachings sculpture, created by renowned Anishinaabeg artist Jason Quigno, is an installation in the public art collection of the City of Marquette that honors the foundational principles of Anishinaabe culture.

The Little Ancestor

  • Year 2024
  • Country Canada
  • Runtime 11 min
  • Director Alexa Tremblay-Francoeur

Family Friendly, Michigan Premiere

On a windswept hill, in a place still young and devoid of all life, an ancestral house builds itself. The house comes to life and unveils its long life of one hundred and fifty years. Brick by brick and beam by beam, each action, big or small, shows life. Over the years, it leads us to feel the passage of time, the transformations of its surroundings and its vulnerability in the face of the unstoppable frenzy of our urban growth. The house evolves quietly in the heart of a growing and buzzing city that will eventually bring its end.

First Waves Beaver County

  • Year 2025
  • Country USA
  • Runtime 5 min
  • Director Rishi Sethi

Filmmaker in Attendance, Family Friendly, Michigan Premiere

First Waves Beaver County documents the expansion of the Watersmith Guild’s groundbreaking youth environmental education program into the Beaver and Ohio River valleys in the aftermath of the ethylene cracker plant’s penalties for pollution.

Yours, Marquette: A Project Knot Work FIlm

  • Year 2024
  • Country USA
  • Runtime 10 min
  • Director Eleanor Dohrenwend (lead director), Vesper Clark-Bonk, Iris Dohrenwend, Ondine Clark-Bonk, Graceyn Kitchel, Edith Kitchel, Atlas Erdman, Nathie Adams, Aegis Duck MacIvor-Andersen, Charlotte Lester, Zoe Gramana, Levin MacIvor-Andersen

Filmmaker in Attendance, Family Friendly, First Time Filmmaker, Student Filmmaker

A perspective of life in Marquette, MI through the lens of Project Knot Work, a community of 12 self-directed homeschooled kids.

For Nokomis

  • Year 2025
  • Country USA
  • Runtime 11 min
  • Director Ainsley Patterson

Filmmaker in Attendance, Family Friendly, Michigan Premiere, World Premiere, Student Filmmaker

A short documentary about three generations of Ojibwe women from L’Anse, Michigan, sharing their stories about intergenerational trauma.

Beneath The Surface

  • Year 2025
  • Country USA
  • Runtime 6 min
  • Director Nathan Fairbanks

Michigan Premiere

Set against the breathtaking landscape of the Great Lakes, Beneath The Surface follows a group of young girls from a Northern Michigan town as they embark on a summer of self-discovery and adventure including the challenging art of spearfishing in the cold, clear waters of the Great Lakes.

Roots

  • Year 2024
  • Country USA
  • Runtime 12 min
  • Director Danny Schmidt

Has Subtitles

In the Dominican Republic, baseball is more than just a sport—it’s a way of life. Every child dreams of playing in the “big leagues,” and nearly every adult knows someone who has. However, as the nation’s passion for baseball flourishes, its natural environment is under threat from rapid development. Mangroves, which provide vital ecological benefits, are being destroyed to make way for new infrastructure. Despite this, there is hope.