Mike Libecki: The Time is Now

2019 • USA • 10 min • Aaron Peterson

Family Friendly

This is a family camping story told by my son Josiah. The film takes place during a 10-day canoeing and camping trip to the Slate Islands of Ontario, Canada on Lake Superior. It was scripted from campfire conversations about life, climate change and the natural world that we shared during this and other trips. The film was originally produced in 2018 but not released because I didn’t think it was finished, but in August 2019 Josiah passed away due to a fungal brain infection contracted during treatment for leukemia. He was 10 years old. Now the film has become a memorial to my best friend and adventure buddy, a very special kid that experienced more in his decade than many do in a full life. I ache to know what he would have become, but find joy in all that he was.

2024 • USA • 9 min • Henry Behel

Staff Pick

For nearly everyone, losing your engine is a life-threatening event. Airshow pilot Eric Tucker is one of the few in the world who dares to make it an art form.

2023 • United States • 30 min • Adam Johnson

Family Friendly, Filmmaker in Attendance, First Time Filmmaker

A year in the making - a story of the beauty of a peninsula, the power of its community, and how they overlap in an annual dogsled race.