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MQT, MI

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OCT 16-19, 2025 • Marquette, MIchigan

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When Hope Breaks Through

Screened at FCFF 2023

  • Year 2023
  • Country Canada/USA
  • Runtime 89 min
  • Director Matthew Wagner
  • Notes Filmmaker in Attendance, Michigan Premiere, Family Friendly, Staff Pick, Making Waves Recipient
  • Topics
    • adventure
    • great lakes
    • midwest
    • michigan
    • sports

Film Synopsis

Disabled paddleboarder Mike Shoreman attempts to become the first person with disabilities to paddle across all five great lakes. In doing so he raises money and awareness for the mental health crisis.

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When Hope Breaks Through

2023 • USA / Canada • 5 min • Matthew Wagner

Filmmaker in Attendance, Subject in Attendance, Family Friendly, Staff Pick

Mike Shoreman becomes the first disabled person to Paddleboard across all five Great Lakes! He has done so in order to raise money for mental health in Canada and the United States. This short promo points to a 2023 full length documentary.

Michigan's Skiing Legacy

2024 • USA • 52 min • Ryan Busch

Filmmaker in Attendance, Subject in Attendance, Family Friendly, Michigan Premiere, World Premiere, Staff Pick, Making Waves Recipient

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Troubled Water

2023 • USA • 71 min • Davis Huber

Filmmaker in Attendance, Family Friendly, First Time Filmmaker, Representative in Attendance, Staff Pick

Troubled Water is an exhilarating adventure, conservation film that beckons viewers to follow along on a transformative journey down the stunning coast of Lake Michigan. As the journey unfolds, the film unveils the significance of the Line 5 pipeline issue, the dire need for collective action and the historic precedent that this movement would establish. If successfully shutdown, it would become the first active pipeline in US history to be terminated before it ruptures.

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