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OCT 16-19, 2025 • Marquette, MIchigan

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Edgelands

  • Year 2025
  • Country USA
  • Runtime 14 min
  • Director Ben Weaver
  • Notes Family Friendly, Michigan Premiere, World Premiere, Making Waves Recipient
  • Topics
    • Biking
    • Canoeing
    • Environment
    • Family Friendly
    • Midwest

Film Synopsis

Using relationship as a method of storytelling, Edgelands explores urban green spaces to see what’s thriving despite impositions of modern infrastructure.


Showings

Fri, Oct 17 Friday, Oct 17
Fri2:00PM

We Remain

PWPL – Community Room

  • This is FLINT | Mama Sol
  • The Wild Mile: A River Reborn
  • The Last to Leave | saving the ash tree from extinction
  • Gigiigemin Baaga’adoweyang “We are healed by stickball”
  • Voices of The Grand River
  • Edgelands
Sat, Oct 18 Saturday, Oct 18
Sat10:00AM

We Remain

PWPL – Shiras Room

  • This is FLINT | Mama Sol
  • The Wild Mile: A River Reborn
  • The Last to Leave | saving the ash tree from extinction
  • Gigiigemin Baaga’adoweyang “We are healed by stickball”
  • Voices of The Grand River
  • Edgelands
Sun, Oct 19 Sunday, Oct 19
Sun12:00PM

We Remain

Ore Dock Brewing Co. - Community Space

  • This is FLINT | Mama Sol
  • The Wild Mile: A River Reborn
  • The Last to Leave | saving the ash tree from extinction
  • Gigiigemin Baaga’adoweyang “We are healed by stickball”
  • Voices of The Grand River
  • Edgelands
  • Filmmakers in attendance
  • Subjects in attendance
  • Contains adult language
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