Fresh Coast Film Festival

OCT 16-19
MQT, MI

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OCT 16-19, 2025 • Marquette, MIchigan

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Is It Worth It?

  • Year 2025
  • Country USA
  • Runtime 8 min
  • Director Summit Olson
  • Notes Adult Language, Michigan Premiere, First Time Filmmaker, Student Filmmaker, Filmmaker in Attendance
  • Topics
    • Animals
    • Climate Change
    • Current Events
    • Environment
    • Midwest

Film Synopsis

A 17-year-old’s first film offers an intimate look at the climate crisis, current events and a trip West through a teenagers eyes. It is brave to admit you are scared.


Showings

Fri, Oct 18 Friday, Oct 18
Fri2:00PM

Blessed are the Senders

Blackrocks Brewery

  • 26,000 Days
  • This is Jackson Marvell
  • Seeing Double
  • Made out Here
  • The Bike Listening Tour
Sun, Oct 20 Sunday, Oct 20
Sun10:00AM

Blessed are the Senders

Ore Dock Brewing Co. - Community Space

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

Trust

PWPL – Heritage Room

  • Is It Worth It?
  • To Trinity
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  • Bouncy Brothers
Sun, Oct 19 Sunday, Oct 19
Sun12:00PM

Trust

Women's Federated Clubhouse

  • Is It Worth It?
  • To Trinity
  • Trust
  • Bouncy Brothers
  • Filmmakers in attendance
  • Subjects in attendance
  • Contains adult language
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Filmmaker in Attendance, Subject in Attendance, Has Subtitles, First Time Filmmaker, World Premiere, Making Waves Recipient, Staff Pick

After turning her Chicago home into a monarch butterfly sanctuary, Claudia Galeno-Sánchez, an environmental activist, Mexican immigrant, and mother is on a mission to save the monarch butterfly, an important symbol for both her family and millions of others in the United States.

Weathering the Change: Climate Adaptation at Rush Creek

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Following in his father’s footsteps of polar exploration, captain Peter Schurke takes us up the West coast of Svalbard in a small sailboat, dwarfed by the towering mountains of this arctic archipelago.

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Fresh Coast Film Festival
221 W Washington St
Marquette, MI  49855

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