Kailey Kornhauser and fellow “fat cyclist” Marley Blonsky are on a mission. A mission to change the idea that people with larger bodies can’t ride bikes. They aim to make …
Kickass Ladies
16 films at Fresh Coast 2021
All Bodies on Bikes
Awakenings: A Revolution of Love
“A Revolution of Love” is a short film that follows a young Black woman as she grapples with the histories of her ancestors, the present-day violence ravaging her community, and …
Color Out Here: Shaping Narratives
Filmmaker in Attendance, Subject in Attendance
Alice Lyn (she/her) is a sustainability professional and outdoor enthusiast. Born and raised in Brooklyn, NY, Alice relocated to Michigan where she attended college at Northern …
DURGA: Forging a New Trail
Staff Pick, Filmmaker in Attendance, Has Subtitles
“DURGA: Forging a New Trail” tells the story of 34-year-old Durga Rawal, the only guide of any gender from her village in northern Nepal. In a country where boys …
Gretchen Metsa and the Arrowhead Ultra
Filmmaker in Attendance
Gretchen Metsa is a northern Minnesotan woman who was diagnosed with Type 1 Diabetes when she was 19. After almost giving up running when she found managing her blood sugar while …
Iron Family
Filmmaker in Attendance, Subject in Attendance, Staff Pick, Michigan Premiere
Jazmine Faries, a 32-year old woman with Down syndrome, is obsessed with soap operas, Barbie dolls, and Matthew McConaughey. For the past 5 summers, her family has performed her …
Joint Effort
Joint Effort is a poetic ode to Zoe Zeerip’s lifelong battle with Junior Rheumatoid Arthritis. Everyday Zoe Zeerip pushes back against a condition that conspires to hold her …
Mission Mountain
Filmmaker in Attendance
Raising cattle doesn’t usually rate as an earth-friendly practice. Amy O’Hoyt, a first-generation rancher, can confirm. So she bucked the standard way of producing beef to finish …
Native and American
Native and American follows Holly Spaude as she navigates her tribe’s blood quantum standard. Through working to help preserve the endangered Potawatomi language, Holly has come to …
Open Water
Open Water is a short documentary film about what it feels like to swim across the largest freshwater lake in the world. It follows 61-year-old open-water swimmer Marilyn Korzekwa …
Overland
Filmmaker in Attendance, Staff Pick, Michigan Premiere
Adventure unfolds across four continents as an eagle hunter, a hawk whisperer, and a falcon racer awaken an ancient art to connect to the wild that is fading out of sight and out …
Pedal Through
Pedal Through invites us into the world of director-lead Analise Cleopatra as she discovers the healing and joy of mountain biking. Analise had never camped or ridden a bike off …
Reclaimed
Filmmaker in Attendance
Chisholm, Minnesota is barely a dot on the map. But this small town on the Mesabi Iron Range of Minnesota once provided the ore to build the tanks and planes of World War II and …
This Land
Runner and advocate Faith E. Briggs used to run through the streets of Brooklyn every morning. Now, she’s running 150 miles through three U.S. National Monuments that lay in the …
Traverse City's Not So Haunted Past - The Northern Michigan Asylum's creation and fall.
First Time Filmmaker
A middle school student was assigned the task to create a documentary that shows how perception altered history. She went into the project simply thinking that a local mental …
Wood On Water
Staff Pick
An all girl canoe tripping documentary. Over six weeks of summer, this all-girl group paddle traditional wood-canvas canoes through the remote northern wilderness, travelling a …