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2020 MOFF Award Winner: Best Film From AwaySpecial Note: Maine Premiere Filmmaker: Nick Martini Total Running Time: 00:20:00 Filming Location: Los Angeles, CA Filmmaker Origin: Franconia, New Hampshire Synopsis: In the rugged White Mountains of northern-New Hampshire, Lahout’s has remained open 365 days a year since 1920. While technology and conglomerates have stripped the country of...

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Special Note: New England Premiere Filmmaker: Henry Kinder Total Running Time: 0:16:48 Filming Location: Utah, USA Filmmaker Origin: Brooklyn, NY Synopsis: Desert Mourning is a film about what is lost when landscapes change. Focused on the ongoing conflict over the Grand Staircase-Escalante national monument in southern Utah, this short documentary investigates how individuals from different communities...

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Filmmaker: Leigh Murphy Total Running Time: 0:06:53 Filming Location: United States Filmmaker Origin: United States Synopsis: A young girl is upset about her father's constant cell phone use taking away from their playtime. One night, she dreams about taking the phone high into the mountains to hide it from him. But, was it really...

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Filmmaker: Ben Sturgulewski, Zack Giffin Total Running Time: 00:24:20 Filming Location: United States Filmmaker Origin: United States Synopsis: Two best friends with very different views on life embark on a search for a mythical unskied mountain. This film to be screened at: 8/02/20 - Late Show - Thompson's Point - Portland...

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Special Note: United States Premiere Filmmaker: Leandro Pérez Total Running Time: 0:03:40 Filming Location: Argentina and Chile Filmmaker Origin: Tinogasta (town), Catamarca (city), Argentina (country) Synopsis: Memories are a strange thing. They are similar to dreams in a sense, it's that almost blurry thing that we can only see in our mind, but no matter how...

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Filmmaker: Elaine Elliott Total Running Time: 00:25:50 Filming Location: United States Filmmaker Origin: United States Synopsis: Filling the Void is Steep South's first short film focusing on Chattanooga climbing and land acquisitions with original footage of Denny Cove. When Denny Cove opened in 2016, it was one of the biggest Access Fund climbing acquisitions...

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Special Note: Maine Premiere Filmmaker: Jim Picariello Total Running Time: 0:09:40 Filming Location: Downeast Region of Maine Filmmaker Origin: Brooksville, ME Synopsis: After Leigh is cut off from her cold, wealthy mother, and witnesses the arrest of her loving-yet-scheming father, she attempts to support herself by capitalizing on her love of wild mushrooms. But while foraging...

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Special Note: Maine Premiere Filmmaker: Maximilian Armstrong Total Running Time: 00:13:40 Filming Location: Massachusetts Filmmaker Origin: USA Synopsis: Hiking the nearly 2,200-mile Appalachian Trail is a mammoth undertaking. Those up to the task could use a little help from this benevolent, chain-smoking Trail Angel who drives the only white van you want to accept candy from. Thoughts...

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Special Note: United States Premiere Filmmaker: Vincent Ricci / Mathilde Fiet / PVS COMPANY Total Running Time: 00:06:00 Filming Location: FRANCE / SWISS Filmmaker Origin: French Alps Synopsis: Poetic depiction of a woman chasing the light across nature through her condition as a human being. Thoughts from the filmmaker: Insitu is not about performance, you'll dive in the...

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2020 MOFF Award Winner: Inspiration AwardFilmmaker: Leigh Anne Sides Total Running Time: 0:34:00 Filming Location: United Kingdom Filmmaker Origin: United States Synopsis: Myrtle Simpson - trailblazer, pioneer, adventurer, mountain climber, polar explorer, writer, and mother. In 2017, over fifty years after she became the first woman to cross the polar ice cap covering Greenland, she...