2020 MOFF Award Winner: Best Short FeatureFilmmaker: Seth Dahl of Big Cedar Media Total Running Time: 0:19:56 Filming Location: TLRH was shot in Grand Canyon National Park Filmmaker Origin: From Great Falls, Montana currently living in Boise, Idaho Synopsis: The Long River Home is a 20 minute documentary film about overcoming the residual impacts of...
2020 MOFF Award Winner: Best Feature Filmmaker: Sam Klein Total Running Time: 1:17:00 Origin: United States Synopsis: "Carpenters Without Borders have traveled around the world to build, using the old ways. With axe, saw, plumb bob, and chisel, this diverse group of skilled craftspeople restored a medieval bridge at a castle in France, built...
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...
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...
2020 MOFF Award Winner: Best ShortFilmmaker: Anna Burns and Jack Bouchard Total Running Time: 0:04:22 Filming Location: New Hampshire Filmmaker Origin: Maine and New Hampshire Synopsis: Recycled to Ride' features Korey Nolan, a local New Hampshire surfer and surf crafter. Nolan has blended his love of surfing with his passion for environmental advocacy to create...
2020 MOFF Award Winner: Emerging Filmmaker AwardFilmmaker: Eli Haan and Emilia Quinton Total Running Time: 0:30:48 Filming Location: United States Filmmaker Origin: United States Synopsis: In one of the whitest cities in the USA, a queer African American woman disrupts the outdoor adventurer stereotype. Thoughts from the filmmaker: Our Trails Too is more than a hero’s journey....
2020 MOFF Award Winner: Best Maine FilmFilmmaker: Benjamin Keller Total Running Time: 0:13:44 Filming Location: Maine Filmmaker Origin: Maine Synopsis: What makes a great beer? The water of course! How a handful of brewers and conservationists are looking to protect Maine's Sebago Lake Watershed, for beer's sake. This film to be screened at: 8/07/20 - Eastern Promenade...
2020 MOFF Award Winner: Conservation Award Filmmaker: Anjali Nayar Total Running Time: 0:23:22 Filming Location: California Filmmaker Origin: United States Synopsis: Communities for a Better Environment does critical work on environmental justice and empowers Californian communities to stand up to polluting industries and build a green energy future. This short film highlights the hope and tenacity...