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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...

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...

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...

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...

Special Note: Maine Premiere Filmmaker: Mike Wilkinson Total Running Time: 00:20:00 Filming Location: Kentucky Filmmaker Origin: Michigan Synopsis: Ice climbing in Kentucky?! This adventure documentary takes the audience for a bourbon-fueled ride deep into the bushy hollers of Appalachia with a crew of harmless misfits as they race to search out and climb new ice routes...

Filmmaker: Johann Vorster Total Running Time: 0:12:00 Filming Location: Cameroon Filmmaker Origin: South Africa Synopsis: Imagine a fish so big that some call it the elephant of the river. Imagine it inhabited the waters of 1/4 of the African continent in vast numbers. Now imagine, that largely unseen to the developed world, a wave...

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...

Filmmaker: Rebecca Hynes Total Running Time: 0:04:00 Filming Location: United States Filmmaker Origin: United States Synopsis: Three river surfers become obsessed free divers, reuniting lost belongings and unearthing the water logged history of the Deschutes River. This film to be screened at: 7/30/20 - Late Show - Thompson's Point - Portland ...

Special Note: United States Premiere Filmmaker: Say Mahalo Total Running Time: 0:03:17 Filming Location: In Italy, at Lago di Resia Filmmaker Origin: Germany Synopsis: "Just Be" is a short movie about the art of living wide rather than living long. "Life's short, they say. But...

Special Note: New England Premiere Filmmaker: Kevin Mcgee & Brandon Bondehagen Total Running Time: 0:03:10 Filming Location: Fairbanks, Alaska Filmmaker Origin: Portland, Oregon Synopsis: Mini Doc. about a dog musher in Fairbanks Alaska and how he and his dogs work with each other in hard winter conditions. Thoughts from the filmmaker: It was a challenge keeping our equipment...