Filmmaker: Tom Attwater Total Running Time: 0:09:00 Filming Location: United States Filmmaker Origin: United States Synopsis: Jason Cajune is a boatbuilder that grew up in the mountains of Montana. Every year his family takes a river trip. Last summer, they decided to float through the Upper Missouri Breaks National Monument on their way to...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Filmmaker: Rob Johnson Total Running Time: 00:07:29 Filming Location: United Kingdom Filmmaker Origin: United Kingdom Synopsis: Charlie Leeds (aka Mark Valentine) has become a bit of a legend in the outdoor world. Famously a modern day hard man, working as a bouncer on the streets of Leeds, his cover was blown when visitors to...
Filmmaker: Sam Davies Total Running Time: 00:05:45 Filming Location: Muscongus Bay, ME Filmmaker Origin: Vermont Synopsis: In the first episode of Taking Care, we’ll head to the rugged coast of Maine to meet John Connelly, a volunteer for the Maine Island Trail Association (MITA). Though it’s one of the lesser-known trails in the Northeast,...
Filmmaker: Henry Iddon / Richard Berry Total Running Time: 00:10:00 Filming Location: United Kingdom Filmmaker Origin: United Kingdom Synopsis: Is it possible to ski at least once a month in Scotland for a year, or even ten years? 'Hilly Skiing' follows the story of one remarkable Scottish skier - Helen 'Hilly' Rennie - who...