Maine Outdoor Film Festival 2023: The Song Sparrow Program | Shorts Block
Maine Outdoor Film Festival 2023: The Song Sparrow Program | Shorts Block
Join The Maine Outdoor Film Festival, presented by ReVision Energy, for a two hour program of outdoor adventure and conservation short films, shown outdoors, at the Eastern Prom.
- The film program will last about two hours, including a 10-minute intermission.
- Please bring your own camp chair/blanket.
- Outside water/snacks are allowed.
- No pets allowed.
- Film program is subject to change.
Schedule of Films:
DRIVING SWEEP - Gregory Cairns - 10 Min.
Few river guides ever get the chance to drive Idaho's Iconic sweep boat. Driving Sweep follows Katie Veteto as she learns how to "drive sweep" down the Middle Fork of the Salmon River. She's learned the rapids and the river, but can she stand on a 4,000lbs raft and drive it safely down steep rocky rapids?
THE BEAR COAST - Andrew Ackerman - 17 Min.
Despite the number of protected wildlife areas along Alaska's Bear Coast, the fractured, disconnected landscape of the national and state park systems exposes brown bears to many threats. This short, informative documentary centers multifocal storytelling with a local, diverse cast of characters to provide a nuanced account of contentious environmental issues that have real, lived impacts for Alaska Peninsula residents and bear populations alike.
BAGUS LAGI - THE DREAM NEVER ENDS - Alexandre Ribas - 25 Min.
After 3 years of impediments and restrictions during the pandemic, free surfer Pedro Booman had the opportunity to finally return to Indonesia and its infinite perfect barrels and waves. Finding many lonely tubes with a few other lucky surfers, Pedro’s adventure comes complete with amazing surf days, but also challenges and tension. It’s a trip that can only be described through the Indonesian expression Bagus Lagi - meaning ‘good again’.
WILLIS BEAL: A LIFE ON THE WATER - Bob Krist - 11 Min.
A look at the life of legendary Downeast boatbuilder Willis Beal of Beals Island.
LOVE - Tara Reynvaan Kerzhner - 15 Min.
After a miscarriage and a historic ascent of the famous sport climb Dreamcatcher, Paige Claassen follows her own path as a professional athlete training through pregnancy, finding new meaning in strength and identity through the early days of motherhood.
DARK NIGHTS GOLDEN DAYS - Jamie Oshima - 49 Min.
In ‘Dark Nights Golden Days’, the Oshima Brothers tell the story of their lives as artists and siblings. They depict a world torn apart by climate change that is consoled by people and art, and explore the joys of nature that they enjoyed growing up in Maine. The visual album dances between themes of addiction to technology, lost love, climate change, and life’s many simple pleasures.