Mountainfilm On Tour Savannah Film Festival

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Join us for the Mountainfilm on Tour Savannah Film Festival

Schedule of Events:

Family Matinee   
2:00 p.m.

Judy's Creek: Discovering the Life of the Streambed
2023 USA - Duration: 5 mins
Directed by: Jeremy Monroe, David Herasimtschuk

Follow ecologist, educator and author Dr. Judy Li into the world of caddisflies, the artisans of the aquatic world. With contagious passion, Judy shares how her childhood curiosity led to a career in freshwater science and how she has found ways to share the joys of science with audiences of all ages.

The Rock Pool Waltz
2021 Australia - Duration: 8 mins
Directed by: Marlon Denning

Directed and created by 14-year-old Marlon Denning, The Rock Pool Waltz is the story of the unlikely friendship Marlon discovers while looking to nature for connection during the solitude of COVID-19.

Frosty Formulations
2023 USA - Duration: 8 mins
Directed by: Page Buono

Frosty Formulations is an energetic seven-minute film that uncovers the cool chemistry behind ice cream. Join the spirited Dr. Maya Warren as she dives into the microscopic magic that makes ice cream simultaneously solid, liquid, and gas

Freya
2023 UK - Duration: 4 mins
Directed by: Natasha Brooks

Leo Houlding's daughter, Freya, uses climbing as a practice to lean into discomfort and fear to help navigate her neurodiversity and harness its strengths.

From a student

"Freya is nine years old and has autism, so when she feels afraid of big birthday parties or going to the store, she remembers what climbing has taught her: It's ok to be scared. Freya finds peace in nature with her family, where she can be herself." — Caroline Merritt, age 14

The Ugandan Quidditch Movement
2023 USA - Duration: 15 mins
Directed by: Ben Garfield

In Uganda, an unlikely sport is driving social change. That sport is quidditch. After a chance encounter with a Harry Potter novel, a dedicated teacher brings the magic world of chasers, beaters, seekers, quaffles, bludgers and the golden snitch to the students at Good Shepherd Primary School in Katwadde Village. As they train for an upcoming tournament, the quidditch community they create helps the kids smash taboos about gender, learn teamwork and overcome poverty.

Desert Wings
2023 USA - Duration: 3 mins
Directed by: Nathan McBride

Desert Wings brings the unique sport of paramotoring to light showcasing talented pilots exploring the dramatic landscapes of the American Southwest

Saturday Night Shorts   
7:00 p.m.

Time is a Funny Thing
2023 USA - Duration: 5 mins
Directed by: Jeremy Grant

Time is a Funny Thing is an exploration of time and how doing what we love makes it disappear. Professional mountain biker Tyler McCaul looks back on his career through the lens of his older and younger selves.

Planetwalker
2024 USA - Duration: 31 mins
Directed by: Dominic Gill, Nadia Gill

In 1971, John Francis (Mountainfilm 2008) witnessed an oil tanker collision in the San Francisco Bay. The sight of oiled birds on the shoreline caused him to give up motorized transport and speaking, convinced that listening was the way forward. He spent the next 17 silent years earning the name Planetwalker. Over the many miles, his idea of environmentalism was changed by the people he met and broke bread with. At 77 years old, Francis now both talks and rides in cars. Planetwalker recounts much of his internal journey and explores the weblike and sometimes deeply personal consequences of his decades of pilgrimage.

Planetwalker was formerly titled A Symphony of Tiny Lights

Asking Less
2024 USA - Duration: 4 mins
Directed by: Pete McBride

The Colorado River is one of America's most valuable and iconic rivers. Photographer and author Pete McBride has been following this river for over two decades. He shows us the stark reality of our water crisis within this river and the remarkable beauty and resilience of this ephemeral source of life.

Mr. Cato
2024 USA - Duration: 23 mins
Directed by: Ryan Ross

Mr. Cato is an elementary school teacher and pro BMX flatlander who changes his students' lives by teaching them how to ride and care for bikes, as he attempts to bring his sport back from the brink of extinction in the U.S. While overcoming his struggles and vying for a spot in the Summer Olympics, Mr. Cato uses the two wheels that have given him so much in order to make the world a better place.

To Scale: Time
2023 USA - Duration: 10 mins
Directed by: Alex Gorosh

On a dry lakebed in California, a group of friends attempt to build a scale model of time: a true illustration of cosmic evolution and our place within it. Over miles, they lay out tiny lights representing important moments in the history of the universe: the Big Bang, the meteor that killed the dinosaurs and the beginning of human civilization. The result is time represented by distance and the recognition that although we are alive for the briefest moment — in this demonstration, the width of a hair — our lives are a gift from the universe that we must spend wisely.

The Thropocene
2024 USA - Duration: 31 mins
Directed by: David Garrett Byars

Thousands of years ago, human brains evolved to seek to acquire unlimited resources. No longer a survival adaptation, this tendency, turbocharged by the speed and ease of online shopping, now results in closets full of cheap, fast fashion, the making of which exploits workers and harms the planet, and most of which quickly ends up in a landfill. The ****-thropocene is a wacky and darkly funny look at how we got here and asks if there is a better way to fill the modern-day hole in our caveman hearts than by buying ****** products

Featuring a special Q&A with Director David byars

Never Too Old
2024 USA - Duration: 5 mins
Directed by: Patty Jen Arndt, Stash Wislocki

At one time Libby James held more running records than Flo-Jo and Usain Bolt combined, yet most likely you have never heard of her. She is considered the grandmother of women's competitive running despite not having started running until she was 35. Libby is proof that you can be almost famous—and still lead a fulfilling life.

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