Mountainfilm - Big Green World Screening

Spend your afternoon with the living world and the people paying attention to it. Big Green World is a playlist of documentary shorts from Mountainfilm.

Run time: About 1 hour 50 minutes, including a 15-minute intermission. The SCA bar opens 30 minutes before the screening and again at intermission.

Films in this playlist:

• A Mystical Ornithology (11 min): On his 46-acre farm in rural South Carolina, poet and ornithologist J. Drew Lanham trades calls with the birds that stop over during their migrations.
• Fish for the Future (5 min): After the Palisades fire, biologists and volunteers race to rescue one of the last endangered steelhead trout populations before mudslides wipe out their habitat.
• Shaped by Land (17 min): Adam Kjeldsen, one of the only Inuit ski guides in Greenland, pursues a more sustainable vision for ski tourism rooted in land, community and culture.
• My Grandmother’s Sketchbook (13 min): A few simple sketches from his grandmother’s sketchbook send Max Romey on a generational scavenger hunt halfway across the world.

Intermission

• Mountain Guides: Barometers of Change (7 min): Mountain guide Angela Hawse heads into the Arctic, where her life’s work collides with a rapidly warming planet.
• Plant Life (24 min): Dr. Joanne Chory pursued a question bordering on heresy: what if plants didn’t need light to grow? Facing her own mortality, she turns to one last urgent experiment.
• The Sound of Japan (7 min): Immersive visuals of Japan’s mountains and cities meet a soundtrack composed entirely of sounds recorded on location.

Content notes: Shaped by Land contains potentially heavy subject matter (a hunting scene).

Make it a day: grab lunch downtown beforehand, then stay for The Medley at 7:30 pm.

Want to see all three playlists? Click HERE for the $85 VIP pass.