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*Director Tommy Haines & Executive Producer Tom Haines Attending*
From the Minnesota-based filmmaking team that brought us the 2008 Festival hit Pond Hockey. 500 years have passed since the conquistadors sailed, but the fever for gold persists. Gold Fever witnesses the arrival of the global economy to formerly remote San Miguel Ixtahuacán where a new mine has turned the town on its head. Caught in the crosshairs of a worldwide frenzy for gold, three people defend their ancestral lands in the face of long odds, and grave consequences.

Filmmakers Attending
Earth Day screening

Living With the Land is a documentary about people who use what is naturally in their environment in their everyday lives. Subjects include an environmental artist, a forager, woodworkers, an archaeologist/trapper, and a systems engineer. Learn about wild food and medicine, making tools from bone, creating art from found natural objects, having fun building furniture, and designing a modern off-the grid home.

Filmmakers Attending

Feature Narrative. A young high school shop teacher buys her first motorcycle with her wedding dress money, leading her away from her controlling fiancée into a new circle of motorcycle friends who are attracted but threatened by her newfound sexual freedom. As she learns to ride, she must interpret their offers of advice and mechanical assistance: are they subtle forms of control? Or crucial knowledge, without which she might get herself killed?

*Director Nina Davenport Attending*

Filmmaker Nina Davenport redefines both ‘family’ and ‘documentarian’ in this self-portrait of a single 40-year- old who decides to have a baby. Davenport turns the camera on herself, inviting the audience into all aspects of this process: from the earliest deliberations between friends and family to well-past the birth of her baby. First Comes Love is a touching and moving documentary, and a credit to Davenport who is both an affecting director and a compelling character.

*Directors Matt Anderson & Producer Taylor Feltner Attending*

Underneath the gorgeous photography of a diverse, interconnected planet, Fall and Winter creates a dark portrait of an entire civilization unaware of its impending demise. This documentary examines the technological, ecological, and social structures our entire society is built upon, only to find the entire world is on the verge of total collapse. While its message appears dire, Fall and Winter’s mission is to educate and call to action a society only beginning to see the warning signs.

Preceded by The Capsule

Filmmakers Attending
Feature Documentary. A woman faces tragedy and hardship as a young girl in Depression-era Kansas, but grows up to fight the battle for equal justice and for women’s equality during the 1970’s, opening the doors of opportunity for generations of women who will come after her.

Director Desmond Bell Attending!

Director Niccoló Bruna Attending
Dust: The Great Asbestos Trial documents how asbestos use has been steadily increasing, despite a large majority of developed countries banning the known carcinogen.

The journey begins in 1915 when a young German skater ignites America’s love with dancing on ice. The Fabulous Ice Age chronicles a century of theatrical skating.