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Thank you to everyone who joined us at Festival!
See you again in 2020 at Friday Night Flicks!

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Films on the Road

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Were you unable to join us under the stars?  Don't worry we'll bring them to you.  
These films show solutions to our most pressing concerns. 
​Let's get together at your event for uplifting conversations about real Justice. 


​Click a photo below to see the trailer (if available)
Immigration            Happening in a town near you!
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​STRANGERS IN TOWN
(30 minutes)  The story of how global migration unexpectedly transformed and enriched Garden City, Kansas. It brought great challenges to the community, including demands for housing, social services, education, and infrustucture. For the current students at Garden City High School, the town's remarkable diversity is all they've ever known. 
WINNER AUDIENCE FAVORITE
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PROUD
(13 minutes)
​An Asian American finally learns to embrace her ethnic heritage while growing up in America.
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RAHEEL
​​(Iranian: 30 minutes) An Afghan national, has illegally traveled to Iran to look for her husband, but there comes up some problems that leave her no hope to move ahead.

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​AS THE EARTH TURNS
​​(45 minutes)     1937 sci-fi film that foresaw WWII, future-technology, climate change, and the extreme need for peace, as the world was drifting back into world war again. Adapted with a new score by local Ed Hartman, this was filmed in Seattle.
Equal Rights    ​Moving Forward!
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​​EQUAL FOOTING
(8 minutes) Wyoming’s remote and vast wilderness provides the perfect canvas for Alpinist’s Kim and Julia to redefine preconceptions of the feminine. Isolated and exposed on the raw granite peaks of the Wind River Range, the experience of these two women explores the fabric of loss, life, and friendship.​
WINNER BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY

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BURTON B&A 
(15 minutes)
​​Fifteen years after Burton’s gender-affirming transition, his longtime friend Courtney uncovers a cache of home video from that time period and invites him to go on-camera to revisit the old footage together. This is an intimate portrait of transition, memory, and friendship.
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FLIP THE SWITCH
​​(10 minutes) tells the story of Solar Mamas, women from developing countries who have been trained as solar engineers.
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THE GIFT
​OF THE MAGPIE

​​​(11 minutes) Comedy
​It's carpe diem for a couple of small time grifters on Christmas Eve 1934.


Climate Change     ​          It isn't all bad news!
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RETURN OF THE RIVER
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(69 minutes)
follows a group of strong-minded committed people as they attempt the

impossible: to change public opinion to bring a dam down.
The community comes to a consensus, setting the Elwha River free and showing the way to a more

sustainable future. Amid grim environmental news, this film is infused with hope.  
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WINNER MOST IMPACT
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GIRLS OF A FEATHER
(Egyptian: 30 minutes)
The film documents all the hubbub of life there, through the eyes of the elderly ladies, before it is gone forever.  The ladies sprinkle the place with love, joy and laughter, hence making it more beautiful and radiant.  No wonder, for despite its marginalized status and its seeming poverty, the place is known as "Venice" to those who find it beautiful, and whose hearts throb with love for life.
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​CASCADE CROSSROADS
​​​(31 minutes) Crossroads chronicles the amazing story of seemingly opposite interests joining forces to restore a critical wildlife corridor while improving Washington State’s vital transportation corridor over the Cascade Mountains.
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BLUEFIN​
​(53 minutes)
Tuna are so abundant in the Atlantic Ocean that now that they will precariously eat out of fishermen’s hands. One thing is certain, this sudden abundance of tuna in Canada flies in the face of scientific assessments that stocks are critically down by 90 percent.
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THE RELUCTANT RADICAL
​(77 minutes)
​​The film reveals both the personal costs and also the fulfillment that comes from following one’s moral calling- even if that means breaking the law. The film follows Ken through a series of direct actions, culminating with an action that shuts down all the U.S. tar sands oil pipelines and threatens to put him behind bars for 20 years.
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TROUT COUNTRY
​(14 minutes)   
From the Sierra Club
​Communities along the river come together to develop and implement strategies to begin understanding the river’s climate change-driven changes.
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WE CAN'T EAT GOLD
​​(48 minutes) ​Living off the land, Alaska Natives defend the world's largest salmon runs against the impacts of the world's largest gold mine, the proposed Pebble Mine. The Army Corps of Engineers will soon decide if they’ll permit Pebble Mine.  Watch families fish, as we open a space for tribal elders and youth to share their ways of life. 
not HD 
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SHADOWS AND STONE
​(3 minutes)
​What if the more we looked, the more we saw?
Animation    Sometimes it's just better to hear it, from a friend!
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IN THE HOUSE OF PAPER FLOWERS
(7 minutes)     In a house covered with papery flowers, a woman with white hair, two cats and a tiny wolf songstress learns a valuable lesson about the enduring power of love.
​WINNER BEST ANIMATION
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IMAGINATION
​(4 minutes) We invite you to step back into your childhood and take a look through the lens once again in this stop-motion sensation.
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UNIFIED THEORY
​(9 minutes)  This film is inspired by the scientific learning process. This transcendental adventure across time and space will spark the viewer's curiosity and question their perception of reality.
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​ASHES TWO DUST
​​(8 minutes) Ashes Two Dust is a photo-to-video exploration of impending loss and the growth that one can find in the mindful examination of this ubiquitous experience.
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HOAN ALONE
​(8 minutes)     ​Milwaukee’s Daniel Hoan Memorial Bridge is the crown over Summerfest and has become one of the city’s most recognizable landmarks. But it’s also a popular site for suicides. This animated documentary explores the issues of the bridge and suicide through three intimate first responder interviews. 
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The festival is free, the films are free, donations are appreciated to keep it so.
Saint Matthew's Parish 501c3.
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