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Maine Outdoor Film Festival 2024

Dates with showtimes for Maine Outdoor Film Festival 2024
  • Sat, Oct 12

Midnight weekend screenings happen on Friday & Saturday nights (meaning arrive on Friday and/or Saturday night by 11:45pm for seating, the movie starts after midnight)!

Run Time: 120 min.

Every year, in the Fall, the Maine Outdoor Film Festival (MOFF) makes its way to Bethel to bring outdoor films to the Maine people, where they are. We feel super privileged to be one of the stops on The MOFF Tour of Maine. Please join us for this special event on Saturday, October 12th! PLEASE NOTE: MOFF is a film festival about the outdoors. The screening itself will happen INDOORS! Don’t worry, we’ll keep you warm, dry and well-fed!

Doors: 6:00PM, Buck’s Ledge Access for All Trail Presentation 6:45PM, Show Time: 7:00PM
Admission: $15, $8 for Children 12 and under
Location: The Gem Theater- 48 Cross St, Bethel, Maine 04217
Program Notes: The film program will last about two hours, including a 10-minute intermission.

Maine Outdoor Film Festival Scheduled Program:

SALMON SECRETS – 40.83 minutes – by Jeremy MATHIEU – from British Columbia – Short synopsis: An investigation to understand the impacts of the fish farms industry on the West coast of Vancouver Island.
SAVING SCOTTISH PEARLS – 4.55 minutes – by Eli Matthew Obus – from United Kingdom – Short synopsis: In the Scottish Highlands, freshwater pearl mussels are a particularly prized part of the environment. Julius Caesar invaded Britain to seize the gems, and they even adorn the Crown of Scotland. But poaching and climate change have imperiled the mollusks. Now the likes of environmentalists, hospitality industry players, and whisky distillers are fighting to save the pearl mussels from extinction through an unlikely method: planting trees.
SEA TO SUMMIT – 30 minutes – by Alastair Lee – from United Kingdom – Short synopsis: Join the wild bunch of Jacob Cook, Bronwyn Hodgins, Angela Vanwiemeersch, Kelsey Watts and Zack Goldberg-Poch, along with professional film maker Jaron Pham, as they take on a modern day expedition in Greenland kayaking 450km to access ‘Sanderson’s Hope’- an 800m wall rising straight from the Arctic Ocean.
KNOW TO RUN: YATIKA – 9.97 minutes – by Jordan Marie Whetstone – from Virginia – Short synopsis: When representation is everything, it can make a difference and have a profound impact when community is included in spaces that lack inclusion and diversity.
CRACK BABY – 14.45 minutes – by Mario Heller – from Switzerland – Short synopsis: On 15 February 1993 at the Breitwangflue above Kandersteg in Switzerland, Xaver Bongard and Michael Gruber made the first ascent of Crack Baby. A year later, Bongard died in a BASE jumping accident. In this film Siegrist and Gruber return to pay homage to Bongard.
RESISTANCE CLIMBING – 37 minutes – by Nick Rosen, Peter Mortimer, Zachary Barr – from Not Specified – Short synopsis: In the strife-torn hills of Palestine, a diverse crew of Bedouins, dirtbags and urban professionals embraces climbing as a much-needed respite from the burdens of the Israeli occupation. American writer & climber Andrew Bisharat visits the West Bank to explore his own roots and the power of climbing to transform lives.

Buck’s Ledge Access for All Trail Presentation
Buck’s Ledge Community Forest continues to expand. This time it is to improve Access for All. A wheelchair accessible trail will be built starting in May of 2025. All money raised tonight through the 50/50 raffle will support this improved access for people with disabilities, either short-term or long term. Amy Bannon, from Maine Adaptive, and Jane Chandler, from the Woodstock Conservation Commission, will be present to discuss the trail and how your support can help make it happen.
In addition to Access for older people and people in wheelchairs, Buck’s Ledge has purchased land to provide access for the Woodstock Elementary School to hike to Buck’s Ledge from the school.
The Outdoors should be for All. Please help us reach our goals together.

 

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