Mountainfilm on Tour is coming to Woodwell Climate Conversations, bringing a selection of culturally rich, adventure-packed and inspiring short documentary films curated from the Mountainfilm festival held every Memorial Day weekend in Telluride, Colorado.
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Join us for an evening of film, discussion, and connection as we explore the challenges ahead and use the power of film, art, and ideas to inspire audiences to create a better world. Featured films will include Arctic Alchemy, Let My People Go Skiing, and This is a Story About Salmon - learn more about the films below.Â
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President & CEO Max Holmes will lead a short conversation after the films.
Wednesday, March 18Â | 5:00pm - 7:00pm
5:00pm - Reception with beer, wine & light bites
5:55pm - Program starts
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This event will be offered in-person only.
Woodwell Climate has been a Mountainfilm partner and participant since 2019, elevating meaningful conversations that address our climate crisis. Recent events—from extreme weather events to extreme policy actions—have made this work more important than ever.
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Together with Mountainfilm, we are developing festival programs to inspire, educate, and motivate attendees. Our common vision is at the heart of this partnership - it's the foundation for our collaborative work to inspire positive change for our planet.
Arctic Alchemy follows renowned Alaskan adventurer and climate scientist Roman Dial and his team on a 112-mile research expedition above the Arctic Circle. Traveling by packraft and foot through Alaska’s mighty Brooks Range, their goal is to find the source of a mysterious phenomenon poisoning watersheds in the Arctic. Along the journey, Dial reckons with fatherhood, personal tragedy and the power of wilderness to both break us and bring us fully alive.
Confronted with the frustration of false narratives and intergenerational trauma that surround her, Tlingit skier and scientist Ellen Bradley (Tlingit) returns to her traditional homelands in Southeast Alaska. Weaving ancestral knowledge, scientific understanding and passion for her sport, Let My People Go Skiing follows Bradley’s journey to help her community reclaim its place at the forefront of the stories told about their homelands. By dismantling barriers to snowsports for Alaska Native youth, she empowers a generation in hopes that the mountains can teach them what it will take to endure the fight to protect their culture, language and home forever.
Featuring Woodwell Climate Adaptation Specialist Brooke Woods. As traditional salmon fishing comes under threat, Alaskan Native subsistence communities join together to support one another, heal and deliver a powerful testimony to their resilience and resistance.
