If not for AMC canceling the kid flick, I would not have realized that MountainFilm OnTour Savannah had an event today.
So, thanks AMC, for making me look on fb for something else to do!
I've enjoyed this film festival ever since it first came here in 2009.
Based in Telluride, Colorado, it always delivers on action-packed shorts, and today's Family Movie Night was no exception.
Seven films it had for us!
There was also a "Happy Hour" there at the Savannah Cultural Arts Center, to lure folks in a little earlier with food trucks, but also to encourage them to visit booths there with information on various activities and groups - like riding the DOT shuttle and joining Savannah Striders - with swag and brochures to take home.
I chatted a bit with those folks, but I was there for the movies, thanks!
And what an excellent slate of films they had for us!
It led off with "North Shore Betty", clearly made by older folks, including Betty Birrell, who aren't accustomed to watching their language around children.
Just a couple of slips of the tongue, but the footage of that septuagenarian riding her mountain bike on the 'rollercoaster' trail more than made up for that lapse!
Next up was a lovely piece from Japan, "Powder Snow Hokkaido", full of fabulous shots of someone skiing along fluffy white slopes, guaranteed to cool off all watchers.
Then came what was likely my favorite: "Adventures At Home"!
Subtitled "Imagination Is Everything", it began with a Cat In The Hat quote, then entered the mind of a little girl, trapped at home during the pandemic, and determined to have fun.
Good for her... and her family, too!
I just loved watching her dad riding a broomstick like it was a pony and galloping along!
Hahahaha! Hahaha!
"Finding Hetch Hetchy" followed two rock climbers as they scaled a remote peak in this area of Yosemite National Park.
Left isolated when this valley was flooded by a dam in 1923, a movement is afoot (got that little joke, that tiny pun?) to have the dam closed and the valley drained so it is once again accessible to park visitors and climbers.
I wish them good fortune in their endeavors.
Then came one with a boy watching TV about a skier, Ben Buratti (not to be confused with the earlier "BB" in this festival), with athletes from other sports interspersed.
That turned out to be "Write Your Own Line", with the boy standing in for a younger Ben, dreaming of the day his name would be known with that of his heroes.
Dreams are good, especially when they become reality.
That message was delivered in "The Ocean Solution", a longer documentary, showing the farmers of tomorrow, gathering both flora and fauna from small plots of the sea.
Well, small horizontally, that is.
These plots go all the way down to the ocean floor, with depth stages for maximizing yield.
I'm guessing Jacques Cousteau never dreamt of such harvests!
Every "crop" is totally sustainable, too, and easily recovered in case of drastic storms.
Land farming certainly doesn't have that ability.
Nice to see this view of the future!
And the very last film was super short and super fast!
"Fuel" was a fun piece, again with snow skiing, this time with a young woman who has found her dream job as a professional skier.
Thank you, Patagonia Provisions for several of these films, as well as those of the past.
I've been to these long enough to recognize the mark of excellence upon the films that they support with financial backing.
Thank you, also, Telluride Film Festival for bringing these films to the flat marshland that is Savannah, as well as other towns not near peaks, snow-capped or not.
i thank You, God, for this unexpected bounty today.
(smile!)
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