{"id":2443431,"date":"2019-04-25T16:00:00","date_gmt":"2019-04-25T22:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.aspentimes.com\/?p=304332"},"modified":"2019-04-25T16:00:00","modified_gmt":"2019-04-25T22:00:00","slug":"5point-film-festival-changemakers-on-sea-land-ski-horse-and-rock-around-the-globe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/local-news\/5point-film-festival-changemakers-on-sea-land-ski-horse-and-rock-around-the-globe\/","title":{"rendered":"5Point Film Festival: \u2018Changemakers\u2019 on sea, land, ski, horse and rock around the globe"},"content":{"rendered":"
“Just a Climber (For Bears Ears)”<\/strong>
Courtesy photo<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The 5Point Adventure Film Festival<\/a> has always strived to give audiences more than the usual on-screen, big-mountain thrills.<\/p>\n

Now in its 12th year, the titular five points of the festival are \u201cpurpose,\u201d \u201crespect,\u201d \u201ccommitment,\u201d \u201chumility\u201d and \u201cbalance,\u201d grounding its programs in spiritual principles that have made it a home for stories that go deeper than the steep lines of ski porn (though there\u2019s plenty of skiing on the docket) and aim to reach the heart rather than stroke the ego of another peak-bagging climber (though there\u2019s plenty of climbing on the program, too).<\/p>\n

More than any other program on 5Point\u2019s jam-packed, four-day schedule at its flagship Carbondale festival, the curated 10-movie lineup on Sunday\u2019s \u201cChangemakers\u201d embodies the 5Point mission.<\/p>\n

The annual program, in recent years, has included memorable 5Point entries like \u201cBig Air Max,\u201d about the Snowmass-based adaptive skier Max Grange, and \u201cTen Years Out\u201d about local artist Summers Moore\u2019s artistic journey through grief.<\/p>\n

This year\u2019s selected change-maker titles include the world premiere of director Juan Grobler\u2019s \u201cCowgirl,\u201d about a local Carbondale girl aiming to break into the male-dominated realm of ranching and riding.<\/p>\n

In \u201cThe Woman Who Follows the Wind,\u201d a six-minute profile of a 66-year-old kite-surfer, the change is personal. The short film directed by Audrey Aden-Buie tells the story of Mikkaya Heart who, in her early 50s, saw a kitesurfer on the ocean and decided to buy a kite and give the sport a shot. This whim transformed her life, leading to a life of travel by wind and on water and healing from trauma.<\/p>\n

A similar inner and outer journey is on screen in director Andy Maser\u2019s \u201cIn Due Time,\u201d about adventurers Mike Chambers and Jason Antin making a grueling winter trek across 105 miles of the Arctic Circle in four days. As they set out for the Arctic, Chambers leaves at home a wife pregnant with their first child and Antin leaves his toddler behind. The film tackles the balancing act of outdoor passion and family responsibility.<\/p>\n

\u201cFor so long I defined myself as an adventurer, as a climber, as a runner, and then I met my wife and I defined myself as an adventurer and a husband,\u201d Chambers says in the film. \u201cAnd now we\u2019re adding a kid to that and there are so many things vying for our time. If you know all of those things complete you as a person, then you have to make it work, you can\u2019t let one of those things go away.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cAkuna,\u201d a six-minute doc by Jess Colquhoun, is the story of a young Iraq war veteran with physical and emotional injuries from his service, who hikes the Pacific Crest Trail and the Appalachian Trail on his road to recovery.<\/p>\n

The eight-minute \u201cOsama & Ayman\u201d offers a decidedly 5Point perspective on being a Muslim in Donald Trump\u2019s America. It follows brothers Osama and Ayman Abdeldayem as they skate around Washington, D.C., and confront American Islamophobia.<\/p>\n

The president\u2019s divisive environmental policy is the subject of Greg Cairns\u2019 four-minute short \u201cJust a Climber (For Bears Ears),\u201d following the outdoorsman-activist-poet Luke Mehall fighting to protect Bears Ears National Monument from Trump.<\/p>\n

And 5Point regular Forest Woodward returns with co-directors Anna Callaghan and Marie Sullivan with the potent 12-minute \u201cSacred Strides,\u201d also about threats to public lands at Bears Ears. The trio of filmmaker depict how members of area Navajo, Hopi and Ute tribes, for whom Bears Ears is sacred land, came together for a Healing Prayer Run across the landscape to underscore its importance.<\/p>\n

\u201cYou get Mother Earth one time, you don\u2019t get her a second time, third time,\u201d Navajo Kenneth Maryboy says in the film. \u201cWhere are we going to get another one if we suffocate Mom?\u201d<\/p>\n

Commitment and humility are on view in \u201cDead Last,\u201d which profiles a one-handed young woman\u2019s unlikely journey to compete in the para-climbing world championships. Purpose is the theme of \u201cMy Dear Kyrgyzstan,\u201d a profile of a social media-savvy entrepreneur in the remote mountains of eastern Kyrgyzstan who has lured influencers and titans of industry to make it a vacation destination.<\/p>\n

The \u201cChangemakers\u201d afternoon also includes an encore presentation of \u201cThe Quiet Force,\u201d which 5Point screened in January at the Wheeler Opera House in a rapturously received and conversation-starting event. The eye-opening 35-minute documentary, by Jackson Hole-based ski filmmakers Hilary Byrne and Sophie Danison, paints a multi-faceted portrait of immigrants in American ski towns, their vital place in the tourism economy and the pall of fear cast over the community in the Trump era.<\/p>\n

\u201cThey are the people who keep this machine running,\u201d Ingrid Braun, the sheriff in Mammoth, California, says in the film. \u201cIt\u2019s unseen, the quiet workforce.\u201d<\/p>\n

atravers@aspentimes.com<\/a><\/p>\n

via:: The Aspen Times<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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