FILMS

Big Mountain Soul - Ski Africa, co-directed by Brendan Russo & Cameron Sale (Breckenridge, CO local), produced by Jonathan Correia and John M. O’Connor, the film delivers high-intensity adventure with cultural depth.

Bright Harvest: Powering Earth From Space, produced by philanthropist and Caltech trustee Brigitte Bren and written, directed, and produced by Steven Reich— tells the story of three Caltech professors whose decade-long collaboration led to the world's first successful demonstration of wireless power transmission from space to Earth in 2023.

Carrying Capacity: The Hunt for Resilience, directed by Zach Montes (Denizens of the Steep), takes audiences into the rugged landscapes of Wyoming, where the future of bighorn sheep hangs in a delicate balance. As disease, habitat limitations, and growing populations threaten the herd’s survival, wildlife managers, scientists, and hunters are forced to confront difficult questions about what it truly means to protect a species.

Crystal Cross, written and directed by Richie James Follin (Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, The Science of Sleep, This Means War), award winning American musician, writer, actor, filmmaker, and a proud citizen of the Cherokee Nation.

Earth’s Greatest Enemy, directed by Abby Martin and Mike Prysner (Gaza Fights for Freedom), is an investigative documentary exploring the often-overlooked environmental footprint of global military operations. Through powerful journalism, striking visuals, and stories from impacted communities, the film invites audiences to consider the complex intersection of war, power, and our planet.

Greenfield, produced and directed by Rob Herring (The Need To Grow, Farmacy of Light, Let Them Be Naked), is an intimate look into the mind and mission of Robin Greenfield, who challenges what it means to live in harmony with the Earth. His radical simplicity invites us to question what we truly need to be free, fulfilled, and human.

Hell, a stop-motion animation short directed by Parker Croft (As Easy As Closing Your Eyes, Suncatcher), is the first installment of the Hard Times anthology. Set on a dying farm on the outskirts of Ash Harbor, the film follows a patriarch slowly ground down by the machinery of despair—where endurance gives way to something far more existential. A haunting portrait of collapse told through dust, labor, and silence.

Medicine Ball, directed by returning festival filmmaker Leya Hale (The Electric Indian, Bring Her Home) and produced by Sydney Beane (Ohiyesa: The Soul of an Indian), follows Native college athletes Lexus Redthunder and Leroy Fairbanks IV as they navigate college life and basketball at the University of Minnesota Morris, located on the site of a former Native boarding school.

No Greater Act: Pueblo Resistance, directed by David Aubrey, written by Maura Dhu Studi, narrated by Wes Studi, is a groundbreaking documentary by Silver Bullet Productions that tells the fascinating story of Indigenous resistance to Spanish colonization of New Mexico. The foundation for methods of resistance today, this is not a history of Pueblos, nor the Pueblo Revolt, but an account of early resistance.

Time and Water, directed by Sara Dosa, is a poetic documentary that follows Icelandic writer Andri Snær Magnason as he confronts the loss of his country’s glaciers and his own family history—transforming memory, science, and storytelling into a reflection on time, water, and what is slipping away.

Farmer’s Daughter, directed by Melissa Bloom (Adult Swim’s Robot Chicken and David O’Russell’s American Hustle), founder of The Sisters Bloom, an eco-conscious stop-motion animation studio in Kalispell, Montana.

The Liars of Black Mountain Road, directed by Parker Croft (As Easy As Closing your Eyes, Suncatcher), written by Parker Croft and Nolan Gould (Modern Family), with executive producers Abigail Breslin, (Little Miss Sunshine) and Elisa Croft (Suncatcher), is a story where a couple competes for the moral high ground at any cost.

The Water Keepers, directed by Daniel Glick and produced by tribal members Robert McDonald and Casey Ryan, is a documentary that offers a revealing look at a group of tribal field technicians who laid the groundwork for one of the largest American Indian water settlements in history and honors the work of tribal scientists, technicians, and elders while showcasing the importance of, and dedication to, protecting natural resources.

UNMUTED, is a docuseries directed by Dena Hysell-Cornejo and Gil Marsden, and executive producers Charlotte Lubert, Ariel White, and Daniel Lubert, with interviews led by Constance Wu (Crazy Rich Asians), Marie Avgeropoulos (The 100), and Torrey DeVitto (Chicago Med). Unmuted follows individuals and communities reclaiming their voices after conflict and systemic silencing.