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RANGELEY — The fourth annual Maine Outdoor Film Festival will be at 7 p.m. Friday, Aug. 31, kicking off the Trail Town Festival.
The festival will be from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 1, and feature Franco-American music from the Don Roy Trio of Gorham, as well as food and activities.
The film festival will be at the RFA Lakeside Theater, 2493 Main St. Admission is $6 for adults, and $3 for Appalachian Trail hikers and children under 12.
Refreshments will be available for purchase.
Films include:
“Wild Ice” (3 minutes), a tale of Alaska’s daring backcountry skaters who search out ice on rivers, lakes, glacial lagoons and inside ice caves.
“A Jump Across the Atlantic” (6 minutes) follows the de Koning family who emigrate from Holland to mussel farm in Maine, using with the same techniques they’ve been using for seven generations. Director David Jackel hopes to show how aquaculture can be done sustainability and with great care for the pristine beauty of nature.
Director Hank Leukart and a high school friend take a hiking and packrafting trip to explore the newly minted Bears Ears National Monument in Utah in “Bears Ears” (29 min.), the pair tell of the political battle they discover that epitomizes the culture war sweeping the nation.
In “Brothers” (6 minutes), filmmakers Randy Kerr and Tim Burke tell of the three Burke brothers who find refuge and redemption from their troubled childhood home through their love of fly fishing for steelhead in the Pacific Northwest. In one winter day on the river, the brothers, adults now, persevere through harsh circumstances, never losing hope — for either fish or the enduring relationships they’ve forged on the river.
In “Horns Out” (12 minutes), director Andy Sarjahani follows 77-year-old Maurice Horn as he grapples with sense of place and identity through the earlier loss of his childhood ranch and, now, the imminent loss of what has kept him going since then: climbing.
Katie Brigham’s “Information Station” (9 minutes) explores the cozy culture and spontaneous community of the remote Carson Pass Information Station during one unusually snowy season. Located in California’s Sierra Nevada along the 2,650 mile-long Pacific Crest Trail, the Station is owned and operated by a team of close-knit volunteers who dole out granola, water, and conversation to weary hikers.
The Film Festival closes with “One Week at a Time” (11 minutes) that follows four friends as they circumnavigate New England via sea kayak.
TRAIL TOWN FESTIVAL
The Trail Town Festival is 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 1, on at Haley Pond Park.
There are games, activities and a Gifford’s Ice Cream Eating Contest at 3 p.m., a marshmallow roast, arts and crafts, exhibits, a raffl, and more.
Music will be provided by Don and Cindy Roy, with Jay Young, starting at 12:30 p.m.
Rangeley is one of 35 towns along the 2,180 mile Appalachian Trail to be named an official Appalachian Trail Community — one that actively protects its natural, cultural and recreational resources, including the AT.
For more information on the festival, including ticket prices, call Linda Dexter at Ecopelagicon, 207-864-2771; visit Facebook, Twitter and rangeleytrailtown.com.
For information, visit rangeleytrailtown.com and maineoutdoorfilmfestival.com/2018-rangeley
PHOTO: “Brothers,” a story of loss and recovery, will be one of six films shown at the Maine Outdoor Film Festival in Rangeley’s RFA Lakeside Theater, 7 p.m. Friday, Aug. 31, of the two-day Trail Town Festival. (Submitted photo)
