Time for Ilhan, Time for Empowered Women

Time for Ilhan, Time for Empowered Women

Time for Ilhan, directed by Norah Shapiro, follows Ilhan Omar as she sets out to make history as the first Somali-American Muslim woman to hold public office in the United States. Any person who has paid attention to the United States in the last year and a half knows...
Stumped: Appealing to the “Disability” Label

Stumped: Appealing to the “Disability” Label

Everyone loves doing what they love; for two-time world champion, Maureen Beck, it’s climbing competitively. But to think this short film is just another climbing film would be an unconscious assumption. Stumped (dir. Cedar Wright and Taylor Keating, 2017) is a...

Mountainfilm Day 5

Today, Kyra Beske and I filmed day five of our trip to the 2018 Mountainfilm Film Festival, including the Closing Picnic and Award Ceremony. We asked our friends about their overall experience at the festival as first-time attendants.  Also, please check out our most...
When Lambs Become Lions: Blurred Lines

When Lambs Become Lions: Blurred Lines

“Out here, we’re all hunters.” In the  darkly cinematic and beautiful When Lambs Become Lions,  moral lines are crossed again and again in the fight for survival in the northern plains of Kenya. Following the stories of cousins Asan and X, and X’s poacher Lukas,...