Wild & Scenic Film Festival – Ely, July 22

"The Canoe King of Ely"

Join the Friends in Ely on the Thursday before the city’s popular Blueberry Arts Festival to watch award-winning films from around the world about nature and environmental issues. This is the second year that the Friends has sponsored the film festival in Ely.

Details

• When: Thursday, July 22 – 7 p.m.
• Where: Washington Auditorium, 600 East Harvey St., Ely (map)
• Cost: $8 adults/$5 children 12 and under

Sponsors

• Presented by Friends of the Boundary Waters Wilderness
• Sponsored by Border Lakes Outfitting, Piragis Northwoods Company, Raven Productions, River Point Resort, Wintergreen Dogsled Lodge

Films

This year’s event will feature the following films. Check out their trailers!

The Canoe King of Ely
Bill Rom’s passion for the woods and lakes of Minnesota’s canoe country led him to transform the middle-class of America after WWII by making it fun and affordable to have natural recreational experiences.

Big River
This film investigates the environmental impact their acre of corn has had on the people and places downstream.

Flathead Wild
In July 2009, a team of photographers, scientists, local conservation organizations, and cameramen documented the beauty and the destruction of the Flathead Valley in Canada, which is threatened by mountain top removal and methane drilling proposals.

Split Estate
Imagine discovering that you don’t own the mineral rights under your land, and that an energy company plans to drill for natural gas two hundred feet from your front door. Imagine having little recourse, other than accepting an unregulated industry in your backyard.

Generations: A Perspective on Climate Change
This film humanizes the debate on climate change by exploring the delicate balance of winter and the intrinsic value of snow to people across generations and cultures.

Precious Waters
This film, produced by the Friends of the Boundary Waters Wilderness in 2009, takes a hard look at the risks of new sulfide mining proposals in northeastern Minnesota.

Ride of the Mergansers
This perennial favorite documents life in a northern Minnesota merganser nest with unprecedented footage. With humor and joy, watch a mother merganser as she lays eggs, as the eggs hatch, as she finds relief from the chaos of the nest box, and ultimately coaxes her offspring out of the nest and into the world.