TY RATTLER - BLACKFEET ENDURANCE RACER - 2 min
People from all over come together during the Heart Butte Powwow in Montana to watch the Endurance Race - an action packed horse race where the rider even swims with the horse.

IN THE SHADOW OF COAL: RUNNING FROM COAL DUST - 3 min
"Running From Coal Dust" Single mother Rose Bolach began researching coal dust when coal trains doubled, then tripled heading to western ports. Coal dust is linked to diseases that are especially harmful to children. With the school one hundred yards from the tracks, she decided she needed to do something.

"A Strip Mine is Forever" Rancher Steve Charter has been fighting since the 1970's to keep coal operations from destroying his family's ranch. Since then, he has watched the coal industry erode the safeguards he's fought so hard to establish. Now the threat of strip-mining on his ranch looms.

"Some Places Shouldn't Be Industrialized" The Otter Creek Valley sits atop the largest coal deposit in the lower forty-eight states. It's also home to some of Montana's most productive farms and some of the last unindustrialized grasslands. Wildlife filmmaker Dawson Dunning shares why Otter Creek is worth protecting.

"Preserving the Homeland For Seven Generations" The Northern Cheyenne Reservation sits atop Montana's largest coal reserve. Alaina Buffalo Spirit and the Northern Cheyenne Tribal Council stand up "as warriors" to stop the nearby Otter Creek Mine, the largest open-pit coal mine proposed in the lower forty-eight states.

"Keeping a Ranch That Can Be Passed On" Jeanie Alderson's family has been ranching Montana's Tongue River Valley since 1889, weathering world wars and the Depression. Jeanie's water is now threatened by proposed coal mines that must drain the aquifer to extract the coal. In arid Montana, water is life.

PROPERTY - 4 min
This poignant, award-winning documentary short reveals a day in the life at the National Wildlife Property Repository---a little-known 22,000 square-foot warehouse outside of Denver where wildlife items confiscated at US ports of entry are stored. The Repository currently houses more than one million items. The film is told through the eyes of Doni Sprague, an employee who has worked there for 20 years cataloguing, tagging, bagging and shelving illegal wildlife items on a daily basis.

RIDING GRACE - 7 min
Tony Monroe has ridden his horse every day through the gang-ridden neighborhoods of Fresno, California with the hope of being a presence for change. His two-and-half-decade dedication leaves him at a critical transition--who will continue after him?

THE CONFLUENCE - 16 min
This short documentary focuses on the controversial Escalade Development, a proposal which would take a gondola to the bottom of the Grand Canyon where the Colorado and Little Colorado Rivers meet. The confluence is sacred to the Navajo people because their creation story teaches that this is where people first emerged into our world. As the film follows a group of Navajo activists fighting to protect this sacred site, we explore how places like the Grand Canyon shape human identities in profound ways.

THE WIZARD OZ - 24 min
Oberon Zell-Ravenheart, known simply as "OZ", is a self-described wizard who created a life for himself that is truly stranger than fiction. His tale conjures stories of unicorns, mermaids, a serial killer and the most cryptic magic of all, love.

VARICELLA - 25 min
he tender and trusting relationship between two sisters with a common dream: becoming a soloist ballet dancer.

THE NO HAND KING - 31 min
After years in prison and learning to balance on a chair for hours in his cell, Rodney Hines was able to get out and ride wheelies using no hands with the talent and muscles he developed while incarcerated. In dreams of setting a world record, he attempts to ride the length of the NC Outer Banks on one wheel. Problem is, it's over a hundred degrees and he's doing it without water. The film is a true character study of determination and triumph in the face of adversity and one man's journey to become The No Hand King.

(Total 112 min)

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