CEFF 2023 Festival

Special Places Collection

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6 films in package
Voices of the Grand Canyon
Before the Grand Canyon was a national park, it was the ancestral homeland of Native peoples. But rarely do tourists hear firsthand from modern Indigenous people whose cultures, worldviews, and livelihoods are inextricably tied to the region.
Closed captions available
Chasing Glaciers: Cordillera Blanca
Climate change is destroying the glaciers of the Cordillera Blanca in Peru. The artist, Cake, travels to the region and uncovers a web of conflicts, imminent risks, and a strange phenomenon where the local environment is contaminating itself.
Monumental Divide
Ever since the establishment of the Grand Staircase National-Escalante Monument, the town of the Escalante, UT has been divided between locals and everyone else. When a couple moves in hoping to be an active part of this small community, they are forced to come to terms with a complicated cultural divide.
Closed captions available
Greenway
An enriching tale of how a once abandoned and dangerous railroad line is now a beautiful stretch of walking path decorated on each side with gardens, murals, and parks.
The Last Tree
An average Joe who reflects on Easter's ecological fate wakes up, and everything suddenly stops working. Is it Murphy's law, or is "The Overshoot Day" haunting him?
Special Places Collection Filmmaker Conversation

Films Included:

  • Voices of the Grand Canyon (CC available)
  • Chasing Glaciers: Cordillera Blanca (English subtitles)
  • Monumental Divide (CC available)
  • Greenway (OC)
  • The Last Tree (English subtitles)
  • Virtual Recorded Filmmaker Q&A

Total Run Time = 170 minutes


*This is a Captioned Collection. Captions are accessible and convenient for all regardless of age, size, disability, or ability. This collection may include films with optional closed captions, open captions, English subtitles and films with no dialog (only instrumental music). Closed captions are optional and may be turned off at the viewer's discretion.

Ancash is a province in Peru known for its emblematic landscapes of the Andes: Snow capped mountains, turquoise lagoons and lush valleys. But did you know all of this natural beauty could disappear at the end of this century? This part of the Andes is known as the Cordillera Blanca and it contains 60% of the glaciers in Peru. Over the last 50 years they have lost more than 40% of their mass due to Climate Change. The water that comes from these giant blocks of ice during the summer months play a vital role in the ecosystems, the towns and cities of the region. Without the glaciers there is no year-round water source and without water there is no life. In Chasing Glaciers, our protagonist, the artist Cake, starts an adventure to see how Climate Change is impacting the people of Ancash. He finds a web of conflicts, economic interests, imminent risks, and a strange phenomenon where the local environment is contaminating itself.
  • Year
    2022
  • Runtime
    29 minutes
  • Country
    Peru
  • Premiere
    Colorado
  • Social Media
  • Director
    Mark Albert Gregory
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