Sometimes, the best way to find ourselves is by traveling. This session features the 2024 People's Choice Award-Winning Film, <a href="https://wsff.eventive.org/films/65735fdac626a2002c2cc857" target="_blank">Out There: A National Parks Story</a>.

Tracing History&nbsp;follows a Chinese American filmmaker and her mother as they contemplate loss, legacy, and the stories that get left out of History while visiting sites where their Chinese ancestors labored to build the transcontinental railroad six generations ago. They travel to the Sierra Nevada Mountains and the Great Basin Desert. From Montgomery Pass, where 150-year-old artifacts lay strewn across the ground, to catfish pond, where catfish brought by Chinese laborers still survive a 7,000 feet elevation, to Paoha Island on Mono Lake, where Chinese finally found refuge after a racist mob chased them out of town, they travel and retrace their own History, and find the space to open up about the present and deepen their relationship to each other.

Tracing History

A Chinese-American filmmaker invites her mother on a journey of self-discovery and reclamation as they tour the railroad sites built by their ancestors six generations ago.

A young filmmaker sets out on a 10,000-mile exploration of the national parks with his childhood friend during the centennial year of the formation of the National Park Service. Along the way, they record stories of the people who work in the parks and those who come to enjoy them as part of the rich tapestry of the park system's history. Between spectacular visuals of the parks and compelling interviews are colorful bits of old maps, posters, and travelogues.&nbsp; Co-presented by <a href="https://nevadacityfilmfestival.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Nevada City Film Festival</a>

Out There: A National Parks Story

Two childhood friends embark on a 10,000-mile road trip through the U.S. national parks, revealing a profound tapestry of stories from the people they meet.

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