Leelanau films part of Fresh Coast Film Festival: Traverse City

Surfing, Leelanau Style by Andrew McFarlane

The Glen Arbor Sun shares that the inaugural Fresh Coast Film Festival: Traverse City runs April 30–May 3 at seven venues throughout Traverse City and prominently features Leelanau faces & places:

Opening night festivities will play for free at 7pm tonight at the Bay Theatre in Suttons Bay & other regional venues.

Grant Piering, creative media specialist at the Leelanau Conservancy, and Conservancy board member Nick Loud both have shorts in the festival. Mike King’s film “Lake Michigan Gets Swell” and “Restoring Northern Michigan’s Rivers” both feature the County. The Conservancy is a partner on opening night and will also offer a walk and talk experience at DeYoung Natural Area on Sunday. In addition, a Conservancy short featuring tribal member Eva Petoskey is part of the special Water / Ways program on Saturday morning.

Presented by the nonprofit Old Mission Culture Company, the festival features more than 50 documentary films celebrating the outdoor lifestyle and spirit of the Great Lakes and Upper Midwest, with nearly two dozen filmmakers attending from 11 states.

Tickets & lineup on the Fresh Coast Film Festival website. While I’m not sure if this is the short film by Eva Petoskey they’re showing, but it’s a beautiful meditation that reminds us we are stewards, not owners of this land we live on for a very short time.