Saturday Afternoon, Gold Miners InnIn Celebration of Open SpaceTate Yoder, Hannah Webber, Catherine Schmitt, Schoodic Institute | 2019 | 6 minSchoodic Institute at Acadia National Park pursues collaborative solutions to critical environmental problems through discovery and learning. In 2018, we worked with organizations and volunteers from Maine, the United States, and more than 19 different countries to enhance our understanding of the land and seascapes of Acadia National Park and surrounding areas. After volunteers spent time outside walking, observing, and recording data, we asked, what does open space mean to you?
Ferryman at the WallDavid Freid | 2017 | 16 minOriginally proposed as an international peace park with Mexico, Big Bend, Texas has a unique relationship with its southern neighbor. For the past 40 years, Mike Davidson has been ferrying tourists across the Rio Grande for a little taste of Mexican life - but now, a great big border wall might divide the park.
The ValleyRon Melmon, Bryan Reinhart, Christopher Johnson | 2018 | 74 minEver since its transformation from an over-the-hill mining town to a world class ski resort, Telluride has been a diverse mix of ski bums, trust funders, back-to-the-land hippies, liberal second-home owners, urban dropouts, and savvy business entrepreneurs. But the one thing they all agreed upon was that they weren't going to let developers run the show. So when a multinational corporation proposed an Aspen-style development of trophy homes on the 600 acre gateway to Telluride's box canyon, the citizens of Telluride said, “NO WAY!” The Valley is their story.
