The 50th Anniversary
National Wilderness Conference
Honoring the 1964 Wilderness Act
Presents
Untrammeled
by the U.S. Forest Service Northern Region with many partners
A group of students are taught the values of wilderness through experience on a horse pack trip and share their transformative experience with the audience. Forest Service and Backcountry Horsemen partnered up to lead the youth.
27 min
8:46 pm
Welcome to the
People's Wilderness Film Gala!
Introduction
10 min
7:45 pm
14.Oct/Tuesday
Day One
Tuesday, October 14
Doors open 7:30 pm
End of Day One
See you Sunday for Day Two!
10:14 pm night over
World Premiere
The Color of Wilderness
by Victor Masayesva
The eloquent views of diverse people are revealed, by an independent Hopi film maker, in this collage of perceptions regarding the inception of the Wilderness Act, its purpose, and its complicated relevance thirty five years hence.
12 min 43 sec
8:05 pm
America's Wilderness
by Sarah Gulick, Erin Finicane, and Chuck Dunkerly
The title of a series, this first film is a simple and evocative presentation of the poetic and salient points of the Wilderness Act of 1964.
2 min 50 sec
8:00 pm films begin
Intermission & Talk
15 min
9:03 pm
Gwich’in Women Speak
by Miho Aida, advised by Sarah James and Princess Lucaj, Gwich’in Steering Committee
The women of Arctic Village, in the Brooks Range of Alaska, speak out to protect their way of life, and their ancient interaction with the Porcupine Caribou herd, through wilderness designation of the calving grounds on the coastal plain within the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, “The Sacred Place Where Life Begins.”
19 min 10 sec
8:25 pm
North Cascades Wilderness:
Experience the Awesome
by Sarah Gulick, Erin Finicane, and Chuck Dunkerly, America’s Wilderness series
A sensitive and touching solo backpack trek story told in film as if in a dream, with beautiful mountain scenery, water, insects, and ice.
5 min
8:19 pm
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Tonight's Feature
Yosemite Through the Eyes of a Buffalo Soldier
Produced by Sterling Johnson; written by and acted in by National Park Ranger Shelton Johnson
A historical re-enactment and story of the first protectors of our wilderness and National Parks, from the point of view of a Buffalo Soldier working in Yosemite at the turn of the last century. Hypnotic footage and sounds of the back country wilderness of Yosemite, filmed by following all of the rules of designated wilderness travel. Shelton Johnson appeared in Ken Burn’s documentary, ”The National Parks: America’s Best Idea.”
56 min
9:18 pm
Tuesday
8 pm
Day One
Tickets
Tonight's films, in order