Back around Memorial Day weekend, the annual Mountainfilm Festival was held in Telluride, Colo., highlighting the community of filmmakers and creatives that, through their documentary films, inspire audiences to create a better world.
Every year, after the festival, the Mountainfilm Tour travels across the world, sharing some of the year’s most inspiring films with the masses. This Saturday, Sept. 13, the tour is making a one-day stop in the Hamptons, at the Southampton Arts Center (25 Jobs Lane, Southampton, 631-283-0967), beginning at 6 p.m. Spearheaded and hosted by longtime Southampton resident Elyn Kronemeyer, who, along with her husband, Jeff, would spend her winters in Telluride, is in her eleventh year of organizing the tour’s Hamptons stop, with the intent to both raise community consciousness and to foster unity.
“We have a very diverse community [here in the Hamptons],” she says, “and I feel that this is a way to bring people together, to help and sort of show them other people and communities from around the world. It’s an easy way to help share what’s going on in the rest of the world with the people here.”
Subject matters of the films run the gamut, ranging from adventure to environmental to human interest stories. Saturday’s event at SAC will feature screenings nine short films. “It’s about an hour and a half long program,” says Kronemeyer. “The films run between two minutes to about 20 minutes.”
Films at the annual Mountainfilm Tour’s Hamptons stop this Saturday will include stories about elite athletes, a master cobbler, skiers, an NYC driving instructor and ordinary people that are actually extraordinary human beings. (Photos courtesy of R. Couri Hay Creative PR)
The lineup of short films set to be sceened on Saturday include MOMO directed by Michael Schwartz, White Gold by Amon Barker, And Again by Wiley Kaupas, The Changebaker by Courtney Dixon, Tiger by Loren Waters, Your Last Best: A Memphis Rox Story by Glen Janssens, Shanti Rides Shotgun by Charles Frank, Dago’s Boots by Paul Collins, and One Inch from Flying by Jim Aikman and Taylor Humphrey.
“This is one night where the whole community can come together and just all at once see all of these different stories, Kronemeyer says. “And it’s very heartwarming and very moving. I really try to choose films about people that you may sort of interact with every day, but you don’t really know the back story. There’s some heavy things in some of these films, and I think it’s important for people to realize that life isn’t all sunny, you know, there’s not always a happy ending. But I think it’s important for us to appreciate each other and appreciate what each person is trying to do.”
Tickets to Saturday’s Mountainfilm Tour at SAC are $10 per person, free for members. To snag yours, click here.
