touch of telluride for hinesville!

Believe it or not, we've had our tickets for this since May 20th!

That's because I have seen the audience for the Telluride MountainFilm on Tour Savannah grow since it's beginnings in 2009.

 

Today was the Summer screening for families, and it was free.

As in, no cost to anyone, thanks to the City of Savannah.

So, I had forwarded the email to my nieces and nephews, encouraging them to register for their own free tickets... and Christina did so right then!

 

This evening, Christina was there, rain and all, in a minivan that she bought a month ago, packed with Miyah and Chloe and Anthony!

Hooray!!!

Anthony even saved us seats in the front row, there at the lovely theater in the Savannah Arts Academy, while the girls got ice cream.

Hooray!!!

I sat in the next row, right behind the girls, which worked well.

 

That's because not all of the films were in English, but had subtitles, though those were beyond the ability of our 8-year-old and 6-year-old girls.

The second film was spoken in Swedish, and was directed by the daughter of the elderly couple who had lived and worked at the weather observatory at Falsterbo.

Once I noticed the girls getting restless, I started reading the subtitles for them, sometimes paraphrasing for words they would know.

That worked out great for the 24-minute film!

Miyah and Chloe were even commenting to me along the way as they learned about bird banding and how this couple met over 36 years ago.

"The Last Observers" truly was a love story to this life they'd lived.

 

"Near The River", the fifth film, was the only other movie with subtitles.

Filmed in Zambia, this one concentrated on three porters who worked on the Zambezi River, where tourists came to kayak, among other activities.

Although the official language in Zambia is English, only one of the porters spoke it; the other two spoke one of the many dialects there.

Christina had moved next to Miyah, so she took over the reading of subtitles.

Still, I think it was good that the documentary was just 11 minutes long.

There was no love story to keep the girls interested.

(smile!)

I think my favorite was "Unseen Peaks"!

The documentary had Addie Hugan at its center, a blind athlete fearlessly granting her trust to others so she could rock climb and snow ski.

Wow!

The other movie shorts in this 7-film festival were: "Sisterhood of Skiing", about women skiers; "The Wintering Grounds", about a group of trick kayakers that travel to Georgia to the Chattahoochee River every year; "Ascend", featuring three Afghani women rock climbing in Yosemite National Park; and "One Inch From Flying", a followup to the 2014 short about highline walking in the North Cascades National Park.

Plus, we were treated to a bonus!

Angelina Plowe graduated in May from SavArtsAcad, but we were there for the screening of her film, "Low Country Fishin' ", about the local scene here, including Captain Judy's Charters. I already saw other films from her in May, but not this one.

How wonderful to see it here, in the company of family!

(smile!)

After two hours of movies, and after Christina had investigated the changes at the school she graduated from almost a quarter century ago, we were off to dinner!

Carey the H on Waters was our destination.

Slow service, wrong orders, and a nearly invisible waitress named Destiny.

Guess she was our destiny to give us more time together!

Yes, that's my story, and I'm sticking to it.

(smile!)