Mountainfilm on Tour Savannah is scheduled for January 21-25, 2025, and will screen over twenty films throughout the five-day festival. The mission of Mountainfilm on Tour Savannah is to educate and inspire local audiences to create a better world through the power of film. Mountainfilm on Tour Savannah is a partner of Telluride-based, Mountainfilm.

The festival kicks off on Tuesday, January 21^st, with Mountainfilm for Students: Movies that Matter, an education program that serves over 11,000 students from Savannah Chatham County Public Schools, Effingham County Schools and local private schools. On-site screenings are scheduled for Yamacraw Performing Arts Center, Beach High School, Jenkins High School, Savannah Arts Academy, Groves High School and Woodville Tompkins High School, Tuesday through Friday.

Evening programs begin on Friday, January 24^th, at 7:00 p.m., at the Cultural Arts Center, with the screening of Between the Mountain and the Sky, an award-winning feature film by director Jeremy Regimbal. After graduating high school in 2005, Maggie Doyne embarked on a gap year in Nepal, where she met Tope, a now grown Nepalese orphan, caring for orphaned children. United in purpose, Maggie and Tope pooled their resources to establish a children’s home, women’s empowerment program and school in Nepal. Years later, their relentless efforts led to Maggie being named the 2015 CNN Hero of the Year. Days after the award ceremony, however, Maggie, who was then guardian to over fifty Nepalese children, faced an unimaginable loss, plunging the family into despair. After a chance encounter amidst her grief, Maggie allowed a filmmaker into her life to document her family and, eventually, her falling in love. Between the Mountain and the Sky explores resilience, love’s impact on loss and a family’s enduring strength to find hope in the darkest times. Director Jeremy Regimbal and film subjects Maggie Doyne and their children will participate in a Zoom Q & A with the audience immediately following the screening.

Saturday night features documentary short films, including Planetwalker, Mr. Cato and To Scale: TIME—in addition to many more inspiring and adventure-seeking films. David Byars, director of the film The Shit-thropocene will be in Savannah for a live Q & A with the audience after his film screening on Saturday night. Thousands of years ago, human brains evolved to seek to acquire unlimited resources. No longer a survival adaptation, this tendency, turbocharged by the speed and ease of online shopping, now results in closets full of cheap, fast fashion, the making of which exploits workers and harms the planet, and most of which quickly ends up in a landfill. The Shit-thropocene is a wacky and darkly funny look at how we got here and asks if there is a better way to fill the modern-day hole in our caveman hearts than by buying shitty products.

Film screenings are at the Cultural Arts Center, 201 Montgomery Street Street, each evening at 7:00 p.m. On Saturday, a family matinee, featuring kid-friendly documentary short films, is scheduled for 2:00 p.m. at the Cultural Arts Center. 

Tickets to all film screenings can be purchased at www.mountainfilmsav.org

For more information about festival events and tickets, visit www.mountainfilmsav.org