Chagrin Documentary Film Fest Offers a Week of Cinematic Immersion

 

Tue 10/1-Sun 10/6

The annual Chagrin Documentary Film Festival kicks off its 15th year at various easily accessible locations around this bucolic small town, with its usual packed schedule of wildly diverse film, both feature length and shorts. Whether you like comedy, beautiful scenery or a heartwarming story, care about the environment, the health care system, or sports, are interested foreign affairs or what’s going on in Cleveland, there’s something for you among the dozens of films on offer.

That includes such films of local interest as Our League, about a transgender woman seeking acceptance in Cleveland’s old-school bowling leagues, and Regenerating Communities, which tells the story of Rid-All Green Partnership which turned abandoned space in Cleveland’s so-called ‘Forgotten Triangle” into a sprawling urban farm. Running for the Mountains looks at West Virginia, one of the country’s poorest, most Republican, most corrupt and most fossil-fuel dependent states, exposing how policies rooted in that state affect the entire region — and country, with its senator Joe Manchin an enemy of climate action. A Good Wolf takes another view of environmental concerns, spotlighting the conflicts between fur trappers and wildlife advocates in Alaska. Lightening things up, 7 Beats Per Minute explores competitive diving.

There are also numerous special events — filmmaker panels, director talks, wine and bourbon tastings, networking events and even a farm-to-table lunch. It ends will a finale party on Sunday October 6. Six-day total immersion is a real possibility! (You can album a ticket to access the films virtually from October 7-13.)

Get a full schedule and tickets here.

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