2016 Presentation: Works in Progress: Peru, Ice Expedition, Public Lands and a Farm Film

Four Mountainfilm veterans will discuss the daunting process of conceiving, funding and executing a passion project and share clips from their current projects. Mountainfilm Commitment grantee Jim Aikman stumbled across a remarkable story of an anthropologic discovery high in the Peruvian Andes; Taylor Rees and Renan Ozturk followed a team of young British explorers as they attempted to cross Iceland in the middle of winter; Dave Byars, another Commitment Grant recipient, has been examining the battle over public lands in “Untitled Malheur Documentary”; John Chester, who was at Mountainfilm in 2009 with Rock Prophecies, has started a biodynamic farm in Southern California and chronicled the effort on film.