Boy Scouts of Rahway

I worked closely with Tom Mason on Hard As Nails (Mountainfilm 2007), so it’s a pleasure to program his work, which is all over the festival this year. His film, The Boy Scouts of Rahway, takes a tongue-in-cheek look at a competition of Boy Scouts in New Jersey who engage in various contests, such as route finding and fire starting. The team to beat is the Scorpions who take these challenges seriously. Mason was also a cinematographer and co-producer on The Good Mother and has a photography exhibit at the Strong House called "The Fabric of Brooklyn." —DH