{"id":25305,"date":"2024-10-18T21:57:01","date_gmt":"2024-10-19T03:57:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/mancos-valley-river-film-festival-returns\/"},"modified":"2026-03-30T23:14:16","modified_gmt":"2026-03-31T05:14:16","slug":"mancos-valley-river-film-festival-returns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/mancos-valley-river-film-festival-returns\/","title":{"rendered":"Mancos Valley River Film Festival returns"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The official poster for the Mancos Valley River Film Festival. (Courtesy Mancos Valley Resources)<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p>\n

On Saturday, Oct. 26, the sixth annual Mancos Valley River Film Festival will take place downtown at the Mancos Opera House.<\/p>\n

That evening, doors will open at 5:30 p.m., and the first film will screen an hour later.<\/p>\n

But attendees are welcome \u2013 and encouraged \u2013 to come early.<\/p>\n

They\u2019ll be serving tamales and a variety of beverages, thanks to local vendors. The menu includes wine from Hand in Hand, cider from Fenceline, beer from the Mancos Brewing Co., a nonalcoholic beer from Elite Liquor Distribution and Skagua \u2013 nonalcoholic sparking water \u2013 from Durango\u2019s Ska Brewing.<\/p>\n

Plus, local vendors donated goods for a silent auction, which starts when doors open.<\/p>\n

There\u2019s everything from a beer of the month club card from the brewery to a gift pack from Fenceline to local jewelry and pottery, said Sarah Tingey, a co-owner of Alpacka Rafts, which puts on the festival with Ren Yates, the owner of the Hand in Hand Shop.<\/p>\n

Last year, Fahrenheit Coffee Roasters put out a gift basket \u2013 they are this year, too \u2013 and people were bidding on it \u201clike sharks,\u201d Tingey said with a laugh.<\/p>\n

\u201cMy favorite part of the festival is getting to work with all the local supporters we have,\u201d said Tingey. \u201cWe get so much local support.\u201d<\/p>\n

Tingey and Yates have organized the festival together for a few years now.<\/p>\n

\u201cDivide and conquer seemed doable, and it\u2019s a fun thing to do with your friend,\u201d said Tingey. \u201cEvery year, we\u2019re able to build in more efficiencies and take slightly better notes about what we did the year before that didn\u2019t work, or volumes of food and wine that we go through.\u201d<\/p>\n

As far as films go, there will be seven of them, and screening starts at 6:30 p.m.<\/p>\n

The first round of films concerns Indigenous relationships with water.<\/p>\n

Three of the films are contributions from the Tribal Water Media Fellowship, which was created to introduce Indigenous perspectives on water to non-Natives and fellows, who are most all Fort Lewis College students, said Colten Ashley.<\/p>\n

Ashley said the stories are \u201chard-hitting journalism\u201d and change the voices and narratives surrounding water issues.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s the first time the film festival in Mancos has partnered with the Tribal Water Media Fellowship and they\u2019re really excited about it, Tingey said.<\/p>\n

One of the films, School of Fish, debuted at the Banff Mountain Film and Book Festival and won the best short film at that festival last year. It focuses the salmon in Bristol Bay in Alaska and the controversial Pebble Mine threatening it.<\/p>\n

A 30- to 40-minute intermission comes next, giving viewers the chance to stretch their legs, mingle and refill their drinks.<\/p>\n

The second half of the evening will begin with a short, four-minute film about a family of climbers with an autistic daughter named Freya. It focuses on her, and how she uses the sport to inform the rest of her life and social situations.<\/p>\n

The festival will close with \u201cThe Forgotten Coast,\u201d the film featured on the festival\u2019s poster.<\/p>\n

It features Steve Fassbinder, a local who\u2019s a head guide and co-owner at Four Corners Guides. It\u2019s all about Iceland\u2019s glacial river systems, and offers beautiful cinematography of the area.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s a visually stunning piece,\u201d Tingey said.<\/p>\n

Tingey coordinates the film part of the festival, largely by reaching out to connections she\u2019s met over the years at Alpacka and elsewhere. She said nobody has ever turned down her request to show a film.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think part of that is because of the local, small, quirky nature of the film festival. Even if a film is on tour with a larger, well-known festival, generally it\u2019s OK if we show it here because we\u2019re off the radar,\u201d Tingey said.<\/p>\n

Tickets are available online beforehand on the Mancos Valley Resources website<\/a>. There will also be tickets at the opera house on Saturday, but sometimes it sells out beforehand, Tingey said.<\/p>\n

Adult tickets are $25, tickets for kids under 18 are $15, and infants are free, said Dana Sprayberry-Thompson, an administrator at Mancos Valley Resources.<\/p>\n

All proceeds from ticket sales, the silent auction, beverages and tamales benefits Mancos Valley Resources, \u201can incubator for grassroots projects in the Mancos Valley\u201d for more than 25 years, according to its website.<\/p>\n

It supports things like The Giving Tree, Mancos FoodShare, the Mancos Valley Farmers Market, Mancos Trails Group and more.<\/p>\n

\u201cAll those projects roll up under MVR; it\u2019s fun to see how much support and enthusiasm there is around all the local businesses and individuals,\u201d said Tingey. \u201cEveryone is so excited about supporting MVR and the projects they administratively support.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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