Thank you for your interest in hosting your own POW Stoke Fest!
The following list of films will have their own screening toolkits. All you need to do is download the file(s), gather your friends, prep the snacks, and enjoy the show!
Don’t forget to let us know how your event went afterward – we’d love to hear about it.
Saving Silence
Runtime: 15:00
Saving Silence explores mental health and the importance of public lands by investigating the people and places surrounding the Boundary Waters Canoe Area of Northern Minnesota. We follow professional photographer Emily Tidwell as she returns home to explore how nature saved her life while talking with local characters such as Arctic Explorer Lonnie Dupre and Sawbill Canoe Outfitters owner Clare Shirley about why this area is essential to protect. Furthermore, Emily investigates, in collaboration with Desert Research Institute in Reno, Nevada, the status of microplastics around the world, whether we are finding them in the most remote places on the planet, and how many exist in one of the most pristine and visited wilderness areas in America. This majority female-led cast highlights the most significant act we can do as citizens to make change: using our voices and voting for change.
Purple Mountains Live Free Or Die
Runtime: 31:00
Professional snowboarder and POW founder Jeremy Jones has always had a deep connection to the outdoors. Itʼs not just his escape—itʼs his identity, his passion and his legacy. Growing up in New England, Jeremy carved out his beginnings in the mountains, but in the years since, heʼs witnessed troubling changes: wilder weather, fewer snow days and mountain towns struggling to survive. In this sequel to Purple Mountains, Jeremy returns to his roots in New Hampshire, revisiting the mountains that shaped him. Motivated to protect the places he loves, Jeremy embarks on a journey to bridge the political divide over climate change. He finds common ground with outdoor enthusiasts from all walks of life, understanding their hopes and fears while tackling the issue head-on—from the Mount Washington Valley to the unfrozen waters of Lake Winnipesaukee. With stunning visuals and raw emotion, Purple Mountains Live Free Or Die offers a timely perspective going into the most critical election of our lifetimes: we may stand on different sides of the climate debate, but our shared love for the outdoors can bring us together.
How To Recall
Runtime: 6:00
Created by professional mountain biker Christopher Blevins, How To Recall communicates that solving climate change means a reorientation of our natural connections with the outdoors. Through animation and spoken word, it highlights the stark reality of our societyʼs exploitative ways, but more importantly, it shows the simple reality of our human connection to our environment. Through a blend of artistic animation and spoken word poetry, How To Recall examines the reality of climate change and the theme of how our natural connections to the land can inspire solutions.
Beyond the Summit
Runtime: 34:00
In April 2022, POW Athlete Alliance member Kit DesLauriers and her self-supported team traveled across a portion of Alaska’s Coastal Plain, which is currently planned for seismic oil and gas exploration. During their journey, the team conducted snow depth measurements using a citizen-science approach to help determine whether actual snow depths fall within the range cited by the BLM in its Record of Decision as acceptable for oil exploration. Based on DesLauriers’ previous travels across the Coastal Plain, her hypothesis is that the snow depths found will not meet the stated minimum of either a nine-inch average or three inches over the highest tussocks.
During the expedition, DesLauriers and her team also made the first ski descent of the second highest mountain in the Brooks Range, Mt. Hubley, making DesLauriers the first person to ski the five highest mountains in the United States Arctic.
Drop
Runtime: 18:45
Starting at the top of the Continental Divide in the US, Drop follows the westward path of a single drop of water until, around 1,500 winding miles later, it spills into the Pacific Ocean. Along the way, we meet the men and women who live, work and play on these rivers—people who work tirelessly to ensure that these waters, and all they support, are healthy. Through this dedication, hard work and passion, Drop illustrates how the water connects us all.
Purple Mountains
Runtime: 53:02
Professional snowboarder Jeremy Jones has watched winters change drastically during his 45 years spent in the mountains. More extreme weather, fewer snow days, and economic strain on mountain towns. And yet, climate change remains a divisive issue. In the new film Purple Mountains, Jeremy seeks common ground in the heart of America’s purple states, having honest discussions with individuals who don’t see eye to eye with him.
An Imperfect Advocate
Runtime: 20:57
In the rarefied air of the world’s wildest mountains, alpinist Graham Zimmerman has seen firsthand the effects of human-driven climate change on the world. As his eyes have been opened to the irreversible damage that humans are doing to the planet, he has been forced to acknowledge that he is complicit in destroying these places that he loves. Despite his own carbon footprint, Graham decides that he must take action and joins Protect Our Winters in the fight against Climate Change.
Usufruct
Runtime: 9:42
Usufruct is a short film about three friends on an atypical bikepacking trip near Durango, Colorado. Instead of planning a route with the best riding or most scenic vistas, they opt to ride through burn zones and beetle kill areas, diving into the impact and implications that climate change is having on their home trails.
Their goal is to learn what they can do–and what we all can do– to start to change the tide.
Sam & Me
Runtime: 30:00
At 13 years old, Sam was in a dark place. His climate anxiety was so bad he was having trouble sleeping at night. In an attempt to ease his stress, Sam writes to pro skier and climate advocate Mike Douglas, asking for advice.
Seeing some of his own young self in Sam, Mike invites him on a weekly ski meet-up to talk about climate, skiing, and life. In the process, the duo shares some epic ski days and an inspirational message that can help others jumpstart their own personal climate advocacy journeys.
300 Miles Melting
Runtime: 24:00
Climate change is our planet’s number one threat. And one of its biggest targets is being overlooked: New England. While major ski resorts maintain an image with overwhelming snowmaking, the backcountry of this region paints a real picture of what’s going on. And there’s no better place to look than Vermont’s Catamount Trail, which spans 300 miles up the length of the state.
Enter 300 Miles Melting: A film that follows skier and activist, Torey Lee Brooks, as she attempts to ski—and learn from—the entire Catamount Trail amidst a turbulent winter. Along the way, we meet brilliant minds, including Bill McKibben (author and activist), Shelby Semmes (Trust For Public Land), Dr. Liz Burakowski (University of New Hampshire), and Matt Williams (Catamount Trail Association).
Breath of Gloster
Runtime: 8:00
With her project, Peyton Thomas aims to educate and mobilize those in Gloster, MS where a wood pellet biomass production facility stands to threaten the health and safety of local rural and minority communities. Following a community ultra (walk/run/bike) event through the Homochitto National Forest, there will be an educational event about the wood pellet industry and redistricting to empower and encourage people to vote for the forests and communities.
Ultratraining
Runtime: 9:00
In the modern era, cars and planes have turned the train into an antiquated form of transportation. ‘Ultratraining’ follows rickey gates on a trip through the southwest, traveling by train.
Punchline
Runtime: 10:00
Meet Eland Stribling (AKA @blackstevesrwin), a wildlife biologist, stand-up comic and fly fisherman based in Denver, Colorado. Eeland loves to fish and he loves to tell jokes. He’s passionate about wild places and the comedic lens, but also forthright in his endeavors to pursue outdoor education for conservation purposes. Follow along as Eland blends a unique mix of comedy, stewardship and environmentalism in Punchline, a film meant to teach us the importance of laughter as we protect the places
we live and we love.
Shining Mountains
Runtime: 17:00
In 1850, Glacier National Park was the site of over 150 glaciers. They were so vibrant that the Blackfeet People living there called the region “Land of the Shining Mountains”. But by 2015 only 26 glaciers in the park remained. For professional trail runner and POW Athlete Alliance member Mike Foote, Glacier National Park is a place he’s developed a deep connection to over the last 20 years and has personally watched the landscape change due to climate-related impacts. Inspired by his love for this land, Mike, along with partners Jennifer Lichter and Steven Gnam, set out to complete a never-before-attempted route to visit and document the remaining vestiges of ice that shaped the incredible landscape.
Soñadora
Runtime: 7:00
Soñadora. Visionary. Dreamer. Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA). These are the definitions the “Soñadora” film crew is grappling with in their film featuring Vanessa Chavarriaga. The film begins by reading Vanessa’s own words in Spanish: “I was born in the heart of the world. In a land of abundance and love. There, everything flows. The rivers and the páramos. The laughter of my aunts follows me like a drop of rain flowing into the sea.” Throughout the film, Vanessa’s original writing will guide the audience through the complexities of what it’s like to be stripped from one place to be dropped in another and asked to excel just to be constantly rejected.
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Soñadora. Visionaria. Acción Diferida para los Llegados en la Infancia (DACA). Estas son las definiciones con las que el equipo de filmación de “Soñadora” está lidiando en su próxima película con Vanessa Chavarriaga. La película comienza leyendo las propias palabras de Vanessa en español (traducidas aquí): “Nací en el corazón del mundo. En una tierra de abundancia y amor. Allí, todo fluye. Los ríos y los páramos. La risa de mis tías me sigue como una gota de lluvia que fluye hacia el mar”. A lo largo de la película, la escritura original de Vanessa guiará a la audiencia a través de las complejidades de lo que es ser despojada de un lugar para ser dejada caer en otro y pedirle que sobresalga solo para ser rechazada constantemente.
Provide
Runtime: 11:00
POW Creative Alliance member, Micheli Oliver, has a special relationship with the outdoors. It’s a place for them and their family to create a bond of reciprocity and gratitude with the land they live, play, and provide for themselves on. In Oliver’s new film Provide, we follow their family as they journey back home to northern Colorado to learn from their father, uncles, and cousins in hopes of healing their relationship with the natural world.
The First Traverse
Runtime: 7:00
In the 1980s, climber, author, and conservationist Laura Waterman and friends completed the first female winter Presidential Traverse, a 19-mile trek across New Hampshire’s White Mountains.
Their achievement redefined what women could do in the outdoors and inspired a deeper respect for wild places. The First Traverse brings Laura’s words to life through her own narration, paired with the visual portrayal of athlete Hilary McCloy, who embodies Laura’s journey across the same frozen ridges decades later. The film explores what drives us into harsh, beautiful places and how our relationship with winter continues to evolve.
The Mind is the Environment
Runtime: 8:00
The Mind is the Environment is an abstract 5 to 8-minute animated short exploring the connection between mindfulness, consciousness, and climate action. Created by POW Creative Alliance member Nico Schiavone, the film blends surreal, dreamlike visuals with poetic storytelling to show how being present can reconnect us to nature and inspire change. The animation is equal parts meditative and mind-bending, inviting viewers to step out of constant thought and into deeper connection. By merging art, philosophy, and climate awareness, the project reminds us that the environment isn’t something separate from us; it’s something we are, and something we can protect together.
Mountain Guides: Barometers of Change
Runtime: 7:00
In 2010, POW Athlete Alliance Member Angela Hawse became the 6th female IFMGA mountain guide in the United States.
Mountain Guides – Barometers of Change, created by POW Creative Alliance member Chris Shane, follows Angela into the Arctic, where her life’s work collides with a rapidly shifting planet. As a guide, she’s spent decades leading people into some of Earth’s most awe-inspiring places and witnesses the impacts of climate change with her own eyes.
Guides stand on the front lines of our warming world. Angela believes that gives them a powerful voice, one that can inspire, educate, and mobilize people to protect the places we love most.
Created in collaboration with Polar Bears International and Black Diamond Equipment, and filmed during the 2025 UN International Year of Glaciers’ Preservation, this story highlights how firsthand connection to threatened landscapes can turn all of us into lifelong ambassadors for the places we love.
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Feast or Famine
Runtime: Five 10-20 min episodes
In a world grappling with the devastating impacts of climate change, Chris Cosentino, a celebrity chef/adventure cyclist, confronts the contradictions of his advocacy as he travels and seeks culinary inspiration while witnessing firsthand the destruction wrought on farms, wineries, and ecosystems.
Through intimate conversations with food producers, scientists, and specialists, Cosentino explores the urgent challenges facing the food industry and our planet, revealing the human toll of climate change and the imperative for action before it’s too late. Soil expert and professional mountain biker Dillon Osleger and a Hydrologist will reflect on these conversations and offer additional insight.
Beyond the Horizon
Runtime: 17:00
Beyond the Horizon explores the unseen story unfolding beneath offshore wind farms on the East Coast of the United States. Through underwater footage and conversations with clean energy experts, scientists, and coastal community members, the film reveals how offshore wind turbines are becoming thriving marine habitats and how renewable energy and ocean life can coexist in harmony. The film will offer a balanced, hopeful look at how offshore wind can both power our future and nurture ocean ecosystems. Created by POW Creative Alliance member Dan Holz, Beyond the Horizon challenges misconceptions and invites viewers to see clean energy through a new lens. The film is expected to be released in early summer 2026.
New Blue View
Runtime: five 5 min episodes
New Blue View is a five-part short film series created by POW Creative Alliance member Liam Gallagher, following fly-fishing guide and conservationist Kyle Schaefer as he travels through the Gulf of Maine, one of the fastest-warming bodies of water on the planet. Part adventure story and part science-driven exploration, the series highlights how anglers, scientists, activists, and communities are adapting to a rapidly changing ocean. Throughout his journey, Kyle uncovers examples of innovation and resilience that reveal what a sustainable future for marine ecosystems could look like. New Blue View connects viewers to the pressing reality of ocean health and the solutions emerging from those who depend on it most.
To Hill and Back
Runtime: 30:00
Few things in life are endless. The absurdity and perpetual nature of the “Last Skier Standing” competition come close. It’s also a mirror to professional skier Brody Leven’s longtime commitment to volunteer climate advocacy (and standing up for the planet and its people, in general). Against all odds, Leven moves uphill and into the literal and figurative headwinds of competition and civic participation, driven by the relentless effort required to make progress in both. To Hill And Back asks a universal question: “How do we continue showing up to the starting line, even when the odds feel stacked against us?” While rooted in climate advocacy, the film ultimately speaks to anyone navigating burnout, uncertainty, or the challenge of believing their efforts still matter.
