Genres: Uplifting
BendFilm is busy assembling film content from Festival alumni to keep our audience engaged and focused on the best independent film that cannot be found elsewhere on streaming platforms. In addition, we are connecting with festival filmmakers to setup online interviews and stories from the front lines of filmmaking. These are just some of the many programming ideas we are exploring and will roll out soon. In the meantime, here is a list of the best independent and foreign titles that recently played at the Tin Pan or the BendFilm Festival and are currently available on many streaming platforms…and if you are in Bend, stop by the Blockbuster and pick one (or a few) of these up!
This is a collection of the most uplifting and mind-expanding films we screened at the Tin Pan in 2019.
Becoming Nobody
Overview
The core arc of Ram Dass’ teachings and life: whether as Dr. Richard Alpert, the eminent Harvard psychologist, or as Ram Dass who serves as a bridge between Eastern and Western philosophies, he has defined a generation of inner explorers and seekers of truth and wisdom.
Biggest Little Farm
Overview
The successes and failures of a couple determined to live in harmony with nature on a farm outside of Los Angeles are lovingly chronicled by filmmaking farmer John Chester, in this inspiring documentary.
Brittany Runs a Marathon
Overview
A young woman decides to make positive changes in her life by training for the New York City Marathon.
Free Solo
Mr. Fish: Cartooning from the Deep End
Mr. Fish: Cartooning from the Deep End
If Dangerous Art Doesn't Have A Place In The World, Does a Dangerous Artist?
20171 h 10 min
Overview
In this documentary we discover the dangerously funny cartoonist Mr. Fish, struggling to make a living in an industry that is dying out.
Hail Satan
Overview
A look at the intersection of religion and activism, tracing the rise of The Satanic Temple: only six years old and already one of the most controversial religious movements in American history. The Temple is calling for a Satanic revolution to save the nation's soul. But are they for real?
Maiden
Maiden
They were told no because they were women. This is the true story that proved everyone wrong.
20191 h 33 min
Overview
In a moving portrait of resilience, Alex Holmes chronicles the unprecedented journey of 24-year-old Tracy Edwards and the first all-female sailing crew to enter the Whitbread Round the World Race.
Satan & Adam
Overview
One was a demon on guitar; the other was fresh out of school and no slouch on harmonica. SATAN & ADAM is a celebration of friendship and the blues comprised of documentary footage shot over the course of two decades.
Dawn Wall
Overview
In the middle of Yosemite National Park towers El Capitan, a huge block of granite whose smoothest side, the Dawn Wall, is said to be the most difficult rock climb in the world. Tommy Caldwell didn’t see inhospitable terrain, but rather a puzzle almost a kilometer tall. In The Dawn Wall, we follow him and Kevin Jorgeson in their historic ascent to the summit.