Please join Best Video, NHDocs, and filmmaker Mark S. Weiner for a screening of THE VOLUNTEERS on Friday, August 2nd at 7pm. There will be a Q&A with NHDocs Executive Director Gorman Bechard and filmmaker Mark S. Weiner after the screening. Tickets are $15.
A historian explores the surprising connections between two mountain rescue organizations on opposite sides of the world.
Two mountain rescue organizations—one near Seattle, Washington, the other in Tyrol, Austria—are linked by a surprising connection. Take a journey with historian Mark S. Weiner from America to Austria and back again as he considers the origins and meaning of their work. Both groups have grown from a strong sense of place ... because before you can save a stranger, you first must love your home.
Mark S. Weiner - Producer, co-director, writer, and assistant editor, Mark is a former professor of constitutional law and the author of multiple award-winning books, including The Rule of the Clan: What an Ancient Form of Social Organization Reveals about the Future of Individual Freedom (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2013), which received the Grawemeyer Award for Ideas Improving World Order, and Black Trials: Citizenship from the Beginnings of Slavery to the End of Caste (Alfred A. Knopf, 2004), winner of the Silver Gavel Award of the American Bar Association for its contribution to the public understanding of law.