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Fresh Coast Flashback: Celebrating Films from the Fresh Coast Film Festival

WNMU-TV PBS is proud to bring Fresh Coast Film Festival favorites to your screens. Held annually in Marquette, Michigan, this unique festival showcases powerful documentaries and short films that reflect the spirit and stories of the Upper Peninsula and Northern Wisconsin.

Our Fresh Coast Flashback selections are carefully chosen to highlight topics that matter most to our region—local history, environmental stewardship, community voices, and humanitarian efforts.

Our next featured films will air on Sunday, February 1st starting at 7/6c on WNMU-TV PBS (channel 13.1)

Fresh Coast Flashback

Programs starting at 7/6c

Something In The Water

Something in the Water _follows five water justice advocates who discuss how Milwaukee’s Black communities are disproportionately being lead poisoned, the debilitating effects it has on residents’ health, and their hopes to see equitable change that will heal the water and Black resident’s relationship to it.

Honk for Peace

In the wake of the Iraq war, anti-war protesters began gathering on a street corner in Chippewa Falls, Wisconsin. Twenty years later, a small but dedicated group still gathers, their message unchanged.

To Trinity

When a father is faced with health issues caused by nearby petrochemical plants, he must make a decision: stay and fight for his community, or leave and save his family.

Restoring Northern Michigan's Rivers

From Rugg Pond Dam on the Rapid River in Kalkaska County to the Crystal River in Leelanau County, this film follows the Conservation Resource Alliance’s River Care program and the Grand Traverse Band of Ottawa and Chippewa Indians as they restore Northern Michigan’s rivers—reconnecting waters, renewing habitats, and honoring cultural ties.


 

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