The Last Magazine - Trail Angels Story

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Festival Screenings

At long last, Trail Angels is to be featured at some film festivals.

Below is the list in formation. We will continue to post any updates. If the screening is in your area, go out an support Trail Angels.

Duke City Doc Fest

www.dukecitydocfest.com

Dates: October 10-15

Virginia Film Festival

www.virginiafilmfestival.org

Dates: November 5 and

Austin Film Festival

http://aff.bside.com/2010/films/trailangels_aff2010

Dates: October 24 and October 28

More to come....

TRAIL DAYS PREMIERE SCREENING

As soon as we arrived Damascus, VA from New York City, we were greeted with a reminder of the powerful allure of the AT. Incredible vistas wrapped with a lush verdant blanket. Wow! Throngs of hikers wandered and rested around town, and I found myself envious of their journey yet inspired by their choice to take time out of “normal life” to get back to something perhaps far more basic and essential, Mother Earth. Even with the nightmarish vision of miles-long oil plumes choking the Gulf of Mexico looming in the back of my mind, the AT community still managed to encourage me…these are the kinds of people who we surely can count on to give voice to the growing concerns of any American worth their stripes. Maybe one day our patriotism and love for our country can be expressed by a little more green and not just the familiar red white and blue. Debuting “Trail Angels” for the very community that inspired the film was simply an experience we will never forget. Although we have been editing for the last year, and therefore “virtually” living with our beloved Angels, it had been a really long time since we had actually seen our subjects in person. So it was super emotional for me to see Mala, Mary, Jack and Janet, and I was more than a little nervous to share with them our vision of their ‘magic’. The screening set-up left a little to be desired (tiny speakers and a sun washed silver screen) but no amount of technical snafu could keep the spirit of the film and the voice of its subjects from taking shape in the packed auditorium. Watching the film again for probably the hundredth time, it was incredible to see it fresh, through the eyes of the hikers. More than ever, I was impressed with our subjects, the sincerity of their mission and message. And I felt so proud to be apart of creating a vessel for their words and deeds, one that will surely travel beyond the AT. When the final credits rolled so did a lot of tears down our faces! Making a film is like raising a kid and for me this screening was like my kid leaving home. Of course I am sad to let her go but I know she has been instilled with a pure heart. We wish “Trail Angels” Godspeed on her journey into the world. Trail Days 2010 was an incredible launch! My heartfelt thanks goes out to everyone who made both the film and it’s World Premier such a special experience! -- DANIEL PEDDLE

Premiere Screening - TRAIL DAYS 2010

Trail Angels will premiere at Trail Days, the annual AT hiker's gathering in Damascus, VA.

Trail Days is from May 14-16.

Trails Angels will screen Friday, May 14 at 4:30pm in the Rock School Auditorium.

Director Daniel Peddle and producer Chris Hoover will be in attendance.

More information at http://www.traildays.us/

Distribution Contact

Trail Angels is being represented by Seventh Art Releasing.

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Please contact Seventh Art Releasing for film festivals and commercial screenings.

Project Description

Trail Angels is a portrait of four legendary yet unsung heroes of the Appalachian Trail. Meet Baltimore Jack, Mala, Trail Angel Mary and Miss Janet-- four working class Americans who open their hearts to seasonal “thru-hikers” by performing random acts of kindness known as “trail magic” for the long distance hikers of the “AT”.

Mala, a Vietnam Veteran and recovering addict lives on the AT out of his pick-up truck with his beloved black labrador retriever, 'Tucker Dawg'. Mala’s “Mayhem, Madness and Magic”

sometimes means following a befriended hiker from Georgia to Maine offering wisdom and “cold beer” along the way.

Trail Angel Mary Parry, formerly homeless, lives in Duncannon, Pennsylvania, a half way point on the trail, the local chicken “Wing Queen” saves money working overtime at a roadside pub during winter. Come hiking season, Mary spends her modest savings hosting free “hiker feeds” in her back-yard and “cooler drops” at the town’s trailhead.

Miss Janet, single mom and long-time divorcee from Erwin TN, has turned her small home into a low cost “hiker hostel”. Her Southern hospitality is legendary on the trail and the front porch of Miss Janet’s House is lined with hundreds of empty hiking boots turned into flower pots.

Then there is Baltimore Jack, the consummate loner-turned-sage of the AT. His “certain kind of madness” is revealed as we hear his tale of hiking the AT in its entirety eight times! Even as he wraps his bum-knee, he shares knowledge often painfully earned with laughter.

Through the tender eyes of these Trail Angels we witness how hiking the AT and the focus it demands, spiritually transforms the hikers, people from all walks of life, awakening their sense of connectivity to each other, the earth and the moment. Yet the stimulating stream of hikers who pass through the Trail Angels’ lives leaves them lonely and blue during the cold off-season. Between the hikers’ hope and the angels’ sacrifice, an unexpected picture emerges of an overlooked America where those “out of step” with the mainstream create a linear community based on kindness that stretches 2175 miles up the East Coast.

Trail Angels

Four years in the making, Trail Angels is finally complete. This blog will have information and news about the project