Adirondack Mountain Club

Registration is encouraged, but not required

Join us and the Lake Placid Film Festival for a free screening of Shades Inside the Blueline at the Adirondak Loj's outdoor ampitheater. Following an introduction from director Michael Hansen, the film will run for approximately an hour.

Shades Inside the Blueline is a documentary which examines attitudes about race in New York’s Adirondack region, and the historic and current cultural impact wrought by these attitudes. The Adirondack park is a sprawling, rural region populated with largely homogeneous communities that are not often forced to examine their beliefs and perspectives around race. The film shares personal stories from BIPOC interviewees explaining the racism they've experienced in the Adirondacks, and posits plans to help the region ultimately become more inclusive.

The film's director, Michael Hansen, is an Adirondack-based producer and video editor who works primarily on human focused, non-fiction stories. His work has been recognized regionally with Boston/New England Emmy awards in 2019 and 2022. He was the editor of Arts in Exile, and On Home Ground, two feature length documentaries that have aired on over 100 PBS stations across the country, and which won a Best Documentary regional Emmy award and New York State Broadcasters Award, respectively. Michael is a graduate of Alfred University’s nationally acclaimed Fine Arts program.