Between the Mountain and the Sky
2024, NR, Canada, Documentary, 93 minutes
Florida Premiere
Juried Film
English and Nepali with English Subtitles
Director: Jeremy Power Regimbal
Executive Producers: Mark Duplass, Mel Eslyn, Jay Duplass, Karen Mulvaney, Tom Mulvaney
Co-Producers: Shuli Harel, Ashley Edouard
Writer: Jeremy Power Regimbal
In 2005, after graduating high school, Maggie Doyne embarked on a gap year, where she met Tope, a now-grown Nepalese orphan, caring for orphaned children. United in purpose, Doyne and Tope pooled resources to establish a children’s home, women's empowerment program and school in Nepal. Years later, their relentless efforts earned Maggie honors as 2015 CNN Hero of the Year. But days after the award ceremony, Doyne, by then guardian to over 50 Nepalese children, faces an unthinkable tragedy, plunging the family into disbelief and despair. After a chance encounter amid her grief, Doyne allows a filmmaker into her life to document herself, her family and, soon enough, a budding romance. Between the Mountain and the Sky explores resilience, love's impact on loss and a family's enduring strength to find hope in the darkest times.