“Barefoot: The Mark Baumer Story” debuted in October at the Heartland International Film Festival, in Indianapolis, where won the best-premiere award for a documentary. Saturday, it receives its Pittsburgh premiere at the Regent Square Theater as part of the Three Rivers Film Festival. She reached out to his family and others to begin work on a film. She is also the award-winning, Pittsburgh-based independent documentary filmmaker behind festival favorite “Aspie Seeks Love” (2015) and “Woman on Fire” (2016), which aired on Starz. In life, the activist had achieved a degree of celebrity, drawing local and national media coverage in death, he drew more, including a memorial article in The New Yorker. Just a few weeks after she saw that first video, Baumer, on the 101st day of his quixotic journey, was struck by a car on a Florida roadside. But she would be unable to discover this first-hand. There was, Sokolow would learn, much more to Mark Baumer than his online persona.
I was also at that point, ‘How can I make a difference?’” “He was bringing humor and levity to this very overwhelming issue of climate change, which for me made it easier to interact with. “When I first came across Mark’s videos, I immediately was fascinated by him as a character, by his sense of humor, by the purity of his vision to combat climate change,” Sokolow said. “I got a dollar to fight climate change from a guy who doesn’t believe in climate change!” Baumer hollered into the camera. In one video from the trip, he told of an encounter with a climate denier that ended happily. He was a performance artist of sorts, goofy yet earnest. Braddock Ave., Edgewoodīaumer, tall and long-haired, was 33, but came off younger. "Barefoot: The Mark Baumer Story" screens 8 p.m.