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Film Menu for April 9 & 10, 2010
FRIDAY, APRIL 9
The Ultimate Skiing Showdown
Canada, 2009, 4 minutes
Directed and produced by David McMahon
Website: www.xczone.tv
Classification: General – No advisory
Focus: Nordic skiing, family friendly
The final sprint showdown between the fastest skiers on Earth in
juxtaposition with a stunt performer showing some of the sickest
moves on Nordic skis. A lot of fun!
Azazel
France, 2007, 22 minutes
Directed and produced by Guillaume Broust
Website: www.petzl.com
Classification: General – no advisory
Focus: Mountaineering, family-friendly
Four friends set out to establish a new route on the Trango Pulpit
Tower, a mythic 6000-metre-high rock wall in Pakistan. Days and days
of pleasure, quantities of testosterone expended, frozen fingers and
naps on the wall.
Take a Seat
Special Jury Mention
UK, 2009, 46 minutes
Directed by: Ed Stobart, Dominic Gill
Produced by: Lucy Wilcox
Website: www.ginger.tv
Classification: General - nudity
Focus: Human story, adventure, biking, humor
Dominic Gill’s mission is to cycle the 19,000 miles from the
northern coast of Alaska to the southern tip of South America, on a
tandem bike, picking up random strangers on the way. A gripping tale
of two years and two continents, full of extraordinary characters
and incidents.
INTERMISSION
 Kranked
– Revolve (Special Edit for Banff Tour)
People’s Choice Award on Radical Reels Night
Canada, 2009, 11 minutes
Directed and produced by Bjørn Enga
Website:
www.radical-films.com
Classification: General - coarse language
Focus: Mountain biking
The coolest human-powered adrenaline tool ever invented -- the
mountain bike? "Revolve" blasts in cinematic glory from the French
Alps to the lush coast of B.C., incorporating dirt jump, trail,
freeride, slopestyle and downhill.
Rowing the Atlantic
USA, 2009, 26 minutes
Directed and produced by JB Benna
Website: www.journeyfilm.com
Classification: General – no advisory
Focus: Rowing (ocean crossing), adventure, human story,
family-friendly
A few years ago, Roz Savage gave up what for many would be an ideal
life (husband, great job, big house), picked up a few pairs of
rowing oars and a boat to go with them and set off across the
Atlantic Ocean – alone – in a rowboat.
Deep/Shinsetsu
Japan, 2009, 3 minutes
Directed and Produced by Masaki Sekiguchi
Website: www.ebisfilms.jp
Classification: General – no advisory
Focus: Powder skiing, family-friendly
"Shinsetsu" means deep powder in Japanese.
This short film expresses a typical day in the mountains in Japan.
To the Rainbow
UK, 2009, 14 minutes
Directed by Dave Brown
Produced by Lynwen Griffiths
Website: www.bamboochicken.tv
Classification: General – no advisory
Focus: Rock climbing, human story
Paul Pritchard was one of Britain’s most talented and outrageous
climbers in the late 1980s. A head injury received while climbing
the Totem Pole in Tasmania left Paul with hemiplegia. Now, 13 years
on, he makes an emotional return to climbing – on The Rainbow in
North Wales. Teaming up with his old climbing partner, the legendary
Johnny Dawes, he takes on a 5.10 route. Inspirational.
Project Megawoosh
Special Jury Mention
Germany, 2009, 4 minutes
Directed by Minh Duong
Produced by Nikolas Hannack
Website: www.okifilms.com
Classification: General – no advisory
Focus: Humour, spoof, family friendly
Bruno Kammerl, a German engineer, works to perfect the world's
tallest human water slide.
SATURDAY, APRIL 10
MedeoZ
France, 2008, 6 minutes
Directed and Produced by Guillaume Broust
Website: www.petzl.com
Classification: General – no advisory
Focus: Multi-sport, humour, family-friendly
Filmed in the Mont Blanc range, this short features six different
mountain sports: climbing, skiing, snowboarding, speed riding,
paragliding and BASE jumping.
A photographer wants to take one shot showing all the sports,
instead of taking separate photos of each sport. It takes a lot of
work!
Finding Farley
Winner of Grand Prize, sponsored by Mountain Equipment Co-op
People’s Choice Award, sponsored by Timex
Canada, 2009, 63 minutes
Directed by Leanne Allison
Produced by Tracy Friesen
Website:
www.necessaryjourneys.ca/findingfarley
Classification: General – coarse langague, nudity
Focus: Adventure, culture, family-friendly (however, please also
refer to classification)
When filmmakers Karsten Heuer and Leanne Allison, along with their
two-year-old son Zev and indomitable dog Willow, set out to retrace
the literary footsteps of Farley Mowat, they meant it literally.
Their 5000-kilometre trip -- trekking, sailing, portaging and
paddling from the Prairies to the Maritimes -- is captured in this
film. The family's arrival at their final destination (Mowat's Nova
Scotian summer home) is, as Karsten says, "an affirmation of what
the land and animals had already told us".
INTERMISSION
 Mont-Blanc
Speed Flying
Award for Best Short Mountain Film, sponsored by Mountain
Hardwear
France, 2008, 10 minutes
Directed and produced by Didier Lafond
Website: www.didierlafond.com
Classification: General – no advisory
Focus: Speed riding, family-friendly
Six speed riders fly from the upper slopes of Mont Blanc down to
Chamonix in one continuous 10-minute shot, filmed in Cineflex.
Hunlen
Canada, 2009, 12 minutes
Directed and produced by Will Gadd
Website: www.gravsports.com
Classification: General – no advisory
Focus: Ice climbing
What happens if you show up to climb one of the biggest frozen
waterfalls in Canada -- but it isn't completely frozen? Will Gadd
and EJ Plimley battle to do the first ascentof B.C.'s remote Hunlen
Falls. Falling ice, crashing water, fear, big fun!
Revolution One
USA, 2009, 10 minutes
Directed and Produced by Dan Heaton
Website:
www.sykoproductions.com
Classification: Parental guidance – coarse language
Focus: Unicycling
"Revolution One" takes a look into the history, people and places
that have defined the rapidly emerging sport of off-road unicycling.
Follow world champion unicyclists Kris Holm and Dan Heaton as they
display riding that has blown the minds of viewers worldwide.
 First
Ascent: Alone on the Wall
USA, 2009, 24 minutes
Directed and produced by Peter Mortimer and Nick Rosen
Website: www.senderfilms.com
Classification: General – coarse language
Focus: Rock Climbing, free solo climbing
After gaining international climbing renown for his landmark
free-solo of "Moonlight Buttress" (V, 5.12+, 9 pitches) in Zion
National Park, Utah, in April 2008, 24-year-old Alex Honnold moves
on to his next big challenge: the first free-solo of the "Regular
Northwest Face" route (VI, 5.12a, 23 pitches) on Yosemite’s Half
Dome.
* Note: film selections and order are subject to change.
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