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Film Menu for April 15 & 16, 2011
FRIDAY, APRIL 15
Life Cycles
Canada, 2010, 14 minutes
Directed and Produced by Ryan Gibb and Derek Frankowski
Website:
www.lifecyclesfilm.com
Classification: General – no advisory
Focus: Mountain Biking Filmed in Ultra HD, Life
Cycles provides some of the most visually stunning images the
mountain sports world has ever seen. It’s a beautiful celebration of
the bicycle, and is sure to amaze anyone who has ever ridden one.
Parking Garage: Beyond the Limit
USA, 2008, 4 minutes
Directed by: John Dabrowski Produced by:
Mark Odlum
Classification: Some adult references
Focus:
Humor A spoof of the Discovery Channel Show,
Everest: Beyond the Limit. Crossing the
Ditch
Best Film on Exploration and Adventure
Australia, 2009, 55 minutes
Produced by Greg Quail, Douglas
Howard & Justin Jones
Website:
www.quail.tv and
www.crossingtheditch.com.au/
Classification: General –
coarse language
Focus: sea-kayaking, human adventure
 Spanning
2200 kilometres between Australia and New Zealand, the Tasman Sea is
one of the world’s deadliest and most treacherous oceans. No one had
ever successfully navigated the Tasman by kayak, although many had
tried. Crossing the Ditch tells the story of two young
Australians, James Castrission and Justin Jones, who battle
ten-metre towering waves, massive storms, shark-filled seas, and
strong currents to conquer the Tasman Sea.
INTERMISSION
 Into
Darkness
USA, 2010, 15 minutes
Directed and
Produced by John Waller
Website:
www.uncagethesoul.com
Classification: General – no advisory
Focus: Caving Into Darkness is a short
adventure essay about the experience of exploring the secret
underworld of caves. The images and sounds of spectacular and remote
wilderness caves will reveal a fantastic world unlike anything we
experience on the surface.
Last Paradise
(Banff Mountain
Film Festival World Tour edit)
New Zealand, 2010, 26 minutes
Directed and Produced by Clive Neeson
Website:
www.lastparadisefilm.com
 Classification:
General – no advisory
Focus: Human Adventure / Extreme Sports:
Surfing, Skiing and others In the remote wilderness
of New Zealand, when necessity was the mother of invention, a
maverick bunch of kids concocted a dream that they would one day
share with the world. In Last Paradise, through 45 years of stunning
original footage we relive the journey of legendary extreme sports
pioneers on the roads less travelled. Dream
Result
(Banff Mountain Film Festival World Tour
edit)
People’s Choice Award, Radical Reels Night
USA, 2009, 17 minutes
Directed by Rush Sturges
Produced by Tyler Bradt
Website:
www.Rev-Inn.com
Classification: General – coarse language
Focus: Whitewater
kayaking A group of top athletes and friends are
driven by passion to explore the limits of possibility. Expeditions
to Norway and a quest for waterfalls throughout Argentina and the US
are all part of the program in Dream Result — so hang on for the
ride!
SATURDAY, APRIL 16
Rush Hour Dream
Germany, 2009, 5 minutes
Directed and Produced by Kerim Jaspersen and Christian Menn
Classification: General – no advisory
 Focus:
Paragliding, Environment
An office worker in Düsseldorf, Germany,
has a Rush Hour Dream
in the tramway on his way to work and wakes up on a beautiful
mountainside to discover that he is carrying a paraglider in his
laptop.
The Fall Line
USA, 2010, 13 minutes
Directed and Produced by Tyler Stableford
Website:
www.tylerstableford.com
Classification: General – no
advisory
Focus: Downhill skiing / Human story
After losing his legs in a grenade blast in Iraq, 101st Airborne
Ranger Heath Calhoun endures a tortuous recovery. Years later, the
Virginia native finds freedom in an unlikely location: on the ski
slopes of Aspen, Colorado. Calhoun discovers a talent for ski racing
and earns a chance to represent his country again — as an athlete on
the 2010 Paralympics ski team. With a gold medal in the balance,
Calhoun commits everything to the challenge.
Miracle in the Storm
Australia, 2009, 52
minutes
Directed by Nial Fulton Produced by Guy Norris and Leo
Faber
Website:
http://essential-media.com
Classification: General – coarse
language
Focus: Paragliding, Human Story
In 2007, German paraglider Ewa Wisnierska created history when she
survived a harrowing encounter with the fury of nature's power.
After being sucked into a massive thunderstorm and pulled up to
10,000 meters, her body faced a multitude of life-threatening
forces, including low oxygen, freezing temperatures, and wild
weather conditions. There is no exaggeration in the title of Miracle
in the Storm — Wisnierska managed to navigate her way out of the
storm and survive.
INTERMISSION
 Kranked Kids – Just down the road
Canada, 2010,
4 minutes
Directed and Produced by Bjørn Enga
Website:
www.radical-films.com
Classification: General – no advisory
Focus: Mountain biking/humour
Kranked Kids – Just down the road is a delightful
four-minute coming-of-age mountain bike parody.
Eastern Rises
Best Film on Mountain
Sports
USA, 2010, 38 minutes
Directed by Ben
Knight Produced by Travis Rummel
Website:
www.feltsoulmedia.com and
www.easternrises.com
Classification: Parental guidance –
coarse language
Focus: Fly-Fishing, Environment, Culture
 The
Kamchatka Peninsula in the Russian Far East may as well be the end
of the earth. Its enormously wild landscape is swarming with bugs
and bears and threaded with
rivers full of massive mouse-eating
trout. In the stunning film Eastern Rises, fishing is poetry,
Bigfoot lurks in the fog, and fishermen risk life and limb in
decommissioned Cold War helicopters to explore rivers that have
never been fished before.
The Swiss Machine
USA, 2010, 20 minutes
Produced by Nick Rosen and Peter Mortimer
Website:
www.senderfilms.com
 Classification:
Parental Guidance – coarse language
Focus: Climbing /
Mountaineering
Ueli Steck may be the greatest speed alpinist the world has ever
seen. In The Swiss Machine, Steck tells of his record-breaking
ascents in the Alps, accompanied by stunning aerial footage that
captures him racing up 2500-metre alpine faces. When he joins Alex
Honnold in Yosemite, Steck sets his ultimate goal: to take his
one-man alpine speed game to the largest, highest walls in the
world.
* Note: film selections and order are subject to change.
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