Banff
Film Fest World Tour---Tentative Film Line-up
Friday
evening, Feb. 12th 7:00
MedeoZ
France, 2008, 6 minutes
Directed and Produced by Guillaume Broust
Website: http://kyom.blogspot.com/2008/02/og-team.html
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!
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.
Finding Farley
Winner of Grand Prize Award, 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". "Stories aren't so much written or created as they
are released, expressing what's been there all along."
Intermission
Signatures: Canvas of Snow
USA, 2009, 16 minutes
Directed by: Nick Waggoner
Produced by" Ben Sturgulewski
Website: www.sweetgrass-productions.com
Classification: General - no advisory
Focus: Skiing, snowboarding and noboarding
In Japan there is a
cultural connection to the different signatures of terrestrial home - a sense
that the rhythm of fall, winter, spring and summer influences the rhythm of the
person, their energy, their riding style and the lines they choose.
This
special edit features skiers, snowboarders, a photographer and a noboarder who
are each in tune with this connection to winter and the environment they ride
in.
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.
First Ascent: The Impossible Climb
USA, 2009, 24 minutes
Directed and Produced by Peter Mortimer, Nick Rosen and Josh Lowell
Website: www.senderfilms.com
Classification: Parental Guidance – coarse language
Focus: rock climbing
Star sport climber Chris
Sharma takes on his greatest challenge yet: the unclimbed, 90-metre limestone
cave on Mt. Clark, California. Chris dangles from one finger, jumps between
minuscule handholds and takes 30-metre free falls as he endeavours to make the
first ascent of what will be the most difficult rock climb in the world.
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!
Saturday evening, Feb. 13th 7:00
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
Bruno Kammerl, a German engineer, works to perfect the world's
tallest human water slide.
Ten - A Cameraman's Tale
Switzerland, 2009, 36 minutes
Directed and produced by Guido Perrini
Website: www.guidoperrini.com
Classification: General - coarse language
Focus: Freeskiing and Freeriding
This snowboard/ski
freeride documentary gives an insight into the world of freeriding through the
lens of cameraman Guido Perrini.
Featuring some of the world's best
freeriders, including Jeremy Jones, Jonas Emery and Geraldine Fasnacht, in
locations from Alaska and Canada to Chile and Russia, the film delves into the
passion, joys and dangers that are an everyday part of freeriding. From
incredible lines to insane avalanches, "Ten" looks at the
behind-the-scenes world of freeride filmmaking.
Rowing the Atlantic
USA, 2009, 26 minutes
Directed and produced by JB Benna
Website: www.journeyfilm.com
Classification: General – no advisory
Focus: Sea-kayaking, 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.
Intermission
Kranked -
Revolve
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.
Mustang - Journey of Transformation
USA, 2009, 28 minutes
Directed and produced by Will Parrinello
Website: www.mvfg.com
Classification: General – no advisory
Focus: Tibetan culture, family-friendly
Lost in time, the
Himalayan kingdom of Mustang is one of the last sanctuaries of authentic
Tibetan Buddhist culture. However, long isolated by geography and politics, the
people struggle to survive, and the centre of their culture -- the 15th-century
monasteries and the art within -- is dangerously close to collapse. Narrated by
Richard Gere and featuring the Dalai Lama, the film tells the compelling story
of the efforts to rescue this ancient place from the brink of extinction and to
help spark a cultural renaissance.
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 ascent of
B.C.'s remote Hunlen Falls. Falling ice, crashing water, fear, big fun!
First Ascent: Alone on the Wall
USA, 2009, 24 minutes
Directed and produced by Peter Mortimer and Nick
Rosen
Website: www.senderfilms
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.