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Photocredit: From the film
'MedeoZ'
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.
From the film 'Africa Revolutions Tour' by Pat
Camblin
Africa Revolutions Tour
USA, 2009, 20 minutes
Directed by Rush Sturges
Produced by Tyler Bradt
Website: www.Rev-Inn.com
Classification: Parental Guidance - coarse language
Focus: White-water kayaking, Sun Catcher’s Project (NGO in
Africa)
From the crocodile-infested White Nile in Uganda, to
big-water first descents in Madagascar, the film follows this group of friends
on their dangerous mission.
Accompanying the team is Rita Riewerts, the founder of the Sun Catchers Project,
a non-profit that installs solar cooking facilities
in African orphanages, hospitals and communities.
Join the team as they set out on an ambitious kayaking expedition in eastern
Africa.
Every cent this film generates will be donated to the Sun Catchers Project.
From the film 'Take a Seat'
Take a Seat
Special Jury Mention
UK, 2009, 46 minutes
Directed by: Ed Stobart, Dominic Gill
Produced by: Lucy Wilcox
Website: www.ginger.tv ; www.takeaseat.org
Classification: General - nudity
Focus: Human story, adventure, biking
Dominic Gill’s mission is to cycle the 32,000 kilometres
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.
From the film 'Kranked - Revolve' by Dylan Dunkerton
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.
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!
From the film 'Rowing the Atlantic'
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.
From the film 'Deep/Shinsetsu', Daisuke
Sasaki in Hokkaido, Japan, Photo by Yasuo Wakayama
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
Classification: General, no advisory
Focus: Humour, spoof
Bruno Kammerl, a German engineer, works to perfect the
world's tallest human water slide.
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