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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 '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 '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 'Ultimate Skiing Showdown'
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!
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.
From the film 'First Ascent: Alone on the Wall'
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.
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.
Film menu subject to change
Program length approximately
three hours including films, intermission and raffle
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