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Banff Mountain Film
Festival - Lake Placid, New York
Sunday,
January 31, 2010- 7:30 p.m.
Lake
Placid Center for the Arts
17
Algonquin Drive, Lake Placid, NY 12946
518.523.2512 www.LakePlacidArts.org
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 'Signatures' by Michael Brown
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.
From the film 'Hunlen'
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!
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.
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