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Banff
Mountain Film Festival - South Portland, Maine
7:30 PM, Tuesday February 17, 2009
South Portland Auditorium
South Portland, ME
The Red Helmet
USA, 2008, 6 minutes
Directed by Tyler Young
Produced by Dave Barlia
Focus: multiple action sports
Overcome with fear, a young boy runs into the forest. He finds a magic
red helmet and goes on the adventure of a lifetime. Slowly building his
courage, he is transformed and returns to confront his boyhood fears.
Reviews from the Banff Mountain Film Festival:
“...provides a really great montage of different sports
in a short period of time, with a fantastic soundtrack.”
Papiroflexia
USA, 2007, 3 minutes
Directed and produced by Joaquin Baldwin
Focus: environment, animation
An origami tale of a skillful paper folder who could shape the world with
his hands.
Reviews from the Banff Mountain Film Festival:
“- great short animation
Journey to the Center
Best Film on Mountain Sports
USA, 2007, 55 minutes
Directed by Jens Hoffmann
Produced by Iiro Seppanen, Jeb Corliss
Focus: exploration, BASE jumping, culture
Journey with three world-renowned BASE jumpers as they travel 10,000
miles to confront the mist and mystery of an old cave, an ancient culture
and their own demons at the center of their dangerous mission: Tian Keng,
the Heavenly Pit.
Reviews from the Banff Mountain Film Festival:
“The film has everything…beautiful imagery and scenery, human
connections, diversity in the characters, great storyline and build up of excitement
and tension in the jumper’s journey and preparations for their mission.”
“...my palms are still sweating!”
The Unbearable Lightness of Skiing
Canada, 2008, 14 minutes
Directed and produced by Greg Hill
Focus: backcountry skiing, ski mountaineering
A season of backcountry skiing with a keen and passionate
narrator.
Reviews from the Banff Mountain Film Festival:
“Beautiful scenery, great narrative by the filmmaker and ski ascents
and descents that are dreamy. A film with a local feel but broad appeal.”
“This is a great ski film, particularly for audiences
that are adverse to the sponsored, hip-hop, type of film. Great footage,
mellow soundtrack, a few laughs.”
Crux
People’s Choice Award for Radical Reels
Canada, 2007, 12 minutes
Directed by Alexander Lavigne
Produced by Ryan Leech
Focus: trials biking
Combining sheer difficulty with creative style, three athletes execute mind-bending
feats of bike mastery and redefine technical riding standards
Reviews from the Banff Mountain Film Festival:
“...a fantastic short sport film that keeps the crowd mesmerized and
brings on the oohs, aahs and even applause..."
The Sharp End: Lisa Rands
USA, 2008, 6 minutes
Directed and produced by Peter Mortimer, Nick Rosen
Classification: Parental Guidance (coarse language)
Focus: bouldering
Lisa Rands shows us the drive, talent, and courage
needed to climb challenging and scary “highball” boulder
problems.
Reviews from the Banff Mountain Film Festival:
"a woman doing some crazy stuff "
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Patagonian Winter
UK, 2007, 31 minutes
Directed and produced by Alastair Lee
Classification: Parental Guidance (contains suggestive language)
Focus: alpine climbing, human narrative
Andy Kirkpatrick is a pioneer of winter climbing in Patagonia, with many
hair-raising ascents to his name. His latest Patagonian horror show is an
attempt at the first winter ascent of Torre Egger with fellow alpinist Ian
Parnell.
Reviews from the Banff Mountain Film Festival:
“...a classic alpine film with unbearable conditions, difficult ascents,
insufferable bivouacs all laced with Andy and Ian’s self deprecating
British humour. Audiences loved this film for the story & imagery, but
most of all for their incessant jokes and funny perspective of their often
appalling situations.”
Film menu subject to change
Program length approximately
three hours including films, intermission and raffle
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