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Black Canyon, Winner, Telluride Mountainfilm
2007, Best Climbing Film
Peter Mortimer
Coloradofs Black Canyon is as beautiful as it is intimidating. Two-thousand-foot
drops, loose rock, and poison ivy thwart the path to some of the most gorgeous
and difficult alpine crack lines that tempt free ascents. Join up with the
two best men for the job, Jared Ogden and Topher Donahue, as they conquer
the choice lines, debate the drunken Aussies and support a harrowing near-death
rescue on rock.
(USA, 2006, 10 min)
Papa Tortusa
Rob Wilson
Fernando Manzano was just 16 years old when he found his calling. For the
past 31 years, he has dedicated himself to bringing the leatherback sea
turtle back from the edge of extinction. In the small town of Tecolutla,
Mexico, he has battled relentlessly against weather, natural predators
and poachers\with no outside financial support.
(USA, 2006, 20 min)
Gimme Green
Isaac Brown & Eric Flagg
gGimme Greenh takes a humorous look at America's obsession with the residential
lawn and the effects it has on our environment, our wallets and our outlook
on life.
(USA, 2006, 28 min)
Big Summit Ski Riding-Eiger
Francois Bon
On Jun 14, 2006, Francois Bon and Antoine Montant executed the worldfs
first speed-flying descent of the Eiger in Switzerland. Wearing skis and a
paragliding sail, they descended from the top edge of the iconic mountainfs
west face to the bottom of its notorious north face, skiing and flying low
over a long steep minefield of ice and rock and snow.
(France, 2006, 5 min)
The Job
Jonathan Browning
A satirical peek at a political hot-button issue.
(USA, 2007, 4 min)
Ride of the Mergansers
Directed and produced by Steve Furman / Furman Technologies
The hooded merganser is a rare and reclusive duck found only in North America.
Every spring, in the Great Lakes region, the wary hen lays and incubates her
eggs in a nest high in the trees. Just 24 hours after hatching, the tiny ducklings
must make the perilous leap to the ground below in order to begin life in
the wild. Ride of the Mergansers brings this hidden drama to the screen.
USA, 2004, 11 minutes
BALANCE
Adam Collis
We all seek balance and express it in different ways. The hero of Balance
has struck some sort of bargain with the physical laws that govern the equilibrium
of rocks and he uses it to decorate California beaches in a provocative fashion.
(USA; 2003, 7 minutes}
Trail and Error: Progression
Bjorn Enga
Ryan Leech is given a challenge: to create the most progressive and challenging
mountain bike line possible through an old-growth forest and then ride it.
A short expose of a top biking talent who pushes his skills in a new environment,
one that is slated to be destroyed.
(Canada, 2006, 10 min)
GATHERERS FROM THE SKY
Gauthier Flauder, Boreales Production Company;
The Minang live on the shores of Sumatrafs Lake Maninjao inside a crater
formed by three volcanoes and surrounded by three million coconut trees.
But the Minang no longer climb these trees, instead relying upon monkeys
for the harvest. Bourhan is now an old man, however, and no longer can
train monkeys... yet a strained marriage and his wifefs inheritance begin
to unravel his plans for a calmer life.
(France, 1995, 26 minutes)
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Program length, including intermission and
raffle, approximately 3 hours
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