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BANFF MOUNTAIN FILM FESTIVAL - WORLD TOUR
09 - Film Descriptions
Promo
video |
2009 Playbill
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 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.
Photo credit:
From the film 'Deep/Shinsetsu', Daisuke Sasaki in Hokkaido,
Japan, Photo by Yasuo Wakayama
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 First Ascent: Alone on the Wall
USA, 2009, 24 minutes
Directed and produced by: Peter Mortimer & 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.
Photo credit:
From the film 'First Ascent: Alone on the Wall'
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 First Ascent: The Impossible Climb
USA, 2009, 24 minutes
Directed and Produced by: Peter Mortimer, Nick Rosen
& Josh
Lowell
Website:
www.senderfilms.com
Classification: Parental Guidance – coarse language
Focus: rock climbing
Star sport climber Chris Sharma takes on his greatest
challenge yet: the unclimbed, 90-metre limestone cave on Mt.
Clark, Nevada. Chris dangles from one finger, jumps between
minuscule handholds and takes 30-metre free falls as he
endeavours to make the first ascent of what will be the most
difficult rock climb in the world.
Photo credit:
From the film 'First Ascent: The Impossible Climb'
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 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!
Guest Attending
Will Gadd –
Director + Producer + Talent. “We are all
athletes. I am a multisport athlete.” When Will is not
putting up the hardest mixed ice climbing lines in the
world, he is setting the world distance record for
paragliding, or kayaking down dozens of first ascents in
North America, or winning gold medals at the X Games, the
Ice Climbing World Cup, and the US & Canadian Paragliding
Nationals.
Photocredit: From the film 'Hunlen'
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 Kranked
– Revolve
(Special Edit for Banff Tour)
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 BC, incorporating
dirt jump, trail, freeride, slopestyle and downhill.
Photocredit: From the
film 'Kranked - Revolve' by Dylan Dunkerton
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MedeoZ
France, 2008, 6 minutes
Directed and Produced by: Guillaume Broust
Website:
www.petzl.com
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.
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!
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Mont-Blanc Speed Flying
Award for Best Short Mountain Film, sponsored by Mountain
Hardwear
France, 2008, 10 minutes
Directed and produced by: Didier Lafond
Website:
www.didierlafond.com
Classification: General – no advisory
Focus: Speed riding, family-friendly
Six speed riders fly from the upper slopes of Mont Blanc
down to Chamonix in one continuous 10-minute shot, filmed in
Cineflex
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 Mustang – Journey of Transformation
USA, 2009, 28 minutes
Directed and produced by: Will Parrinello
Website:
www.mvfg.com
Classification: General – no advisory
Focus: Tibetan culture, family-friendly
Lost in time, the Himalayan kingdom of Mustang is one of the
last sanctuaries of authentic Tibetan Buddhist culture.
Long isolated by geography and politics, the people
struggle to survive, and the centre of their culture -- the
15th-century monasteries and the art within -- is
dangerously close to collapse.
Narrated by Richard Gere and featuring the Dalai Lama, the
film tells the compelling story of the efforts to rescue
this ancient place from the brink of extinction and to help
spark a cultural renaissance.
Photocredit: From the film 'Mustang - Journey of
Transformation', photo by John Sanday
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 Pick-up Sticks
Canada, 2009, 9 minutes
Directed by: Julia Szucs
Produced by: Steve Smith
Website:
www.meltwatermedia.ca
Classification: General – no advisory
Focus: Environment, family-friendly
Take an aerial plunge off the edge of an Arctic coastal
headland into the abyss of a seabird colony to find out how
marine environmental change is affecting the delicate
balance of life for a hardy creature of the northern seas.
A visual and metaphorical cliffhanger for our times!
Guests Attending
Jennifer Provencher / Kerry Woo -
Wildlife Biologist Talent
Photocredit:
From 'Pick-up Sticks'
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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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 Revolution
One
USA, 2009, 10 minutes
Directed and Produced by: Dan Heaton
Website:
www.sykoproductions.com
Classification: Parental guidance – coarse language
Focus: Unicycling
"Revolution One" takes a look into the history, people and
places that have defined the rapidly emerging sport of
off-road unicycling. Follow world champion unicyclists Kris
Holm and Dan Heaton as they display riding that has blown
the minds of viewers worldwide.
Guest Attending
Kris Holm –
Talent. Kris is one of the world’s most experienced mountain
unicyclists and is the best-known unicyclist in history. He
has ridden technically difficult terrain in 14 countries,
including the summit of the highest mountain in Central
America, the summit of the 3rd highest mountain in North
America, trade-routes across the Himalayan Kingdom of
Bhutan, and on the Great Wall of China. Kris was the first
rider to bring mountain unicycling to a mainstream audience
through film, television, and magazine features; this
exposure has resulted in a big increase in the worldwide
popularity of unicycling.
Photocredit: From the film
'Revolution One'
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 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.
Photocredit: From the film
'Rowing the Atlantic'
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 Shining
Spirit
(Special Edit for Banff Tour)
Canada, 2009, 26 minutes
Directed and Produced by: Karen McDiarmid
Website:
www.taracafeproject.ca
Classification: General – no advisory
Focus: Culture, human story
Filmed in Canada, India and Tibet, "Shining Spirit"
documents a recording project that brings together the
family of Jamyang Yeshi through music and multi-track
recording technology. With the help of Western friends,
Jamyang, in exile in Canada, and his brother Tsundue, in
exile in the U.S., join voices with the family they left
behind in Tibet. For the first time in over a decade, they
sing together once again. The film is a testament to the
power of music, the resilience of the Tibetan culture, and
the enduring bond of a family separated by politics and
geography.
Photocredit: From the film
'Shining Spirit' by Karen McDiarmid
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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, family-friendly
In Japan there is a cultural connection to the different
signatures of their 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 film features skiers, snowboarders, a
photographer and a noboarder who are each in tune with this
connection to winter and the environment they ride in.
Photocredit: From the film
'Signatures' by Michael Brown
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 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.
Photocredit: From the film
'Take a Seat'
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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.
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 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!
Photocredit: From the film
'Ultimate Skiing Showdown'
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First Ascent: Alone on the Wall
First Ascent: The Impossible Climb
