Banff Mountain Film Festival World Tour 2006 Highlights

 

 

Person as Projectile
(USA, 2005, 4’)
Director/Producer: Slip (appearing in person)

In a breakout performance, unknown skier Julian Carr explains the mindset and the tub science required to jump ginormous cliffs without injury.

The Lost People of Mountain Village
( USA, 2005, 15 minutes )
Directed and produced by Carol Black, Neal Marlens

Anthropologist Wade Davis calls it “no less than the most spectacular archaeological and anthropological discovery of our lifetimes.” Jerrold Sapphire, author of Vanished: Why Bad Things Happen to Bad Civilizations, calls it — well, you’ll see what he calls it. When a lost backcountry skier stumbles onto a monumental complex of structures — apparently completely uninhabited — the only thing upon which experts agree is that we may never know what really happened to the lost people of Mountain Village.

Return2Sender: Rebels with Paws
(USA, 2005, 3’)
Director: Peter Mortimer (appearing in person)
Producers: Peter Mortimer, Timmy O’Neill

A Jack Russell’s coming of age (on the rock), starring Biscuit and Felix.

Return2Sender: Bug Out
(USA, 2005, 10’)
Director: Peter Mortimer (appearing in person)
Producers: Peter Mortimer,Timmy O’Neill

Bouldering phenomenon Cicada Jenerik’s V10 at age 10 — what?!

Praszczur (Grandpa)
(Poland, 2005, 26’)
Director/Producer: Miroslaw Dembinski

Janusz Orlowski, 79, is full of energy and zeal. There is nothing special about this — except that he is a paraglider. The frail, old man doesn’t really “fit” into the youth-dominated paragliding environment, but flying is his passion. His younger friends help him challenge the limitations that come with age. Janusz sometimes falters, but he never gives up.

Balancing Point
(USA, 2004, 6’)
Director/Producer: Danny Brown

The “reverse destruction” of balanced rock sculptures appears to manipulate gravity and time.

The Hatch
(USA, 2005, 18’)
Directors/Producers: Ben Knight, Travis Rummel (both appearing in person)

Once a year, an epic insect hatch invades Colorado’s Gunnison River Gorge, sending tingles down the spine of every trout and angler in Black Canyon National Park. This film is a tribute to this extraordinary place, and to the people who will fight for its future as a unique ecosystem.

Bulletins from a Colder Planet: Cream Show
(Canada, 2005, 13’)
Directors: Dave Mossop, Eric Crosland (both appearing in person)
Producer: Robin Scrimger

The passion of backcountry skiers and snowboarders resonates in a landscape of untouched powder and coated peaks. But as bold athletes push their physical and mental limits, humanity is pushing nature and weather patterns into uncharted territory.

Everyday Extreme
(Sweden, 2004, 4’)
Director/Producer: David Kvart (appearing in person)

Julien is sick of all the mountain hype. He wants to reinvent the extreme, so he starts with everyday things. He makes his every day extreme.

The Magic Mountain
People’s Choice Award
(Canada, 2005, 50 minutes)
Directed by Baiba Auders Morrow
Produced by Pat Morrow

This film recounts the offbeat story of educator Cynthia Hunt, the founder of HEALTH (Health, Environment and Literacy in the Himalayas) in Ladakh, northwest India. Her often theatrical efforts to empower illiterate women propel viewers on a rare and exhilarating journey as she hikes over 5000-metre (16,000-foot) passes and through a frozen river gorge deeper than the Grand Canyon.

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