Thursday Night Movie List
The Tangerine Dream (Custom World Tour Edit)
USA, 2005, 17 minutes
Directored & produced by Todd Jones, Dirk Collins, Steve Jones, Corey Gavitt
Website:
http://www.tetongravity.com
Focus: Skiing, Snowboarding, BASE Jumping
Take a ride in the orange truck that started it all for TGR! This special World Tour version features Chris Collins throwing huge double back flips, Jeremy Jones riding wildly steep lines in Alaska, Erik Roner and Karina Hollekim BASE jumping in Europe, and an incredible session at Utah’s legendary Pyramid Gap.
Balancing Point – SPECIAL JURY AWARD WINNER
USA, 2004, 6 minutes
Directed & produced by Danny Brown
Website:
http://www.senseistudios.com
Focus: Environment
This short film involves the "reverse destruction" of balanced rock sculptures. The protagonist appears to magically create the sculptures – intended to be very meditational and a manipulation of gravity and time through the simple effect of reversing the film
Solilochairliftquist
USA, 2005, 4 minutes
Directed & produced by “T.M.” (Thomas) Faversham
Website:
http://www.favermanfilms.com
Focus: Humour
The time involved in riding chairlifts while skiing a hundred days a year can lead to many profound realizations. This short explores the complexities of life as a ski bum.
The Magic Mountain
AWARD WINNER: PEOPLE’S CHOICE
Canada, 2005, 50 minutes
Directed by Pat Morrow
Produced by Baiba Auders Morrow
Website:
http://www.patmorrow.com
Focus: Culture
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 -- one of the highest and driest inhabited places on Earth. 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
High Fly Summits
France, 2005, 13 minutes
Directed & produced by Claude Adam
Website:
http://www.ridetheplanets.com
Focus: BASE jumping, Skiing, Snowboarding, Skydiving
In 2004, the French Soulflyer team of Loic Jean-Albert, Val Montant and Pierre Desmet aimed to fly over many of the planet's emblematic summits. The rides in this film combine snow, mountains and high altitude with BASE jumping, wing suits, skydiving, and skiing – on Mont Blanc on the French-Italian border, and on Mount Fuji in Japan
The Khumbu Mighty-Mites
USA, 2005, 3 minutes
Directed by Karl Swingle
Produced by Conrad Anker & Jennifer Lowe
Website:
http://www.alexlowe.org
Focus: Skiing, Culture
After a big snowstorm, the children of Nepal's Khumbu enjoy a day of fun on their homemade skis
Return2Sender: Parallelojams (Full Version)
AWARD WINNER: BEST FILM ON CLIMBING
USA, 2005, 45 minutes
Directed by Peter Mortimer
Produced by Peter Mortimer & Timmy O’Neill
Website:
http://www.senderfilms.com
Focus: Crack Climbing
An award winning look at the challenges and characters of modern desert crack climbing, featuring hilarious commentary by Timmy O'Neill. Includes Didier Berthod's first ascent of From Switzerland, With Love (probably the hardest crack in the desert at 5.13+R), Eric Decaria's inspiring repeat of the hairball arête Air Swedin 5.13R, Timmy O'Neill's traverse of the Bridger-Jacks highline and much, much more.
Friday Night Movie List
Hockey Night… in Ladakh
Canada, 2005, 9 minutes
Directed and produced by Baiba Auders Morrow & Pat Morrow
Website:
http://www.patmorrow.com
Focus: Culture, Sport
Middle-aged Canadian Embassy staff living in New Delhi fly up to Ladakh to play in a high altitude hockey tournament. While there, the sorely out-of-shape Canucks manage to avoid having heart attacks in the rarified atmosphere and, at the same time, help to nurture a Himalayan-sized passion for Canada's national sport. In return, the Ladakhi people give them a big, warm Tibetan Buddhist welcome.
Sur le fil des 4000
AWARD WINNER: GRAND PRIZE
France, 2005, 50 minutes
Directed by Gilles Chappaz
Produced by Philippe Savoyat, Babeth Leprince, Quentin Mourey, Eric Blanc
Focus: Alpine Climbing
On March 1, 2004, Patrick Bérault and Philippe Magnin set out to climb all 82 summits above 4000 metres in the Alps. Well-known for their solid experience and purist approach to climbing, they brave changing weather and strong emotions as they proceed on their long journey. On April 28, they are making their way along Nadelgrat, an interminable ridge leading up to their 67th summit, when destiny steps in.
The Retrospective - Red Bull Rampage (Custom World Tour Edit)
Canada, 2005, 17 minutes
Directed by Derek Westerlund
Produced by Jonnie Broi and Chris Mater
Website:
http://www.free-ride-entertainment.com
Focus: Freeride Mountain Biking
A candid look back from the birth of freeride mountain biking to the spectacular riding and remarkable athletes that defined the legendary Red Bull Rampage event from 2001 to 2004
The Lost People of Mountain Village
USA, 2005, 15 minutes
Directed and produced by Carol Black & Neal Marlens
Focus: Environment, Satirical Humour, Culture
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.
Person as Projectile
USA, 2004, 4 minutes
Directed & produced by Matt Sheridan (Slip)
Website:
http://www.team13.com
Focus: Skiing
In a breakout performance, unknown skier Julian Carr explains the mindset and the tub science required to jump “ginormous” cliffs without injury. Not wanting to be perceived as a rock star driven only by adrenaline, Julian believes that it takes not guts but rather self-confidence and knowledge of the snowpack to go big. An introspective film featuring some of the biggest jaw-dropping cliffs ever recorded, including a front flip off a 165-foot (50-meter) cliff.
Praszczur (Grandpa)
AWARD WINNER: BEST FILM ON MOUNTAIN SPORTS
Poland, 2005, 26 minutes
Directed & produced by Mirosław Dembiński
Focus: Paragliding, Culture
79 year-old Janusz Orlowski is full of energy and zeal. There is nothing special about this – except that he flies. He is a paraglider. The paraglider's environment is always changing, but young people dominate the sport. The frail, old man doesn't really "fit" into this environment, but the youngsters have accepted him. Flying is Janusz's passion and requires health, agility and stamina. Consequently, he must overcome all the limitations that come with age. He gets help from his younger friends and sometimes falters, but he never gives up. Janusz says he will always fly.
Return2Sender: Bug Out
USA, 2005, 10 minutes
Directed by Peter Mortimer
Produced by Peter Mortimer and Timmy O’Neill
Website:
http://www.senderfilms.com
Focus: Bouldering, Youth
Bug Out is a profile of inspiring 10-year old climbing phenomenon Cicada Jenerik, with footage of her shocking ascent of Lowrider V10 in Bishop, CA. The film is interspersed with her insightful commentary on climbing, motivation and being ten.
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