First
Ascent:
Thailand
USA,
2006, 8
minutes
Director:
Peter
Mortimer
Producers:
Peter
Mortimer,
Timmy
O'Neill,
Nick
Rosen,
Pascal
Bronnimann
Thailand is a dream come
true for David Lama,
perhaps the best on-site
climber in the world,
and purportedly the
future of the sport.
Amidst the exotic beauty
of the Andaman Coast,
Lama and friends take
60-footers into the
drink, and bring deep
water soloing to a new
level.
The Best
of Jo
Canada,
2006, 3
minutes
Director
and
Producer:
Logan
Carlstrom
The
Best of Jo is a
stop-action Lego film
about a coffee-addicted
guy named Jo. He
is eager to try all the
mountain sports
available to him, such
as climbing, skiing and
fishing.
Asiemut
Canada,
2006, 56
minutes
Directors
and
Producers:
Olivier
Higgins
and
Melanie
Carrier
In
2005, Olivier Higgins
and Melanie Carrier went
on their first cycling
expedition -- 8000
kilometers across Asia.
In six months they
pedaled from Mongolia to
Calcutta, India,
traveling through
Xinjiang, the Taklimakan
Desert, the high Tibetan
plateau and the jungle
of Nepal.
People's Choice Award
and Special Jury Mention
The
Thrill
Seekers
UK,
2005, 3
minutes
Directors:
Roland
Arnison
and
George
Arnison
One of
the 12 productions from
the Kendal Mountain Film
Festival Extreme Film
School "48-hour Film
Marathon." Two
brothers try their hand
at mountain biking,
climbing and another
extreme sport on a
camping weekend.
Beyond
Iraq
USA,
2005, 8
minutes
Director:
Tom
Eldridge
Producer:
Annalisa
Hodgkins
Five
newly disabled Iraqi
veterans travel to the
Rocky Mountains to
participate in an
adaptive winter sports
program. The
soldiers are at first
skeptical, not wanting
to cause more harm to
their bodies.
However, they are soon
experiencing the freedom
and adventure of skiing
and snowboarding.
Cayesh -
The
Calling
USA,
2006, 17
minutes
Director
and
Producer:
Steve
House
A
one-day ascent of a new
route on the west face
of Cayesh, in Peru,
filmed entirely by the
two climbers. They
wish to present a real
taste of modern
lightweight alpinism as
practiced by two of
today's best alpinists.
Ride of
the
Mergansers
USA,
2004, 11
minutes
Directors
and
Producers:
Steve
Furman
and
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.
Roam
Canada,
2006, 18
minutes
Directors
and
Producers:
Darcy
Wittenburg,
Jamie
Houssian
and The
Collective
Roam is a
mountain-bike film that
follows the travels of
the world's top riders
as they explore new
places to ride, and
visit some of the
notorious meccas of
mountain biking such as
Moab, Utah and Whistler,
British Columbia.
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