*Canada, 2009, 4 minutes
- Website: www.xczone.tv
- Focus: Nordic Skiing, Family-friendly
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Winner of Grand Prize Award and the Peoples Choice Award
Finding Farley
When filmmakers Karsten Heuer and Leanne Allison, along with their two-year-old son Zev and indomitable dog Willow, set out to retrace the literary footsteps of Farley Mowat, they meant it literally. Their 5000-kilometre trip -- trekking, sailing, portaging and paddling from the Prairies to the Maritimes -- is captured in this film. The family's arrival at their final destination (Mowat's Nova Scotian summer home) is, as Karsten says, "an affirmation of what the land and animals had already told us". "Stories aren't so much written or created as they are released, expressing what's been there all along."
Wonderful story, images, pace. A fantastic story. The 2 year old steals the show!
If your main goal was to bring the viewer along on a journey, you succeeded splendidly!
I felt like I came along and had a vacation. Nicely written and edited
An excellent film that will be much talked about at the festival and beyond
Amazing, great adventure / history
If your main goal was to bring the viewer along on a journey, you succeeded splendidly!
I felt like I came along and had a vacation. Nicely written and edited
An excellent film that will be much talked about at the festival and beyond
Amazing, great adventure / history
- This was one of the favourites with our audience A beautiful short Japanese made slow mo deep powder ski film with a really great soundtrack that makes you want just a tiny bit more when it ends.
Lovely match of musical and skiing rhythms and landscape imagery.
short, sweet, and DEEP!
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All photos courtesy of The Banff Centre
Kranked Revolve
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 B.C., incorporating dirt jump, trail, freeride, slopestyle and downhill.
From the Road
- Cool effects and cool photography, good riding
- Awesome sequences at the end with 4 riders, good music, good profiles
- Good music, pro shots, funny (innovative shots)
- Great sound and cinematography, great balance of personal conviction, skill, adrenaline, and stupidity, well done!
- Great camera work, nice fast-paced movie. Perfect for Radical Reels
- Good footage, good length
- Fun start, good audio, cinematography, awesome riding
- Enjoyed the evolution of the bike, good effects, good music selection and filming, interesting, engaging, exciting, good length.
- USA, 2009, 26 minutes
* Focus: Sea-kayaking, adventure, human story, family-friendly
Rowing the Atlantic
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.
The rowing film was up there in the epic athletic department.
A well paced powerful tale that creates quite a buzz in the crowd.
Roz Savage is an engaging and inspiring female character and ‘history’ is something most people
wouldn’t even dream of attempting. It’s great to see her outlook on life change through the film
Finished in the Top 5 in People’s Choice voting at Banff fest
A well paced powerful tale that creates quite a buzz in the crowd.
Roz Savage is an engaging and inspiring female character and ‘history’ is something most people
wouldn’t even dream of attempting. It’s great to see her outlook on life change through the film
Finished in the Top 5 in People’s Choice voting at Banff fest
African Revolutions Tour
USA, 2009, 20 minutes
Website: www.Rev-Inn.com
Focus: White-watre kayaking, Sun Catchers Project (NGO in Africa)
Website: www.Rev-Inn.com
Focus: White-watre kayaking, Sun Catchers Project (NGO in Africa)
From the crocodile-infested White Nile in Uganda, to big-water first descents in Madagascar, the film follows this group of friends on their dangerous mission.
Accompanying the team is Rita Riewerts, the founder of the Sun Catchers Project, a non-profit that installs solar cooking facilities
in African orphanages, hospitals and communities.
Join the team as they set out on an ambitious kayaking expedition in eastern Africa.
Every cent this film generates will be donated to the Sun Catchers Project
Accompanying the team is Rita Riewerts, the founder of the Sun Catchers Project, a non-profit that installs solar cooking facilities
in African orphanages, hospitals and communities.
Join the team as they set out on an ambitious kayaking expedition in eastern Africa.
Every cent this film generates will be donated to the Sun Catchers Project
feedback from the road
Nice to have a paddling film that wasn't just about ripping new lines and adrenaline junkies looking for new water.
The Sun Catchers portions were a great addition.
Humanitarian aspect, educational, incredible story, scenery, crocs, impossible rapids, a mad river gone berserk
Good balance between amazing kayaking and an environmental message, even a bit of culture.
Beautifully shot with a mellow reggae soundtrack
The Sun Catchers portions were a great addition.
Humanitarian aspect, educational, incredible story, scenery, crocs, impossible rapids, a mad river gone berserk
Good balance between amazing kayaking and an environmental message, even a bit of culture.
Beautifully shot with a mellow reggae soundtrack
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!
- Canada, 2009, 9 minutes
- Website: www.meltwatermedia.ca
- Classification: General – no advisory
- Focus: Environment, family-friendly
Pick up Sticks
From the Road
- Short and to the point
- Well filmed, vivid images, intimate commentary
- Great shots, beautiful colours, a lot of information
- Environmental message, beautiful, short
Japan, 2009, 3 minutes
Website:www.ebisfilms.jp
Focus: Powder skiing
Website:www.ebisfilms.jp
Focus: Powder skiing
Shinsetsu means deep powder in Japanese.
This short film expresses a typical day in the mountains of Japan.
This short film expresses a typical day in the mountains of Japan.
Canada, 2009, 63 minutes
Website:www.necessary journeys.ca/findingfarley
Focus: Adventure, culture,
family friendly, (however...
see warning...)
Website:www.necessary journeys.ca/findingfarley
Focus: Adventure, culture,
family friendly, (however...
see warning...)
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Canada, 2009, 11 min.
Website: www.radical-films.com
Focus: Mountain Biking
Website: www.radical-films.com
Focus: Mountain Biking
The tuesday Night Films
Well received by a Nordic Skking audience.
Too ridiculous for my taste, great footage, didn't like the music.
Great soundtrack, fun and entertaining, well done!
outrageous view "staid" cross country skiing.
Too ridiculous for my taste, great footage, didn't like the music.
Great soundtrack, fun and entertaining, well done!
outrageous view "staid" cross country skiing.
The Banff Mountain Film Festival World Tour at the Regent Theatre
celebrating wildness in the wilderness since we climbed out of the primordial freakin' muck
don't email the monkey
Hermitlake
Films are subject to change...