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(2017, China, 15 minutes)
Filmmaker Lie Feng, He Chuan
Focus: Ice climbing, exploration
Subtitles: Yes

A university teacher breaks free from a life of routine in China and
embarks on a quest to climb a mysterious frozen waterfall that no one knows about.
(2017, Canada, 14 minutes)
Filmmaker: Sherpas Cinema
Focus: Culture
Subtitles: Yes
Apa Sherpa has climbed Mount Everest 21 times, but he wouldn’t wish this upon anybody. Having grown up in the remote Khumbu region of Nepal, Apa was forced to leave school and work as a porter at the age of 12. For Nepal’s rural people, the income earned as a high altitude porter conflicts with the dreams made possible only through education and knowledge.
(2017, Australia, 30 minutes)
Filmmaker: Simon Bischoff,
Video Compass
Focus: Climbing

It’s not the tallest mountain in the world, it’s not even the tallest in
Australia, but fewer people get to the summit of Tasmania’s Federation Peak these days

then get to the summit of Mt Everest. And Mark Savage and his intrepid team of climbers hope to summit during the wettest winter on record.
(2017, Canada, 5 minutes)
Focus: Street Skiing
Adrenaline Factor: Medium/High

Have you ever been that little kid sitting in the back seat of your parents’ car, wishing
you were somewhere else? So you imagine a skier on the side of the road, your fingers
commanding back flips and roof drops, improbable rail slides and huge airs. Well, what
if your imagination came to life?
(2017, USA, 5 minutes)
Filmmaker: Lacy Kemp,
Juicy Studios
Focus: Biking
Adrenaline Factor: High

Mountain biker Micayla Gatto takes the viewer into her world as a painter and as an athlete, riding through beautifully created masterpieces where colours come to life and reality blends with art.
DUGOUT
Intermission
INTERSECTION: MICAYLA GATTO
SEARCHING FOR CHRISTMAS TREE
Best Film: Snow Sports
LA CASITA WIP
(2016, France, 3 minutes)
Filmmaker: PVS Company
Focus: Freeskiing
Adrenaline Factor: High

Try to keep up to freerider Sam Favret as he gives us a new perspective of the mythical
Mer de Glace, at the heart of Mont-Blanc.
(2017, USA, 19 minutes)
Filmmaker: Julia Keahey
Focus: Environment
Film Synopsis: Junior Walk, an anti-coal activist in southern West Virginia, takes us through his battle with mining companies and why he believes mountaintop removal methods should stop immediately on this land that he loves
*one of the top films in voting
for People’s Choice Award
LOVED BY ALL: THE STORY OF APA SHERPA
WINTER ON THE BLADE (TOUR EDIT)
IMAGINATION: TOM WALLISCH
PARENTAL WARNING!!
COURSE LANGUAGE! & NUDITY
Fabian Bodet©
Garret Van Swearingen ©
Lief ©
Steve Henderson©
Simon Bischoff ©
ICE CALL - BACKYARDS PROJECT - SAM FAVRET
(2017, UK, 41 minutes)
Filmmaker: Benjamin Sadd
Subtitles: Spanish (local dialect)
Ben and James decide
to travel to the Ecuadorian Amazon, live with an indigenous community, learn from them how to build a canoe from scratch, then take that canoe on a journey… What could go wrong?
(2016, Ecuador, 7 minutes)
Filmmaker: Juan Reece and Jose Cobo, Afuera Productions
Focus: Biking
Subtitles: Spanish

 Two girls from Ecuador have a dream of building their own dirt jumping track in their backyard. So they get to work.
Best Film: Mountain Sports
*one of the top films in voting
for People’s Choice Award
*one of the top films in voting
for People’s Choice Award
Fabian Bodet©
Juan Reece©
Juan Reece©
Micayla Gatto ©
Lief ©
Lief ©
Steve Henderson©
Tom Wallisch ©
Tom Wallisch ©
Tom Wallisch ©
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MONDAY NIGHT AT THE REGENT
(2016, Germany, 52 minutes)
Filmmaker: Jochen Small, Drehxtrem,
Red Bull Media House
Adventure, kite skiing, kayaking
3 National Geographic “Adventurers of the Year” embark on an insane kayaking mission in Greenland. With kite skis, they tow their white water kayaks over 1000 km of the Greenland Ice Cap to reach the most northern river ever paddled.
INTO TWIN GALAXIES – A GREENLAND EPIC
WEDNESDAY NIGHT AT SOMERVILLE
Walk ON THE MOUNTAIN & DUGOUT
WILL BE REPLACED WITH:
PARENTAL WARNING!!
COURSE LANGUAGE!
WALK ON THE MOUNTAIN
and
Award: Special Jury Mention
Intrepid Australian Coarse
Language & Nudity...
the best!
Parental Warning!! Coarse Language & Nudity
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