Film Festivals
Films to Change your World
When: Saturday, March 24th, 2012
Where: Colorado Mesa University Center Ballroom, Grand Junction, CO
Doors Open: 6:00 PM
Program Starts: 7:00 PM
Get Your Tickets at the CMU Outdoor Program, Summit Canyon Mountaineering, online at www.wccongress.org
Students: $5
Adults: $10 Advanced, $12 at the Door
Do you like movies/film festivals?
Oh, good -- so do we! And it's a treat for us to participate each year in bringing some really inspirational, entertaining, educational films to Grand Junction, courtesy of the Wild and Scenic Film Festival. The Wild and Scenic Film Festival tours the U.S. each year to bring quality environmental documentaries by great storytellers to the whole country. The CMU Outdoor Program, Sustainability Council, and Environmental Networking for Volunteering Students partner each spring with community organizations Whitewater West, Summit Canyon Mountaineering, Western Colorado Congress, Highnoon Solor, Bookcliff Vision Center, and national sponsors Cliff Bar, Sierra Nevada, Ospray and Patagonia to show this great collection of films.
The 2012 Wild & Scenic Film Festival will feature 11 new inspiring films. This year's focus is on rivers and oceans. As world resources dwindle and populations increase the fight over water based resources can do nothing but escalate.
This year CMU student will enjoy only $5 dollar entrance fees and
The CMU Student Environmental
Film Contes. Students were asked to produce a 3 minute video with an environmental theme of their choice. The winner will be announced here, on our website on March 16th and the winning film will be shown in conjunction with the W&S Film Festival on March 24. We are anxious to see what the students have produced.
Students were able to choose some of the films for our particular screening. One to look for is 'Chasing Water' exploring the fate of the Colorado. Follow the Colorado River, source to sea, on a soul searching, personal journey downstream to focus on the "American Nile" and what becomes of the river's most precious resource as it supports 30 million people in the West.
This years films....
Chasing Water
Chasing Water reflects on the fate of the Colorado River from its source to its unlikely end near the Sea of Cortez.
Photographer Pete McBride takes an intimate look at the watershed as he attempts to follow the irrigation water that sustains his family’s Colorado ranch, down river to the sea. Traversing 1500 miles and draining seven states, the Colorado River supports over 30 million people across the southwest. It is not the longest or largest U.S. river, but it is one of the most loved and litigated in the world. Today, this resource is depleted and stressed. Follow its path with an artistic, aerial view on a personal journey to understand this national treasure. McBride teamed up with his bush-pilot father to capture unique footage and also shadowed the adventure of Jon Waterman who became the first to paddle the entire length of the river
New Environments, The Grid - 6 Minutes
Germany: Community activists respond to the Chernobyl nuclear accident by creating the country’s first successful, cooperatively owned, renewable power company.“The New Environmentalists” share a common goal – safeguarding the Earth’s natural resources from exploitation and pollution, while fighting for justice in their communities. The film is the latest in the Mill Valley Film Group’s Emmy Award-winning series featuring inspiring portraits of six passionate and dedicated activists. These are true environmental heroes who have placed themselves squarely in harm’s way to battle intimidating adversaries while building strong grassroots support. Narrated by Robert Redford, The New Environmentalists illustrates how ordinary people are affecting extraordinary change.
Dark Side of the Lens - 6 min
Dark Side of the Lens is one mans personal and heartfelt account of life as an ocean based photographer. This short film takes you on an eerie, stunning and moving journey amongst the epic oceanic grandeur of Irelands west coast. Renowned documentarian of the heavy salt, Mickey Smith, has succeeded in creating a visual poem of sorts, that offers a humble glimpse into his strange and magical world, reflecting insights that in turn ring true with many of our own lives. Watch Trailer
The Fishman - 10 min
The Fishman - 10 min
Mike Kasic swims the Yellowstone River like a human-fish through swift river canyons and scenic mountain views, watching trout in fast currents filled with frothing water tornadoes, stopping only to body surf river waves. His message is simple: a river is more than its water; what lies beneath is a wilderness that is often overlooked, but critical for the Yellowstone ecosystem to thrive.
Yelp: With Apologies to Allen Ginsber's Howl - 3 min
Technology can be addictive. In a tribute to Allen Ginsberg’s classic 1956 poem, we created a short film lampooning the addictions of our generation.
Narrated by Peter Coyote.
Film by Tiffany Shlain and Ken Goldberg.
Official Selection Sundance Film Festival 2011
One Percent of the Story - 15 min
1% for the Planet is a growing global movement of businesses financially committed to creating a healthy planet. Here’s [a very tiny bit] of the story…trailer
Ben Knight, Travis Rummel
The Magestic Plastic Bag - 4 min
Follow a plastic bag from supermarket to its final migratory destination in the Pacific Ocean gyre. Narrated by Academy Award-winner Jeremy Irons, this "mockumentary" video, hammers home the stark reality of California's plastic bag pollution situation.
Stay tuned for next years Radical Reels Tour. Thanks for your support!
Radical Reels
When: Tuesday, February 28th, 2012
Where: Colorado Mesa University Center Ballroom, Grand Junction, CO
Doors Open: 6:00 PM
Program Starts: 7:00 PM
Get Your Tickets at the CMU Outdoor Program!
Students: $5 Advanced, $8 at the Door
Adults: $8 Advanced, $10 at the Door
Radical Reels Intro Video
Film Summaries
All.I.Can: Perseverance (Custom edit for the Radical Reels Tour)
- Best Feature-length Mountain Film, Sponsored by Town of Banff
- Canada, 2011, 8 minutes
- Directed by: Dave Mossop, Eric Crosland
- Produced by: Malcolm Sangster, Eric Crosland
- Website: http://sherpascinema.com
Classification: General – Coarse Language
Big mountains and steep lines are the focus in this high energy excerpt from the award-winning feature film ‘All.I.Can.’
*This custom edit contains only footage not seen in the Banff Mountain Film Festival World Tour’s ‘All.I.Can: The Short Cut.’
Cat Skiing
- Canada, 2011, 7 minutes
- Produced and directed by: Darren Rayner, Callum Jelley, and Mason Mashon
- Website: www.voleurz.com
- Classification: General – Coarse Language
Shot and edited in only seven days, discover the true meaning of cat skiing!
Concrete Dreams
- Germany, 2011, 7 minutes
- Produced and directed by: Danny Strasser
- Website: www.danny-strasser.de
- Classification: General
Bobtrack downhill skateboarding is a sport that didn’t actually exist— until Danny Strasser began his tour of Europe’s tracks.
From the Inside Out (Custom edit for the Radical Reels Tour)
- Canada, 2011, 13 minutes
- Directed by: Dylan Dunkerton, Kyle Norbraten, Curtis Robinson (The Coastal Crew)
- Produced by: Ian Dunn, Kyle Norbraten, Darcy Wittenburg
- Website: http://www.fromtheinsideout.secondbasefilms.com
- Classification: General - Coarse Language
A partnership between standard setting Anthill Films and the progressive riders of The Coastal Crew, this is a freeride mountain biking film from the athletes themselves.
Frontier (Custom edit for the Radical Reels Tour)
- USA, 2010, 20 minutes
- Produced & directed by: Rush Sturges
- Website: www.river-roots.com
- Classification: General
From Mexico to Iceland, Frontier features huge waterfalls, remote areas, breathtaking scenery, and some of the most challenging whitewater ever paddled.
Here We Go Again (Custom edit for the Radical Reels Tour)
- USA, 2010, 10 minutes
- Directed by: Don Hampton and Gardy Raymond
- Produced by: Don Hampton
- Website: www.dh-productions.com
- Classification: General
DH Production’s twenty-fifth film adventure showcases their DIY style and blue collar work ethic. No matter where you’re at or who you are, it's all about having fun on the bike.
Miller’s Thriller: Ski BASE (Custom edit for the Radical Reels Tour)
- USA, 2010, 6 minutes
- Produced and directed by: Darrell Miller
- Website: www.stormshow.com
- Classification: Parental Guidance — Coarse Language
The Jackson Hole backcountry is the spectacular site for some amazing ski BASE jumps!
Narsicame
- USA, 2011, 4 minutes
- Directed and produced by: Bill Donavan
- Website: www.dangerouscircus.com
- Classification: General
Look at me— and my headcam!
Reel Rock: Race for the Nose
- Radical Reels People’s Choice Award – Sponsored by The Banff Centre
- USA, 2011, 22 minutes
- Produced & directed by: Nick Rosen & Peter Mortimer
- Website: www.senderfilms.com
- Classification: Parental Guidance – Coarse Language
Welcome to the wildest competition known to man – the speed record on the Nose route of El Capitan. For 50 years, the best climbers in the world have been one-upping each other on this massive granite monolith in Yosemite National Park, racing up 3,000 feet of vertical rock in under three hours, and risking life and limb to shave mere seconds off the record time.
Whitewater Grand Prix
- Canada, 2011, 4 minutes
- Directed by: Ben Marr
- Website: www.triberiders.ca
- Classification: General
Some of the world’s best kayakers come together for a six stage competition on spectacular whitewater.
All.I.Can.
When: 7:30 pm Wednesday, April 4, 2012
Where: Maverick Center Auditorium, Room 155
See the trailer
Put on by the CMU Sustainability Council and the CMU Outdoor Program.
The time has come for a ski film that stands for something. Join Sherpas Cinema as they unite spectacular cinematography with creative cinematic language to fuse passion for skiing with motivation for green initiatives and forward thinking. In bringing the planet to life and drawing parallels between daily existence, they find a common ground between the global situation and the real individual.
Sherpas Cinema has been an established entity in the North American ski-film industry for over 8 years now and they are set apart from the norm through their unbridled creativity, artistic flare, and motives of environmental and educational consciousness. Their film, All.I.Can., is a spectacular visual and emotional journey from the personal to the world perspective.
Broken into the three areas of focus, the Sherpas take us on a confronting, magical and inspiring path. Emphasizing the ‘ALL’ that has impacted our world in a natural and anthropogenic sense, what ‘Individuals in mountain cultures have recognized to be issues and what changes we ‘CAN’ strive to implement globally and make in our everyday lives. Featured athlete JP Auclair drives home the sobering thought and environmental motivation that the film creates, stating “we feel like we need to be doing less of this and less of that. But I don’t think it’s about doing less, it’s about doing more”. These personal goals, motivations and passions for encouraging environmental awareness around the world, and especially in the winter climes that support the lifestyle of the professional athletes presented in the film, are portrayed throughout in an adrenaline-filled, inspired fashion.
The incredible natural cinematography, integrated music and structural components of the film have melded together in a chillingly awe-inspiring presentation of various layers, messages and stories. Taking ski-filmmaking to an entirely new level, the Sherpas are going beyond tricks and big lines and injecting a sense of morality and social responsibility.
