PROGRAM 2 / Thursday, October 15

Program 2 Thursday, October 15 / Live @ 7pm (MT)

SUPERBLOOM

DIRECTORS | Anya Miller Berg & Anne Cleary

(USA, 3 min) UNNUR

DIRECTOR | Chris Burkard

(USA, Iceland, 17 min)

Today, images of the outdoors are focused on how people look, their gender, and what they are wearing while outdoors. But how we feel out there seems more important. Colors zooming by. Nature as our second skin. Confetti leaves and trail parties, cake snacks and hard laughs. Superbloom envisions our shared technicolor experience in the outdoors. This is where buds grow.

BANKING ON BAILEY

DIRECTOR | Tim Kemple Banks, Idaho is home to 17 hearty residents; including Ryan Bailey, a white-water kayaker, former wildland firefighter, and unofficial Mayor of the town. Situated at the confluence of the North and South Fork of the Payette, Banks means something if you’re a kayaker - the same way that the North Shore of Hawaii means something to surfers, or Yosemite means something to climbers. Growing up, the river terrified Ryan, but it kept calling him. Twenty-one years after his first competition in Banks he continues to live his life unapologetically - as he’s not concerned about “what’s next”, but rather “what’s right now”.

(USA, 9 min)

Elli Thor is an Icelandic photographer, surfer, and former kayaker. A decade ago Elli nearly drowned under a waterfall while kayaking a challenging Icelandic river. The near death experience became a catalyst for personal growth and his professional career. After walking away from kayaking, a newfound passion for surfing and the birth of his daughter Unnur gave him a new perspective worth living for.

HERE WE STAND

(USA, 11 min)

DIRECTOR | Chris Cresci

For generations, conservation has been about keeping people out of places. By partnering with Save the Redwoods League and Teresa Baker, HERE WE STAND explores what the future of conversation looks like through inclusion and access, even to those who are normally in the margins.

THE SECRET OF BOTTOM TURN ISLAND

DIRECTOR | Ian Durkin

(USA, 3 min) RIVER LOOTERS

DIRECTOR | Rebecca Hynes

(USA, 4 min)

Snowboarder Alex Yoder searches for the lost art of “snowsurfing”.

HILL COUNTRY SLIDERS

DIRECTOR | RC Cone The legend of the Hill Country Sliders is real. We recently unearthed footage of this landlocked surf posse on a treacherous voyage away from their outpost. Take a look and see for yourself. Three river surfers turned into obsessed free divers hunting for lost belongings in the Deschutes River. When not on a quest to reunite people with their lost belongings, they dive for trash. The most water logged and shreddy good samaritans in Oregon.

WILL TO LIVE: THE GARY EDINGER STORY

(Canada, 17 min)

(USA, 2 min)

DIRECTOR | Adam Foss On a fateful February day, in remote Northern Wisconsin, a solo independent logger named Gary Edinger severed his left leg off. Twenty miles from help, alone, and in forty below temperatures, Gary summoned a remarkable willpower and crawled to his pickup, then drove to safety. Gary’s struggle for survival, however, didn’t begin on that winter day in the hardwoods. His whole life had been forged from adversity, rising above a meager upbringing as he learned to hunt, trap and fish alone, on his own terms. Will to Live: the Gary Edinger Story provides a glimpse of a unique perspective gained by cheating death and chasing the call of life-long adventure.

Program 2 continued Thursday, October 15

LATITUDE

DIRECTOR | Wesley Walker

(USA, Norway, 9 min) THE RUNNING PASTOR

DIRECTOR | Tim Kemple

(USA, Faroe Islands, 8 min)

LATITUDE is a poetic short documentary film that follows four daring young women to the 79th parallel, under 700 miles from the North Pole, to rediscover themselves while sailing Svalbard’s arctic ocean, summiting glacial peaks, and sharing ski descents.

Shelby Dyer, Anna Marno, Brittney Ziebell & Jessica Baker are all former competitive skiers who revisit what skiing means to them, and find a new curiosity and love for a sport they’ve known all their lives.

THROUGH THE BREAKS

DIRECTOR | Tom Attwater Jason Cajune lives in Livingston, MT where he designs and builds wooden drift boats alongside his family. Last summer, Jason packed up one of his custom boats and led his family on a float trip down the Missouri River, through the Upper Missouri River Breaks National Monument to American Prairie Reserve. Their trip serves as a journey through family traditions, a protected landscape and layers of history over time.

(USA, 9 min)

In the middle of the cold North Atlantic, craggy mountaintops rise straight up out of the sea. And it’s here, in the rugged Faroe Islands, that local pastor Sverri Steinholm tends to his flocks. Plural. Born the son of a shepherd, Sverri is now a pastor. The job can get heavy, so to clear his mind and feed his soul, he runs over these weatherworn cliffs. For Sverri,

trail running is spiritual.