PROGRAM 3 / Friday, October 16

Program 3 Friday, October 16 / Live @ 7pm (MT)

NATURAL MYSTIC

DIRECTOR | Maxime Moulin

(France, 3 min)

GONE TOMORROW — THE STORY OF KENTUCKY ICE CLIMBING

DIRECTOR | Mike Wilkinson

(USA, 20 min)

Natural mystic, an original concept that sees Sam Favret’s mind-blowing performance filmed entirely by drone. Come aboard for three minutes of thundering skiing through the Aiguilles Rouges of Chamonix, no gimmicks or tricks and no music. Instead, the sound of the elements takes pride of place for full immersion into the tracks of this local Chamonix rider.

RUNNING THOUGHTS

DIRECTOR | Fitz Cahall Sometimes, an hour is all you get. Often, an hour is all you need. In those 60 minutes, for every question that gets answered, a new one gets asked. Tension releases into the passing wind. Goals are reaffirmed. Internal yarns are spun. Knots get untangled, and everything makes sense — even if you’ve forgotten it all by the time you get home. Join trail runners Perry Cohen, Junko Kazukawa and José González to hear what runs through their heads as they run through nature.

(USA, 3 min)

Ice climbing in Kentucky?! This adventure documentary takes the audience for a bourbon-fueled ride deep into the bushy hollers of Appalachia with a crew of harmless misfits as they race to search out and climb new ice routes before they’re gone, with a few surprises along the way.

STOKE CHASERS

(USA, 8 min)

DIRECTOR | Jo Anna Edmison

In an interestingly subliminal way, many young girls are taught how to watch and not how to do. Girls are taught on to think that they are more fragile and weak. Stoke Chasers aims to get women to stand up and fight this notion of just watching and to break the connection between being feminine and being fragile. When the unspoken barriers of the male dominated surf and skate world are broken, women are celebrated for being a part of a similar community, but not necessarily the same community. Stoke Chasers poses the question, “what if we were told we were strong from the beginning?” We would be able to foster a community of girls that were not complacent with watching, but girls that are more inclined to be doing.

CHASING THE SUBLIME

DIRECTOR | Amanda Bluglass

(UK, 6 min) DAY 1

DIRECTOR | Josh Berman

(USA, 4 min)

Why do we put ourselves into the path of discomfort and risk? What drives us to get too cold and too tired, to battle with fear, in the name of adventure? Follow the originators of The Outdoor Swimming Society, ‘swim twins’ Kate Rew and Kari Furre, in this hauntingly beautiful glimpse at the physicality of UK cold water swimming, as two friends set out to chase the sublime.

UNA RAZÓN PARA PESCAR (A REASON TO FISH)

DIRECTOR | Simon Perkins & Henry Miles Dan Diez loves to fish. It’s the reason why he spends many long nights under bridges in Miami, fly fishing out of a canoe for giant tarpon. On the surface, his passion flows from the thrills and wonder of a heart-pounding experience with rod and fly that connects him intimately with the natural world. However, at a deeper level, the passion is rooted in a story--a story about Dan and his grandfather--that involves traditions born in Cuba, political imprisonment, the search for a new home, and a relationship with water that symbolizes a freedom often taken for granted.

(USA, 10 min)

Five years after breaking his back in a snowboarding accident and being left paralyzed from the waist down, Trevor Kennison returns to the backcountry with a new outlook and facing a new set of challenges. In a moment of redemption, Trevor hits a backcountry jump for the first time since his injury and lands the biggest backflip of his life, in his sit ski.

LE TOUR DE PANTS

(USA, 4 min)

DIRECTORS | Lewie Kloster & Noah Kloster

When Alexi Grewal won gold in the 1984 Olympics, it wasn’t because he was wearing spandex. Filmmaker, Ali Selim, was one of the only few keen enough to understand why Grewal won.

Program 3 continued Friday, October 16

PEDAL THROUGH

DIRECTORS | Aly Nicklas & Analise Cleopatra

(USA, 14 min)

ONE MAN’S TRASH

DIRECTOR | Oliver Sutro

(USA, 8 min)

Pedal Through invites us into the world of director-lead Analise Cleopatra as she discovers the healing and joy of mountain biking. Analise had never camped or ridden a bike off the pavement when she decided to plan a week-long mountain biking adventure with an all black female team: her best friend and fellow newcomer to the sport, Day Toliver, and professional mountain biker Brooklyn Bell. Together, they traverse the Oregon backcountry on an adventure full of exploration, curiosity, waterfalls, old growth forest, sparkling starscapes, and deep healing. With raw authenticity, Analise shares all the intimate foibles, fear, fun and beauty of discovering her place in the outdoors. The landscape opens to greet her as she learns to lean into uncertainty, accept support and trust herself on this wild ride.

SANDBAGGING JIMMY CHIN

DIRECTORS | Dan Malloy, Keith Malloy, Jeff Johnson, Jimmy Chin has done it all: climbed and skied Everest, crossed Chang Tang Plateau on foot, and won an Academy Award. But “getting barreled” still wasn’t checked off on his bucket list — until now.

Scott Ballew, Jimmy Chin, Taylor Johns, Mark Healey (USA, 10 min)

After his father passed, Bennett uprooted his idyllic life as a fishing guide to try and get a “real” job in real estate. That plan flops and he spends the summer living on top of his 1990 Cadillac Deville in some of North America’s wealthiest summering locations like Martha’s Vineyard. Strapped for cash, Bennett picks up trash on the beaches to tie flies for fishing, and enters into a fishing tournament. The simple joys of life are exactly that: simple, and often free.

ODE TO DESOLATION

(USA, 13 min)

DIRECTOR | Lindsey Hagen

Ode to Desolation shares the story of Jim Henterly, a naturalist, illustrator and fire lookout as he contemplates the dying days of Fire Lookouts in North America. With the influence of technology and AI threatening to make his role obsolete, we look into the future and ask ourselves what connections we will maintain to keep our human interpretation of the natural world alive.