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Grand Prize - award plus $1000 The MEC Best Canadian Film Award - award plus $250 Best Climbing Film - award plus $200 Best Adventure Film - award plus $200 Best Short Film - award plus $200
The following films have been selected as finalists for this year's festival prizes,
Abysmo Prizes for the film competition will be awarded for the following categories;
Canada, 18 minutes Exploring the beautiful but deadly cliff jumping culture in North Vancouver’s Lynn Valley. The locals seem to know the locations, the lines and the safe times to jump, everyone else is terrified, or at least they better be, because this is seriously deadly. Screens Wednesday, July 16 at the Eagle Eye Theatre - 7:30pm
(Canada) – 4 minutes Matt Maddaloni attempts to solo the 5.13a route Young Blood with bizarre safety precautions. Maddaloni might be known for his hard trad ascents, long link ups of classic lines and deep water solos but this truely unique, and not to be missed. (Categories; Canadian, Climbing, Short) Screens Wednesday, July 16 - Eagle Eye Theatre - 7:30pm
THE PATH
(Canada) – 20 minutes An abandoned 5.14 bolted seam located at the Back of the Lake area of Lake Louise, Alberta, received its first free ascent by Sonnie Trotter, renowned Canadian crack hardman. After inspecting the route on rappel and toproping it with cams as directionals, Trotter deemed that the route "should be climbed entirely on natural gear." He chopped every bolt on the longstanding project (it was bolted about twenty years ago). He worked the line for ten days, spread out over five weeks, before redpointing it. (Categories; Canadian, Climbing) Screens Wednesday, July 16 - Eagle Eye Theatre - 7:30pm
HAMPI 2008
(Canada) – 16 minutes
(Categories; Canadian, Climbing) Screens Wednesday, July 16 - Eagle Eye Theatre - 7:30pm
ACROSS THE ATLAS
(USA) – 24 minutes A humorous take on the Hero’s Journey, an expedition to Morocco in search of the ultimate adventure. This team aims to ski North Africa’s highest peak, but many other misadventures waylay them along the way. (Categories; Adventure) Screens Friday, July 18 - Eagle Eye Theatre - 7:30pm
POTRAIT OF A SERIAL JUMPER
(Germany) – 10 minutes Norwegian André Bach is one of the pioneers of the international base jumping scene and started, like the most, as a reckless young man who had only one focus: B.A.S.E. jumping. In “Portrait of a Serial Jumper” Bach describes how his recklessness has changed without losing his passion. He moved from Oslo to the country and his new role as a husband and father has strongly affected the once so easygoing extreme athlete. Now precaution is his constant companion during his projects. Meanwhile his passion now is more than just a crazy hobby – it has become a mission and profession. André Bach shows that recklessness and responsible behavior are not mutually exclusive.
Screens Friday, July 18 - Eagle Eye Theatre - 7:30pm
CERRO TORRE BACKSTAGE
(France) – 13 minutes
But beyond the success, we discover another way of climbing life: Argentinian climbers explain their difficulties to survive and the futility of climbing. It's why they have a strong friendship, lots of laughter and passion, a breath of fresh air without a bottle! (Categories; Climbing, Short) Screens Friday, July 18 - Eagle Eye Theatre - 7:30pm
PATAGONIAN WINTER
(England) – 31 minutes Andy Kirkpatrick is a pioneer of winter climbing in Patagonia with many hair-raising ascents to his name. This hilarious film documents his latest Patagionian horror show; an attempt at the first winter ascent of Torre Egger with fellow alpinist Ian Parnell. (Categories; Climbing) Screens Friday, July 18 - Eagle Eye Theatre - 7:30pm
SWEDISH MEATBALLS – Festival Edit
(Sweden) – 13 minutes Join Dylan Smith and Carl-Ola Boström on a tour of Sweden’s best blocs. Swedish Meatballs features classic lines and first ascents as Dylan and Kalle spend a month on the road meeting up with the boulderers who shaped the Swedish scene. Growing up in Wales, Dylan Smith soon tired of sheep and slate and found a different kind of love in Sweden. These days he spends his days playing with plastic and crimping on sharp overhanging granite. Dylan also happens to be Swedens’ highest ranked boulderer according to some Sources... Kjugekull Veteran Carl-Ola Boström put his life as a student on hold to see if there was anything else worth climbing in Sweden... and he found it, the “Perfect Boulder”. Now, his unique zen mentality and unquenchable thirst for the Attainable has him searching for the “Next Perfect Boulder”...(Categories; Climbing, Short) Screens Saturday, July 19 - Squamish Adventure Centre - 1:30pm
WADI RUM EXPEDITION
(Canada) – 52 minutes The Wadi Rum, located in Jordan near the lost city of Petra, is a vast, silent landscape of sandstone mountains and cliff faces towering over ancient riverbeds and sandy desert. The Wadi Rum Expedition showcases the culture of the area and the experience of four climbers—Heidi Wirtz, Chris Kalous, Ben Firth and Aaron Black—on a new 1,200-foot free climb up one of the Wadi Rum's tallest walls.
(Categories; Canadian, Climbing) Screens Saturday, July 19 - Squamish Adventure Centre - 1:30pm
BY OWN STRENGTH
(Sweden) – 45 minutes Never before had anyone attempted anything like it: a complete circumnavigation of the lower 48 states by kayak and bike. In 2003 the acclaimed adventurer Renata Chlumska set out on this great American odyssey. Where Renata could not travel by kayak, she would attach it together with the rest of her equipment on a bicycle and ride until she was able to kayak again. (Categories; Adventure) Screens Sunday, July 20 - Squamish Adventure Centre - 1:30pm
PEDINDO POR CLEMENZO
(Brazil) – 20 minutes "Pedindo Por Clemenzo is a story told by many voices from different people, and culminates with the climb of the "Torre Principal" the highest needle of the Cerro Catedral, Bariloche-Argentina. The climbed route is a variant of the Clemenzo, with six pitches. The film also pictures the everyday life at the base camp, and how even in really hard and/or nasty situations, you can still feel fine and full of energy. Many brazilian climbers are players, in the film, and the climbof the Clemenzo Route is made by Roberta Nunes, to whom this film is dedicated. (Categories; Climbing) Screens Saturday, July 19 - Eagle Eye Theatre - 7:30pm and MAGIC NUMBERS
(England) – 21 minutes A rigorous examination of red-pointing following Steve McClure’s as he attempts the first ascent of Britain’s hardest sport climb. (Categories; Climbing) Screens Sunday, July 20 - Eagle Eye Theatre - 7:30pm
YOUNG JAMES
(England) – 10 minutes Boy to man – James Pearson reflects on the craziness and naivety of his first hard grit ascents. (Categories; Climbing, Short) Screens Sunday, July 20 - Eagle Eye Theatre - 7:30pm
ABYSMO
(Canada) – 4 minutes Whitewater kayaking on the Absymo section of the Apurimac River in Peru. (Categories; Canadian, Adventure, Short) Screens Sunday, July 20 - Eagle Eye Theatre - 7:30pm
DYING FOR EVEREST
(New Zealand) – 52 minutes In May 2006 New Zealander, Mark Inglis, became the first double amputee to summit Mount Everest. But when he descended he was greeted not with a heroes welcome but by media condemnation. Their team had passed Briton David Sharp near the summit. Severely frostbitten on one of the coldest days ever experienced on Everest, Inglis’ team were unable to rescue Sharp. ‘Dying for Everest’ tells for the first time what happened that day on the roof of the world. (Categories; Climbing) Screens Sunday, July 20 - Eagle Eye Theatre - 7:30pm
2007 winning films
Festival Grand Prize - Best Film Overall - First Ascent - USA Best Climbing Film - E11 - UK Best Mountain Adventure Film - Asiemut - Canada Best Canadian Mountain Film - Yes to the No - Canada
get tickets: event locations: Events are set to take place all over Squamish in locations including The Squamish Adventure Centre, The Eagle Eye Theatre and The Howe Sound Inn and Brewing Company. For a full list of venue locations... Click Here |
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