|
|
 |
|
 
|
|
|||||||
|
|
WELCOME FINAL PROGRAM FILMS, BY DATE FILMS, ALPHABETICAL SCHEDULE GRID PRINTABLE PDF THE GUESTS SPECIAL EVENTS 2009 AUCTION WHAT'S NEW TICKETS & PASSES BUY ONLINE NOW! SPONSORS SPECIAL THANKS HOTEL SPONSORS THE TMFF STAFF ADVISORY BOARD PAST FESTIVALS HOME PAGE Taos Mountainfilm Festival 121 North Plaza Taos, NM 87571 Phone 575-751-3658 Fax 575-751-3518 Email info@mountainfilm.net Web mountainfilm.net |
|
|
SUNDAY, OCTOBER 11 TAOS COMMUNITY AUDITORIUM 9:30 AM YOGIN 11:30am - Saturday, October 10th, Taos Community Auditorium 9:30am - Sunday, October 11th, Taos Community Auditorium 
A young pretender challenges the old master in his mountaintop zendo. Guess who
prevails in the contest of flexibility? John Hanrahan, USA, 3 mins, 2008PUSH PLAY 9:30am - Saturday, October 10th, The Taos Gallery 9:30am - Sunday, October 11th, Taos Community Auditorium A touching romantic encounter bookends some superb snow kiting footage to form an unusual film of the mountainfilm genre. Lisa Darsonava, USA, 9 mins 23 sec, 2008 BIDDER 70 8:00pm - Friday, October 9th, Taos Community Auditorium 9:30am - Sunday, October 11th, Taos Community Auditorium The best ideas in the world are often glaringly simple. One such is Tim De Christopher's ploy to foil the federal government's auction of mineral rights to corporate interest. He registered as Bidder 70 and bid determinedly for the rights to mine ore in areas of Utah, with of course no intention of mining or paying for the privilege. He will attend the festival immediately after his trial, if he is not incarcerated. George Gage, USA, 8mins, 2009 In person: Tim de Christopher, George Gage CHEAT NEUTRAL 9:30am - Saturday, October 10th, The Taos Gallery 9:30am - Sunday, October 11th, Taos Community Auditorium 
This hilarious film follows satirical website creators Alex Randall and Christian Hunt
as they try to sell the idea of cheat offsetting to a bemused public. From the high street
to the Houses of Parliament, they spark an important and timely debate about the
inadequacies of carbon offsetting.
www.cheatneutral.com www.bullfrogfilms.com
9 Awards including Grand Jury Prize for Best Short at Film Festival at Yale
Beth Stratford, UK, 13 mins, 2007FREEDOM RIDERS 9:30am - Sunday, October 11th, Taos Community Auditorium 
Freedom Riders follows the people and events of downhill mountain biking, from it's
infancy, to the phenomenon that it is today, as well as a group of renegade downhill
mountain bikers who let nothing stand between them and gravity. Beginning with
conflict and clandestine trail building, these riders eventually gain acceptance and form
a collaborative relationship with the Forest Service, implementing the first downhill
specific trail system in Forest Service history.
www.freedomridersthemovie.com Chris Kitchen, USA, 46 mins, 2009SUNDAY, OCTOBER 11 TAOS GALLERY 9:30 AM ADDICTED TO PLASTIC 9:30am - Sunday, October 11th, The Taos Gallery 
Ian Connacher gives us a point-of-view style documentary about plastic that encompasses three years of filming in 12 countries on 5 continents, including two trips to the middle of the Pacific Ocean where plastic debris accumulates. The film details plastic's path over the last 100 years and provides a wealth of expert interviews on practical and cutting edge solutions to recycling, toxicity and biodegradability.
www.crypticmoth.com www.bullfrogfilms.com Golden Sun Award - Best International Documentary in FICMA 2009 International Environmental Film Festival, Barcelona, Spain Ian Connacher, Ontario, 85 mins, 2008SUNDAY, OCTOBER 11 TAOS COMMUNITY AUDITORIUM 11:30 AM WOMEN AND THE WAVES 11:30am - Sunday, October 11th, Taos Community Auditorium 
The Women and the Waves is a documentary surf film that explores the lives of female
surfers who, through the decades, have chosen to paddle head first into the male dominated
sport of surfing and found a place of their own. Surfer girls, women who surf, women
who don't, female athletes, and the men who love them gain insight into what it's like to
"Surf like a Girl!" This inspiring film, featuring generations of female surfers, reveals what
has transcended surfing's status as a sport to become a passion so strong, it is the dominant
force in their lives. Heather Hudson and Peck Euwer, USA, 48 mins, 2009LOST JEWEL OF THE ATLANTIC 11:30am - Sunday, October 11th, Taos Community Auditorium Weaving thrilling big-wave surfing footage with testimony, Lost Jewel of the Atlantic chronicles one of the world's most significant surf discoveries in decades, and the subsequent battle to prevent its destruction from ill-conceived coastal development. The point break in Jardim do Mar remained a relative secret to all but a lucky few traveling surfers, without revealing its location to the surfing world. But the secrecy that surrounded it led to its ultimate demise, when the government of Madeira proposed building a massive seawall in this small seaside village. Jacob Holcomb, USA, 53 mins, 2008 SUNDAY, OCTOBER 11 TAOS GALLERY 11:30 AM URUCA 6:00pm - Friday, October 9th, Taos Community Auditorium 11:30am - Sunday, October 11th, The Taos Gallery 
Animated climbing films are, sadly, a rarity of our genre. Uraca is a gem. Cleverly spoofing
a couple of clichés: the seasoned veteran sandbagging the eager youth, the talkative second
describing every move to the terrified leader, this short provides a hilarious contrast to the
serious tone of the standard climbing film. www.grigorovski.com Four awards including Best
Film on Rock Climbing at 2009 Vancouver International Mountain Film Festival.
Erick Grigorovski, Brazil, 8 mins, 2008SAMSARA 11:30am - Sunday, October 11th, The Taos Gallery 
Conrad Anker, Jimmy Chin and Renan Ozturk attempt a first ascent on a 6,500-foot rock
face in the Vindhya Mountains in India. The route is double the length of anything on El
Capitan and easily as steep. Beautifully shot on the sacred peak Meru, which is considered
the center of the universe in Hindu mythology.
Renan Ozturk, USA, 22 mins, 2009LUXURY LINER 11:30am - Sunday, October 11th, The Taos Gallery Ed Webster, one of the guests at our inaugural festival in 2001, was involved in the first ascent of a climb that became perhaps the most famous two-pitch route in the US. Webster returned to the Supercrack of the Desert at Indian Creek with Alstrin's film crew to reenact the climb. Earl Wiggins, Webster's partner on the day and the man who virtually soloed the splitter crack, armed as he was in the pre-Friend era with only hexes, sadly passed away in 2002. His amazingly bold lead was however recorded for posterity on 16mm film and is included in this thrilling story. Chris Alstrin, USA, 48 mins, 2009 SUNDAY, OCTOBER 11 TAOS COMMUNITY AUDITORIUM 1:30 PM LIFERS: A TALE OF TWO CLIMBERS 1:30pm - Sunday, October 11th, Taos Community Auditorium 
Josh Lyons presents to us the lives of two separate climbers living in Boulder, Co., whose
seminal climbing experiences took place at Seneca Rocks, West Virginia. One lives out of
his pickup truck; the other is a family man and father of four. Now both climbers spend
most of their free time climbing in Eldorado Canyon.
Josh Lyons, USA, 12 mins, 2009THE SHARP END 1:30pm - Sunday, October 11th, Taos Community Auditorium 
Get ready for an adrenaline-soaked journey up the world's most challenging
walls: the French Alps, the Eiger, the Utah Desert, Yosemite granite and more.
Ice covered alpine walls, free-solo ascents, slack lining, base jumping from slack
line and squirrel suiting will have you on the edge of your seat.
www.senderfilms.com
Best Climbing Film in Boulder Adventure Film Festival, Best Adventure Film in XDance
Action Sports Film Festival
Peter Mortimer, USA, 60 mins, 2009SUNDAY, OCTOBER 11 TAOS GALLERY 1:30 PM DEEP/SHINSETSU 1:30pm - Saturday, October 10th, Taos Community Auditorium 1:30pm - Sunday, October 11th, The Taos Gallery 
Masaki Sekiguchi has provided us with another great ski short. No narration, no
interviews and no hip hop music creates a meditative look at these great skiers on
epic powder days.
www.ebisfilms.jp Masaki Sekiguchi, Japan, 3 mins 30 sec, 2009SNOW TRAMP 1:30pm - Sunday, October 11th, The Taos Gallery This film pays homage to Charlie Chaplin and the lure of the mountains. True to the genre of Chaplin's films there is a nasty cad, a chase, potentially lethal obstacles and a just reward in the form of a pretty girl. Bryon Nykon and Johanne Gregory, Canada, 6 mins, 2009, North American Premier THIS IS KASHMIR 1:30pm - Sunday, October 11th, The Taos Gallery In 2009 the New Zealand Ski Club of Kashmir called for ski and snowboard instructors to travel to Gulmarg, India in the disputed region of Kashmir to teach local kids how to ski. Eight instructors from Australia, New Zealand, UK, Argentina and France answered the call and went to Gulmarg for 2 months of teaching and skiing. Jack McCowan, Australia, 15 min 20 sec, 2009, World Premier SIGNATURES 1:30pm - Sunday, October 11th, The Taos Gallery 
From the orange and gold of fall to the pink cherry blossoms of
spring, Signatures follows an entire winter deep in the hardwoods
of Hokkaido, Japan. Deliciously deep January blower to
April corn, we bring you a film about expression and the art of
riding on snow. www.sweetgrassproductions.com
Nick Waggoner, USA, 50 mins, 2009SUNDAY, OCTOBER 11 TAOS COMMUNITY AUDITORIUM 3:30 PM AFRICA REVOLUTIONS 3:30pm - Sunday, October 11th, Taos Community Auditorium 
Tyler Bradt and Rush Sturges have brought us an excellent kayaking film set in Africa.
Amidst the Class V and VI rapids, and some rivers at floodstage, the team finds time to promote
solar technology to many of the villages along the way. We are anxiously awaiting their
latest production Dream Result, which will be released in Spring 2010. www.rev-inn.com
1st place in Rosenheim Paddling Film Festival, Peoples Choice Award at 5 Point Film Festival
Tyler Bradt and Rush Sturges, USA, 33 min, 2008SOLO 3:30pm - Sunday, October 11th, Taos Community Auditorium 
When Andrew Macauley sets out to be the first to kayak solo across the Tasman
Sea the emotion raised between him and his family is startling. The ordeal he
undergoes paddling and attempting to rest, not to mention filming himself, in the
brutal confines of his tiny craft Beggars Belief. One of the most heart-wrenching
documentary accounts we have ever received at the festival, this film is not for the
faint at heart. David Michod and Jennifer Peedom, Australia, 52 mins, 2008SUNDAY, OCTOBER 11 TAOS GALLERY 3:30 PM DICK BARRYMORE 3:30pm - Sunday, October 11th, The Taos Gallery 
Dick Barrymore became one of the world's best ski
filmmakers after giving up his job as a fireman in
Los Angeles, hitting the road with his 16mm movie
camera. During his 30 year career Barrymore made
more than 50 films. Mr. Barrymore organized the
first Hot Dog contest, staged the first aerial ski
events, and pioneered heli-skiing in the Canadian
Rockies. Dick Barrymore passed away in August of
2008, this is the best of his work, and some of the
best of all time.
Dick Barrymore, USA, 113mins, retrospective
|
|
||||||
|
|
|||||||||||
