BANFF MOUNTAIN FILM FESTIVAL

a few of the films:
 
Cascada
http://youtu.be/44ayeBc2hBI
 
Ready to Fly
http://youtu.be/hwPWOxKsiMw
 
Dubai - A Skier's Journey
http://youtu.be/rDqBHhRTB7w

really good flics last night.
 
 
a couple of short clips of a few:
"High Tension"
http://youtu.be/ZWyfHXngTrU
 
 
poor man's Heli
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s7HJsUDPeoA&feature=share&list=PL8CCE5429D7534425
 
 
some others
http://youtu.be/KFk38x0LhfY
 
http://youtu.be/pUyRxVXX8SM
http://youtu.be/lW0ZnrmvXeI
 
 
 

North of the sun
http://vimeo.com/ondemand/northofthesun
Inge Wegge (25) and Jørn Ranum (22) spent nine months of cold, Norwegian winter in the isolated and uninhabited bay of a remote, arctic island by the coast of Northern-Norway, facing nothing but the vast Atlantic Ocean. There they built a cabin out of driftwood and other cast-off materials that washed up on shore, and ate expired food the stores would otherwise have thrown away. But the boys brought with them two items of utmost importance: Their surfboards - perhaps their biggest motivation for the arctic adventure. Because the remote bay holds a well kept secret; Some of the worlds finest surfing waves.
Awards:
2012 The Norwegian Documentary Film Festival: Audience Award
2012 The Norwegian Short Film Festival: Honorary Mention - Documentary Films
2012 Canadian Surf Film Festival: Best Film, Best Cinematography
2012 London Surf Film Festival: Best Documentary
2012 Wavescape Surf Film Festival, Cape Town: Best Feature Length Film
2013 Waimea Ocean Film Festival: People's Choice Award, Best Film Ocean Experience
2013 Sheffield Adventure Film Festival: Grand Prize - Gold Award, Spirit Of Adventure - Silver Award
2013 Nord \ Nordwest Surf Skate Film Festival Hamburg: Best Feature Length Film
2013 Dunkirk World Sea Film Festival: Le Prix du Jeune Réalisateur
2013 Pelicam International Film Festival: Best Feature Length Film
2013 Portugese Surf Film Festival: Surf Film Best
2013 Cervino CineMountain International Mountain Film Festival: Premio Vie de Montagne
2013 BANFF: Grand Prize, People's Choice Award and Dolby Audio Award
2013 25. Internationales Berg & Abenteuer Filmfestival Graz: Alpine Camera in Gold
Official selection
2012 The Norwegian Documentary Film Festival
2012 The Norwegian Short Film Festival
2012 Fjellfilmfestivalen - Norwegian Mountainfilm Festival
2012 Nordisk Panorama - 5 Cities Festival, Oulu
2012 Canadian Surf Film Festival
2012 Supersonic Festival
2012 London Surf Film Festival
2012 Wavescape Surf Film Festival, Cape Town
2013 Waimea Ocean Film Festival
2013 DocPoint - Helsinki Documentary Film Festival
2013 Göteborg International Film Festival
2013 Snøfilm
2013 Sheffield Adventure Film Festival
2013 One World - International Human Rights Documentary Film Festival, Prague
2013 Aotearoa Surf Film Festival
2013 Nord \ Nordwest Surf Skate Film Festival Hamburg
2013 Lofoten Bygdefilmfest
2013 ViewFinders: Atlantic Film Festival for Youth
2013 Värmlands filmfestival
2013 5Point Film Festival
2013 Trento Film Festival
2013 Elixir/Nordic Outdoor Festival
2013 Au Bout du Rêve - Adventure Film Festival
2013 Mountainfilm in Telluride
2013 DocsBarcelona International Documentary Film Festival
2013 Dunkirk World Sea Film Festival
2013 Pelicam International Film Festival
2013 Ombak Bali International Surf Film Festival
2013 Portugese Surf Film Festival
2013 New Zealand Mountain Film Festival
2013 Honolulu Surf Film Festival
2013 Surf Film Festival Berlin
2013 Cervino CineMountain International Mountain Film Festival
2013 Transatlantyk Poznan International Film and Music Festival
2013 Dokufest - International Documentary and Short Film Festival, Prizren
2013 Surfilmfestibal 2013 Mill Valley Surf Film Festival
2013 MadSwell - Madeira Island Surf Film Festival
2013 Crested Butte Film Festival
2013 Adventure Film Festival Boulder
2013 International Festival of Mountain Films Poprad
2013 Flagstaff Mountain Film Festival
2013 DOCSDF International Documentary Film Festival of Mexico City
2013 Banff Mountain Film Festival 2013 Nordische Filmtage Lübeck
2013 Snow Film Fest
2013 International Mountain & Adventure Film Festival Graz
2013 Rokumentti Rock Film Festival
2013 La Rochelle Adventure Film Festival
2013 Salzburg Mountain Film Festival
2013 Arctic Film Festival, Grand Marais, Minnesota
2013 Nordic Film Festival, London
2013 FICSURF Chile
2013 Surf Film Festival Santander

Hi,
 
The PIFF, Portland International Film Festival is on right now for another week.
 
I can't drive at night very well, and keep it down to a minimum, so my days of going to the PIFF, are pretty much over unless I can find a friend to see things with. It's frustrating. After 500 foreign/art film reviews, I now have to depend on dvd and video and there isn't enough out there that we can find and the true gems from so many other countries will never get appreciated.
 
I used to do translations for their programs, but it has been a rough time since the surgeries, though I think that next year I will do some translations again for program notes, if they will have me. With the auto translations nowadays, some of those notes are really bad!