Tuesday, October 31
Radical Reels 7:30 P.M. | ERIC HARVIE THEATRE (LIVE) / MARGARET GREENHAM THEATRE (SIMULCAST) | $25 Sponsored by Dan Sparks & Associates. Radical Reels is a must-see Banff ritual for all ages, bursting with extreme sports, crazy adventures, wild athletes, and high energy films.
Surf the Line (France, 2016, 3 min) NORTH AMERICAN PREMIERE Director: Jérémy Frey Producer: Arnaud Hiltzer Production Company: Hello Emotion
For The Flying Frenchies, thinking out of the box isn’t a choice – it’s a way of life.
Intersection: Micayla Gatto (USA, 2017, 5 min) Director and Producer: Lacy Kemp* Production Company: Juicy Studios
Mountain biker Micayla Gatto takes the viewer into her world as a painter and as an athlete, riding through beautifully created masterpieces where colours come to life and reality blends with art.
Photos, top: From the film Why © Jeremy Bernard; bottom: From the film Under An Arctic Sky © Chris Burkard; Opposite page: From the film Dreamwalkers – The Faroes Project © Chris Eyre-Walker
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Under An Arctic Sky (USA, 2017, 40 min) Director: Chris Burkard Producer: Elliott Perrigo Production Company: Chris Burkard FIlms
Take a journey to the most remote corner of Iceland in the middle of winter in search of perfect surf. A few days in, the worst storm in twenty five years blows through and shuts down the country, turning the search for waves into a life-threatening prospect.
Why (France, 2016, 8 min) Director: Hugo Clouzeau Producer: We Are Hungry Production Company: We Are Hungry
Iceland. A cold, rugged and forbidding landscape where powerful rivers plunge through bedrock gorges, over massive waterfalls toward the sea. A crew of French kayakers travel here to ask the question, “Why? Why do we do this?”