8 FRIDAY FESTIVAL OPENING
CENTENNIAL THEATRE 7: 30PM Presented by Mountain Hardwear
FILM / The Kyrgyzstan Project (USA, 2012, 20 min, dir. Jim Aikman): Follow three elite climbers on a restorative journey to the granite big walls of Kyrgyzstan in Central Asia.
PRESENTATION / Tim Emmett: Fast Times At Tim'mount High: From opening new exit points and wingsuit flying off the Chief, to deep water soloing and first ascents in the Himalayas.
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PRESENTATION / VIMFF 2013 Mountain Photo Competition Awards
FILM / Autana (UK, 2012, 55 min, dir. Alastair Lee): Leo Houlding & team head deep into the Amazon in an attempt to make the first ascent of the East face of the remote Autana Tepui.
9 SATURDAY MATINEE 1
ADVENTURES IN THE SOUTHERN HEMISPHERE
RIO THEATRE 3: 00PM FILMS / The Impossible River Journey (Norway, 2011, 90 min, dir. Arild Mehn-Andersen): He wanted to cross the African continent in a canoe, but found himself accompanied by an illegal refugee from South Sudan.
PLAN C-14 (Argentina, 2012, 20 min, dir. Nicolas Mu): Two industrious 70-year-old friends adapt their bicycles to fit a railway and embark on a unique journey.
THE BOY WHO FLIES (Canada, 2012, 45 min, dir. Benjamin Jordan): Adventuring into the heart of Africa, a paraglider instigates a young man's potentially deadly quest to take to the skies.
SKI-MOUNTAINEERING SHOW
CENTENNIAL THEATRE 7: 30PM Co-presented by Arc'teryx and Clif Bar & Company
PRESENTATION / Greg Hill - Manaslu Avalanche 2012: Greg Hill returns to VIMFF with his riveting tale of survival on Manaslu (8156, 8th highest mountain in the world).
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FILM / Futher (USA, 2012, 80 min, produced by TGR): Explore some of the world's most remote mountain terrain while camping deep in the backcountry and on the summits of un-ridden lines.
BIG AIR SHOW
RIO THEATRE 7: 30PM
FILMS / Light Line (France, 2012, 5 min, dir. JB Chandelier): Follow JB as he skilfully flies around the coastline of France.
Smitten, Lucky Chance (Australia, 2011, 12 min, dir. Ed Thornhill): Lucky Chance is a young Australian rock climber, free soloist, gymnast, slack liner and circus enthusiast.
PRESENTATION / Dion Vuk: The Sky Is Your Playground: Join iParaglide as Dion Vuk takes you on a guided tour of paragliding: from taking your first steps off the ground to flying ever greater adventures in the sky.
FILM / Karakoram Highway (Belgium, 2012, 42 min, dir. Olivier Boonjing): Northern Pakistan, June 2011. A trio of Belgian paragliders arrive in the Karakoram mountain range with the objective to break flying records.
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FILMS / Paragrinding (Canada, 2012, 8 min, dir. Devon Cooke): A weekend warrior from Vancouver documents his quest to complete a personal one-day urban biking / hiking / paragliding triathlon.
Birdmen (USA, 2012, 42 min, dir. Matt Sheridan): ... following the dream of human flight, from its inception in ancient times to the modern world.
10 SUNDAY TRAIL RUNNING SHOW
CENTENNIAL THEATRE 7: 30PM
FILMS / The Trip (USA, 2012, 1 minute, dir. Dale Baskin): Sometimes it's just best to unplug!
The Beauty Of The Irrational (South Africa, 2012, 6 min, dir. Dean Leslie): The act of running in the wild is very basic, almost primal. It is an utterly simple, beautiful thing that can be both scary and fascinating
XS-NRG (Canada, 2004, 46 min, dir. Angus Mclellan): Four ultra-marathon runners attempt to conquer the 180km Sunshine Coast Trail, non-stop.
PRESENTATION / Eagle Walz - The Sunshine Coast Trail: Eagle Walz, who envisioned the 180 km long Sunshine Coast Trail over 20 years ago, will speak about what has happened on the trail since the movie XSNRG was filmed in 2004.
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PRESENTATION / Dave Cressman: 18 Years Of Snowshoeing And All I Have To Show For It Is This Ugly T-shirt! Snowshoe running? Sounds a bit odd, but when you think about it, it's just trail running when the trails are covered with snow.
PRESENTATION / Pushpa Chandra - Running On Ice: A runner's perspective on the North Pole and Antarctica.
PRESENTATION / David Crerar, Ken Lagg & Ean Jackson - Adventures In Baggery: Slides and stories on the Bagger Challenge, a fun and informal peak-bagging contest for the Vancouver North Shore mountains.
PRESENTATION / Gary Robbins - Fueled By Cheese: North Vancouver ultramarathon runner Gary Robbins went to Chamonix, France to compete in the UTMB - A 168km run around Mont Blanc.
MOUNTAINEERING SHOW
PACIFIC CINEMATHEQUE 7: 30PM
FILMS / A New Perspective (USA, 2012, 9 min, dir. Corey Rich): Young climbing star David Lama takes his sport climbing skills to the alpine big walls of the Karakoram.
The Old Breed (USA, 2012, 26 min, dir. Rufus Lusk & Freddie Wilkinson): Alpinist Freddie Wilkinson takes us with him on an adventure of true exploratory alpinism.
PRESENTATION / Sandy Briggs - Mountaineering On Vancouver Island: Stories and images from mountaineering and climbing in the BC's Little Alps on Vancouver Island.
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FILMS / Shattered (USA, 2012, 5 min, dir. Tyler Stableford): When you've given everything, what do you have left?
Mountains In Motion: Canadian Rockies (Canada, 2012, 15 min, dir. Doug Urquhart & Paul Zizka): A short film documenting the life of the alpine landscape through time-lapse photography.
Non Cosi Lotano - Not So Far (Italy, 2012, 37 min, dir. Herve Barmasse): In 2011, Herve Barmasse chose the three most important mountains of his home in Italy's Aosta Valley upon which to create three new routes
11 MONDAY MATINEE 2
AFTERNOON OF ADRENALINE
RIO THEATRE 3: 00PM
FILMS / The Gimp Monkeys (USA, 2012, 9 min, dir. Fitz Cahall & Mikey Schaefer): What has four legs, five arms & three heads?
Focal Point (Germany, 2012, 4 min, dir. Bjorn Fisher): Mountain unicycling pioneer Kris Holm rides urban obstacles and the famously difficult trails of North Vancouver.
Down The Line (Canada, 2012, 22 min, dir. Francois-Xavier "Fix" De Ruydts): Down deep slots and magnificent waterfalls, a handful of dedicated Vancouverites are bringing a new outdoor sport to BC - Canyoneering.
Ernest (USA, 2012, 5 min, dir. Samuel Bricker): Born in 1924, this humble mountain man cherishes his active life.
Western Gold: Squamish (Canada, 2012, 15 min, dir. Alex Savage): An adventure to the tallest, hardest, most aesthetic boulders Squamish has to offer.
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FILMS / Moonwalk (USA, 2012, 4 min, dir. Mikey Schaefer): Dean Potter highlines across a desert landscape with a massive full moon as his backdrop.
Terra Sacra Time Lapses (Canada, 2012, 6 min, dir. Sean White): An around-the-globe journey celebrating our Sacred Earth. One Step Beyond (France, 2012, 55 min, dir. Sebastian Montaz-Rosset): One Step Beyond takes us behind the scenes for a close up look at the lives of people involved in extreme sports.
SEA KAYAKING SHOW
PACIFIC CINEMATHEQUE 7: 30PM
FILM / Salish Oars (Canada, 2012, 19 min, dir. Markus Pukonen): Four men get in a rowboat to circumnavigate Vancouver Island, a distance of about 900 Kilometers.
PRESENTATION / Justine Curgenven - The World Is My Sea Kayak: Stories, images, and film clips from sea-kayking the most remote corners on Planet Earth
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FILM / Tierra Del Fuego (UK, 2012, 52 min, dir. Justine Curgenven): A British couple are trying to become the first people to sea kayak 1,600km around the remote & windswept islands of 'Tierra del Fuego'.
A NIGHT WITH THE SHERPAS
RIO THEATRE 7: 30PM
FILM / All.i.can (Canada, 2011, 76 min, dir. Dave Mossop & Eric Crosland): An unparalleled cinematic experience, All.I.Can is a stunning exploratory essay that compares the challenges of big mountain skiing to the challenges of global climate change.
PRESENTATION / Live Q&A with the Sherpas and a look behind the scenes of the JP Auclair street segment.
12 TUESDAY ENVIRONMENTAL NIGHT
CENTENNIAL THEATRE 7: 30PM
FILM / A Winter North: Skiing The Sacred Headwaters (Canada, 2012, 10 min, dir. Ken Voeller): Skiing in the diverse ecosystem of the Sacred Headwaters - currently threatened by many resource extraction projects.
PRESENTATION / Damien Gillis - Fractured Land: A Transmedia Project: A multi-media show from making the film Fractured Land.
PRESENTATION / Paul Colangelo - Surviving Todagin. National Geographic Explorer Paul Colangelo recounts living in the wilds of Todagin Mountain for five months.
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PRESENTATION / Zack Embree: #bluedrops #uberdrop: This past month, Zack Embree created a public art event which gathered 350 people outside of the Enbridge Hearings in downtown Vancouver.
FILMS /Groundswell (USA/Canada, 2012, 25 min, dir. Chris Malloy) This is the story of a group of surfers who set sail along the pristine British Columbia learning about an oil-pipeline proposal that threatens to change this area forever.
Rocking The River With Yow & Pow (Canada, 2012, 4 min, dir. Danny McCreery) A small grassroots organization realised the gap between youth and connection to land so they created a program with that purpose.
Reflections: Art For An Oil Free Coast (Canada, 2012, 22 min, dir. Cameron Dennison) On an expedition organized by the Raincoast Conservation Foundation, 50 artists band together to protest the Northern Gateway project.
MOUNTAIN BIKE SHOW 1
RIO THEATRE 7: 30PM Presented by Arc'teryx
PRESENTATION / Harald Philipp - Descending The Gnarliest Summits In The Alps: Videos and photos from the most spectacular mountain ranges in Europe, from Matterhorn to the Dolomites and Tirol.
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FILMS / Lacon De Catalonia (Spain, 2012, 4 min, dir. Niels Windfeldt): Andreu Lacondeguy has for the last six years been one of the biggest profiles in the MTB freeride world.
Strength In Numbers (Canada, 2012, 52 min, dir. Anthill Films): Tire to ground, foot to pedal, hand to bar - communities drawn together by trails of dirt.
POLISH MOUNTAIN SHOW
PACIFIC CINEMATHEQUE 7: 30PM Presented by Consulate General of the Republic of Poland
PRESENTATION / Raphael Slawinski's 60 Min, 6 Mountains: Polish alpine climber based in Calgary talks about his climbs in the Rockies, Alaska and Pakistan.
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FILM / Art Of Freedom (Poland, 2012, 70 min, dir. Marek Klosowicz & Wojtek Slota): How is it possible that in the 1970s and 80s Polish mountain climbers were among the best in the world?
13 WEDNESDAY MOUNTAIN BIKE
FREERIDE EXPLORATION
CENTENNIAL THEATRE 7: 30PM Presented by Arc'teryx
FILM / Where The Trail Ends (Canada, 2012, 80 min, dir. Jeremy Grant): A film following the world's top freeride mountain bikers as they search for untraveled terrain around the globe
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PRESENTATION / Harald Philipp: Descending The Gnarliest Summits In The Alps: Videos and photos from the most spectacular mountain ranges in Europe, from Matterhorn to the Dolomites and Tirol.
VIMFF CLIMBING SHOW
RIO THEATRE 7: 30PM Presented by Consulate General of Switzerland
FILM / The Descent (USA, 2012, 1 min, dir. Dale Baskin): Sometimes it's just best to unplug! PRESENTATION / Nina Caprez - About A Different Life: Nina Caprez comes to VIMFF to tell about her different lifestyle as a pro climber and about the way she got there.
FILM / Silbergeier (France, 2012, 20 min, dir. Vladimir Cellier): The first female ascent by Nina Caprez of Silbergeier, 8b+ (Switzerland), one of the hardest multipitch route in the world.
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FILMS / Sandstone (Czech Republic, 2012, 30 min, dir. Petr Kaspar): Introducing an exceptional climbing area in the Northeast of Czech Republic, which keeps their strict traditional values and climbing ethics.
Push It (UK, 2012, 25 min, dir. Jen Randall): Push It follows female climbers pushing their personal limits, from bouldering in Magic Wood to big walling in Yosemite, USA.
HIMALAYAN SHOW
PACIFIC CINEMATHEQUE 7: 30PM
FILMS / Secrets Of Dhaulagiri (Nepal, 2011, 30 min, dir. Prabesh Subedi): Secrets of Dhaulagiri explores the life obscured by innumerable difficulties while living in the high Himalayas.
Beyond The Gates Of Phu (Canada, 2012, 19 min, dir. Sean White): Exploring an ancient Buddhist mountain culture, a team from Vancouver ventures deep into the Himalayas of Nepal.
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FILM / Himalayan Gold Rush (France, 2012, 52 min, dir. Eric Valli): Every spring, in a remote part of Nepal, tens of thousands leave their villages for a dangerous trek to the high Himalaya to collect Yarsagumbu.
14 THURSDAY SKI SHOW
CENTENNIAL THEATRE 7: 30PM
FILMS / Spearhead Soul Skiing (Canada, 2012, 4 min, dir. Adam Greenberg): A five-day ski touring trip perfectly captures what weekend warriors seek: solace and freedom.
Livin' Tiny (USA, 2012, 20 min, dir. Sam Giffen): Travelling across a wild, wintery west, this house is on a mission to find powder.
The Movement (USA, 2011, 40 min, dir. Kurt Miller & Greg Miller): The story of five individuals from all walks of life who faced incredible obstacles and found the inspiration to overcome them.
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FILMS / The Burn (Canada, 2012, 7 min, dir. Jeff Thomas): Chris Rubens & Mike Henitiuk weave their way through an ever evolving forest fire & witness the true beauty of the cycle of life. Strong (USA, 2012, 8 min, dir. Fitz Cahall): If you were caught in a near fatal avalanche, would you ski again?
Wanna Ride (France, 2012, 4 min, dir. Antonin Michaud-Soret): A speedriding experience with one of the best pilots in the world.
Eye Of The Storm (France, 2012, 23 min, dir. Laurent Jamet): Follow Thibaud Duchosal into some of the wildest places on earth, looking for the answers he seeks.
WOLVES SHOW
PACIFIC CINEMATEQUE 7: 30PM
PRESENTATION / Mary & John Theberge: The Intricacies Of Wolves
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FILM / River Of No Return (USA, 2012, 52 min, dir. Isaac & Bjornen Babcock): Deep in the untamed heart of Idaho lies the River of No Return. It is a perfect habitat for abundant animal life, including wolves that are being restored to the area after an absence of 50 years.
15 FRIDAY SWISS CLIMBING SHOW
CENTENNIAL THEATRE 7: 30PM Presented by Consulate General of Switzerland
FILM / The Descent (USA, 2012, 1 min, dir. Dale Baskin): Sometimes it's just better to unplug! PRESENTATION / Nina Caprez - About A Different Life: Nina Caprez comes to VIMFF to tell about her different lifestyle as a pro climber and about the way she got there.
FILMS / Silbergeier (France, 2012, 20 min, dir. Vlad Cellier): The first female ascent by Nina Caprez of Silbergeier (Switzerland), one of the hardest multipitch route in the world
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Cerro Kishtwar (Germany, 2012, 25 min, dir. Ben Benson): Mammut athletes David Lama, Stephan Siegrist and Denis Burdet on the 150 Peaks Expedition to Cerro Kishtwar, Indian Himalaya.
Verticalmente Demode (Italy, 2012, 19 min, dir. Davide Carrari): Italian climbing legend Maurizio 'Manolo' Zanolla talks about his motivation and emotions on rediscovering a route that he identified many years before.
WHITEWATER SHOW
PACIFIC CINEMATHEQUE 7: 30PM
PRESENTATION / Fred Norquist - The Life In A Kayak: Fred comes to share his stories from wild white water kayaking around the world - guaranteed to keep you wet! FILM / Congo - The Grand Inga Project (USA, 2012, 81 min, dir. Steve Fisher): Legendary kayaker Steve Fisher and his elite expedition team battle seemingly insurmountable obstacles in an attempt to survive the Inga Rapids.
GREAT TRAVERSES
RIO THEATRE 7: 30PM
PRESENTATION / Caroline Van Hemert & Patrick Farrell - Northern Limits: A 7,000 km human-powered journey from the Pacific Rainforest to the Chukchi Sea.
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FILM / Crossing The Ice (Australia, 2012, 63 min, dir. Justin Jones): James Castrission and Justin Jones, tackling the perilous journey across Antarctica to the South Pole and back.
16 SATURDAY MATINEE 3
STORIES OF SNOW & ICE: TWO FEATURE LENGTH DOCUMENTARIES
RIO THEATRE 3: 00PM
FILMS / Ready To Fly (USA, 2012, 76 min, dir. William A. Kerig): We follow 2009 Ski Jumping World Champion Lindsey Van and her teammates as they fight to make their Olympic dreams come true.
Chasing Ice (USA, 2012, 74 min, dir. Jeff Orlowski): Chasing Ice is the story of one man's mission to change the tide of history by collecting undeniable evidence of our changing planet.
FINALE
CENTENNIAL THEATRE 7: 30PM
VIMFF 2013 FILM AWARDS
PRESENTATION / Will Stanhope - If It Was Easy, Well.A journey to climb the Prophet on El Cap, pitfalls along the way, and a sneak peak at a Bugaboos mega project.
FILM / Viva La Vie (USA, 2012, 17 min, dir. Andy Mann): Jonathan Siegrist teams up with Swiss superstar, Nina Caprez to climb the hardest routes the Verdon Gorge has to offer.
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FILMS / Outside The Box (Germany, 2012, 16 min, dir. Stephanie Brockhaus): European bouldering specialists Anna Stohr and Juliane Wurm come to Utah to learn how to crack climb with the legendary Lynn Hill.
Wideboyz (USA/UK, 2012, 50 min, dir. Chris Alstrin & Paul Diffley): Tom Randall and Pete Whittaker set out to explore the world's hardest offwidths.
SKI SHOW 2
RIO THEATRE 7: 30PM
FILMS / Unicorn Sashimi (USA, 2012, 5 min, dir. Ben Knight): Mind numbing amounts of snow fall on Japan's Northern most island, Hokkaido.
Tempting Fear (Canada, 2012, 25 min, dir. Mike Douglas): Andreas Fransson has been called the boldest extreme skier in a generation.
Jalpak Tash (Canada, 2012, 10 min, dir. Anthony Bonello): A crew of skiers embark on a trip to Kyrgyzstan that is part of a project to help generate employment opportunities for local Kyrgyz people.
Endless Spring Day (Canada, 2012, 5 min, dir. Darcy Turenne): Searching for the perfect spring day, and finding it among the rainforests and powder of B.C.'s Coast Mountain Range.
- INTERMISSION
FILM / The Dream Factory (USA, 2012, 80 min, produced by TGR): A cinematic voyage through Alaska's awe-inspiring expanse, rich history, and colourful characters.
17 SUNDAY MATINEE 4 REEL ROCK
RIO THEATRE 3: 00PM
FILM / Reel Rock 7: With climbers Chris Sharma, Adam Ondra, Conrad Anker, Renan Ozturk, Jimmy Chin, Alex Honnold, and the Brits Tom Randall and Pete Whittaker.
VIMFF FUNDRAISER/WRAP PARTY
RIO THEATRE 7: 30PM
