Wild & Scenic Film Festival On Tour in Red Bluff
Red Bluff Tour Stop 2017
ADVENTURE WITH A PURPOSE
Ace and the Desert Dog For his 60th birthday, adventure photographer Ace Kvale and his dog, Genghis Khan, set out for a 60-day backpacking trip in Utah’s canyon country. The pair tells the story of their trek and friendship, and Genghis records it on his Desert Dawg Adventure Blawg. Brendan Leonard, Forest Woodward, Stefan Hunt, Joe Peters, Max Lowe (USA, 2015, 9min)
The Accord The reality of growing up a surfer in Iceland is different from anywhere else in the world. It’s a harsh place. There are no surf shops, guidebooks or webcams. But being so far removed from the hustle and bustle of the known surf world hardens Iceland’s surfers to confront the issue they all must face: the North Atlantic wind. Follow Heiðar Logi Elíasson on his journey through Iceland searching for that rare compromise that brings both Icelandic surfers and the North Atlantic wind to the table. Best Short, Carolina Surf FF; Santa Cruz Surf FF; Best Cinematography, Berlin Surf FF; Best Short, Paris Surf & Skateboard FF. RC Cone, Elli Thor Magnusson (Iceland, 2016, 19min)
Dream Day What would it feel like to begin your day in fresh powder and end it in the briny Pacific on the perfect sunset wave? It would probably feel like a dream. Four athletes, Jeremy Jones, Hilaree O’Neil, Matt Hunter, and Greg Long, set out to see if they could make that dream a reality--starting out in the Sierra backcountry then rock climbing, cruising down Mt. Tam on mountain bikes, and capping it off with a surf at Stinson Beach. Amazing adventures are possible when you get outside and dream big. Malcolm Sangster, Eric Crosland, CLIF Bar, Sherpas Cinema (USA, 2016, 10min)
Counter Balance A short film about giving back to the brave men & women of our military who have served us all. Too many have returned from deployments ill-equipped for civilian life, but on a 4-day rafting trip on the Green River in Dinosaur National Monument, veterans are given the opportunity to come together to laugh, to cry, and to purge it all among friends on an experience that taps into the restorative power of wilderness. Gordon Klco and Claude DeMoss (USA, 7min)
LAND PRESERVATION
One Hundred Thousand Beating Hearts Director Peter Byck’s short film tells the story of fourth generation cattleman Will Harris’s evolution from industrial, commodity cowboy to sustainable, humane food producer, whilst breathing new life into a community left behind and forgotten due to, as Will says, the industrialization of agriculture. Peter Byck, Hal Honigsberg, Todd Johnson and FlexiP, Ming Tai, Jim and Paula Crown (USA, 2016, 15min)
The High Divide They say The High Divide is the place where the world is cut in two. Then again, it may be where everything comes together. This place was once called “the big empty.” But it’s bursting at the seams, with deep forests, streams brimming with trout, meadows flush with grizzlies and wildflowers, and peaks so wild and vast they stretch all the way to the horizon. It’s also full of people. People who love the land. Cowboys who love salmon. Range riders who shepherd cattle and carnivores. Woodcutters who fight for forests. Generation after generation stewarding land and water. These are the lost voices of the American West. A new film celebrates the confluence of a wild place and its visionary people. Eric Bendick, Roshan Patel, Grizzly Creek Films (USA, 2016, 16min)
WILDLIFE
A Ghost in the Making: The Search for the Rusty-Patched Bumble Bee Everyone has heard about bee declines, but with so much attention focused on domesticated honeybees, someone has to speak up for the 4,000 species of native bees in North America. Natural history photographer Clay Bolt is on a multi-year quest to tell the stories of our native bees, and one elusive species – the Rusty-patched Bumble Bee – has become his white whale. Winner, G2 Green Earth FF. Neil Losin, Morgan Heim, Clay Bolt, Nathan Dappen (USA, 2016, 19min)
AWARENESS
Pale Blue Dot Set to the words of Carl Sagan, Pale Blue Dot situates human history against the tapestry of the cosmos through an eclectic combination of art styles woven seamlessly together through music and visuals, seeking to remind us that regardless of our differences, we are one species living on Earth. Chin Li Zhi (Singapore, 2014, 4min)