Cooler Than Mike (4mins)

American, 2010

Directed By: Conor Toumarkiune, Produced By: Conor Toumarkiune, Website: http://shreddytimes.com/cooler-than-mike/

Premiere: World

 

Pro-skier, base-jumper Mike Wilson does a quadruple backflip off a 99 foot rope swing.  Enough said.

 

Also Showing As Part Of: Adrenaline Films, Young Adventurers & Adventure Bites, Fri 9 Mar - 21.30 - Screen 2 , Sun 11 Mar - 18.00 - Screen 2

 

 

Professor Longhair, Big Chief (2mins)

British, 2010

Directed By: Scott Bass, Phil Doyle & Kie Willis, Produced By: Scott Bass, Website: http://www.ampisound.com/

Premiere: World

 

This wildly successful viral features parkour practitioners Kie Willis and Phil Doyle. Filmed in twenty second bursts over two hot weeks in June 2010 Doyle wanted to make a parkour film that was truly raw and the result it a cheeky little short with a cliffhanger ending.

 

Also Showing As Part Of: Adrenaline Films, Young Adventurers & Adventure Bites, Fri 9 Mar - 21.30 - Screen 2 , Sun 11 Mar - 18.00 - Screen 2

 

 

The Roller Man (7mins)

German, 2011

Directed By: Danny Strasser, Produced By: Danny Strasser, Website: http://www.danny-strasser.de/

Premiere: World

 

Full-frontal, downhill, on-road, in-line skating dressed as a Transformer - it's as nuts as it sounds.  German thrill-seeker Danny Strasser manages to top trump his bobtrack downhill skate-boarding.

 

Also Showing As Part Of: Adrenaline Films, Young Adventurers & Adventure Bites, Fri 9 Mar - 21.30 - Screen 2 , Sun 11 Mar - 18.00 - Screen 2

 

 

Yosemite Falls Highline (4mins)

American, 2011

Directed By: Camp 4 Collective, Produced By: Renan Ozturk, Website: http://camp4collective.com

 

In his latest adventure, free climbing, BASE jumping, highlining legend Dean Potter uses cutting edge highline rigging blending classic tightrope gear with recent innovations in slacklining in this perilous crossing of the Upper Yosemite waterfall.

 

Also Showing As Part Of: Adrenaline Films, Young Adventurers & Adventure Bites, Fri 9 Mar - 21.30 - Screen 2 , Sun 11 Mar - 18.00 - Screen 2

 

 

A Skateboard Illustration (4mins)

American, 2011

Directed By: Brett Novak, Produced By: Brett Novak, Website: http://www.brettnovak.com/

 

Mesmerising Spanish skateboard pro Kilian Martin brings freestyle tricks to urban skating.  His unique style, gymnastic talent and technical abilities take skateboarding to the next level.

 

Also Showing As Part Of: Adrenaline Films & Adventure Bites, Fri 9 Mar - 21.30 - Screen 2 , Sun 11 Mar - 18.00 - Screen 2

 

 

Iridium (8mins)

Australian, 2010

Directed By: Murray Fredericks, Produced By: Michael Angus, Website: http://www.saltdoco.com/

Premiere: World

 

Last year's Best Artistic Film award winner 'Salt' charted the changes in the 360 perfect horizon of the deserted salt pans of Australia's Lake Eyre to explore the effect of solitude and emptiness on photographer Murray Frederick's mood.  In Iridium he uses Salt's best time-lapse sequences to create a strangely meditative, almost hypnotic, poetic video short.

 

Trailer: http://vimeo.com/channels/149062

Also Showing As Part Of: Adventure Medley 1 & Adventure Bites, Sat 10 Mar - 12.00 - Screen 1 , Sun 11 Mar - 15.00 - Screen 1

 

 

Blue Obsession (9mins)

American, 2011

Directed By: Alan Gordon and Jordan Halland, Produced By: Alan Gordon, Website: http://blueobsessionfilm.com/

Premiere: European

 

Alaska's major glaciers are losing 24 cubic miles of ice each year.  Alan Gordon has spent a year climbing, exploring and documenting the ever-changing glaciers of the Juneau Icefield, capturing stunning images of a landscape that's constantly evolving and melting away.

 

Trailer: http://vimeo.com/23987895

Previous Awards: Best of the South', Never Sets Film Festival and 'Peoples Choice', Never Sets Film Festival

Also Showing As Part Of: Adventure Medley 2 & Adventure Bites, Sun 11 Mar - 17.30 - Screen 1 , Sun 11 Mar - 12.00 - Creative Lounge

 

 

Into Thin Air (9mins)

Swiss, 2011

Directed By: Sebastien Doerk, Produced By: Sebastien Doerk, Website: http://infinitetrails.de/

 

Bike-mountaineering takes mountain biking to a whole new level.  Harald Phillip and Martin Falkner hike up then bike-ski and crevasse hop through snow fields, following hairy turns along awesome World War 1 singletrack trails down Monte Cevedale (3778m, Italy).

 

Also Showing As Part Of: Biking Films 2 & Adventure Bites, Sat 10 Mar - 16.00 - Screen 2

 

 

On Assignment (6mins)

American, 2011

Directed By: Renan Ozturk and Jimmy Chin, Produced By: Camp 4 Collective, Website: http://camp4collective.com

 

Photographer Jimmy Chin on assignment to shoot a feature story for National Geographic about the cutting edge climbing culture in Yosemite, California - what does it take to tell the story of people living constantly on the edge?

 

Previous Awards: Best Short Film at Kendal

Also Showing As Part Of: Climbing Films 1 & Adventure Bites, Sat 10 Mar - 17.00 - Screen 1 , Sun 11 Mar - 15.30 - Screen 2