This program is being shown in the ERIC HARVIE THEATRE and MAX BELL AUDITORIUM on
SUNDAY, November 7, and in the MARGARET GREENHAM THEATRE on SATURDAY, November 6.
Please note: Times are different in the Max Bell Auditorium.

9:00 am
Plitvice ― Land of the Falling Lakes
(Austria, 2003, 53’)
Director/Producer: Michael Schlamberger
The Plitvice Lakes in Croatia are part of Europe’s first national park and an international nature preserve designated by UNESCO. This film features Plitvice’s 16 karst lakes and waterfalls, as well as the bears and wolves of the “Land of the Falling Lakes”.

10:01 am(9:59 am in Max Bell)
Balance of Risk
(UK, 2004, 9’) WORLD PREMIERE
Directors/Producers: Brian Hall*, Keith Partridge, Jamie Andrew
Climber Jamie Andrew returns to the rock after a horrific accident on the north face of the Droites in the French Alps which killed his climbing partner.

10:13 am(10:09 am in Max Bell)
Flipped
(Switzerland, 2002, 7’) NORTH AMERICAN PREMIERE
Director: Nicolas Falquet*
Producer: Guido Perrini
This ski short presents the best performances of the Falquet brothers and provides an answer to the numerous remarks qualifying their exploits as pure madness.

10:22 am(10:17 am in Max Bell)
Break

10:42 am(10:32 am in Max Bell)
The Falcon That Flew with Man
(England, 2004, 50’) NORTH AMERICAN PREMIERE
Director/Producer: Leo Dickinson*
Lloyd Buck has trained eagles and falcons for twenty years. Like many, he has been fascinated by just how fast peregrine falcons can fly. Using parachutes, balloons and state-of-the-art micro-accelerometers, Lloyd decided to find out the answer to that age-old question. Andy Montriou, a BASE jumper, and Leo Dickinson train the falcons to chase them while they step off a cliff, in order to get unique footage of the world’s fastest creature.

11:35 am (11:23 am in Max Bell)
Realization
(USA, 2001, 26’)
Director/Producer: Josh Lowell
Leading climber Chris Sharma turns his attention in this film to a cliff in Céüse, southern France. The combination of a 5.14c route topped by a bouldering move stymies him time and again. However, if he can send it, the route may rank as the hardest in the world.

12:30 pm - 1:45 pm
Seminar: Max Bell Auditorium, free
Saturday: The Rise of Ego-tourism?
Sunday: Vertical Billboards

2:00 pm (2:15 pm in Max Bell)
Ciao Martina
(Poland, 2004, 21’) CANADIAN PREMIERE
Director/Producer: Dariusz Zaluski*
Simone Moro, well-known Italian climber, reflects over his life and mountain career during a winter attempt on the South Face of Shishapangma (8027 m) in 2003-2004. He has left his five-year-old daughter, Martina, at home and he misses her a lot.

2:24 pm (2:37 pm in Max Bell)
Psicobloc
(USA, 2004, 8’) CANADIAN PREMIERE
Director/Producer: Josh Lowell
On the Mediterranean island of Mallorca, Klem Loskot and his friends establish spectacular routes on overhanging limestone walls up to 60 feet high. With no ropes and with the ocean as a crash pad, the climbing is unencumbered and the falls are magnificent.

2:32 pm (2:46 pm in Max Bell)
National Geographic Explorer: Avalanche ― Surviving Tragedy
(USA, 2004, 43’)
Producer: David Hamlin*
In exclusive interviews, correspondent Michael Davie talks to avalanche survivors, as well as to families of avalanche victims, on the devastation and aftermath of these deadly events. Davie joins scientists and rescuers who are battling to save lives and prevent future tragedies with new survival technologies. He aims to tackle the lingering question: Is the risk worth the reward?

3:18 pm(3:30 pm in Max Bell)
Break

3:38 pm(3:45 pm in Max Bell)
Tom Crean: Antarctica’s Forgotten Hero
(Ireland, 2002, 53’)
Directors: Donncha Ó Briain, John Murray
Producer: John Murray
Irishman Tom Crean became one of the most indestructible heroes in the history of Antarctic exploration, taking part in three of the four greatest Antarctic expeditions. Using a wealth of archival photographs and film, and interviews with polar historians and relatives of Tom Crean and Ernest Shackleton, this documentary tells the extraordinary story of Crean’s astonishing life of adventure, heroism, and survival against the odds.

4:34 pm(4:39 pm in Max Bell)
Loser
(Switzerland, 2003, 13’) NORTH AMERICAN PREMIERE
Director/Producer: Nicolas Falquet*
Twenty-four hours in the skin of a loser who finds, via the Internet, a banal little story that finally illustrates best the need to run away.

4:50 pm(4:53 pm in Max Bell)
The Yunnan Great Rivers Expedition
(USA, 2003, 47’)
Director: Jim Norton*
Producer: Les Guthman*
For three months, the Yunnan Great Rivers Expedition descended into the spectacular Yunnan gorges of the Yangtze, Mekong and Salween rivers in western China ― gorges long considered unrunnable. Co-sponsored by the Nature Conservancy, the expedition explored the potential for river trips, and for related local jobs and economies, through one of the most biodiverse regions on Earth and one of the poorest regions in China.

* In person