FILMS PROGRAMME
LLAMFF will be showing up to two and a half hours of 'The Best of Banff', to whet your appetite why not watch the Best of Banff Teaser.
Best of Banff Films:
First Ascent - Alone on the Wall After gaining international climbing renown for his landmark free-solo of "Moonlight Buttress" (V, 5.12+, 9 pitches) in Zion National Park, Utah, in April 2008, 24-year-old Alex Honnold moves on to his next big challenge: the first free-solo of the "Regular Northwest Face" route (VI, 5.12a, 23 pitches) on Yosemite’s Half Dome. A palm sweating outing. |
Medeoz Filmed in the Mont Blanc range, this short features six different mountain sports: climbing, skiing, snowboarding, speed riding, paragliding and BASE jumping. |
A Little Bit Mongolian Over the high ranges of northern Mongolia, a foreign boy is racing on horseback with the local children. |
Ten - A cameraman's Tale This snowboard/ski freeride documentary gives an insight into the world of freeriding through the lens of cameraman Guido Perrini. |
Revolution One
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Pick Up Sticks Take an aerial plunge off the edge of an Arctic coastal headland into the abyss of a seabird colony to find out how marine environmental change is affecting the delicate balance of life for a hardy creature of the northern seas. A visual and metaphorical cliffhanger for our times! |
Deep/Shinsetsu "Shinsetsu" means deep powder in Japanese. This short film gives you an insight into what 15m of snow in a season can look like! |
Mont Blanc Speed Flying Six speed riders fly from the upper slopes of Mont Blanc down to Chamonix in one continuous 10-minute shot, |
Project Megawoosh Bruno Kammerl, a German engineer, works to perfect the world's tallest human water slide, you may have seen the viral video now you get the chance to see it on a bigscreen. |
Look to the Ground "Look to the Ground" is a snapshot of the inspiring story of Bobby McMullen, a professional athlete who is legally blind and has worked against the odds to become a top mountain bike rider. |
World Record Waterfall Descent Tyler Bradt sets the new world-record waterfall descent at 60 metres. |
Directed and Produced by Peter Mortimer and Nick Rosen
Directed and Produced by Guillaume Broust
Directed and Produced by Michael Dillon
Directed and Produced by Guido Perrini
"Revolution One" takes a look into the history, people and places that have defined the rapidly emerging sport of off-road unicycling. 
Directed and Produced by Julia Szucs and Steve Smith
Directed and Produced by Masaki Sekiguchi
Directed and Produced by Didier LafondOther Confirmed Films To Date:
Before Tomorrow (90mins)
Third in the trilogy of Innuit language films from ISUMA Productions. LLAMFF has championed these films since UK premiering Atanarjuat in 2006. This particular film tells the tale of a young boy and his grandmother surviving without their tribe in tragic circumstances. Fantastic film making in an arduous landscape. This is a UK premiere.
Bustin’ Down the Door (90mins)
Winter 1975 in Hawaii – a dramatic moment in surfing history when a group of young South African and Australian surfers put everything on the line to create a sport, culture , and industry that is today worth billions of dollars. They travel a far from smooth journey, including Mafia style death threats and beatings, in their bid to prove you can make a living from just doing what you love best. The action footage is spellbinding especially considering the camera technology of the time.
The Cove (90mins)
Dolphins have become one of the dominant symbols of mans relationship to the natural world.
But in a remote, glistening cove, surrounded by barbed wire and “Keep Out” signs, lies a dark reality. It is here, under cover of night, that the fishermen of Taiji, driven by a multi-billion dollar dolphin entertainment industry and an underhanded market for mercury-tainted dolphin meat, engage in an unseen hunt. The nature of what they do is so chilling -- and the consequences are so dangerous to human health -- they will go to great lengths to halt anyone from seeing it.
A team of divers travel to Japan to film this illegal hunting and become targets themselves.
Borealis (90mins)
From Portage and Main, in downtown Winnipeg, to the family cottage near Parry Sound in Ontario, filmmaker Frank Wolf (that’s his real name – honest) and his inexperienced friend Taku Hokoyama tackle raging rapids and gruelling portages on a 3,100 km canoe trip through Canada's Boreal forest in an effort to shed light on the issues now facing the wilderness area.
The Cross Canada Project (90mins)
One morning, Mike Beauchamp wakes up with the idea to ride his bicycle across Canada. To document his experiences, Mike designs and builds a weatherproof camera that can mount to his bicycle. With the ability to film himself in all conditions with the flick of a handlebar-mounted switch, Mike captures an emotional journey as he attempts to ride his bicycle over 7000 km (4400 Miles) from the Pacific Ocean to the Atlantic Ocean.
During this trip, Mike visits with distant relatives, stays with complete strangers, and because of his tight budget, often practices "stealth camping". Along the way he also visits Canadian landmarks and small towns, interviews other touring cyclists and explores abandoned houses.
Set to an original soundtrack, this film captures a unique perspective of Canada that can only be seen by bicycle. Using video diaries, recorded telephone conversations and radio interviews, Mike illustrates the struggles of a touring cyclist and explores the vastness of the Canadian landscape... all for "something to do".
Tungijuq (8mins)
A short from ISUMA productions, based on Innuit mythology. Surreal imagery and sound combine to create haunting story telling. You’ll love it or hate it...go see to find out!!
London Calling (10mins)
Highly illegal and equally dangerous, alleycatting is bicycle racing with the ‘gloves off’. Organised by and for cycle messengers, in some of the largest cities around the world. Secret starts and finishes and one basic rule.... A to B and damn the torpedoes. The traffic is merely an obstacle to speed.
Lucas Brunelle has made it his mission to ride and film these events. The results are gut wrenchingly scary. At once admirable, despicable, exciting and anti-social.... undeniably adrenalin fuelled. A very full ten minutes.
LLAMFF 2010 Film Competition:
The Asgard Project
Surely one of the most audacious film and climbing combos ever attempted. The film follows Leo Houlding and friends in his quest to free a line on Mount Asgard on Baffin Island, from training in Spain to the hand-bleeding attempt. Watch it as it should be seen, on a big screen.
Single Handed
This film gives an insight into the mind of Kevin Shields who prepares to climb an E6 solo in Glen Nevis despite being born with most of his left hand missing.
Remembering Paul Williams
This is an insightful remembrance of Paul Williams given by his friend Nick Colton. The film starts with a re-enactment of their 1st meeting followed by reminiscences from friends, finishing with Nick going back to the scene of Paul’s tragic death.
Welsh Connections
Interested in climbing in Wales? This is the film for you, from trad to bouldering, sport to DWS it has it all and some more besides. A visual delicacy, that gives you all you need in Welsh climbing in 2009.
Fellowship of the Bearing
Skateboarding with a difference, this film is all about new styles of extreme skateboarding. Climb on board for a knuckle scraping descent down some tarmac; you’ll not look at a skateboard the same after this!
Revolve:Kranked
If you’re into biking you’ll love this, if your not you’ll love it. It can’t really be put any better than how the filmmaker put it; A tribute to the coolest human powered adrenaline tool ever invented and a look at the riders who push these bikes to the limits.
Hey Presto
An amusing look at ‘professional’ belaying, while Sonnie Trotter tries to climb Hey Presto during one of the hottest spells of weather ever seen at Squamish.
Lives of the Artists
A cinematic treat, beautifully shot it tells the story of three artists; The Snowboarder, The Surfers and The Punk Rock Band, they live in different worlds but are they really that different? Contains very strong language, not suitable for younger viewers.
The Solitary Life of Cranes
We always have a couple of films that don’t really fit the ‘Mountain Culture’ genre but we show them anyway because we like them. This is the story of London’s cranes, working high above the city from dawn till dusk they are rarely noticed but the drivers of these majestic mechanical machines cannot be said to do the same.
Solitude
Some classy animation from Iran, tells the story of a stone colossus who wants to change his life after thousands of years alone on his planet.
Lines of Flight
A collage of a film that explores what climbing is about through soloing.
Karearea
This film tells the story of New Zealand’s ‘Pine Falcon’, as seen by the filmmaker, as he tries to capture in moving pictures what 1970’s wildlife photographer George Chance had previously captured in stills, but now, with fading eyesight has great difficulty in envisaging.
Adrenaline and Turbulence
Follow two up and coming Acro pilots as they push the limits to make it to the top. Find out what is possible on a paraglider!
Laughterfall
A quirky bit of animation about snowmen!
To The Rainbow
A film that shows Paul Pritchard making a return to the slate quarries of Llanberis with his old climbing partner Johnny Dawes, fourteen years after his accident while climbing the Totem Pole.
Rush Hour Dream
Ever found yourself on a mountainside with a paraglider when you have just got on a tram to go to work in the city? This short tells of a man that does exactly that.
The Liminal Place
This is a beautiful multi media short that portrays the wild moors of the peak through photography, music and words.
Pretty Sweet
Take some guys who love their mountain biking, visit some decent places, throw in a camera, mix in a good portion of talent and you have a recipe that gives you Pretty Sweet.
Birdman of the Karakorum
A film that takes the extremes of paragliding to new heights, as filmmaker Alun Hughes accompanies John Silvester as he attempts to go col busting in the Himalayas.
Unfinished Business
This gives an interesting take on Table Mountain, Climbing, Bouldering, Base Jumping and Kite Surfing.
Take a Seat
If you wanted to make some new friends would you cycle a tandem from Alaska to the bottom of the Americas? Dominic Gill did and this is his story.
Tracking their Silent Voices
Tracing the ups and downs of a group of scientists as they search for the elusive beaked whale. Threatened by extinction the beaked whale is one of the least explored species in the world, this film starts to change that.
Canis Lupis-Dedicated to Conservation
This is a short film that tells the story of a small grey wolf education centre in the heart of the Canadian Rockies.
Slate Monkeys
Climbing in the quarries at Llanberis is a unique experience at the best of times, when you have three climbers going at the same line the interest is heightened that much more.
Tenacity on the Tasman
The Tasman Sea is known as one of the most challenging sections of water on the planet, this is the story of a solo rowing circumnavigation attempt that has the crossing of the Tasman for starters. Nearly 100 days, solo in a sea such as this has to test even the best.
Red Bull X-Alps
It’s a simple set of rules; around 800km down the length of the Alps, you must go around certain pre-designated turn points, you can only get there by flying your paraglider or by walking with it. The 1st person in Monaco wins. One of the most extreme races in the world caught on camera.
Parkour-The Nature of Challenge
Most people have heard of Parkour, this is a film made by the practitioners, giving an insight into what its all about.
South Island Circumnavigation
A film charting the thrills and spills of a sea kayaking trip around the South Island of New Zealand. High seas and precious few landing spots add to the tension.
Wave Riders
When people talk about surfing, especially big wave surfing, thoughts normally turn to tropical islands, well think again. This is a tale of surfing, its origins and big wave surfing at the foot of the dramatic sheer cliffs of Ireland. A lovely piece of filming, your hands will be sweating by the end!
Dubside
An interesting short about an interesting Kayaker, without question Dubside gets the most from Kayaking.
Happy Together Now
Another curve ball, this is a very well done mockumentary about a young couple who move to Australia, before long it becomes obvious that all is not as harmonious as it 1st appeared. Contains strong language.
Wordsworth-Quest for the Sublime
This is a dramatic reconstruction of William Wordsworth’s midnight ascent of Snowdon in 1791, a sensory treat.
An Interview with Joe Brown
Joe Brown will need no introduction to the climbing fraternity, being synonymous with some of the best climbs in the country. This is a candid interview between George Smith and man himself.
Free Tibet Expedition
A film that follows two friends as they attempt to climb Mount Logan, crossing 7 glaciers, travelling 450km carrying all they need for the 40 day trip. Epic.
Gravity Never Sleeps
Take some friends who paraglide, travel to different parts of the world doing what they love and you have Gravity Never Sleeps.
For contractual reasons we have had to change the program, this takes the place of any program previous to 13th Feb 2010.
LLAMFF - Inspiring Adventure!
