Telluride Mountainfilm Festival in Portland Maine

The Telluride Mountainfilm Festival World Tour will be returning for its eighth year to Portland, 7:00 pm, this Friday, October 22, 2010. We will be back at the Hannaford Theater at the University of Southern Maine.

Arrive after 6:30 and hear bluegrass/blues/swing music by Local Circus

Tickets for Telluride are still available at our retail partners:

Eastern Mountain Sports (EMS), 87 Marginal Way, Portland
207.541.1919; M-Sat 10-7; Sun 10-6

Horny Toad, 11 Bow Street in Freeport
207.865.0082; everyday from Sun 10-6

Nomads, 100 Commercial Street, Portland
207.347.7464; M-Sat 10-6, Sun 11-5



and at the Hannaford Theater, if still available, day of show, after 6:00 PM on Fri. the 22nd

Note: there is free parking in the garage.

from Brighton Avenue, turn onto Bedford St, right before the skywalk to Surrenden Street.

From I – 295, exit 6B (Forest Ave North), at first light, left onto Bedford, one block, under skywalk, left onto Surrenden Street to enter garage



For directions, visit their web site at http://www.chestnutmtnproductions.com/telluride/portlanddirections.htm

Program length, including intermission and raffle, approximately 2 3/4 hours

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Mark your calendar for our Banff Mountain Film Festival, 7 pm, Monday and Tuesday, February 14 and 15, 2011.

Telluride playlist for Portland ~ Friday, October 22, 2010



The Blueline

Bryan Smith; 2009; Canada; 5 min; Focus: Adrenaline

Take a rope, stretch it taut across a yawning gorge and then walk across it while tethered by only a leash and harness. This is the formula for high lining—an intense and highly exposed sport that athlete Robin Avery and friends practice over a precipitous canyon in this short film about heights, exposure and the relationship between man and a thin blue line.


Eastern Rises

Ben Knight & Travis Rummell; 2010; USA; 37 min; Focus: Adventure

Last year we showed their award winning film, Red Gold. The Kamchatka peninsula in the Russian Far East may as well be at the end of the earth. Its enormous, wild landscape is threaded with rivers, swimming with massive mouse-eating trout and swarming with bugs and bears. In other words, this place is the Holy Grail for truly obsessed, halfway insane fly fishermen.



Fishman

Kathy Kasic; 2009; USA; 11 min; Focus: Adventure

For Mike Kasic, the Yellowstone River represents the West as it’s meant to be— wild, fast and free flowing. Mike should know: He spends a lot of time swimming the Yellowstone, looking for fish and almost becoming one himself. In particular, he looks for the native Yellowstone cutthroat trout that represents, for him, the soul
of the river.


Hawaii Wave Ski

Mike Douglas; 2009; 7 min; Focus: Adventure

Pro freeskier Cody Townsend grew up surfing in Santa Cruz and skiing in Lake Tahoe, and ever since he was a kid, he’s been harboring a crazy dream to combine the two sports. In Hawaii Wave Skiing, he does just that.




Play Gravity: Chugach

Samuel Gyger; 2007, Switzerland; 6 min; Adrenaline



No matter how many adrenaline films you’ve seen, you’ll be astonished by the antics of these athletes. Ueli Kestenholz executes breathtaking lines in the Chugach Range of Alaska providing a rare, first person glimpse into the dangerous world of big mountain snowboarding.



Mouse that Soared

Kyle Bell; 2009, US; 6 min, ,

Step right up and see the hair-raising adventures of a flying circus mouse! Witness the story of how an orphan foundling learns lessons in life and flight from his adoptive songbird parents. Come one, come all to this high-flying tale of beating the odds!



Last Paradise

Clive Neeson; 2010; New Zealand; 10 min; Focus: Adventure

Director Clive Neeson, armed with footage from 45 years of extreme sports pioneers in the wilds of New Zealand, has made a film about the unique time when such outdoor sports as bungee jumping were created. We’re showing just one of these amazing stories from the film: It involves Telluride local Jeff Campell, skiing,
glaciers and Levi’s jeans.



Man vs. Eiger

Peter Mortimer & Nick Rosen; 2009; USA; 25 min; Focus: Adrenaline
The famous North Face of the Eiger is revered among climbers, not only for the quality of its rock but also for its intimidating dimensions and technical challenges. This lethal exposure has tested the limits of climbing for the past century.