(pictured above: Kathy Florin, FRFF Assistant Director and Crystal Hegge, FRFF Festival Director at the 2012 MountainFilm Festival in Telluride)

A local team from the Frozen River Film Festival will travel to Telluride, Colo. Memorial Day weekend to select films for the upcoming 2014 festival in Winona.
FRFF’s quest is to select films that will be shown at the annual Frozen River festival in 2014. The two festivals partner with each other, allowing Frozen River to choose some of the best independent documentaries from around the world. This is the seventh year FRFF has sent its representatives to Mountainfilm. One-third of Frff’s films come from MountainFilm.

While there, the team will be able to participate in all sorts of events, from ice cream socials to art exhibits. But most importantly, the team is looking to secure films for FRFF that are shown at Mountainfilm. By doing so, FRFF is able to secure the screening and media rights for films they may not be able to otherwise.

The team looks forward to connecting with filmmakers and the up-and-coming talent. “Given the caliber of Mountainfilm, it’s a great time to connect with many prominent activists.” says Festival Director, Crystal Hegge

On April 22, the official Earth Day screening will be followed by live streaming video of Tim DeChristopher’s first public address since his release from federal prison after a 21 month sentence. Movie-lovers and climate activists around the country have arranged local screenings and can participate live via Skype and Twitter in a Q&A with DeChristopher and filmmakers Beth and George Gage during the Salt Lake City premiere.

BIDDER 70 is a compelling feature-length documentary that chronicles how one young man’s act of civil disobedience blazed a new trail in the climate justice movement. At a time when the debate over climate change is finally gaining post-election “steam,” when hot-button topics such as fracking and the Keystone XL Pipeline have captured the country’s attention, BIDDER 70 is poised to showcase the face and voice of a movement that has been steadily gathering force, comprised of people who have grave concerns over our future as well as our present.

Bidder 70
Winner of $1,000 Big Muddy Award
Sponsored by the Slaggie Foundation
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Winner of $250 People’s Choice Award
Sponsored by the Frozen River Film Festival

(pictured above left to right: Award Sculptor, Anne Plummer, Festival Guide, Tex Hawkins, Bidder 70 Director, George Gage, Peaceful Uprising Representative, Dylan Rose Schneider)

World Peace and Other 4th Grade Achievements
Winner of $500 Headwaters Award
Sponsored by Winona National Bank

Sidewalk Sonata
Winner of $250 Student’s Choice Award
Sponsored by HBCI

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Like her hero, the pioneering environmental writer and activist Rachel Carson (author of Silent Spring), Sandra Steingraber is a cancer victim. Diagnosed at age 20, she successfully battled the disease for 30 years. During that time she’s used her knowledge and training as a biologist to bridge the gap between what scientists and the medical community regard as the causes of cancer. Steingraber grew up surrounded by toxic chemical discharge from industrial agriculture and is certain that her childhood environment and her health as an adult are intimately connected. She asks one of the essential questions of our age: How much proof is necessary to treat industrial contamination of air, soil and streams as human rights issues? This is a powerful and compelling film about a woman whose brilliance is surpassed only by her honesty and grit.

9:30 p.m.
Lourdes South Lounge
Winona State University (West Campus)
Adrenaline Film Set
highlining, skiing, mountain biking and more

Each are $8 or show your Big Muddy Pass

Southeast Technical College Auditorium, room 205
Tuesday, January 22
5:30 p.m.

The hauntingly beautiful documentary film, Chasing Ice, is screening twice in Winona, MN outside of its national theatrical release. The Frozen River Film Festival is hosting two screenings. The first screening is Sunday, January 20 at Saint Mary’s University in Figliulo Hall at 5:00 p.m. and the second screening is Tuesday, January 22 at the Southeast Technical College Auditorium, Room 205 at 5:30 p.m. Each screening is $5 or show your Big Muddy Pass for admittance.

Chasing Ice is a film you can feel in your stomach. One that is haunting and beautiful in its ability to tell the story of ice. Photographer, James Balog embarks on the greatest mission of his career: risking his life for a multiple-year project using state-of-the-art cameras in the most harrowing weather conditions to capture of glacial melting. Balog hikes the ice caps in Alaska, Iceland, and Greenland placing cameras that capture the melt through time-lapse photography. The years of photography is compressed into seconds, where the ice comes alive as it retracts, crumbles and changes the face of our coldest climates.

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Friday January 25, 2013

Performing Arts Center at Winona State University

7:30 p.m. $15, free for member of Friends of Jazz
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The jazz quartet  will include world renowned and as heard on the 2010 Grammy-winning album Book 1 by the New Orleans Jazz Orchestra, clarinetist Evan Christopher, with Dr. Richard MacDonald on percussion, Rick Carlson on piano and Steve Pikal on bass.  Rick and Steve are well known Twin Cities musicians who have played a number of shows with Evan over the years in the metropolitan area.

Over the past couple of years Evan has been a featured jazz performer at Minnesota Orchestra Hall, has featured prominently at Carnegie Hall as recently as this past October with New Orleans Jazz Orchestra, and during this past year has toured Japan, France, Ireland, New York, North Africa and South America.  He also appears frequently in New Orleans with the New Orleans Jazz Orchestra and has been featured at the New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival, the French Quarter Festival and many other New Orleans Jazz events and functions.

He is very excited to be appearing in Winona as the featured performer in the Winona’s third annual New Orleans Jazz Artist Series, graciously hosted by the renowned Frozen River Film Festival in partnership with the Friends of Jazz!

Thursday, January 24, 2013

6:30pm in Somsen Auditorium at Winona State University

Film: Living Downstream

Speaker: Sandra Steingraber

When we saw “Living Downstream”, we knew it was right for the festival. Sandra Steingraber shares a story which revolves around her search for answers. Central themes – like the connection between chemicals and disease – offer a provocative perspective on life in the shadow of Big Agriculture, and, in her case, a thirty year survivor of cancer …. Steingraber’s tenacious scientific look at industrial pollution, considers the facts, and provides answers. This is just one of over 50 documentary films to be presented at the 8th annual Frozen River Film Fest – don’t just take our word for it, come out and see for yourself.