January 23 – 27, 2013 @ Winona State University, Winona, MN.
Schedule
Films |
| Sat Jan 21 | |||
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Return to Nepal (46 Minutes)
Accompany musician Bruce Cockburn as he returns to Nepal after 20 years away. He finds a land where much has changed, with a Maoist government... | |||
| Sun Jan 22 | |||
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Queen of the Sun (83 Minutes)
Queen of the Sun: What Are the Bees Telling Us? is a profound, alternative look at the bee crisis. Taking us on a journey through the catastrophic... | |||
| Wed Jan 25 | |||
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Into Darkness (15 Minutes)
Amazing what wonders can lead from an unassuming hole in the ground: crystal spires, cathedrals of calcite, gypsum cascades. To access this magical... Seasons: Winter (4 Minutes)
Winter. Brian Ward discovers an unexpected and new-found love for water in its frozen and expanded form. Wednesday, 9:00 p.m., Salvi Lecture Hall,... Cold (20 Minutes)
Ascending an 8,000-meter peak is never easy. In winter, with temperatures plummeting to 30 below and colder and with snowstorms raging, it is nearly... Way Back Home (7 Minutes)
With trial bike in hand, Danny MacAskill returns to the old country to try a few new school tricks. Filmmaker Kris Moyes captured MacAskill at play... Yosemite Falls High Line (4 Minutes)
Filmmaker Renan Ozturk shows us a new angle on slack lining as Dean Potter attempts a perilous crossing at Upper Yosemite Falls.Wednesday, 9:00 p.m.,... Kadoma (30 Minutes)
"Kadoma" was a nickname for Hendri Coetzee, a legendary South African kayaker who had explored some of Africa’s wildest rivers. In December... | |||
| Thu Jan 26 | |||
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Green Fire: Aldo Leopold and a Land Ethic for our Time (74 Minutes)
The first full-length, high-definition documentary film ever made about legendary environmentalist Aldo Leopold, Green Fire highlights... On-Screen Guide for Green Fire (45 Minutes)
Curt is a conservation biologist and writer based in Prairie du Sac, Wisconsin. He received his bachelor’s degree in English and History... | |||
Towers of the Enendi (15 Minutes)
Renan Ozturk (Mountainfilm 2009, Samsara, which won the Charlie Fowler Award) now heads to the remote and sun-flattened landscape of the Ennedi... Seasons: Winter (4 Minutes)
Winter. Brian Ward discovers an unexpected and new-found love for water in its frozen and expanded form. Wednesday, 9:00 p.m., Salvi Lecture Hall,... Cold (20 Minutes)
Ascending an 8,000-meter peak is never easy. In winter, with temperatures plummeting to 30 below and colder and with snowstorms raging, it is nearly... Desert River (5 Minutes)
Sweetgrass Productions offers a poetic ski film set to the haunting Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeroes song, “Desert Song.” The film provides... Undercity (28 Minutes)
Most people come to New York City to see the sights, and understandably they look up. Steve Duncan, a historian and self-described urban explorer,... | |||
| Fri Jan 27 | |||
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Venus of Mars (105 Minutes)
On stage, wearing a vinyl corset and stiletto boots, s/he's Venus, lead singer of the glam rock band All The Pretty Horses. At home in Minneapolis... All The Pretty Horses (90 Minutes)
Venus de Mars has been a staple of the underground music scene both here in Minneapolis and around the globe for nearly two decades.... | |||
| Sat Jan 28 | |||
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With My Own Two Wheels (44 Minutes)
If you’re like me and think that bikes can save the world–or at least have a hugely positive impact–then this film is for you. With My Own Two... Truck Farm (48 Minutes)
Forty-eight minutes may seem awfully long for a film about a truck farm. After all, how much can a filmmaker say–that is interesting–about a... | |||
Amazonia (4 Minutes)
Deep in the vibrant jungle, a little, hungry, green frog is having some trouble finding a meal. Enter a fat, blue friend to help him out, some big... Mad City Chickens (78 Minutes)
Mad City Chickens is a sometimes serious, sometimes whimsical look at the people who keep urban chickens in their backyards. From chicken... | |||
A Perfect Soldier (56 Minutes)
Aki Ra was handling weapons by age five. By age ten, he was shooting people. Kidnapped as a child and conscripted to serve in Pol Pot’s Khmer... | |||
Animal Beatbox (5 Minutes)
What is the true call of the wild? Here we travel down a very special river and are introduced to a wide variety of animal kingdom members,... Snake Show, The (3 Minutes)
A warning to all ophidiophobes: close your eyes now! This short film–made from over 70,000 still images taken by Joel Sartore–has the... Amazonia (4 Minutes)
Deep in the vibrant jungle, a little, hungry, green frog is having some trouble finding a meal. Enter a fat, blue friend to help him out, some big... A Love Story... In Milk (2 Minutes)
The path of true love never did run smooth... especially if you're a milk bottle. Follow these star-crossed lovers from factory to fridge and... Local STEM4 Animations (10 Minutes)
A 4th grade class called STEM4 created stop animation movies with laptop computers, webcams and loads of creative fun! The goal of their work was to... Skateistan (10 Minutes)
“People keep looking at our shoes and boards in a weird way. They think that they are attached to the boards through some sort of magnetic... Pushing Above The Highpoint (15 Minutes)
In the Summer of 2010, 12-year-old Alpinist Matt Moniz and his father, Mike, attempted to climb to highest point of every U.S. state to raise... Kick Like a Girl (25 Minutes)
The story of what happens when "the Mighty Cheetahs," an undefeated third grade girls soccer team, competes in the boys... | |||
Urban Explorers: Into the Darkness (86 Minutes)
Urban Explorers plunges into the world of urban exploration, a growing international subculture of adventure-seekers who explore and photograph... | |||
Happy (80 Minutes)
Does money make you HAPPY? Kids and family? Your work? Do you live in a world that values and promotes happiness and well-being? Are we in the... | |||
Undercity (28 Minutes)
Most people come to New York City to see the sights, and understandably they look up. Steve Duncan, a historian and self-described urban explorer,... Way Back Home (7 Minutes)
With trial bike in hand, Danny MacAskill returns to the old country to try a few new school tricks. Filmmaker Kris Moyes captured MacAskill at play... Yosemite Falls High Line (4 Minutes)
Filmmaker Renan Ozturk shows us a new angle on slack lining as Dean Potter attempts a perilous crossing at Upper Yosemite Falls.Wednesday, 9:00 p.m.,... Desert River (5 Minutes)
Sweetgrass Productions offers a poetic ski film set to the haunting Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeroes song, “Desert Song.” The film provides... Kadoma (30 Minutes)
"Kadoma" was a nickname for Hendri Coetzee, a legendary South African kayaker who had explored some of Africa’s wildest rivers. In December... | |||
Mr. Happy Man (11 Minutes)
Johnny Barnes is one of the happiest people in the world, and his main goal in life is to share that happiness. This humble and lovable Bermudan... Yelp (5 Minutes)
This short film’s full title is Yelp (With Apologies to Allen Ginsberg’s “Howl”). Directed by Tiffany Shlain and narrated by Peter Coyote, it... Economics of Happiness, The (68 Minutes)
The Economics of Happiness describes a world moving simultaneously in two opposing directions. On the one hand, government and big business continue... | |||
Nature of Battle, The (3 Minutes)
In an empty and dystopian war-torn world a new hope arrives in the form of a seed.Saturday, 6:00 p.m., Somsen Auditorium A City Symphony Underground (13 Minutes)
A City Symphony Underground provides a view of the New York City Subway as never seen before. Blending footage shot in 1905, six months... Fjord (24 Minutes)
Fjord is a personal interpretation of the landscape in Naeroyfjord in Western Norway, included in UNESCO's world heritage list in 2005. The film... One Plastic Beach (8 Minutes)
For 12 years, Judith Selby and Richard Lang have collected plastic trash along a one-kilometer stretch of beach near their home in Northern... Two Lakes Dance Project Performance (20 Minutes)
Two Lakes Dance Project was created in June 2010 with the purpose of providing experienced dancers the opportunity to perform and collaborate with... Inertia (11 Minutes)
Inertia explores how people react physically to unfamiliar environments. Throughout the film, the audience is taken on a tour through an abandoned... | |||
My Toxic Reality (5 Minutes)
The Goldman Environmental Prize is perhaps the most important—and generous—environmental tribute of its kind with an annual... Price of Sand, The (60 Minutes)
Jim Tittle grew up in Red Wing, and has worked as a freelance director of photography for twenty years. Last spring, when he learned... | |||
Mad City Chickens (78 Minutes)
Mad City Chickens is a sometimes serious, sometimes whimsical look at the people who keep urban chickens in their backyards. From chicken... | |||
Queen of the Sun (83 Minutes)
Queen of the Sun: What Are the Bees Telling Us? is a profound, alternative look at the bee crisis. Taking us on a journey through the catastrophic... Elaine Evans (20 Minutes)
There is increasing evidence that pollinators are declining globally. How does this affect our food supply? What about all the plants that depend on... | |||
The New Orleans Jazz Artist Series Continues With....Leon "Kid Chocolate" Brown" (90 Minutes)
Leon “Kid Chocolate” Brown in concert with:Karyn Quinn / Bass Greg Balfany / Sax Larry Price / Piano & Richard MacDonald /... | |||
Peaceful Uprising (45 Minutes)
Peaceful Uprising seek to inspire citizens to recognize themselves as agents of change, and to build communities that empower and enable each... Bidder 70 (20 Minutes)
Tim DeChristopher, as Bidder 70, disrupted an illegitimate BLM oil and gas auction in December of 2008, by outbidding oil companies for... | |||
| Sun Jan 29 | |||
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Spoil (44 Minutes)
This film follows the International League of Conservation Photographers and the Gitga'at First Nation people of British Columbia in their search... Eel/Water/Rock/Man (7 Minutes)
Simple, balanced and richly shot, this short film is fully consonant with its theme of nature’s timeless cycles, unchanging truths and abundance.... ESCUALOS: Young Chilean Kayakers of the Baker River (14 Minutes)
For the past 12 years, Club Náutico Escualo (Escaulo = Shark), a youth kayak club in the remote Patagonian town of Cochrane, Chile has taught kids... Dark Side of the Lens (7 Minutes)
Surf photographer Mickey Smith artfully crafts and narrates an immensely powerful and brooding glimpse at some of Ireland’s heaviest, and coldest,... Chasing Water (19 Minutes)
In Chasing Water, photojournalist Peter McBride sets out to document the flow of the Colorado River from source to sea. A Colorado native,... | |||
Signing On: Stories of Deaf Breast Cancer Survivors, their families and the Deaf Community (85 Minutes)
The film's title, a play on words for people whose language is American Sign Language, is about a group of Deaf breast cancer survivors (the Pink... | |||
Moving a Mountain (19 Minutes)
A young American sculptor visits Armenia for four months to make a metal sculpture to be placed in one of the biggest art museums in... Waiting for a Train (20 Minutes)
Waiting for a Train is the lovely story of Japanese-born Toshio Hirano, who took the road less traveled by following a unique and encompassing... Barber of Birmingham (26 Minutes)
“The worst thing a man can do is live for nothing.” So says James Armstrong, a barber in Birmingham who was one of thousands of... Waila! Making the People Happy (27 Minutes)
Waila music is the best-held secret of the desert southwest. Waila, also called Chicken Scratch, is the contemporary dance music of Native American... | |||
Almost Home (90 Minutes)
Almost Home is a feature-length, cinema verité documentary chronicling a year in the life of a retirement community in America's... | |||
Dakota 38 (78 Minutes)
In the spring of 2005, Jim Miller awoke from a dream in which 38 of his Dakota ancestors were hanged. At the time, Jim knew nothing of the largest... | |||
Happy (80 Minutes)
Does money make you HAPPY? Kids and family? Your work? Do you live in a world that values and promotes happiness and well-being? Are we in the... | |||
Pipe, The (83 Minutes)
In a remote corner of the West of Ireland sits Broadhaven Bay. It is the perfect picture postcard, where the high cliffs of Erris Head and the... | |||
Genocide Prevention and the Responsibility to Protect (90 Minutes)
World Without Genocide provides education about the Holocaust, other genocides, and mass conflicts through workshops and conferences at... | |||
Into Darkness (15 Minutes)
Amazing what wonders can lead from an unassuming hole in the ground: crystal spires, cathedrals of calcite, gypsum cascades. To access this magical... A City Symphony Underground (13 Minutes)
A City Symphony Underground provides a view of the New York City Subway as never seen before. Blending footage shot in 1905, six months... Prayers for Peace (8 Minutes)
Animation, as a medium and an art form, can be powerfully profound, especially when it delivers a universal message through an intensely personal... From the Ground Up (31 Minutes)
On September 11, 2001. 343 New York City firefighters died in the terrorist attack on the World Trade Center. The bravest of the brave; they... | |||
Buck (88 Minutes)
“Your horse is a mirror to your soul, and sometimes you may not like what you see. Sometimes, you will.” So says Buck Brannaman, a true... | |||