Yogin

Yogin – Session 4 (Friday, October 8th, 7-10pm)

USA, 2007, 3 min.

Director/Producer:  John Hanrahan

Yogin is a short animation telling the story of a young yogi challenging an old master to a yoga battle. The egotistical challenger thinks he has what is necessary to take on the master however he fails to realize there is more to yoga then physical postures.

Website: http://johntheanimator.com/yogin_explorer.html

Awards and Screenings:

・European Spiritual Film Festival, Feb-Mar ’10, Paris, France
・WINNER – Best Short Film, Taos Mountain Film Festival, Oct ’09
・3rd Tel Aviv Spirit Film Festival, Sept ’09, Tel Aviv, Israel
・Honorable Mention – Taos Shortz Film Fest, Jan ’09, Taos, NM
・LA Shorts Fest, Aug ’08, Los Angeles
・Zeitgeist International Film Festival, Jul ’08, San Francisco
・FINALIST – Alice 97.3 Short Film Fest, Apr ’08, San Francisco
・Opening film, Dolores Park Movie Night, Jul ’08, San Francisco

Sons of Perdition

Sons of Perdition - Session 4 (Friday, October 8th, 7-10pm)

USA, 2010, 85mins.

Director: Tyler Measom, Jennilyn Mersen

Producer: Tyler Measom, Jennilyn Mersen, Julie Goldman

In the remote desert of Utah hides Colorado City, the oldest polygamist compound in the United States. Here men have plural wives and raise their children by the strict code of the Fundamentalist Latter Day Saint religion (FLDS).

Shortly after his rise to power in 2003, the FLDS’ prophet Warren Jeffs began a systematic effort to cleanse his flock for the end of the world. He banned public schooling, gentile books, recreations, and excommunicated prominent men, marrying their women and children to other men. Hundreds of teenage boys were exiled to the streets of neighboring communities. Many more followed, giving up their families and salvation in the hope of escape.

SONS OF PERDITION follows three boys after they leave the isolation of Colorado City and join the underground network of exiled FLDS teens. Condemned to hell by their community, many of the boys turn to drugs and alcohol. With limited education and rarely a stable address, the obstacles are enormous. All the boys have big dreams—starting with the hope of attending high school—but what they want most is contact with their families. For one teen in the film, this means numerous attempts to help his fourteen-year-old sister escape before  an arranged marriage.

With unprecedented access, SONS OF PERDITION takes audiences on a three-year-journey into the lives of these remarkable teens, providing the inside analysis to make this intimate portrait a big story—a timely, critical look at faith, family and religious exile in mainstream America.

IN PERSON:  Sam Zitting (featured in film) and Tyler Measom (Director/Producer)

Website: www.sonsofperditionthemovie.com

Trailer: http://www.sonsofperditionthemovie.com/Sons_of_Perdition_Trailer.html

Festival Screenings & Awards:

Tribeca Film Festival

Telluride Mountain Fest (Directors Award)

Silverdocs

Salt Lake Film Festival

Mountain Summit in Aspen

Sun Valley Festival

** Acquired by the Oprah Winfrey Network and will be presented as part of the Oprah Winfrey Documentary Club

My Daughter is a Girl

My Daughter is a Girl! - Session 4 (Friday, October 8th, 7-10pm)

USA, 2010, 3mins

Director/Producer: Brian J. Larson

An animated ‘mock’ PSA for the under-represented fringe group of first time fathers trying to cope with the task of raising a girl child with scant insight in to the workings of the female brain. This film is an exploration into the perceived stereotypes and fears associated with fatherhood.

Website: www.kerplunkanimation.com

The Asgard Project

The Asgard Project – Session 4 (Friday, October 8, 7-10pm)

UK, Baffin Island, 2009, 65 minutes

Director/Producer: Alastair Lee

“The Asgard Project is a ground breaking film which follows top climber and Berghaus sponsored athlete Leo Houlding’s ambitious expedition to make the first free ascent of Mt Asgard’s daunting north face – regarded as one of the most difficult big walls in the world. Working with leading film maker Alastair Lee the film premiered at the Kendal Mountain Festival on 20th November.

For most of the year the fjords on Baffin Island are filled with frozen sea ice, but for a short period in the summer the ice melts and with 24 hours of daylight the area becomes a climbers paradise with mile high granite walls and amazing scenery.

To reach Mount Asgard top climbers Leo Houlding, Sean ‘Stanley’ Leary and fellow Berghaus athlete Carlos Suarez sky dive into the heart of Baffin Island, in the Arctic Circle, whilst the film and rigging crew take on the grueling 5-day trek carrying 30kg packs. The story gets off to a spectacular start as the plot twists and unforeseen problems come thick and fast in this unrelenting epic. Once the team commit to the wall the drama only increases…”

Website:  http://www.theasgardproject.com/

Awards:

Best Mountaineering Film,  4th International Mountain Film Festival (Slovenia 2010)

Best Film Overall,  Squamish Mountain Festival (BC 2010)