International Film Festival in an Intimate Setting
3:15 pm – Saturday, October 1, 2011 – Majestic Theatre Screen #2, Crested Butte
12:15 pm – Sunday, October 2, 2011 – Majestic Theatre Screen #2, Crested Butte
Before their inevitable farewell, a young man of Mayan roots and Natan, his half Italian son, embark on an epic journey into the open sea.
Spanish and Italian
73 mins
5:30 pm – Saturday, October 1, 2011 – Crested Butte Mountain Theatre, Crested Butte (Q&A with Production Assistant, Eliza Slayman)
The Dann sisters of the Western Shoshone tribe and Nevada challenge the U.S. government for land rights, taking their case all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court.
56 mins
8:00 pm – Friday, September 30, 2011 – Majestic Theatre Screen #1, Crested Butte (plays with From the Ground Up)
3:00 pm – Saturday, October 1, 2011 – Crested Butte Mountain Theatre, Crested Butte (plays with From the Ground Up)
12:00 pm – Saturday, October 1, 2011 – Center for the Arts, Crested Butte (this showing has a free reception following the film and Q&A, hosted by Office for Resource Efficiency ORE)
9:00 am – Sunday, October 2, 2011 – Crested Butte Mountain Theatre, Crested Butte
**Friday, September 30, 2011 – Educational Version of ‘Bag It’ will be shown at the Crested Butte Community School for students.
Try going a day without plastic. Plastic is everywhere and infiltrates our lives in unimaginable and frightening ways. In this touching and often flat-out-funny film, we follow “everyman” Jeb Berrier, who is admittedly not a tree hugger, as he embarks on a global tour to unravel the complexities of our plastic world. What starts as a film about plastic bags evolves into a wholesale investigation into plastic and its affect on our waterways, oceans, and even our own bodies. We see how our crazy-for-plastic world has finally caught up to us and what we can do about it. Today. Right now.
74 mins
3:00 pm – Saturday, October 1, 2011 – Majestic Theatre Screen #1, Crested Butte
This courageous, deeply personal and funny film asks some tough questions: How do our families infuence our relationships with our bodies? How do popular culture standards get inside our heads and hearts? In what ways can sports actually make us sicker instead of healthier? Join psychotherapist and former world-class triathlete Diane Israel as she interviews athletes, models and inner city teens, and tells her own story about body image.
75 mins
9:00 am – Saturday, October 1, 2011 – Majestic Theatre Screen #1, Crested Butte (plays with Towers of Ennedi and Eastern Rises)
6:15 pm – Sunday, October 2, 2011 – Majestic Theatre Screen #2, Crested Butte (plays with Towers of Ennedi and Eastern Rises)
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 unthinkable. In fact, of the seventeen efforts to ascend an 8,000-meter peak in Pakistan in winter only one has been successful. That winter ascent of Gasherbrum II by Simone Moro, Denis Urubko, and Cory Richards is the subject of Cold.
20 mins (USA, 2011)
6:30 pm – Thursday, September 29, 2011 – The Ruby Cinema at the Prosser Theater, Western State College, Gunnison (WSC is hosting a free reception immediately following the showing of this film)
5:45 pm – Saturday, October 1, 2011 – Majestic #2, Crested Butte
Gustavo Dudamel, the gifted Venezuelan conductor, was entirely educated in the Venezuelan educational and musical program, “El Sistema,” which immerses children in music, art, team work, discipline, high values and fun. Dudamel leads this journey through the stories of some of the diverse young people in El Sistema, from around the world, and shares with them the simple message: art is a universal right.
90 mins
9:00 am – Saturday, October 1, 2011 – Majestic Theatre Screen #1, Crested Butte (this film plays with Towers of the Ennedi and Cold)
6:15 pm – Sunday, October 2, 2011 – Majestic Theatre Screen #2, Crested Butte (this film plays with Towers of the Ennedi and Cold)
Felt Soul partnered with The Fly Shop to document an epic fly fishing journey to Russia’s remote Kamchatka Peninsula. What they found… big, beautiful, mouse-crushing native Rainbow trout, super Kudzha and Bigfoot in Russia’s far, far east.
39 mins
8:00 pm – Saturday, October 1, 2011 – Center for the Arts, Crested Butte
12:00 pm – Sunday, October 2, 2011 – Majestic Theatre Screen #1, Crested Butte
Laurence Fishburne narrates EVERYDAY SUNSHINE:THE STORY OF FISHBONE, an entertaining cinematic journey into the music and personal lives of the unique Black rock band. Highlighting the parallel journeys of a band and their city of South Central-Los Angeles, EVERYDAY SUNSHINE explores the personal and cultural forces that gave rise to California’s legendary Black punk sons that continue to defy categories and expectations.
107 mins (USA, 2010)
8:15 pm – Friday, September 30, 2011 – Majestic Theatre Screen #2, Crested Butte
12:00 pm – Saturday, October 1, 2011 – Crested Butte Mountain Theatre, Crested Butte
On the eve of surgery to remove a brain tumor, Conrad meets Chloe, and they share an intimate and exhilarating journey through the night. But morning approaches, and the magic of the night unravels as they face the uncertainty of the future together.
88 mins
8:00 pm – Friday, September 30, 2011 – Majestic Theatre Screen #1, Crested Butte (plays with Back to Life)
3:00 pm – Saturday, October 1, 2011 – Crested Butte Mountain Theatre, Crested Butte (plays with Back to Life)
From The Ground Up follows the emotional journey of five 9/11 FDNY widows who honor their hero husbands by turning tragedy into triumph and giving back, raising funds for libraries, children’s foundations, homes for autistic children, playgrounds, edible gardens, and even giving guided tours of Ground Zero.
32 mins (USA, 2011)
9:15 am – Saturday, October 1, 2011 – Majestic Theatre Screen #2, Crested Butte
12:00 pm – Sunday, October 2, 2011 – Center for the Arts, Crested Butte
Fuel is an amazing, in-depth, personal journey through oil use and abuse examining wide-ranging energy solutions other than oil, the faltering U.S. oil and petroleum industries, and the latest stirrings of the American mindset toward alternative energy.
112 mins
8:00 pm – Friday, September 30, 2011 – Crested Butte Mountain Theatre, Crested Butte
9:00 am – Sunday, October 2, 2011 – Crested Butte Mountain Theatre, Crested Butte
Will Shepard is an American satellilte-mapping engineer contracted to create a more accurate survey of Armenia. It’s solitary work. One day,he meets Armenian photographer Gardarine Najarian on her first trip home in ages. The two lone travelers feel an instant bond and, on impulse, they decide to continue their journeys together. Along the way, Gardarine discovers a new relationship with her homeland and Will begins to question the solitary life he’s led.
120 mins (U.S.A., 2011)
5:30 pm – Friday, September 30, 2011 – Majestic Theatre Screen #1, Crested Butte
6:00 pm – Sunday, October 2, 2011 – CLOSING FILM AND PARTY- Lodge at Mountaineer Square, Mt. Crested Butte
A life-threatening head injury inspires Hollywood director Tom Shadyac’s journey to answer two questions, “What’s wrong with our world?”, and “What can we do about it?” Tom visits some of today’s great minds, including authors, poets, teachers, religious leaders, and scientists, as he searches for the fundamental problem at the core of all our problems and reflects on his own life choices and eventual healing.
76 mins
5:30 pm – Saturday, October 1, 2011 – Center for the Arts, Crested Butte
3:00 pm – Sunday, October 2, 2011 – Majestic Theatre Screen #1, Crested Butte
In December 2005, Daniel McGowan was arrested by Federal agents in a nationwide sweep of radical environmentalists involved with the Earth Liberation Front– a group the FBI has called America’s “number one domestic terrorism threat.” Part coming-of-age tale, part cops-and-robbers thriller, the film asks hard questions about environmentalism, activism, and the way we define terrorism.
85 mins
5:45 pm – Friday, September 30, 2011 – Majestic Theatre Screen #2, Crested Butte (plays with Spoil)
9:15 am – Sunday, October 2, 2011 – Majestic Theatre Screen #2, Crested Butte (plays with Spoil)
Story of the bike, from its creation to its demise.
47 mins (Canada, 2010)
8:00 pm – Saturday, October 1, 2011 – Crested Butte Mountain Theatre, Crested Butte
Loop (2005) is an award-winning documentary following four Norwegians who have decided to live their lives to the full, and make their dreams happen. Narrated by the 92-year-old alpinist and philosopher Arne Næss, it’s a beautiful reminder that life is what you make of it – but also that you sometimes have to take a risk to find happiness. The protagonists in the movie, amateurs with no former acting experience, all leave modern life’s hectic pace and society’s constraints behind to reconnect with nature. We follow a base-jumper struggling to ascend a particularly steep cliff face. Two part-time fishermen who make for the spectacular Lofoten islands in the middle of winter to ski in extreme conditions. And an ambulance driver who every year spends four months living at the top of Linneklepen firewatch tower, surveying the forests of Indre Østfold in almost complete solitude. What they all have in common is a desire to find out what makes them happy – and act on it. A film that will get you thinking, and stay with you long after the credits have rolled.
Norwegian
74 mins (Norway, 2005)
12:15 pm – Saturday, October 1, 2011 – Majestic Theatre Screen #2, Crested Butte
6:00 pm – Sunday, October 2, 2011 – Center for the Arts, Crested Butte
After being brutally attacked, Mark Hogancamp had little memory of his previous life, so he decided to create a new one in his backyard. He built Marwencol, a 1/6th scale World War II‐era town, and he populated it with dolls representing his friends, family, even his attackers. His stunningly realistic photos of Marwencol were soon discovered by the art world, forcing Mark to make a choice between the safety of his fictional town and the real world he’s avoided since his attack.
83 mins
8:00 pm – Friday, September 30, 2011 – Center for the Arts, Crested Butte
5:30 pm – Saturday, October 1, 2011 – Majestic Theatre Screen #1, Crested Butte
As the most persuasive and pervasive force of communication in our culture, media is educating yet another generation that a woman’s primary value lay in her youth, beauty and sexuality—and not in her capacity as a leader, making it difficult for women to obtain leadership positions and for girls to reach their full potential.
The film accumulates startling facts and statistics that leave audiences shaken, armed with a new perspective, and asking the question, “What can we do?”
When the new documentary film Miss Representation premiered at the Sundance Film Festival, audiences were riveted, and Oprah Winfrey acquired its broadcast rights. Writer/Director Jennifer Siebel Newsom interwove stories from teenage girls with provocative interviews from the likes of Dr. Condoleezza Rice, Lisa Ling, Nancy Pelosi, Katie Couric, Rachel Maddow, Rosario Dawson, Dr. Jackson Katz, Dr. Jean Kilbourne, and Gloria Steinem to give us an inside look at the media and its message.
90 mins
5:30 pm – Friday, September 30, 2011 – Crested Butte Mountain Theatre, Crested Butte
3:00 pm – Sunday, October 2, 2011 – Crested Butte Mountain Theatre, Crested Butte
This moving and humorous documentary follows six teenagers who, like the “average American child,” spend five to fifteen hours a day behind screens. PLAY AGAIN unplugs these teens and takes them on their first wilderness adventure – no electricity, no cell phone coverage, no virtual reality.
90 mins
8:00 pm – Saturday, October 1, 2011 – Majestic Theatre Screen #1, Crested Butte
3:15 pm – Sunday, October 2, 2011 – Majestic Theatre Screen #2, Crested Butte
As Robert and Tamara rob a bank, she is killed by a policeman. Overwhelmed by his grief and hatred for the man who killed her, Robert retreats to his grandfather’s desolate farm on the edge of the woods, where he chops wood for the winter and goes to the lake to be alone. One day, he sees the policeman nearby, setting in motion a chain of events that will change their lives more than they could ever suspect.
German
112 mins (Austria)
9:00 am – Sunday, October 2, 2011 – Center for the Arts, Crested Butte (plays with My Own Two Wheels)
3:00 pm – Saturday, October 1, 2011 – Center for the Arts, Crested Butte (plays with My Own Two Wheels)
Presents the story of the effort to save the 895th surviving oiled pelican in Louisiana, showing how conservationists, government agencies and wildlife activists joined forces to preserve this one life.
39 mins (USA, 2011)
5:45 pm – Friday, September 30, 2011 – Majestic Theatre Screen #2, Crested Butte (plays with Life Cycles)
9:15 am – Sunday, October 2, 2011 – Majestic Theatre Screen #2, Crested Butte (plays with Life Cycles)
Join the International League of Conservation Photographers and the Gitga’at first nation people of British Columbia as they search for the elusive Spirit Bear on their mission to photograph this rare bear and the ecosystem it relies on before a proposed oil pipeline from the Alberta tar sands spoils it.
44 mins
5:00 pm – Thursday, September 29, 2011 – Gunnison Arts Center, Gunnison (plays with With My Own Two Wheels)
9:00 am – Saturday, October 1, 2011 – Majestic Theatre Screen #1, Crested Butte (plays with Cold and Eastern Rises)
12:00 pm – Saturday, October 1, 2011 – Majestic Theatre Screen #1, Crested Butte (plays with Shorts Program II)
8:15 pm – Saturday, October 1, 2011 – Majestic Theatre Screen #2, Crested Butte (plays with Shorts Program II)
6:15 pm – Sunday, October 2, 2011 – Majestic Theatre Screen #2, Crested Butte (plays with Cold and Eastern Rises)
Follow climbers Mark Synnott, Alex Honnold and James Pearson as they travel across the roadless, windswept deserts of northeastern Chad. Basing their expedition on nothing more than a few photographs and rumors of a promised land with countless unclimbed sandstone towers, Mark’s insatiable thirst for adventure and first ascents leads the small crew deep into the spectacular landscape of the Ennedi desert. In their search for unclimbed sandstone towers, the team finds much more than climbing in this film about risk and the arc of a climber’s career.
11 mins (USA, 2011)
5:30 pm – Friday, September 30, 2011 – The Center for the Arts, Crested Butte
6:00 pm – Sunday, October 2, 2011 – Majestic Theatre Screen #1, Crested Butte
Alexander is a 26-year-old scrap hauler facing eviction. Ruby is a marketing major in need of tuition. They turn Alexander’s foreclosed home into a brothel and he falls in love with her. There’s only one problem: she’s a prostitute, and he’s a virgin.
84 mins
5:00 pm – Thursday, September 29, 2011 – Gunnison Arts Center, Gunnison (plays with Towers of Ennedi)
3:00 pm – Saturday, October 1, 2011 – Center for the Arts, Crested Butte (Q&A with director, plays with Saving Pelican 895)
9:00 am – Sunday, October 2, 2011 – Center for the Arts, Crested Butte (Q&A with director, plays with Saving Pelican 895)
With My Own Two Wheels weaves together the experiences of five individuals from Zambia, India, Ghana, Guatemala and California into a single story about how the bicycle can change the world – one pedal stroke at a time.
44 mins (USA, 2010)
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