Selected from the annual Telluride, Colo., MountainFilm Festival, true to its roots the festival includes short action films about outdoor adventure. This year films like “High Fly Summits,” about paragliding off mountains in France, or “Kids Who Rip,” about young skaters and thrashers, fulfill that expectation.
MountainFilm also features films that explore environmental and cultural themes, such as “Paving Shangril-La,” about building a military road in the Himalayas. “Boodog” sounds like a Borat fake documentary, but it’s a real story about the national dish of Mongolia: boodog. Another film, “Trout Grass,” brings together cultures, showing how bamboo is selected and harvested in China to make featherweight fly rods used in trout streams in Montana.
Some films explore cultural themes and outdoor action, like “Beyond Iraq,” about a program taking disabled Iraq War combat veterans onto the ski slopes in Colorado.
For a full schedule, see the box, this page. Complete information on the films can be found at www.mountainfilm.org/ world_tour/06-07-FILM_LIST.asp.
Michael Armstrong can be reached at michael.armstrong@homernews.com.
“It’s a tremendously entertaining venue that assists with supporting the city of Homer Community Schools,” said Michael Ilg, program director.
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