Making frozen cool for 10 years
Documentaries that engage and activate
February 18-22
Winona, Minnesota
www.frozenriver.org
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This activity is made possible by the
voters of Minnesota through grants from
the Minnesota State Arts Board and the
Southeastern Minnesota Arts Council
thanks to a legislative appropriation from
the arts and cultural heritage fund.
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MATTERS @ WINONA STATE
COMMUNITY ARTS & CULTURE
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Check out what's going on at this year's festival
Welcoming Words • Recycled Dance
• A few words from the chair of the board
• Live Music from the 1930's and 1940's
Calendar of Events
• Your sneak peak of all
Frozen River Film Festival events
Adrenaline Films
• Extreme sport films meant to
get your adrenaline pumping
Film Schedule • Ticketing Information
• Find out when and where
your favorite films are showing
Film Descriptions
• Learn more about each film by
reading the alphabetical list of film descriptions
Kids' Programming
• Check out the fun kids' films
and activities we have scheduled
Festival Speakers
• Winona LaDuke
• Thomas Pope
10th Festival Celebration & Award Ceremony
• Celebrate FRFF's 10th festival
and learn how to win great prizes
Festival Music
• Love music? You have to check out our
Atrium musicians and other festival concerts
Winona Maps • Food Vendors • SLC Atrium Happenings
• Lost? Check out these maps
• Hungry? Look who's offering food
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Pages 22-23
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Pages 29-30
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Welcoming Words
from Mike Kennedy
Welcome to the 2015 Frozen River Film Festival and our beautiful “Historic Island City” of
Winona, Minnesota. The water and bluffs of the Mississippi River surround us and hold
our city in Mother Nature’s arms. By celebrating our 10th year of offering documentary
films to entertain, engage and educate you, we are reaffirming our mission and
community support that brought us this far. We have many excellent films and speakers
scheduled, as diverse a selection as you will find anywhere in the Midwest.
The theme of “Sustainability” this year highlights not only the ecological mandate of
healthy biological systems, but also the human endurance necessary to create change
in systems and processes that threaten our future existence. Your presence here, to
observe and possibly be inspired to pursue change is the best celebration we can offer.
So join us all over the City of Winona in film venues, taverns, restaurants, universities,
museums, Q & A’s and lively discussions, all on the Frozen River banks.
I would like to thank our sponsors and community members that support the Festival
experience through their gifts and involvement. The partnership of Winona State
University continues to be the foundation to our success. The local, State and National
grants and funding opportunities we seek each year help us to support our budget. Our
many volunteers are eager to help organize, promote and assist with all the work and
fun that results from the Festival. For that we are truly blessed.
Your presence here is a result of our best efforts, please enjoy the community, the films,
the opportunity to interact with the filmmakers as well as the other audience members,
the food, the social events and please give us your feedback about our efforts. Together
we can all support and encourage the work of independent filmmakers. Be sure to come
and celebrate our decade of success at the Awards Ceremony on Sunday evening. See
you there!
Mike Kennedy
Chair of the Board
Winona State University, in conjunction with The Frozen River Film
Festival, will present a ballroom dance on Friday, February 20th from
7:00-10:00 pm in the dining room of Lourdes Hall - featuring live
music of the 1930's and 1940's provided by the WSU Jazz Ensemble.
We present the "Recycled Dance" as part of this year's university
theme "Sustainable Futures". We encourage attendees to dress in
vintage attire and expound on this theme.
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Calendar of Events
Pre-Festival Events
February 13th
St. Mane Theatre
Lanesboro, MN @ 7:30 p.m.
Adrenaline Films (pg 4)
$8.00 (or included with
your Big Muddy pass)
February 17th
Ed's (no name) Bar @ 7:30 p.m.
The Entertainers (film) (pg 13)
World Champion Ragtime
Pianist Faye Ballard
Beer tasting!
Wednesday 18
5:30 p.m. • Beyond
the Divide (pg 11) @
SE Tech
8:30 p.m. •
Adrenaline Films (pg
6) @ Saint Mary's
University, Toner
Cafeteria
Thursday 19
6:00 p.m. • Winona
LaDuke (pg 24) &
Love Thy Nature
(pg 14) @ Winona
State University,
Harriet Johnson
Auditorium
9:30 p.m. •
Adrenaline Films
(pg 6) @ Winona
State University,
Lourdes Hall
Friday 20
12:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m.
• Frozen Friday
(see insert)
12:00 p.m. • 3D Film
Antarctica, On the
Edge @ Winona 7
Theater
2:00 p.m. • FRFF Staff
Panel @ Acoustic
Cafe
3:00 p.m. • Walter
Ordway Tribute @
First Congregational
Church
4:00 p.m. • Blindsight
(pg 11) and photo
exhibit @ WCHS
Sat/Sun 21&22
10:00 a.m. • Festival
Screenings (pg 8)
begin @ Winona
State University
5:00 p.m. (Sunday)
• 10th Festival
Celebration and
Award Ceremony
(pg 25), The Last
Revel (pg 27) @
Masonic Temple
7:00 p.m. • Recycled
Dance (pg 4) @
Lourdes Hall
#FROZENRIVERFF
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El Sendero Luminoso
Adrenaline Set
Bryan and Kaia (3 minutes)
Likebomb Skiing(5 minutes)
Mountain biker Bryan Gregory attempts to
keep up with his dog, Kaia, on a piece of
Pacific Northwest single track. This film might
not appeal to cat people, but if you’re a dog
person, your little heart may just burst with
joy.
Lacking snow, but clearly not courage and
poise, Johan Jonsson skis lines that any sane
person would avoid.
Directed by: Jonathan Kang
El Sendero Luminoso (7 minutes)
Directed by: Renan Ozturk
World-renowned free solo climber Alex
Honnold went to Mexico in January with
the talented Camp4 film crew in hopes of
capturing what many regard as the most
difficult ropeless climb ever attempted in
history.
Tyler Howell (4 minutes)
Directed by: Jack Boston
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Downhill skateboarder Tyler Howell embraces
his surf style in the hills of Santa Barbara,
California, stylishly descending at vomitinducing speeds — wearing nothing more
than a pair of shorts and a t-shirt.
Directed by Erik Henriksson
Sound of the Void (14 minutes)
Directed by Marten Persiel
When he was young, Sébastien de Sainte
Marie saw a picture of Sylvain Saudan, “Skier
of the Impossible,” and knew what he wanted
to do with his life. Today, the Swiss skier picks
extreme lines that few dare to try.
Desert Ice (12 minutes)
Directed by: Keith Ladzinski
During winter’s coldest days, if the conditions
are right at Zion National Park, ice can form
inside its deep, shadowy slot canyons,
creating frozen pitches amid incredible red
rock formations. Ice climbers Scott Adamson
and Jesse Huey set out in search of Zion ice.
What they discover is a rowdy adventure of
bushwacking and runouts, ice runnels and
sandstone, snowfall and chimneys and, in the
end, glorious ice.
The Karsts of China
Desert Ice
Lanesboro, MN at St. Mane Theater - Feb. 13 - 7:30 p.m.
SMU Toner Cafeteria - Feb. 18 - 8:30 p.m.
Lourdes South Lounge - Feb. 19 - 9:30 p.m.
The Karsts of China (7 minutes)
Walled In (35 minutes)
Sprinkled across the vast country of China are
pockets of geologic wonder: surreal forests
of limestone fins, monumental arches and
slender towers that reach into the sky. In The
Karsts of China, climbers Cedar Wright, Emily
Harrington and Matt Segal and National
Geographic photographer Carsten Peter
spend a month roaming the country, seeking
otherworldly formations and unclimbed
routes in an exploration of wild and incredible
landscapes.
Ostensibly, Walled In is the story of a first
descent of the rowdy Marble Fork of the
Kaweah River in Sequoia National Park by
kayakers Ben Stookesbury and Chris Korbulic,
but this film poses bigger questions than
whether the pair can send a river that flows
from above 12,000 feet in elevation to near
sea level in less than 30 miles. It asks why they
choose to engage in a sport that carries the
threat of death, which they witnessed when
their partner Hendri Coetzee was eaten by a
crocodile in the Congo in 2010.
Directed by: Keith Ladzinski
SURFING IDAHO (12 minutes)
Directed by: Ben Stookesberry
Director: Outside Television
Winona's own, Mike Cichanowski, goes on an
85 mile white water trip in Idaho on stand up
boards.
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SATURDAY 21st
PAC
10:00 a.m.
STARK 106
Sink or Swim:
Learning the Crawl
in the Maldives
10:30
(pg 17)
10:45
Among the Wild:
The Arrowhead 135
11:15
Q&A with
Brenda Piekarski
11:30
(pg 10)
11:45
Black Ice
(pg 11)
1:30
Resolute
2:00 p.m.
(pg 17)
2:15
(pg 17)
Kids' Film Set
(pg 22)
Blindsight
Q&A with
Bob Sacha
Crying Earth
Rise Up
(pg 12)
(pg 12)
Off-Width Outlaw
(pg 15)
(pg 18)
Living Wild
An Honest Liar
(pg 10)
Northslope
Alaska
(pg 15)
The Guardians
(pg 13)
Q&A with
Eric Valli
Sticky
(pg 19)
(pg 17)
A State of
Emergency
4:00 p.m.
(pg 18)
4:15
Who Owns
Water
4:30
Miners Shot
Down
(pg 15)
(pg 21)
4:45
Speaker:
Thomas Pope
Creative
Compulsive
Disorder
(pg 12)
(pg 24)
On Beauty
Blindsight
Tashi and the
Monk
Q&A with
Bob Sacha
(pg 11)
(pg 15)
(pg 19)
BREAK
Second Nature
(pg 17)
6:15
Vultures of Tibet
(pg 20)
Sticky
Queens and
Cowboys
(pg 19)
Karsts of China
Q&A with
Carl Stange
(pg 7)
Arctic Spleen
Desert Ice
(pg 10)
8:45
9:00 p.m. Tell us what you
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Beyond the Divide
Damnation
Check our website
Q&A with
Bill Kersey &
Chris Koza
Q&A with
Amy Childers
for more details
(pg 20)
Wicker Kittens
(pg 21)
T.B.D.
think!
(pg 11)
Q&A with
Mike Sholtz &
Valerie Coit
BREAK
8:30 p.m.
Cardboard
Titanics
When Dogs Fly
(pg 6)
(pg 16)
7:30 p.m.
10:00 p.m.
(pg 19)
The Sower
Resolute
3:45
9:45
Q&A with
Jay Korff
BREAK
3:30 p.m.
9:30
(pg 6)
(pg 14)
2:30 p.m.
9:15
Desert Ice
(pg 19)
Supermom
1:45
7:15
Q&A with
Ryszard Hunka
Catch It
1:15
7:00 p.m.
Ticked Off:
The Mystery of
Lyme Disease
Food vendors listed on pg 29
1:00 p.m.
6:45
HJ(SOMSEN)
(pg 11)
12:00 p.m.
6:30
MILLER
The Stillbrave 100
11:00 a.m.
6:00 p.m.
SLC 120
Atrium Musicians (pg 27) play during each break
10:15
5:00 p.m.
FILM SCHEDULE
(pg 11)
(pg 12)
SUNDAY 22nd
PAC
10:00 a.m.
10:15
10:30
10:45
11:00 a.m.
11:15
11:30
11:45
12:00 p.m.
1:00 p.m.
1:15
1:30
1:45
2:00 p.m.
2:15
2:30 p.m.
STARK 106
Living Wild
Q&A with
Eric Valli
(pg 14)
Supermom
Queens and
Cowboys
Off-Width Outlaw
Q&A with
Carl Stange
(pg 18)
(pg 15)
Catch
Catch ItIt
(pg 12)
(pg 16)
Overpass Light
Brigade
Q&A with
Dusan Harminc
& Matt Mullins
MILLER
HJ(SOMSEN)
Resolute
(pg 17)
(pg 16)
Dear Governor
Hickenlooper
Wrenched
(pg 21)
Q&A with
Stash Wislocki
(pg 13)
Pink Helmet Posse
(pg 16)
Food vendors listed on page 29
Wicker Kittens
Q&A with
Mike Sholtz &
Valerie Coit
(pg 21)
Attempting
the Northwest
Passage
Q&A with
Taff Roberts &
Harry Kline
The Organic
Life
(pg 16)
Stars Above
Loften
(pg 18)
Mending the
Line
(pg 14)
Elgin Park
How to Make a
Sandwhich
(pg 14)
(pg 10)
Take our survey
(pg 10)
(pg 13)
On Beauty
(pg 15)
Surfing Idaho
Tell us what you
4:00 p.m.
think!
An Honest Liar
BREAK
3:45
4:30
SLC 120
Atrium Musicians (pg 27) play during each break
3:30 p.m.
4:15
FILM SCHEDULE
T.B.D.
Check our website
for more details
www.frozenriver.org
4:45
Q&A with
Mike
Cichanowski
(pg 7)
Walking the
Camino
(pg 20)
Vultures of Tibet
(pg 20)
Resolute
(pg 17)
Mending the Line
(pg 14)
5:00 p.m.
Adult Ticket, $8
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Big Muddy Pass, $60
The Big Muddy Pass provides unlimited access to films, presentations, workshops, and the
VIP Reception. Big Muddy Pass holders are given seating priority and are encouraged to
come 15 minutes early before each film set. Pass may exclude other special events. *Save this
pass for additional 2015 screenings.
Children & Students, Free
Students of WSU, SMU, MSC SE Tech, and Winona Area High Schools receive free admission
with their student ID. Students must pick up their free ticket/s at the student ticketing table.
Children 14 and under also receive free admission with parent or guardian and do not need
a ticket.
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FILM DESCRIPTIONS
Among the Wild (29 min)
Directed by Brenda Piekarski
February 21 • Stark 106 • 10:00 a.m.
Appearing: Brenda Piekarski
Follow three racers as they attempt to make it to the finish line: Bonnie
Moebeck on bike, John Storkamp on foot and Mark Scotch on skis.It has
been called one of toughest 50 races on the planet and is a human-powered
ultra marathon that takes place in the coldest part of winter in the coldest
recorded place in the lower-48 states.
An Honest Liar (90 min)
Directed by Justin Weinstein, Tyler Measom
February 21 • Miller • 1:00 p.m.
February 22 • Miller • 1:00 p.m.
An Honest Liar is a feature documentary about deception and the life
of world-famous magician, escape artist and master skeptic, James ‘The
Amang’ Randi.
Arctic Spleen (64 min)
Directed by Piergiorgio Casotti
February 21 • Miller • 6:00 p.m.
Arctic Spleen is a personal, intimate journey inside the Greenlandic juvenile
world where nature, violence, boredom and a strong cultural legacy have
been claiming for decades the highest and saddest ‘toll’. That of hundreds of
young lives.
Attempting the Northwest Passage (60 min)
Directed by Taff Roberts
February 22 • Performing Arts Center • 1:00 p.m.
Appearing: Taff Roberts, Harry Kline
In August of 2014 Hywel Taff Roberts and his shipmates attempted sailing
from Pond Inlet, Baffin Island in the Canadian Arctic to Nome, Alaska. Their
voyage took them westward along Lancaster Sound to Beechey Island
where the Franklin Expedition wintered over in 1845-1846.
Arctic Spleen
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Beyond the Divide
FILM DESCRIPTIONS
Beyond the Divide (85 min)
Directed by Jan Selby
February 21 • SLC 120 • 8:30 p.m.
February 18 • SE Tech Room 205 • 5:30 p.m.
Appearing: Bill Kersey, Chris Koza
Beyond The Divide follows Dan, a Vietnam veteran suffering from posttraumatic stress disorder, Betsy, a peace advocate struggling with rejection
by veterans, and their community’s reaction to the mysterious graffiti peace
symbol that inflames decades of animosity between them.
Black Ice (53 min)
Directed by Maarten Van Rouveroy
February 21 • Stark 106 • 1:00 p.m.
When the Greenpeace ship Arctic Sunrise set sail to protest the first ever oil
drilling in the Arctic Ocean, none of the people on board could have known
what was coming -- being seized at gunpoint by Russian special forces.
Blindsight (16 min)
Directed by Bob Sacha
February 21 • SLC 120 • 10:00 a.m.
February 21 • Miller • 3:30 p.m.
Appearing: Bob Sacha
Photo Exhibit: Winona County History Center • February 20 • 4:00 p.m.
Bob Sachas' BlindSight examines the photographic imagination of the members of the Seeing with Photography Collective through their photography.
While all the members were sighted at one time, they are all now blind or
visually impaired.
Cardboard Titanics (15 min)
Directed by Sam Fraizer Jr .
February 21 • Harriet Johnson Auditorium • 6:00 p.m.
Once a year, a group of highly educated and successful people (scientists,
doctors, lawyers, pilots, piano teachers, etc) meet to build, row, and race very
unseaworthy boats made solely of cardboard and duck tape in an insane
effort to recapture the American Dream.
Cardboard Titanics
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FILM DESCRIPTIONS
Catch It (10 min)
Directed by Sarah Menzies
February 21 • SLC 120 • 1:00 p.m.
February 22 • Performing Arts Center • 10:00 a.m.
Though she grew up chasing surf in the warm waters of southern France,
Lea Brassy’s nomadic lifestyle has led her to Northern Norway, where frigid
waves crash into a rugged coastline and mountains rise straight up from the
sea.
Creative Compulsive Dissorder (6 min)
Directed by Stormy Pyeatte
February 21 • Harriet Johnson Auditorium • 3:30 p.m.
A fatal hiking accident in Ouray, Colorado, cut Zina Lahr’s artistic life short.
Shot as a video for her portfolio, this short film now serves as a fitting tribute
to a creative who will continue to touch people with her effervescent nature
and work.
Crying Earth Rise Up (57 min)
Directed by Suree Towfighnia
February 21 • Harriet Johnshon Auditorium • 1:00 p.m.
Crying Earth Rise Up is a compelling story of the human cost of uranium
mining and its impact on the water, land and people of the Great Plains.
Damnation (87 min)
Directed by Ben Knight, Travis Rummel
February 21 • Miller • 8:30 p.m.
Appearing: Amy Childers
This powerful film odyssey across America explores the sea change in our
national attitude from pride in big dams as engineering wonders to the
growing awareness that our own future is bound to the life and health of
our rivers.
Elgin Park
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Damnation
FILM DESCRIPTIONS
Dear Governor Hickenlooper (68 min)
Directed by Stash Wislocki
February 22 • Miller • 10:00 a.m.
Appearing: Stash Wislocki
Dear Governor Hickenlooper is a compilation by Colorado creatives that follows Shane Davis as he guides us through a series of vignettes. These stories
were collected from the state’s filmmakers, farmers, skiers, activists and
concerned citizens and use both science and emotional appeal to explain
why fracking is problematic in Colorado.
Elgin Park (9 min)
Directed by Danny Yourd
February 22 • SLC 120 • 1:00 p.m.
Elgin Park is a lot of things: a 1950’s utopia, a fantastical world, and an
optical illusion. Artist Michael Paul Smith’s imaginative town – composed
entirely of miniatures – delighted audiences worldwide when his photo
series went viral.
The Entertainers (91 minutes)
Directed by: Nick Holle, Michael Zimmer
February 17 • Ed's (No Name) Bar • 7:30 p.m.
Appearing: Faye Ballard and other Ragtime Musicians
A heartwarming comedy about six piano players striving to win the World
Championship of Old-Time Piano (mostly ragtime). With brilliant showmanship and skill these competitors vie for the glow of victory, for escape from
the trials of their everyday lives, and for the revival of the first distinctly
American popular music.
The Guardians (6 minutes)
Directed by: Jenny Nichols, Andy Maser
February 21 • Harriet Johnson Auditorium • 1:00 p.m.
Fighting threats of poaching, habitat destruction and the instability of
new national independence, a community in Namibia must protect the
exceptional local wildlife and surrounding natural environment. Sustainable
wildlife tourism is essential to their survival, but frustrated farmers often
shoot a lion that kills livestock. Residents take conservation efforts into their
own hands, assuming personal responsibility to protect the free-roaming
lions and other wildlife.
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FILM DESCRIPTIONS
How to Make a Sandwich From Scratch (38 min)
Directed by Andy George
February 22 • Stark 106 • 1:00 p.m.
In the modern age, feeding yourself is as simple as buying a frozen dinner
and sticking it in the microwave. But what would it really take to feed yourself with something as simple as a sandwich if you had to make everything
from scratch, yourself?
Living Wild (52 min)
Directed by Eric Valli
February 21 • SLC 120 • 1:00 p.m.
February 22 • Performing Arts Center • 10:00 a.m.
Appearing: Eric Valli
Through several months of classes and prep work, students learn a broad
range of wilderness survival and living skills.
Love Thy Nature (72
min)
Directed by Sylvie Rokab
February 19 • Harriet Johnson Auditorium • 6:00 p.m.
Appearing: Sylvie Rokab
Narrated by Liam Neeson, Love Thy Nature is a documentary film that takes
viewers on an awe-inspiring cinematic journey into the beauty and intimacy
of our relationship with the natural world.
Mending the Line (48 minutes)
Directed by: Steve Engman, John Waller
February 22 • SLC 120 • 1:00 p.m.
February 22 • Miller Auditorium • 3:30 p.m.
In 1944, 20-year-old Frank Moore landed on the beaches of Normandy.
Crossing through the occupied French countryside, the young soldier daydreamed about coming back in peacetime to fish the bucolic streams. At 90
years old, but with the energy of a man 20 years younger, Moore completes
the dream with his wife and son by his side.
Miners
Shot Down
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On Beauty
Northslope Alaska
FILM DESCRIPTIONS
Miners Shot Down (86 min)
Directed by Rehad Deai
February 21 • SLC 120 • 3:30 p.m.
In August 2012, mineworkers in one of South Africa’s biggest platinum
mines began a wildcat strike for better wages. Six days later the police used
live ammunition to brutally suppress the strike, killing 34 and injuring many
more.
Northslope Alaska (2 minutes)
Directed by: Chris Hanson
February 21 • Harriet Johnson Auditorium • 1:00 p.m.
Daily life on the Alaskan North Slope is about the mundane reality of moving oil through hundreds of miles of a pipeline’s stiff steel sleeve. At night,
though, when the aurora borealis glimmers and scintillates in the sky, life
sheds the cloak of mundanity and assumes a brilliant mantle of magic.
On Beauty (31 min)
Directed by Joanna Rudnick
February 21 • Harriet Johnson Auditorium • 3:30 p.m.
February 22 • SLC 120 • 1:00 p.m.
From Emmy-nominated filmmaker Joanna Rudnick (In the Family) comes a
story about challenging norms and redefining beauty.
Off-Width Outlaw (6 minutes)
Directed by: Celin Serbo
February 21 • SLC 120 • 1:00 p.m.
February 22 • Performing Arts Center • 10:00 a.m.
In a sport that is not for the weak or easily discouraged, Pamela Shanti Pack
excels. One of the most accomplished off-width climbers in the world, male
or female, Pack seeks out North America’s most challenging inverted and
vertical cracks with what she describes as “masochistic fervor.”
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FILM DESCRIPTIONS
The Organic Life (60 minutes)
Directed by: Casey Beck
February 22 • Stark 106 • 1:00 p.m.
Following a year in the life of Austin, a hopeful organic farmer, and his
skeptical girlfriend Casey, this illuminating documentary chronicles farm
living and shows not only who grows your food, but also how it is grown. In
the face of minute profit margins, passion alone fuels their commitment to
shaping their local harvest, and in doing so, altering America’s agricultural
landscape.
Overpass Light Brigade (6 minutes)
Directed by: Dusan Harminc, Matt Mullins
February 22 • SLC 120 • 10:00 a.m.
Appearing: Dusan Harminc, Matt Mullins
Overpass Light Brigade is a short film that tells the story behind Wisconsin's
Holders of the Lights, an activist collaborative that grew out of the 2011
Wisconsin protests. Using innovative time-lapse photography and interviews with founding members and other activists, the film showcases OLB's
simple, beautiful approach to performance art.
Pink Helmet Posse (9 minutes)
Directed by: Kristelle Laroche
February 22 • Performing Arts Center • 10:00 a.m.
Three pink tutus. Three pink helmets. Three pink skateboards. Bella, Sierra
and Rella prove that skateboarding is not just for boys.
Queens and Cowboys:
A Straight Year on the Gay Rodeo (92 minutes)
Directed by: Matt Livadary
February 21 • Performing Arts Center • 6:00 p.m.
February 22 • Stark 106 • 10:00 a.m.
Appearing: Carl Stange
This film chronicles a complete season of the International Gay Rodeo Association. Roping and riding across north America for the past 30 years, the
IGRA's courageous cowboys and cowgirls brave challenges both in and out
of the arena on their quest to qualify for the World Finals at the end of the
season. And along the way, they'll bust every stereotype in the book.
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FILM DESCRIPTIONS
Resolute (22 min)
Directed by Daniel Roher
February 21 • Stark 106 • 1:00 p.m. and 3:30 p.m.
February 22 • Miller • 10:00 a.m. and 3:30 p.m.
Resolute documents the challenges of one Inuit family in Canada’s High Arctic through the eyes of three women – Zipporah Kalluk and her daughters
Doreen and Celina Kalluk.
Second Nature: Biomimicry Evolution (25 minutes)
Directed by: Guy Lieberman
February 21 • SLC 120 • 6:00 p.m.
Second Nature: The Biomimicry Evolution explores the emerging discipline
of biomimicry, the science of emulating nature's best ideas to solve human
problems. Set in the wilds of South Africa, the film follows biologist, author,
and Time magazine "Hero of the Environment" Janine Benyus and The Biomimicry Institute team as they illustrate how organisms in the natural world
can teach us how to be more efficient and sustainable engineers, chemists,
architects, and business leaders.
Sink or Swim: Learning the Crawl in the Maldives (54 min)
Directed by Jon Bowermaster
February 21 • Stark 106 • 10:00 a.m.
For two weeks in May, One Ocean Media Foundation helped organize, and
film, a unique learn-to-swim project on the remote Maldivian island of Eydafushi. Despite living just a couple feet above sea level, many of the locals
here never learn to swim.
The Sower (77 min)
Directed by Julie Perron
February 21 • Miller • 10:00 a.m.
In Quebec’s Kamouraska Valley, Patrice Fortier is putting down roots at his
seed company, La Société des plantes. Like a copyist in the Middle Ages,
he is meticulously preserving rare and forgotten cultivars with the goal of
breeding the “heirlooms of the future.”
Sink or Swim
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FILM DESCRIPTIONS
Stars Above Loften (3 minutes)
Directed by: Jorn Nyseth Ranum
February 22 • SLC 120 • 1:00 p.m.
A group of Norwegian students on a star-gazing field trip learn about
astronomy and astrophysics and also get philosophical about their place in
the universe.
Supermom (10 minutes)
Directed by: Mike Douglas
February 21 • SLC 120 • 1:00 p.m.
February 22 • Performing Arts Center • 10:00 a.m.
With a graceful style and aggressive lines, Wendy Fisher ruled the women’s
big mountain freeskiing scene from 1996 to 2004. She skied Alaskan spines,
hucked cliffs, starred in movie segments, won many championships, kept up
with male cohorts and inspired a new generation of female badasses. Then
she had kids and traded in the life of a professional skier for being a mom to
two red-headed boys.
Surfing Idaho (12 minutes)
Directed by: Todd Soliday & Leah Warshawski – Inflatable Film
LLC
February 22 • SLC 120 • 3:30 p.m.
Appearing: Mike Cichanowski
Winona’s own, Mike Cichanowski, went on a week of camping in the most
roadless wilderness in the United States – the Salmon River (The River of No
Return) with the most talented Watermen and Women in the world. Thank
you to Todd Bradley and the entire C4Waterman team, and Middle Fork River
Expeditions for the adventure of a lifetime.
A State of Emergency (12 min)
Directed by Shaneika Lai
February 21 • Stark 120 • 3:30 p.m.
A State of Emergency explores the drought in California and how it is affecting Southern California residents on a local level and how the community
plans to cope with water shortages as they continue to impact the state.
Sticky
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The Stillbrave 100
Surfing Idaho
FILM DESCRIPTIONS
Sticky (20 min)
Directed by Jilli Rose
February 21 • Harriet Johnson Auditorium • 1:00 p.m.
February 21 • SLC 120 • 6:00 p.m.
Long thought to be extinct, the Lord Howe Island stick insect was rediscovered under a bush on a desolate craggy island peak far off the coast of
Australia. This lushly animated documentary tells the story about a remarkable creature — the Dryococelus Australis.
The Stillbrave 100 (17 min)
Directed by Jay Korff
February 21 • SLC 120 • 10:00 a.m.
Appearing: Jay Korff
This documentary chronicles the remarkable lengths a Virginia man was
willing to go to help children with cancer. Jay Korff follows Tom Mitchell,
affectionately known as Tattoo Tom, during his attempt to finish a 100 mile
off-road trail race in which each mile is dedicated to a different child.
Tashi and the Monk (40 minutes)
Directed by: Johnny Burke, Andrew Hinton
February 21 • Harriet Johnson • 3:30 p.m.
In a remote community in the foothills of the Himalaya, a former monk
struggles under the weight of his calling. Once a spiritual teacher in the
U.S., Lobsang returned to India to create a community for orphaned and
neglected children. Tashi — the newest arrival and youngest child with a
troubled past and alcoholic father — acts out and challenges her elders
every step of the way.
Ticked Off: The Mystery of Lyme Disease (53 min)
Directed by Ryszard Hunka
February 21 • SLC 120 • 10:00 a.m.
Appearing: Ryszard Hunka
Lyme disease, a mysterious tick-borne illness, is the fastest spreading vectorborne disease in the United States, and over the past decade, the tick that
carries Lyme has been spreading across Canada with alarming speed.
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FILM DESCRIPTIONS
Vultures of Tibet (21 minutes)
Directed by: Russell O. Bush
February 21 • Miller • 6:00 p.m.
February 22 • Miller • 3:30 p.m.
Vultures of Tibet explores the recent commercialization of a sacred Tibetan
funeral tradition known as Sky Burial. In Sky Burial, Tibetans ritually feed the
bodies of their dead to wild Griffon Vultures as an offering to benefit other
living beings.
Walking the Camino (84 min)
Directed by Lydia Smith
February 22 • SLC 120 • 3:30 p.m.
500 miles on foot. Bunk-beds. Blisters. Stunning landscapes. World-class
snorers. Hot searing sun, freezing cold rain. Kindness from strangers. Debilitating injury. Unexpected romance. No toilet paper when you really need it.
Profound grief and deep doubt. Hunger. Laughing with new friends. Total
exhaustion. You are guaranteed to experience all of this when walking the
ancient pilgrim path, the Camino de Santiago.
We Sing Where We're From (44 minutes)
Directed by: Dee Garceau, Dance River Productions
February 20 • Winona Public Library • 1:00 p.m.
Like a river whose headwaters represent origins, the drum songs heard at
powwows have traveled a long and winding route, creating new landscapes
around each bend. Blackfeet and Salish elders and youth talk about how
they got started singing or dancing, and what it means to them. Together
they make a song of innovation and resilience.
When Dogs Fly (22 minutes)
Directed by: Dean Potter
February 21 •Harriet Johnson Auditorium• 6:00 p.m.
Dean Potter has pushed the boundaries of what can be done in the climbing
world for years. When Dogs Fly is Potters' latest venture into uncharted territory as it follows his efforts to wingsuit basejump off the north face of Eiger
with his dog.
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FILM DESCRIPTIONS
Who is Vermin Supreme (107 minutes)
Directed by: Steve Onderick
February 20 • Ed's (No Name) Bar • 5:00 p.m.
In the wake of Occupy Wall Street's impact on American culture, 'Who
is Vermin Supreme", An Outsider Odyssey, chronicles perennial satirical
presidential candidate and anarchist activist Vermin Supreme's whirlwind
2012 campaign and provides a glimpse into some of the strangest and most
inspiring elements of America's oft-ignored counterculture movements.
Who Owns Water (48 minutes)
Directed by: David Hanson, Michael Hanson, Andrew Kornylak
February 21 • Stark 106 • 3:30 p.m.
Water wars have always been heated in the American southwest desert,
where water is scarce and droughts are frequent, but the same quarrels
were once unthinkable in lusher areas of the country. That’s changing as
Georgia, Alabama and Florida are locked in a battle over water from their
once-bountiful rivers.
Wicker Kittens (52 minutes)
Directed by: Amy C. Elliot
February 21 • Harriet Johnson Auditorium • 6:00 p.m.
February 22 • Performing Arts Center • 1:00 p.m.
Appearing: Mike Scholtz, Valerie Coit
In Minnesota, the winters are long but the jigsaw puzzling is fierce. Join
some of the top teams in competitive puzzling as they prepare for the largest contest in the country at the St. Paul Winter Carnival. And feel the loneliness, despair and bitter cold that drives them to be the best.
Wrenched (92 minutes)
Directed by: ML Lincoln
February 22 • SLC 120 • 10:00 a.m.
Filmmaker ML Lincoln’s documentary Wrenched reveals how Edward Abbey’s anarchistic spirit and riotous novels influenced and helped guide the
nascent environmental movement of the 1970s and ‘80s. Through interviews, archival footage and re-enactments, ML Lincoln captures the outrage
of Abbey’s friends who were the original eco-warriors.
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Kids' Programming
Kids' Film Set
10:30 a.m.
Harriet Johnson Auditorium (Somsen)
Children's Craft Activities
12:00 p.m. - 2:00 p.m.
Pasteur Hall 129
Maple Syrup
Kids' Film Set
64 MPH (3 minutes)
Directed by: Brett Schreckengost
A high-velocity descent down the San Joaquin
Couloir, one of Telluride, Colorado’s most
iconic backcountry lines.
ABITA (4 minutes)
Directed by: Shoko Hara, Paul Brenner
Abita deals with the dreams of Fukushima
children who can't play outside because of
radioactive contamination.
DAMNED (9 minutes)
Directed by: Richard Phelan
A beaver dreams about building a huge dam
but doesn’t consider the consequences.
FEAR OF FLYING (9 minutes)
Directed by: Conor Finnegan
A bird has bad dreams about flying and tries
to get over it.
LIGHT GOES ON (2 minutes)
Directed by: Darren Pearson
You are never too old to skateboard.
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LIVING IN A FOOD DESERT
(5 minutes)
Directed by: Students in Wide Angle Youth
Media’s Baltimore Speak Out! Program
Students speak out about food deserts in
Baltimore.
MAPLE SYRUP (2 minutes)
Directed by: Yoshino Aoki
A girl traveled from Canada, opens her
suitcase at home and finds something
unexpected…
MY HAPPY END (6 minutes)
Directed by: Milen Vitanov
A dog makes friends with his tail.
SNIFFLES (2 minutes)
Directed by: David Cowles & Jeremy Galante
A comic dog.
A Toy Train in Space
A TOY TRAIN IN SPACE (3 minutes)
Directed by: Ron Fugelseth
A father sends his son's favorite toy train to
space and films and tracks its journey.
THE WHALE STORY (4 minutes)
Directed by: Tess Martin
A beautiful interpretation of the story of a
caught whale.
WIND (4 minutes)
Directed by: Robert Lobel
What life would be like with extreme wind.
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KEYNOTE SPEAKER
Winona LaDuke
February 19th • Harriet Johnson Auditorium (Somsen)
6:00 p.m. - 9:00 p.m.
Winona LaDuke (Anishinaabe) is an internationally acclaimed author, orator and activist.
A graduate of Harvard and Antioch Universities with advanced degrees in rural economic
development, LaDuke has devoted her life to protecting the lands and life ways of Native
communities. Outspoken, engaging, and unflaggingly dedicated to matters of ecological
sustainability, Winona LaDuke is a powerful speaker who inspires her audiences to action
and engagement.
Thomas Pope
February 21st • Miller Auditorium
3:30 p.m.
Thomas Pope, a professional
screenwriter for 30 years, has written
for Francis Coppola, Ridley Scott,
BarryLevinson, Penny Marshall, Frank
Oz, Robert Redford, Win Wenders, and
many others. His presentation will
explain the secret mechanisms that
holds a plot together. We all know a
story has a beginning, a middle and an
end. But what makes it move and come
alive?
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AWARD CEREMONY
2015 Jurors
JT Haines, Keri Pickett and Don Nelson
Sun, Jan 22nd @ 5:00 p.m. 10th Festival Celebration
and Award Ceremony
Awards
Feature Length 1st Prize Juried Award
Winona National Bank
Feature Length 2nd Prize Juried Award
Slaggie Family Foundation
People's Choice Award*
HBC
Students' Choice Award for short film
Frozen River Film Festival
$1,000
$500
$250
$250
* Remember to vote for your favorite film in person or online.
Online at http://tinyurl.com/FRFFwinner
Polls open all festival long!
Win a Stand-Up Paddle Board from Wenonah Canoe! (featured in Surfing Idaho
(pg. 7 & 18) ). Must be present at Award Ceremony to win paddle board.
Other prizes provided by: Great River Shakespeare Festival, Boats and Bluegrass,
Mid West Music Festival, Commonweal Theatre, Hawk’s View Cottages and Lodges,
Knitcraft, Jade Community Acupuncture Clinic, Bluff County Co-op, Watkins, Winona
Symphony Orchestra
Buy drawing tickets throughout the festival at the drawing table in the SLC Atrium for
your chance to win!
The drawing will take place during the Awards Ceremony. 1 for $5 or 3 for $10
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FESTIVAL MUSIC
In collaboration with
Frozen River Film Fest
MWMF
ATRIUM SHOWS 2/21 and 2/22
and
AWARD CEREMONY CONCERT
7 PM Sunday 2/22
with
The Last Revel
MWMF 2015
April 23-25
www.midwestmusicfest.org
ATRIUM MUSICIANS
SATURDAY 2/21 MUSIC SCHEDULE SUNDAY 2/22 MUSIC SCHEDULE
10:00 a.m. Jaybone Bell
11:00 a.m. Jacob Grippon
11:00 a.m. Tom Dukich
12:00 p.m. Amanda Grace
12:00 p.m. Chris Kendall
2:30 p.m. Kelly Blau
2:30 p.m. Tanner Brethorst
5:00 p.m. Mike Munson
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Meltdown Concert
Saturday, February 21
9:00 p.m. @ Ed's (No Name) Bar
- General B and the Wiz
- Weatherheads
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LOURDES
SMU
Winona State University • 175 W Mark St.
St. Mary's University • 700 Terrace Heights
Lourdes Hall - WSU • 457 Gould St.
MN Marine Art Museum • 800 Riverview Drive
History Center • 160 Johnson St.
Ed's (no name) Bar • 3rd St. & Franklin
Crystal Hegge Bernadette Mahfood Kathy Florin
Festival Director Business Director Assistant Director
SPECIAL THANKS to our board of directors (Mike Kennedy,
Jennifer Knapp, Tom Hill, Jeff Morgan, Cherie Harkenrider,
Lyle Blanchard, Mike Flaherty, Eric Nelson, Paul Soukup), our
sponsors, donors, and our wonderful team of coordinators
and volunteers. We couldn't have done it without you.
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WSU
Atrium Happenings:
Food Vendors (all week long) - Blooming Grounds and Tansy’s on Main
U.S. Fish and Wildlife Booth
Festival Booths: Film Voting, Survey, Ticketing, Merchandise, Drawing, and Info.
Saturday:
Free acupuncture provided by Jade Community Acupuncture Clinic 11:30 a.m. - 1:00 p.m.
Sustainable Future Tables 2:30 p.m. - 6:00 p.m.
Sunday:
Local Artist Vendors 10:00 a.m. - 4:00 p.m.
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Have a question?
Look for a volunteer in a
yellow shirt!
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THANK YOU TO OUR GENEROUS SPONSORS & SUPPORTERS:
T R I B U TA RY
H E A D WAT E R S
B I G M U D DY
This activity is made possible by
the voters of Minnesota through
grants from the Minnesota State
Arts Board and the Southeastern
Minnesota Arts Council thanks to a
legislative appropriation from the
arts and cultural heritage fund.
Elizabeth
Callendar King
Foundation
Flaherty & Hood, Minnesota’s leader in law & legislative advocacy for more
than 20 years. For more information about our legal and legislative services,
visit us online at flaherty-hood.com.
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CO R P O R AT E
NeutuckProductions.com
Boats and Bluegrass, Ed's No Name Bar, JumpStart Sales Inc., Hawk's View Cottages and
Lodges, Minnesota State College SE Technical, Knitcraft, OffCenter Designs, Organic Valley,
Reinarts Stained Glass, RTP, Thern Inc, Wincraft, Winona County
DONORS
B AC K WAT E R S
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Muriel & Dave Arnold, Cathy & Eric Bartleson, Sandy & Bruce Bauer, Kathryn & Brad Benke, Blandine Berthelot,
Patti & Ted Biesanz, Susan Briggs, Brian Buelow, Ruth & Frank Bures, Kathy & Chris Carroll, Kathy & Dave,
Christenson, Dee & George Cipov, Carolyn & John Collins, Joan & Pat Costello, Jane Cowgill, Barbara DuFresne,
Lois & John Durfey, Vicki Englich, Emilie Falc & Jay Kohner, Karen & OJ Fawcett, Joyce Ford & Jim Riddle, Marsha
Neff & Greg Gaut, Dan Grimslid, Ted Haaland, Cherie Hales, Kathryn Hesch, Jo & Les Hittner, Colette Hyman
& John Campbell, Sue Jelense & Robert Hoodecheck, Marlene & Bob Kohner, Carol Kratz & Drake Hokanson,
Virginia Laken , Margaret Lambert, Mark Martin, Scott Miller, Jonelle Moore, Patti & Gerry Neal, Eric Nelson,
Andrew Neumann, Pat & Dennis Nolan, Joann Thomas & Doug Nopar, Kay Peterson, Diane Petz, Ann & John
Rethlefsen, Rill Ann & Lawrence Reuter, Nancy & Jim Reynolds, Robert & Connie Scharlau, Randy Schenkat, Judy
& Charles Shephard, Betty & Brian Singer-Towns, Jeanine & Eric Sorenson, Bev Spande, Diane & Ron Stevens,
Cindy & LeRoy Telstad, Deb & Tom Thompson, Margery Wallerich, Kay & Peter Walsh, Chris & Tom Wilmot, Judy &
Scott Yess
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Documentaries that engage and activate.
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