2015 Frozen River Film Festival and Our Beautiful “Historic Island City” of Winona, Minnesota

Making frozen cool for 10 years

Documentaries that engage and activate

February 18-22 Winona, Minnesota www.frozenriver.org 1 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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2 Check out what's going on at this year's festival Welcoming Words • Recycled Dance • A few words from the chair of the board Page 4 • Live Music from the 1930's and 1940's

Calendar of Events • Your sneak peak of all Page 5 Frozen River Film Festival events

Adrenaline Films • Extreme sport flms meant to Pages 6-7 get your adrenaline pumping Film Schedule • Ticketing Information • Find out when and where Pages 8-9 your favorite flms are showing

Film Descriptions • Learn more about each flm by Pages 10-21 reading the alphabetical list of flm descriptions

Kids' Programming • Check out the fun kids' flms Pages 22-23 and activities we have scheduled

Festival Speakers • Winona LaDuke Page 24 • Thomas Pope 10th Festival Celebration & Award Ceremony • Celebrate FRFF's 10th festival Page 25 and learn how to win great prizes

Festival Music • Love music? You have to check out our Page 27 Atrium musicians and other festival concerts

Winona Maps • Food Vendors • SLC Atrium Happenings • Lost? Check out these maps Pages 29-30 • Hungry? Look who's ofering food 3 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 blufs of the Mississippi River surround us and hold our city in Mother Nature’s arms. By celebrating our 10th year of ofering documentary flms to entertain, engage and educate you, we are reafrming our mission and community support that brought us this far. We have many excellent flms and speakers scheduled, as diverse a selection as you will fnd 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 ofer. So join us all over the City of Winona in flm 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 eforts, please enjoy the community, the flms, the opportunity to interact with the flmmakers as well as the other audience members, the food, the social events and please give us your feedback about our eforts. Together we can all support and encourage the work of independent flmmakers. 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. 4 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 (flm) (pg 13)

World Champion Ragtime Pianist Faye Ballard

Beer tasting!

Wednesday 18 Thursday 19 Friday 20 Sat/Sun 21&22 5:30 p.m. • Beyond 6:00 p.m. • Winona 12:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m. 10:00 a.m. • Festival the Divide (pg 11) @ LaDuke (pg 24) & • Frozen Friday Screenings (pg 8) SE Tech Love Thy Nature (see insert) begin @ Winona State University 8:30 p.m. • (pg 14) @ Winona State University, 12:00 p.m. • 3D Film Adrenaline Films (pg Antarctica, On the 6) @ Saint Mary's Harriet Johnson Auditorium Edge @ Winona 7 5:00 p.m. (Sunday) University, Toner Theater • 10th Festival Cafeteria Celebration and 9:30 p.m. • 2:00 p.m. • FRFF Staf Adrenaline Films Award Ceremony Panel @ Acoustic (pg 25), The Last (pg 6) @ Winona Cafe State University, Revel (pg 27) @ Lourdes Hall 3:00 p.m. • Walter Masonic Temple Ordway Tribute @ First Congregational Church 4:00 p.m. • Blindsight (pg 11) and photo exhibit @ WCHS 7:00 p.m. • Recycled Dance (pg 4) @ Lourdes Hall

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Bryan and Kaia (3 minutes) Likebomb Skiing(5 minutes) Directed by: Jonathan Kang Directed by Erik Henriksson Mountain biker Bryan Gregory attempts to Lacking snow, but clearly not courage and keep up with his dog, Kaia, on a piece of poise, Johan Jonsson skis lines that any sane Pacifc Northwest single track. This flm might person would avoid. not appeal to cat people, but if you’re a dog person, your little heart may just burst with Sound of the Void (14 minutes) joy. Directed by Marten Persiel When he was young, Sébastien de Sainte El Sendero Luminoso (7 minutes) Marie saw a picture of Sylvain Saudan, “Skier Directed by: Renan Ozturk of the Impossible,” and knew what he wanted World-renowned free solo climber Alex to do with his life. Today, the Swiss skier picks Honnold went to Mexico in January with extreme lines that few dare to try. the talented Camp4 flm crew in hopes of capturing what many regard as the most Desert Ice (12 minutes) difcult ropeless climb ever attempted in Directed by: Keith Ladzinski history. During winter’s coldest days, if the conditions are right at Zion National Park, ice can form Tyler Howell (4 minutes) inside its deep, shadowy slot canyons, Directed by: Jack Boston creating frozen pitches amid incredible red Downhill skateboarder Tyler Howell embraces rock formations. Ice climbers Scott Adamson his surf style in the hills of Santa Barbara, and Jesse Huey set out in search of Zion ice. California, stylishly descending at vomit- What they discover is a rowdy adventure of inducing speeds — wearing nothing more bushwacking and runouts, ice runnels and than a pair of shorts and a t-shirt. sandstone, snowfall and chimneys and, in the 6 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) Directed by: Keith Ladzinski Directed by: Ben Stookesberry

Sprinkled across the vast country of China are Ostensibly, Walled In is the story of a frst pockets of geologic wonder: surreal forests descent of the rowdy Marble Fork of the of limestone fns, monumental arches and Kaweah River in Sequoia National Park by slender towers that reach into the sky. In The kayakers Ben Stookesbury and Chris Korbulic, Karsts of China, climbers Cedar Wright, Emily but this flm poses bigger questions than Harrington and Matt Segal and National whether the pair can send a river that fows Geographic photographer Carsten Peter from above 12,000 feet in elevation to near spend a month roaming the country, seeking sea level in less than 30 miles. It asks why they otherworldly formations and unclimbed choose to engage in a sport that carries the routes in an exploration of wild and incredible threat of death, which they witnessed when landscapes. their partner Hendri Coetzee was eaten by a crocodile in the Congo in 2010. SURFING IDAHO (12 minutes) Director: Outside Television Winona's own, Mike Cichanowski, goes on an 85 mile white water trip in Idaho on stand up boards.

5 7 SATURDAY 21st FILM SCHEDULE PAC STARK 106 SLC 120 MILLER HJ(SOMSEN) PAC STARK 106 SLC 120 MILLER HJ(SOMSEN) Atrium Musicians (pg 27) play during each break Atrium Musicians (pg 27) play during each break 10:00 a.m. 10:00 a.m. Ticked Of: The Mystery of 10:15 Lyme Disease 10:15 Sink or Swim: Desert Ice Learning the Crawl Q&A with (pg 6) 10:30 in the Maldives 10:30 Ryszard Hunka (pg 17) 10:45 (pg 19) 10:45 The Stillbrave 100 11:00 a.m. 11:00 a.m. Among the Wild: Q&A with The Sower The Arrowhead 135 Jay Korf (pg 17) 11:15 Kids' Film Set 11:15 Q&A with (pg 19) (pg 22) 11:30 Brenda Piekarski Blindsight 11:30 (pg 10) Q&A with 11:45 Bob Sacha 11:45 (pg 11) 12:00 p.m. 12:00 p.m. Food vendors listed on pg 29 Food vendors listed on page 29 1:00 p.m. 1:00 p.m. Catch It Crying Earth (pg 12) Rise Up 1:15 Black Ice 1:15 (pg 11) Of-Width Outlaw (pg 12) 1:30 (pg 15) Northslope 1:30 Supermom Alaska 1:45 An Honest Liar (pg 15) 1:45 (pg 18) (pg 10) 2:00 p.m. Resolute Living Wild The Guardians (pg 17) (pg 13) 2:00 p.m. Q&A with Sticky 2:15 Eric Valli 2:15 (pg 19) (pg 14) 2:30 p.m. 2:30 p.m. BREAK BREAK 3:30 p.m. 3:30 p.m. Resolute Creative 3:45 (pg 17) Compulsive 3:45 A State of Speaker: Disorder 4:00 p.m. Thomas Pope (pg 12) 4:00 p.m. Emergency Miners Shot (pg 18) (pg 24) On Beauty 4:15 Down (pg 15) 4:15 Who Owns (pg 15) 4:30 Water Blindsight Tashi and the 4:30 (pg 21) Q&A with 4:45 Monk Bob Sacha (pg 19) 4:45 (pg 11) 5:00 p.m. 5:00 p.m. BREAK 6:00 p.m. Second Nature Vultures of Tibet Cardboard 6:15 (pg 17) Titanics (pg 20) (pg 11) Sticky 6:30 Queens and (pg 19) When Dogs Fly 6:45 Cowboys Karsts of China (pg 20) Q&A with (pg 7) Arctic Spleen Carl Stange 7:00 p.m. Desert Ice (pg 10) Wicker Kittens (pg 6) 7:15 (pg 16) Q&A with Mike Sholtz & 7:30 p.m. Valerie Coit BREAK (pg 21) 8:30 p.m. 8:45 9:00 p.m. Tell us what you T.B.D. Beyond the Divide Damnation think! Q&A with Q&A with 9:15 Check our website Bill Kersey & Amy Childers Take our survey Chris Koza 9:30 for more details (pg 12) www.frozenriver.org (pg 11) 9:45 10:00 p.m. SUNDAY 22nd FILM SCHEDULE PAC STARK 106 SLC 120 MILLER HJ(SOMSEN) Atrium Musicians (pg 27) play during each break 10:00 a.m. Living Wild Overpass Light Resolute Brigade 10:15 Q&A with (pg 17) Eric Valli Q&A with Dusan Harminc 10:30 (pg 14) & Matt Mullins 10:45 Supermom Queens and (pg 16) (pg 18) Cowboys Dear Governor 11:00 a.m. Of-Width Outlaw Q&A with Hickenlooper (pg 15) Carl Stange 11:15 Wrenched Q&A with CatchCatch ItIt (pg 16) (pg 21) Stash Wislocki (pg 12) 11:30 (pg 13) Pink Helmet Posse 11:45 (pg 16) 12:00 p.m. Food vendors listed on page 29 1:00 p.m. Wicker Kittens Stars Above 1:15 Q&A with The Organic Loften Mike Sholtz & Life (pg 18) Valerie Coit 1:30 (pg 16) Mending the (pg 21) Line An Honest Liar Attempting (pg 14) 1:45 (pg 10) the Northwest Elgin Park (pg 13) 2:00 p.m. Passage How to Make a On Beauty 2:15 Q&A with Sandwhich Taf Roberts & (pg 14) (pg 15) Harry Kline 2:30 p.m. (pg 10) BREAK 3:30 p.m. Surfng Idaho Vultures of Tibet (pg 20) 3:45 Q&A with Tell us what you T.B.D. Mike 4:00 p.m. Resolute think! Cichanowski (pg 17) (pg 7) 4:15 Check our website Take our survey for more details Walking the 4:30 Mending the Line www.frozenriver.org Camino (pg 14) 4:45 (pg 20) 5:00 p.m.

Adult Ticket, $8 Buy a 5-Pack for $35 and save a dollar per ticket. Big Muddy Pass, $60 The Big Muddy Pass provides unlimited access to flms, presentations, workshops, and the VIP Reception. Big Muddy Pass holders are given seating priority and are encouraged to come 15 minutes early before each flm 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. 7 9 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 fnish 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 Taf Roberts February 22 • Performing Arts Center • 1:00 p.m. Appearing: Taf Roberts, Harry Kline In August of 2014 Hywel Taf Roberts and his shipmates attempted sailing from Pond Inlet, Bafn 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.

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10 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 sufering from post- traumatic stress disorder, Betsy, a peace advocate struggling with rejection by veterans, and their community’s reaction to the mysterious grafti peace symbol that infames 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 frst 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 efort to recapture the American Dream.

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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 flm now serves as a ftting tribute to a creative who will continue to touch people with her efervescent nature and work.

Crying Earth Rise Up (57 min) Directed by Suree Towfghnia 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 flm 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.

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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 flmmakers, 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 showman- ship 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 frst 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 eforts into their own hands, assuming personal responsibility to protect the free-roaming lions and other wildlife.

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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 flm 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 day- dreamed about coming back in peacetime to fsh 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.

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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 mov- ing oil through hundreds of miles of a pipeline’s stif 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 flmmaker Joanna Rudnick (In the Family) comes a story about challenging norms and redefning beauty.

Of-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 of-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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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 proft 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 flm 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 inter- views with founding members and other activists, the flm 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 flm chronicles a complete season of the International Gay Rodeo As- sociation. 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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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 Arc- tic 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 flm follows biologist, author, and Time magazine "Hero of the Environment" Janine Benyus and The Bio- mimicry Institute team as they illustrate how organisms in the natural world can teach us how to be more efcient 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 flm, a unique learn-to-swim project on the remote Maldivian island of Ey- dafushi. 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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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 feld 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 clifs, 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.

Surfng Idaho (12 minutes) Directed by: Todd Soliday & Leah Warshawski – Infatable 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 afect- ing 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 The Stillbrave 100 Surfng Idaho

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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 redis- covered under a bush on a desolate craggy island peak far of 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 Korf February 21 • SLC 120 • 10:00 a.m. Appearing: Jay Korf This documentary chronicles the remarkable lengths a Virginia man was willing to go to help children with cancer. Jay Korf follows Tom Mitchell, afectionately known as Tattoo Tom, during his attempt to fnish a 100 mile of-road trail race in which each mile is dedicated to a diferent 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 Of: 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 vector- borne disease in the United States, and over the past decade, the tick that carries Lyme has been spreading across Canada with alarming speed. Surfng Idaho

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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 Grifon Vultures as an ofering to beneft 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. Debili- tating 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 terri- tory as it follows his eforts to wingsuit basejump of the north face of Eiger with his dog.

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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 ferce. Join some of the top teams in competitive puzzling as they prepare for the larg- est contest in the country at the St. Paul Winter Carnival. And feel the loneli- ness, 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 Ab- bey’s anarchistic spirit and riotous novels infuenced and helped guide the nascent environmental movement of the 1970s and ‘80s. Through inter- views, archival footage and re-enactments, ML Lincoln captures the outrage of Abbey’s friends who were the original eco-warriors.

21 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

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64 MPH (3 minutes) LIVING IN A FOOD DESERT Directed by: Brett Schreckengost (5 minutes) A high-velocity descent down the San Joaquin Directed by: Students in Wide Angle Youth Couloir, one of Telluride, Colorado’s most Media’s Baltimore Speak Out! Program iconic backcountry lines. Students speak out about food deserts in Baltimore. ABITA (4 minutes) Directed by: Shoko Hara, Paul Brenner MAPLE SYRUP (2 minutes) Abita deals with the dreams of Fukushima Directed by: Yoshino Aoki children who can't play outside because of A girl traveled from Canada, opens her radioactive contamination. suitcase at home and fnds something unexpected… DAMNED (9 minutes) Directed by: Richard Phelan MY HAPPY END (6 minutes) A beaver dreams about building a huge dam Directed by: Milen Vitanov but doesn’t consider the consequences. A dog makes friends with his tail. FEAR OF FLYING (9 minutes) Directed by: Conor Finnegan SNIFFLES (2 minutes) A bird has bad dreams about fying and tries Directed by: David Cowles & Jeremy Galante to get over it. A comic dog.

LIGHT GOES ON (2 minutes) Directed by: Darren Pearson You are never too old to skateboard.

22 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 flms 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.

21 23 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 unfaggingly 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?

24 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 $1,000 Winona National Bank Feature Length 2nd Prize Juried Award $500 Slaggie Family Foundation People's Choice Award* $250 HBC Students' Choice Award for short flm $250 Frozen River Film Festival

* Remember to vote for your favorite flm 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 Surfng 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, Bluf County Co-op, Watkins, Winona Symphony Orchestra

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