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. This is what ACADEMICS ATHLETICS MATTERS @ WINONA STATE COMMUNITY ARTS & CULTURE Visit WSU on the web www.winona.edu 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 #FROZENRIVERFF 5 El Sendero Luminoso Adrenaline Set 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.