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Savage Cinema films announced
Savage Cinema presents its largest and most diverse selection of titles to date. In this year’s line-up, the section announces six movies and two shorts, including the first Spanish production in the section and state of the art films about sports such as kayaking, car racing and climbing. The first films on sporting feats in natural settings were the European tales of mountain climbing in the early 20th century; those stories gained popularity and soon spread the desire to immortalise challenges and passions in other sports. Savage Cinema, in collaboration with Red Bull Media House, was created to bring these films to a broader public. This year’s selection for “Savage Cinema” demonstrates the excellent health and broad variety of Adventure and Action Sports movies. Meru, helmed by Jimmy Chin, won the audience award for “Best Documentary” at Sundance Film Festival this year. The film looks closely at the challenge of a lifetime, and the friendship between all involved. It is the big mountain movie of the edition, along with Panorama, the first national production of the section. The obsession for sharing his passion through cinema pushed Steve McQueen to produce and star in the 1971 Le Mans, a complicated project intended to conclusively portray the car races he loved so much, recovered by John McKenna in the documentary, Steve McQueen: The Man & Le Mans. Chasing Niagara, a film by Rush Sturges, is proof that behind spectacular dreams there are people who cherish and respect the limits of human beings. These limits are the subject of discussion and delineate the field of play in Heavy Water/ The Life and Times of Nathan Fletcher, Michael Oblowitz’s profile of one of the world’s most charismatic big wave surfers. Pursuing one’s dreams and striving for personal freedom, the dominant themes in all of these stories, are the driving forces that in The Search For Freedom unite athletes as diverse as Kelly Slater, Tony Hawk, Jeremy Jones, Robby Naish and Bob McKnight. Defying the limits is in their genes, and although the athletes are no supermen, technology is pushing them towards ever-greater objectives. Today there are almost no technical barriers to adventure film production, as shown in Degrees North, by Xavier De La Rue, a big mountain snowboarder who has used paramotors to reach completely virgin lines, thereby keeping his ecological footprint to a minimum while permitting the spectator to follow the trail of his board as if they were flying over it.
CHASING NIAGARA
RUSH STURGES (MEXICO - CANADA - USA)
WORLD PREMIERE
DEGREES NORTH
GUIDO PERRINI (SWITZERLAND)
WORLD PREMIERE
HEAVY WATER/THE LIFE AND TIMES OF NATHAN FLETCHER
MICHAEL OBLOWITZ (USA)
WORLD PREMIERE
MERU
CHAI VASARHELYI, JIMMY CHIN (USA)
SPANISH PREMIERE
THE SEARCH FOR FREEDOM
JON LONG (CANADA)
EUROPEAN PREMIERE
STEVE MCQUEEN: THE MAN & LE MANS
JOHN MCKENNA, GABRIEL CLARKE (UK)
SPANISH PREMIERE
PANAROMA (Short film)
JON HERRANZ HERNÁNDEZ (SPAIN)
SPANISH PREMIERE
PAUL (Short film)
VICTOR VAN VLOTEN, ROBERT VAN WINGERDEN (NETHERLANDS)
WORLD PREMIERE
11.08.2015 | SanSebastian's blog Cat. : San Sebastian Film Festival FESTIVALS
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