Reel Rock Film Tour
| Private | |
| Genre | Adventure sports documentary films |
| Founder | Peter Mortimer and Josh Lowell |
| Headquarters | Boulder, Colorado, USA |
| Website | http://www.reelrocktour.com/ |
REEL ROCK Film Tour is an annual traveling film festival, highlighting each year a new compilation of outdoor adventure films produced by Sender Films and Big UP Productions.[1] The films are shown at a worldwide series of screening events, boasting over 500 screenings worldwide.[2] 2017 marks the 12th year of the film tour.
About the Film Tour
The REEL ROCK Film Tour screens climbing and adventure films to audiences around the world. Each year, short films are produced for the film tour ranging in scope from slacklining and highlining to rock climbing and ice climbing.[3] Founders Josh Lowell and Peter Mortimer, after organizing small tours for their individual film releases, collaborated to create the first REEL ROCK Film Tour in 2006.[4] Since then, the tour has grown to over 500 screenings a year with 150,000+ attendees worldwide. REEL ROCK partners with local outdoor equipment retailers, university outing clubs, and climbing gyms to organize screening events for each year's selections.[5] In 2011, the tour began running a series of REEL ROCK FEST events aimed at bringing the climbing and outdoors community together for a weekend of athlete clinics, climbing competitions, film screenings, community stewardship, and more.[6]
REEL ROCK 12 Film Tour 2017
REEL ROCK 12 premieres four new short films: Break On Through, featuring Margo Hayes, the first woman to climb 5.15; Brad Gobright, in Safety Third, who's an up-and-coming free soloist with a donut addiction; the return of Chris Sharma to the deep water soloing stage in Above The Sea; and introducing the best (and spunkiest) one-handed climber in the world Maureen Beck who stars in Stumped. The Tour expanded to over 500 screenings this year.[7]
REEL ROCK 11 Film Tour 2016
REEL ROCK 11 features five climbing and adventure films: Young Guns, Boys in the Bugs, Brette, Rad Dad and Dodo's Delight. Featured athletes include Ashima Shiraishi, Kai Lightner, Will Stanhope, Matt Segal, Brette Harrington, Mike Libecki, Sean Villanueva O'Driscoll, Nico Favresse, Ben Ditto, Olivier Favresse and Captain Bob Shepton.[8] This year, the tour began running a series of REEL ROCK FEST events aimed at bringing the climbing and outdoors community together for a weekend of athlete clinics, climbing competitions, film screenings, community stewardship, and more.[6]
REEL ROCK 10 Film Tour 2015
The 2015 REEL ROCK Film Tour consisted of five films: A Line Across the Sky, Dean Potter Tribute, High and Mighty, 24 Hours of Horseshoe Hell and Dawn Wall Exclusive. Athletes in these films include Alex Honnold, Tommy Caldwell, Jimmy Webb, Daniel Woods, Nik Berry, Mason Earle, Kevin Jorgeson, and Dean Potter.
REEL ROCK 9 Film Tour 2014
The feature length Documentary Valley Uprising was shown this year. In the shady campgrounds of Yosemite valley, climbers carved out a counterculture lifestyle of dumpster-diving and wild parties that clashed with the conservative values of the National Park Service. And up on the walls, generation after generation has pushed the limits of climbing, vying amongst each other for supremacy on Yosemite's cliffs. Valley Uprising is the riveting, unforgettable tale of this bold rock climbing tradition in Yosemite National Park: half a century of struggle against the laws of gravity—and the laws of the land. This year the Tour increased it's global spread, screening in 49 countries across the world.
REEL ROCK 8 Film Tour 2013
REEL ROCK 8 consisted of the following films: The Sensei, featuring Daniel Woods and Yuji Hirayama in Japan and exploring the mysterious spires of Borneo, Hazel Findlay smashing standards in the UK in Spice Girl, and traveling to the towering faces of Morocco with Emily Harrington, and High Tension, a multiple award-winning documentary with Ueli Steck, Simone Moro and Melissa Arnot––a film chronicling the 2013 conflict on Mount Everest between European climbers and a group of sherpas.
REEL ROCK 7 Film Tour 2012
The 2012 REEL ROCK Film Tour consisted of four films: Wideboyz, La Dura Dura, Honnold 3.0, and The Shark's Fin. The four films in this collection chronicle Alex Honnold's Triple Solo climb in Yosemite Valley, Chris Sharma and Adam Ondra's battle to establish the world's first 5.15c, and never before seen ascents of some of the most brutal routes in the world. Athletes in these films include Pete Whittaker, Tom Randall, Chris Sharma, Adam Ondra, Sasha Digulian, Daila Ojeda, Alex Honnold, Conrad Anker, Jimmy Chin and Renan Ozturk. The Tour expanded to over 400 screenings that year.
REEL ROCK 6 Film Tour 2011
REEL ROCK Film Tour 2011 featured these short films; Origins: Obe and Ashima, Race for the Nose, "Sketchy" Andy, Ice Revolution, Project Dawn Wall, and Cold. The short films featured athletes including Tommy Caldwell, Dean Potter, "Sketchy" Andy Lewis, Ashima Shiraishi, Will Gadd, Kevin Jorgeson, Corey Richards, Obe Carrion, Sean Leary, Tim Emmett, Simone Moro, Denis Urubko, Hans Florine, The Huber Brothers.[9] This tour featured 260 screenings worldwide with an audience of more than 65,000, $20,000 raised for nonprofits, and a screening on the Clipper Adventure marking the tour's screenings to all seven continents.[10]
REEL ROCK 5 Film Tour 2010
This edition's compilation of the REEL ROCK Film Tour featured short films, The Hulk, First Round First Minute, Fly Or Die, Down and Out and Under, The Hardest Moves, and the award-winning[11] The Swiss Machine. Athletes featured in this edition include Ueli Steck, Chris Sharma, Daniel Woods, Paul Robinson, Peter Croft, Lisa Rands, Cedar Wright, Matt Segal.[12] The 2010 Tour screened in over 200 locations worldwide, and drew over 55,000 audience members.
REEL ROCK 4 Film Tour 2009
REEL ROCK Film Tour 2009 featured Big UP Productions' film, Progression, and Sender Films' and Nat Geo Adventure Channel's world premiere of the First Ascent Series. Progression features climbers Chris Sharma, Kevin Jorgeson, Patxi Usobiaga, Johanna Ernst, and Tommy Caldwell as they attempt various difficult climbs.[13]
REEL ROCK 3 Film Tour 2008
Sender Films' The Sharp End was the featured film along with the shorts, Dosage: South Africa, The Aerialist, Grand Canyon Walls, and On Sight. The Sharp End features Alex Honnold, Dean Potter, Mike Patz, Steph Davis, Tommy Caldwell, Jonny Copp, and Lisa Rands.[14]
REEL ROCK 2 Film Tour 2007
In 2007 the tour consisted of just one longer film, King Lines, a joint Sender Films and Big UP Productions feature. The film follows Chris Sharma's travels around the world to climb various routes, or "lines". This included his first ascent of Es Pontas, a still-unrepeated (as of 2016) climb of the Mediterranean deep-sea arch. Sender Films and Big UP Productions received a Sports Emmy for Outstanding Camera Work for a piece on Chris Sharma's first ascent of Es Pontas, in Mallorca, Spain.[15]
REEL ROCK 1 Film Tour 2006
Sender Films' First Ascent was the featured film along with the short Dosage Vol. 4 by Big UP Productions. First Ascent is the film that preceded the similarly titled National Geographic Series that featured in the REEL ROCK Film Tour 2009. This documentary focuses on climbers in pursuit of a first ascent. Featuring Dean Potter, Timmy O'Neill, and Sonnie Trotter; also featuring Didier Berthod on his try for the first ascent of the Cobra Crack.
REEL ROCK Film Awards
Awards
Break On Through (2017)
- Best Adventure Sports Film: Lookout Wild Film Festival
- Best Climbing Film: Sheffield Adventure Film Festival
- People's Choice Award: Wasatch Mountain Flim Festival
- Best Climbing Film: NZ Mountain Film Festival
- Jurors Choice and Audience Choice: Rocky Spirit Festival
Safety Third (2017)
- Best Climbing Film: Bilbao Mountain Film Festival
Stumped (2017)
- Best Climbing Film: Kendal Mountain Film Festival
- People's Choice Award: Sheffield Adventure Film Festival
Safety Third (2017)
- Best Climbing Film: Bilbao Mendi Film
Brette (2016)
- Best Climbing Film: Ladek Mountain Film Festival
Boys in the Bugs (2016)
- Best Climbing Film: BANFF Mountain Film Festival
- Best Climbing Film: Kraków Mountain Festival
Dodo's Delight (2016)
- Charlie Fowler Award: Telluride Mountain Film Festival
- People's Choice Award: Ladek Mountain Film Festival
- Grand Jury Winner: Why Not? Adventure Film Festival
- Best Adventure Film: Why Not? Adventure Film Festival
- People's Choice Award: Why Not? Adventure Film Festival
- The McConkey Award: Why Not? Adventure Film Festival
- Jury Special Prize: Danish Adventure Film Festival
- Best Sport & Action Film: Bovec Outdoor Film Festival
- Best Adventure Film: Lookout Wild Film Festival
- Audience Award: Lookout Wild Film Festival
- Student's Choice Award for Best Short Documentary: Frozen River Film Festival
- Donald Tiso Best Film Award: Edinburgh Mountain Film Festival
- People's Choice Award: Edinburgh Mountain Film Festival
- Honorary Mention of the Jury in the Mountains, Sports, and Adventure Category: Domžale Mountain Film
- Best Short: Flagstaff Mountain Film
- Best Documentary Short: Boulder International Film Festival
- Best Climbing Film: Sheffield Adventure Film Festival
- Audience Choice Award: Aviemore Adventure Festival
Young Guns (2016)
- People's Choice Award for Radical Reels: BANFF Film Festival
A Line Across the Sky (2015)
- Best Climbing Film: BANFF Film Festival
- Best Climbing Film: Ladek Mountain Film
- Best Climbing Film: Bilbao Mendi Film Festival
- Jury Honorable Mention for Climbing Film: Festival Gorniškega Filma Domžale
- Audience Award: Chamonix Adventure Festival
- Best Film - Silver: Sheffield Adventure Film Festival
- Best Women in Adventure Film - Silver: Sheffield Adventure Film Festival
- Best Climbing Film - Bronze: Sheffield Adventure Film Festival
- People's Choice Award - Silver: Sheffield Adventure Film Festival
High and Mighty (2015)
- Best Short Film: Bilbao Mendi Film Festival
- Best Short Mountaineering Film: Festival Gorniškega Filma Domžale
- Judges Special Mention: Sheffield Adventure Film Festival
- Best Soundtrack - Silver: Sheffield Adventure Film Festival
Showdown at Horseshoe Hell (2015)
- People's Choice Award at Radical Reels: BANFF Film Festival
Valley Uprising (2014)
- News and Documentary Emmy: Outstanding Graphic Design and Art Direction
- Grand Prize: BANFF Mountain Film Festival
- Grand Prize: TORELLO Mountain Film Festival
- Grand Prize: BILBAO MENDI Film Festival
- Grand Prize: DANISH Mountain Film Festival
- Grand Prize: KENDAL Mountain Film Festival
- Grand Prize: KRAKOW Mountain Festival
- Grand Prize: LADEK Mountain Film Festival
- Grand Prize: DOMZALE Mountain Film Festival
- Grand Prize: BCN Sports Film
- Alpine Camera in Gold: Mountainfilm Graz
- Savage Cinema Prize: SAN SEBASTIAN Film Festival
- Audience Award: BILBAO MENDI Film Festival
- Audience Award: Nuovi Mondi Film Festival
- Public Choice: Horsky Film
- Best Documentary in Climbing Culture: Horsky Film
- Prix Du Jury: CHAMONIX Adventure Film Festival
- Special Mention of the Jury for Main Award: AUTRANS Mountain Film Festival
- Most Inspiring Adventure Film: Wild & Scenic
- Best Film: Bronze Award: Sheffield Adventure Film Festival
- Best Film on Exploration/Adventure: Trento Film Festival
- Best Film on Climbing: Trento Film Festival
- Best Climbing Film: NZ Mountain Film Festival
- Grand Jury Prize: Why Not? Adventure Film Festival
- People's Choice Award: Why Not? Adventure Film Festival
- Best Soundtrack: Why Not? Adventure Film Festival
- News and Documentary Emmy: Outstanding Graphic Design & Art Direction
High Tension (2013)
- Best Film (Mountain Culture): BANFF Mountain Film Festival
- Best Mountaineering Film: Kendal Mountain Film Festival
- Grand Prize: Kraków Mountain Film Festival
- Audience Award: Bilbao Mendi Film Festival
- Mountaineering Film Honorable Mention: Mountain Film Festival Domzale
- Best Short Film: Danish Adventure Film Festival
- Jury Award: Snow Film Fest
- Charlie Fowler Award: Telluride Mountain Film Festival
The Sensei (2013)
- Best Climbing Film: Bilbao Mendi Film Festival
- People's Choice Radical Reels: BANFF Mountain Film Festival
- Best Climbing Film: Kendal Mountain Film Festival
- Categoria Mallku: Arica Nativa 2013
- People's Choice Award: Bovec Outdoor Film Festival
Spice Girl (2013)
- Climbing Film Honorable Mention: Mountain Film Festival Domzale
- Audience Award: Durango Film Festival
- Jury Award for Best Adventure Sport illm: Durango Film Festival
- Bronze Best Climbing Film: Sheffield Adventure Film Festival
Wide Boyz (2012)
- People’s Choice Award, Best Climbing Film: Kendal Mountain Film Festival
- Best Short Mountain Film: BANFF Mountain Film Festival
- Best Climbing Film (Gold): Sheffield Adventure Film Festival
- Charlie Fowler Award: Mountain Film in Telluride
La Dura Dura (2012)
- People’s Choice Radical Reels: BANFF Mountain Film Festival
Honnold 3.0 (2012)
- Best Climbing Film: BANFF Mountain Film Festival
- Best Climbing Film (Bronze): Sheffield Adventure Film Festival
Origins: Obe and Ashima (2011)
- Best Climbing Film: Sheffield Adventure Film Festival
- Best Mountaineering Film: Bilbao Mendi Film Festival
- Best of Festival: 5Point Film Festival
Cold (2011)
- Grand Prize, Best Climbing Film, Audio Post-Production Scholarship: BANFF Mountain Film Festival
- Best Adventure Film: 5Point Film Festival
- Charlie Fowler Award: MountainFilm Telluride
- Grand Prize: New Zealand Mountain Film Festival
- Grand Prize: Squamish Mountain Festival
- Spirit of Chamonix: Chamonix Adventure Film Festival
Sketchy Andy (2011)
- Best Adrenaline Film: Kendal Mountain Film Festival
- Best Adrenaline Film: Sheffield Adventure Film Festival
Race for the Nose (2011)
- Best Climbing Film: Kendal Mountain Film Festival
- People’s Choice Radical Reels: BANFF Mountain Film Festival
- Climbing Film Category Commended: Sheffield Adventure Film Festival
Ice Revolution (2011)
- Judges Special Prize: Kendal Mountain Film Festival
- Charlie Fowler Award: Mountain Film Telluride
The Swiss Machine (2010)
- Best Film, People’s Choice Award: Sheffield Adventure Film Festival
- Best Film: ShaFF Film Festival
- Best Mountaineering Film: Kendal Film Festival
First Ascent: The Series (2010)
- Grand Prize and Best Climbing Film: Kendal Film Festival
- Grand Prize: 5-Point Film Festival
- Grand Prize: Sheffield Film Festival
- Most Inspiring Film: Wild & Scenic Film Festival
- Best Film on Mountaineering: Trento Film Festival
- Best Climbing Film: Boulder Adventure Film Festival
- Charlie Fowler Award: Mountainfilm in Telluride
- Best Climbing Film: Squamish Mountain Festival
The Sharp End (2008)
- Kamera Alpin in Gold - Best Climbing Film: Graz International Mountaineering Film Festival
- Grand Prize - Tbilisi Mountain: Adventure and Extreme Film Festival
- Adventura Prize - Best Mountain Film: Travel and Adventure Film Festival
- Best Adventure Film: X-Dance, USA
- Grand Prize: Torelló Mountain Film Festival
- Best Climbing Film: Squamish Mountain Festival
- Best Action Sport: Flagstaff Mountain Film Festival
- Best Adventure Film: International Mountain Film Festival
- Best Film on Climbing: New Zealand Mountain Film Festival
- Best Film: Edinburgh Mountain Film Festival
King Lines (2007)
- Sports Emmy: Outstanding Camera Work
- Grand Prize: Kendal Mountain Film Festival
- Best Climbing Film: Banff Mountain Film Festival
- Best Climbing Film: Taos Mountain Film Festival
First Ascent (2006)
- Best Mountain Film: Trento Mountain Film Festival
- Best Climbing Film: Mountain Film in Telluride
- Best Climbing Film: Australian Mountain Film Festival
- Grand Prize: Squamish Mountain Film Festival
- Best Climbing Film: Boulder Adventure Film Festival
- Grand Prize Audience Award: Alpinist Film Festival
- World Tour Selection: Banff Mountain Film Festival
Co-Founders
- Peter Mortimer is a filmmaker who lives in Boulder, Colorado, and is also the founder of the adventure film company Sender Films.
- Josh Lowell is a filmmaker who lives in Pound Ridge, NY, who founded Big UP Productions in 1997[16]
References
- ↑ Reel Rock Tour film festival by the numbers, in advance of Huntsville stop
- ↑ Reel Rock Tour. "Tour Calendar". REEL ROCK Film Tour. Retrieved 21 March 2012.
- ↑ Reel Rock Tour 7 Review - The RV Project
- ↑ "Reporting Live: 2011 Reel Rock Film Tour". Nerve Rush. Retrieved 28 March 2012.
|first1=missing|last1=in Authors list (help) - ↑ Reporting Live: 2011 Reel Rock Film Tour
- 1 2 "REEL ROCK FEST". fest.reelrocktour.com. Retrieved 2018-02-05.
- ↑ "Upcoming Events – Reel Rock Tour 12". reelrocktour.com. Retrieved 2018-02-06.
- ↑ "Mr. Movie review: ‘Reel Rock 11’ to show Nov. 11 in Richland". Tri City Herald, November 10, 2016 By Gary Wolcott.
- ↑ Reel Rock fall film review
- ↑ Mills, James. "The Reel Rock Film Tour 2011". Joy Trip Project. Retrieved 19 March 2012.
- ↑ "Film Awards & the Best of ShAFF". Sheffield Adventure Film Festival. Retrieved 14 March 2012.
- ↑ Reel Rock Tour 2010
- ↑ RR 2009. "About the Films". Reel Rock Film Tour. Retrieved 21 March 2012.
- ↑ 2011 Reel Rock Film Tour Kicks Off Tonight | Climbing Narcissist
- ↑ Roth, Justin. "Big UP Productions and Sender Films earn a Sports Emmy for NBC Segment". Skram Media LLC. Archived from the original on 18 February 2010. Retrieved 7 March 2012.
- ↑ "About". Big UP Productions. Retrieved 21 March 2012.