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Komi, a Journey Across the Arctic
Luxury Liner – The First Ascent of Super Crack
Skiing in the Shadow ofGenghis Khan
Walk your own Path: Bill Barkeley on Kilimanjaro
Brave New West
USA, 2007, 45 min
Directed by Doug Hawes-Davis and Drury Gunn Carr
Screening:
Saturday September 20, 1:30 - 6:30pm
Eccles Conference Center Room 101
John Stiles moved to socially conservative Moab, Utah in the mid 1970s from Kentucky. In 1989, he began publishing the politically progressive Canyon Country Zephyr entirely by himself. Widely recognized as one of the best indie papers in the American West, The Zephyr combines humor, history, honesty and artistry in its coverage of environmental issues. With a motto of “Hopelessly clinging to the past since 1989,” the Canyon Country Zephyr is all about “Old West” meets “New West”. Brave New West is a profile of Stiles, his paper, and the land and people that are his passion.
Directors Drury Gunn Carr and Doug Hawes-Davis
Drury Gunn Carr and Doug Hawes-Davis co-founded High Plains Films in 1992. Since then, the “do it all yourself” filmmakers have collaborated on more than twenty documentaries. Their films have been screened around the world and won more than 40 awards. This spring, the filmmaking team was the first recipient of the True West Visionary Award, a career achievement award at the True/False West Film Festival.
BRAVE NEW WEST is their fifth feature-length project, following “Varmints”, 1990, “Killing Coyote”, 2000, ”This is Nowhere”, 2002 and “Libby, Montana”, 2004, which was nominated for a National News & Documentary Emmy Award in 2008. Challenging in form and content, their work intends to provide insight into the relationship between human society and the natural world.