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  Art, snow

The world’s best skiing videos, snowboarding videos, surfing videos, and
skateboarding videos, as well as some windsurfing, climbing, and even a tubing
video from the looks of it, will be duking it out for bragging rights in Utah
this January.

To quote Darren Rayner of Voleurz, “We’re going to X-Dance baby!” The
nossaTV sponsored filmmakers out of Canada made it into the action sports
version of the Academy Awards on their first try. They will be competing in the
Short Film Festival. The rest of the nominees are…

ACCEPTED FILMS FOR X-DANCE
2008
(alphabetical order)
Stay tuned to X-Dance site for more information.
Follow
the links to see trailers on nossaTV.

FEATURES

199 Lives
Director: Gregg
Godfrey
Producer: Jeremy Rawle
Executive Producer: David
Brooks
Production Company: Godfrey Entertainment

20 Seconds of Joy
Director: Jens
Hoffmann
Producer: Cleonice Comino
Executive Producer: Cleonice Comino
& André Duck
Production Company: F24 Film GmbH

Against the Grain, The Tara Dakides
Documentary
Director: Josh Landan
Producer: Josh Landan, The
Background Collective
Executive Producer: The Background Collective,
Studio411, David Brooks
Production Company: The Background
Collective

Apples &
Oranges
Director: Carlo Wein, Bryant Bell, Colin Jones
Producer:
John Clapham
Executive Producer: Carlo Wein
Production Company: Alterna
Films

Believe
Director:
Constantine Papanicolaou
Producer: Constantine Papanicolaou
Executive
Producer: Tanner Hall, Michael Chapin, Chris Mater, Jamie Simon, Pat Mcilvain,
Greg Strokes
Production Company: Studio 411

Bra Boys
Director: Sunny
Abberton
Co-Director: Macario De Souza
Producers: Sunny Abberton &
Michael Lawrence
Executive Producers: Jason Bergh, Sal Masekela, Michael
Lythcott, Nicholas Cook, Michael Lawrence, John Mossop
Original Music: Jamie
Holt
Production Company: Berkela Films, Bradahood Productions, Garage
Industries

Crusty Demons - Night of World
Records
Director: John McMillan & Chris Nelius
Producer: John
McMillan & Chris Nelius
Executive Producer: John McMillan & Chris
Nelius
Production Company: Fleshwound Films & Rush Sports

Deep Winter
Director: Glenn
Zoller

Down The
Barrel
Director: Steven Lawrence
Producer: ESPN Original
Entertainment
Production Company: Peligro Pictures

Dying for Everest
Director: Richard
Dennison
Producer: Gus Roxburgh, James Heyward, Andy Salek
Executive
Producer: Steve Luczo, Shaun Murphy
Production Company: Balance Vector
Productions

Enjoy
Production
Company: Rage Films

Facing
Obsession
Director: Jochen Schmoll
Producer: Jochen Schmoll,
Drehxtrem
Executive Producer: Jochen Schmoll, Drehxtrem
Production
Company: Drehxtrem

In
Short
Production Company: Blank Paper Studios

It’s Fantastic!
Director: Matt
Sheridan
Producer: Matt Sheridan
Executive Producer: Matt
Sheridan
Production Company: Team 13

Journey to the Center
Director: Jens
Hoffman
Executive Producer: Liro Seppanen & Jeb Corliss
Production
Company: Ground Impact Inc.

King
Lines
Director: Josh Lowell, Peter Mortimer
Producer: Josh Lowell,
Peter Mortimer
Executive Producer: Nick Rosen, Cooper Roberts
Production
Company: Big UP Productions

Let’s Do
This!
Director: Jon Holland & Jason Hernandez
Producer: Jon
Holland & Jason Hernandez
Executive Producer: Jon Holland & Jason
Hernandez
Production Company: Transworld

Lines
Director: Flora Pauporte
Producer:
Axel Pauporte
Executive Producer: Reid Pinder, Grahma Stapelberg, Andrew
Flitton
Production Company: Quinta Films

Lost
and Found
Production Company: Teton Gravity Research

Mixed Tape
Director: Pete Santa
Maria
Producer: Pete Santa Maria, John Wilson, Kevin Flanagan
Production
Company: Reef

My Eyes Won’t
Dry
Directors: Brian Conley
Producers: Brian Conley
Executive
Producer: Brian Conley
Production Company: C life Productions

New Emissions of Light and Sound
Director:
George Manzanilla and Joe G
Producer: Joe G, Michael Marckx
Executive
Producer: Peter Hill, Matt Hill, Gary Valentine
Production Company:
Globe

NWD 8 Smack
Down
Director: Derek Westerlund
Producer: Derek
Westerlund
Executive Producer: Derek Westerlund
Production Company:
Freeride Entertainment

Optimistic?
Director:
Patrick Armbruster & Justin Hostynek
Producer: Patrick
Armbruster
Production Company: Absinthe Films

Push Process
Directors: Justin
Stephens
Producers: Matty Swanson
Executive Producers:Matty Swanson &
Pat Mcilvain
Production Company: 1242 Productions

Seven
Sunny Days
Director: Steve Winter, Murray Wais, Scott
Gaffney
Producer: Steve Winter, Murray Wais, Scott Gaffney, Steve Reska, Nate
Nash, Mike Hans
Executive Producer: David Brooks
Production Company:
Matchstick Productions

SEVENVISION
Directors: Don Hampton Aaron
Chase
Producers: Don Hampton
Executive Producers:Don Hampton
Production
Company: DH Productions

Sliding
Liberia
Director: Britton Caillouette; Nicholai Lidow
Producer:
Britton Caillouette; Nicholai Lidow
Production Company: Inner Tube
Films

Source
Director: Rush
Sturges, Brooks Baldwin, Marlow Long
Producer: Rush Sturges, Brooks Baldwin,
Marlow Long
Production Company: Young Gun Productions

The Dawn of the Stone-Age
Director: Andrew
Miller & Aden Stay
Producer: Brad Dougherty
Executive Producer: Troy
Eckert & Richard Woolcott
Production Company: Vecco
Productions

The Man Who Souled the
World
Director: Mike Hill
Producer: Jason Boulter & Matt
Hill
Executive Producer: Steven Hill & Peter Hill
Production Company:
Whyte House Productions

The Windsurfing
Movie
Directors: Johnny DeCesare & Jace Panebianco
Producers:
Johnny DeCesare, Jace Panebianco & Levi Siver
Production Company: Poor
Boyz Windsurfing

Tomorrow
Today
Director: Chris Cote, David Washauer
Producer: Josh
Williams
Executive Producer: Transworld Surf
Production Company:
Metalstorm Entertainment

Tony Hawk’s
Secret Skatepark Tour 3
Director: Kemp Curley
Producer: Irene
Navarro, Matt Haring, Jared Prindle
Executive Producer: Tony Hawk, Pat
Hawk
Production Company: 900 Films

Transgression
Director: Ronn
Seidenglanz
Producer: Ronn Seidenglanz
Executive Producer: Erik
Lutgert
Production Company: Sidewayz Films

Travis Pastrana - Driven
Director: Leandro
HBL
Producer: Marko Zawadzki
Executive Producer: Marko
Zawadzki
Production Company: emenes GmbH

Under the Sun
Director: Cyrus
Sutton
Producer: Cyrus Sutton, Michael McFadin, Jody McFadin
Executive
Producer: Michael McFadin, Jody McFadin
Production Company: A
Peel/Luella

WHY
Director:
Taylor Congdon
Producer: Taylor Congdon
Executive Producer: Transworld
Media, Jason Young
Production Company: The Assignment

SHORTS

Another LA Day
Directors: David Auerbach
& Mathias Klozenbucher
Producers: David Auerbach & Mathias
Klozenbucher

Autumn
Dream

Find My
Way

Fish Bowl
Director:
Darren Rayner, Jan Schuster
Producer: Darren Rayner, Jan
Schuster
Executive Producer: Darren Rayner, Jan Schuster
Production
Company: Voleurz

Skater Made

Tide
Director: Colin Jones
Producer:
Colin Jones
Executive Producer: Colin Jones
Production Company: Adrift
Films

Stay tuned to www.x-dance.com
for more information.

ABOUT
X-DANCE

For one insane week each winter, the world’s top action
sport filmmakers and athletes, along with cutting-edge bands and DJs and key
figures from the entertainment industry, gather in Park City and Salt Lake City,
Utah, to celebrate action sports culture at the annual X-DANCE Action Sports
Film Festival. Launched in 2001 and coinciding each year with the Sundance Film
Festival, X-DANCE showcases the year’s top action sport films, followed by
post-screening Q&A’s with filmmakers and athletes. X-DANCE also features
open forum panels with athletes, filmmakers, industry figures and icons from the
action sports world, plus special screenings, privately sponsored parties and a
legendary Closing Party/Awards Ceremony. With roots in both the core industry as
well as the mainstream, no other event on earth harnesses the creative energy of
adrenaline culture and brings it together under one roof like the X-DANCE Action
Sports Film Festival.

A special note from Brian
Wimmer, X-Dance founder, via their site:

This has been the most incredible year for film entries
in the past eight years of X-Dance. The level of filmmaking has reached new
heights. Hundreds of films have been submitted from all over the world. Almost
half of the films submitted were from outside the U.SA. X-Dance is truly the
premier international event for Action Sports Filmmaking.

The difficult
part of this process is determining which films will make the festival. The
competition was extremely high this year. If your project did not make the final
list, that does not mean that your project was not a good film. We judge all
films equally on the basis of filmmaking merit and not sport genre, sponsors or
budget. The five categories we judge are Cinematography, Editing, Story, Music,
and Action. Each of the five merits are given equal value. The films that
ultimately make it into the festival score well in most, if not all, of the
filmmaking categories, making them a good blend of story and action. Films that
were all action with no story or interaction with the athletes plot-wise fared
the same as films that were all talk and no action.

Everyone that
submitted a film can (and should) be part of the festival. The X-Dance Film
Festival was created as a forum for everyone in the Action Sports Filmmaking
Industry. We will be conducting the X-Dance Filmmakers Institute with seminars,
workshops, and panels. The subjects will deal with real issues facing the Action
Sports filmmakers, like emerging Internet demands in regard to content
providing, music licensing, digital and hard copy distribution, and legal issues
that arise from everything mentioned above. We will have the top people in the
industry from each category there to raise the level of awareness and help
you.
Our final awards ceremony is notorious for being the best party during
the Sundance Film Festival. We will give all filmmakers that submitted films
tickets to all of our events.

As filmmakers, you should all immerse
yourself in the Sundance Film Festival and its activities as well. We will post
a listing of Sundance Film Festival activities so that you can participate. Use
the Sundance Festival to inspire your career.

This year we have expanded
the festival to Salt Lake City. We have grown to the point where we needed
bigger and better venues. Salt Lake City will also put us more in touch with our
core crowd and make it easier for everyone to participate. The Sundance Film
Festival is moving a lot of its energy to SLC for the same reasons we are. The
O.R. (Outdoor Retailer) convention is also in town at the same time. Our new
venue is right in the middle of both events, by no accident. This year promises
to be bigger and better than ever.
Thank you all for your incredible film
submissions and the passion that went into making them! We look forward to
celebrating your creativity and the Actions Sports culture with you in the New
Year!

Best,
Brian Wimmer
X-Dance Film Festival
Director /
Founder