Fort Collins Rowers and Groupies: Please see the
below event in Boulder which will showcase a rowing
movie, "Row Hard, No Excuses". It will show on
Saturday, February 16th at 12:00 pm at the Boulder
Public Library.


>
> The Boulder International Film Festival takes place
> Feb. 14-17th. Tickets
> are on sale at bouldertheater.com, or by calling
> (303) 786-7030. Prices are
> $10 for adults, $8 for students and seniors. All
> films shown at Boulder High
> School are free for students (13 years+ old) with
> valid student id. For
> more information, go to
>
http://www.boulderinternationalfilmfestival.net/Syn.html
> for more
> information regarding the film festival.
>
>
>
> *Films on athletic endeavors:*
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>
>
> *Row Hard, No Excuses*: In this great personal epic
> of endurance and wit,
> John Zeigler and Tom Mailhot, two
> slightly-past-prime adventurers enter a
> rowing race across the Atlantic, an event that is as
> psychologically
> challenging as it is physically brutal. Showing on
> Saturday, Feb. 16th at
> 12pm in the Boulder Public Library.
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>
> *Stranded: I come from a plane that crashed in the
> mountains*: I've Come
> from a Plane that Crashed on the Mountains: For the
> first time ever,
> survivors of the famous 1974 Andes plane crash tell
> in their own words their
> harrowing story of one of the greatest of all tales
> of human survival as
> they revisit the mountaintop location with Director
> Gonzalo Arijon. Showing
> on Sunday, Feb. 17th at 6pm in the Boulder Theater
> as part of the closing
> night gala.
>
>
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>
> *Beauty Mark*: Examining popular culture's toxic
> emphasis on women's weight
> and looks, psychotherapist and former world-class
> tri-athlete Diane Israel
> tells her own story and interviews champion
> athletes, fashion models, and
> inner-city teens about their experiences relating to
> self image. Showing on
> Saturday, Feb. 16th at 11am in the Boulder High
> School auditorium. A
> Question & Answer session will follow the film with
> Diane Israel (Exec Prod,
> Prod), Kathleen Man (Ed, Dir), Carla Preck (Prod,
> Dir), Julie Andersen (Asst
> Prod), along with world-class athletes and local
> celebrities.
>
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>
>
> *Films on Climbing:*
>
>
>
> *3 Peaks 3 Weeks*: In 2007, ten novice
> mountain-climbing women braved
> frozen hands, out-of-control bowels, blistering
> sunburns, and weeks of camp
> food to climb Africa's three highest peaks, Mount
> Kenya, Mount Meru, and
> Mount Kilimanjaro in just three weeks to together,
> raise $300,000 for three
> African charities. Showing on Saturday, Feb. 16th at
> 4:30pm in the Boulder
> Theater. All ten of the women climbers will be
> present for this world
> premier of the film.
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>
> *20 Seconds of Joy*: This sad, amazing film follows
> five years of the
> career of the world's greatest woman BASE-jumper,
> Karina Hollekim, as she
> performs her trademark aerial somersaults and
> heart-stopping free-fall
> swoops that barely miss the jagged faces of the
> highest vertical cliffs on
> earth. Showing on Saturday, Feb. 16th at 10am in the
> Boulder Theater.
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>
> *The Beckoning Silence*: Mountain-climbing legend,
> Joe Simpson (best known
> for "Touching the Void"), recreates on location, the
> cold, terror, and
> horror of Toni Kurtz, a brilliant young mountaineer,
> who, with three other
> climbers, attempted the first climb of the North
> Face of Eiger in 1927, to
> have, one by one, his climbing partners die, leaving
> him alone, dangling at
> the end of a rope, hands frozen, fighting for his
> life, uncannily mirroring
> the plight of Simpson himself in the Andes a
> half-century later. Showing on
> Friday, Feb. 15th at 9:30pm in the Boulder Theater.
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>
>
> *King Lines*: Chris Sharma, 25, hailed as the
> world's best rock climber, is
> followed as he continues his never-ending quest to
> find the world's
> "biggest, most badass line," a journey highlighting
> his agility, grace,
> humor, and humility. Showing on Friday, Feb. 15th at
> 10am in the Boulder
> Theater.
>




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