Watch producer Jonathan Burhop’s short film on art photographer Howard Weamer. Since 1974, Weamer has spent every winter tending Ostrander hut in the Yosemite backcountry. Watching and listening to Weamer, who looks like John Muir and takes photos like Ansel Adams, spurs the urge to replicate his poetic lifestyle. We should hope to. Thanks to Kyle Cassidy at Wend and the Adventure Life for bringing it to our attention. –Kyle Dickman
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BIRTHRIGHT from Sean Mullens on Vimeo. Check out this inspiring paddling film from Sean Mullens. Birthright is black and white, mostly lacking in narration, and filmed with a digital SLR, like Canon’s 5D. It gives the film a soft focus that sets the right mood for the story of quadriplegic paddler Michael Mitchell’s surf session. Thanks to Canoe & Kayak and the Epicocity Project for bringing it to our attention. –Kyle Dickman

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    Nick Waggoner’s latest film, Signatures, follows athletes and artists from Japan’s powder to its surf. Two shots into the opening sequence it’s apparent you’re watching the work of a young filmmaker who is good and moving toward great. Then, like so many other adventure auturs, Waggnor reaches for that low-hanging metaphor of powder fields and waves as blank canvases waiting to be painted with boards and skis.
    Where Signatures succeeds is in making its sports feel attainable. The film is not a huck fest with huge aerials and punk music. The athletes make their stunts look effortless but powder lines and small, fun waves set to acoustic music focus the film on the joy the athletes find in their sport more than the difficulty of their lines. It’s just the kind of on-screen confidence boost that makes the rest of us pine for the first snows and winter swells. That’s the point of these films, right? Look for Signatures to be a crowd favorite on the festival circuit this year.

–Kyle Dickman

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Scheduled to be dammed within a year, Last Descents River Expeditions and National Geographic have paired up to film the last descent of China’s Yangtze River, the third longest river in the world.  Their film, Yangtze Last Descent, is filled with shots of deep canyons and cascading waterfalls from the 120-mile stretch of the Yangtze’s Great Bend.  This group of conservationists and explorers, from China and abroad, intend to use the film to raise awareness for the protection of China’s great natural resources. Give a wave to Outside’s own Kyle Dickman as he explains the potential devastation of the dams.

–Alison Kelman

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