Banff Mountain Festivals
Solo

Best Film on Mountain Sports
Sponsored by Western State College of Colorado ($2000)

Solo

Australia, 2008, 58 minutes

Directed by David Michôd, Jennifer Peedom

Produced by Jennifer Peedom

Production company: Essential Media and Entertainment

On January 11, 2007, Andrew McAuley set out on his quest to become the first person to kayak from Australia to New Zealand across 1600 kilometres of one of the wildest and loneliest stretches of ocean on Earth. Thirty days later, New Zealand maritime authorities received his distress call. Contains some coarse language.

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“This intense film was made in a truly authentic spirit,” says jury member Daniel du Lac. “You think about it for days afterward.”