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Allen
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John Catto
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TEPLICE
FILM FESTIVAL
JUMP!
USA 2001, 47', col., video
Director: Allen Hill, John Catto
Cameraman: John Catto, Joe Arcidiacano, Jeff Streich, Allen
Hill, Vladimir Prochazka
Editing: David Emerich
Music: Chuck Grossman
Sound: Tommy Walker
Production: Alpenglow Film and Video
What do a grey-haired
artistic couple, a middle-aged policeman, a twenty-something new
dad and an enchanted Central European landscape have in common?
In their engaging new documentary, Jump!, Allen Hill and John
Catto set out to show us. In the Czech Republic there are hundreds
of towering sandstone pillars which have been a rock/climbing
haven for decades. Jump! profiles three generations of hearty
jumpers who discuss what motivates them, why they love this off
beat and hazardous hobby and how it has impacted their lives.
DIRECTORS
Allen Hill is both rock climber and mountaineer. He has
climbed in Alaska, Canada, Yosemite, and has done numerous first
ascents in the desert southwest and in Colorado. He has a BA in
philosophy and studied cinematography and documentary film making
at NYU's Tisch School of the Arts. His first film, Skin Care
for the Living Dead (1989), is an homage to an early influence
on his life, George Romero, as well as his final project at Tisch,
Flop Sweats, is influenced by another mentor, John Waters. Since
returning to Colorado from New York, Allen has directed documentaries
for several production companies. For the past 4 years his concentration
has been on Jump!, travelling to Czech Republic 8 times,
and on restoring his home in Denver, where he lives with his wife
and 2 dogs.
John Catto
recently won an Emmy for his work behind the camera for a video
for National Geographic Television called Hitting the Wall,
documenting a 23-day climb of Great Sail Peak on Baffin Island
in Canada's far north. He was part of the seven-person climbing
team, sponsored by National Geographic, which made the first ascent
ever of Great Sail Peak, an isolated mountain that towers 5,300
feet above sea level. He has also traveled to remote Iceland and
Myanmar for National Geographic Television capturing adventurous
images of those lands. Other film projects include Jump!,
produced by his own Alpenglow Films.
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