Documentary Competition

NATIONAL PREMIERE
TAJFUNKY
TyphoonSki
Vasek Zitka, CZECH REPUBLIC, 2003, 17', col., video
Director Vasek Zitka
Screenplay Vasek Zitka
Cameraman Vasek Zitka, Martin Pejskan, Jaroslav Kubin
Editing Vasek Zitka
Music Support Lesbiens
Production Vasek Zitka
Distribution Vasek Zitka

"TyphoonSki" is a winter sport speciality. With one metre long skis, modified, obviously by hand, a group of young people meet on the Czech mountains to compete in a slalom, in a downhill race and in a ski jumping contest. Since the race is not at all official, the competitors are advised to drink a jugful of beer before they launch into the challenge. And to the winner, a trophy full of liquor, to drink at the closing ceremony.

DIRECTOR
Vasek Zitka was born in 1972. A documentary-film writer, whose reports share a central theme of mountains, among which, the 1999 film on the island Lofoten "Lofoty", in 2000 "Hory Korsiky", "Island" on the Corsican peaks in 2001 and the 2002 documentary "Vulkany Liparskch" on the volcanic Aeolian islands.

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