Don of the Dirtbags: An Interview with Yvon Chouinard

Yvon Chouinard has been wearing the same flannel shirt for 20 years. The 75-year-old conservationist, out-of-the-box thinker, athlete and craftsman is also anti-consumerism, always pushing Patagonia, the company he founded, to find solutions to the global environmental crisis.

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The Men Who Battle the World's Biggest Fish Face to Face

Photo: Yugyug 

A select group of spear fishermen sail three nautical miles offshore, searching for large black shadows looming under the ocean surface. Once the silhouettes are spotted, a captain shouts from the lookout tower. The dive call is given and the fisherman plunge the depths among the boat wash, loaded with one shot in their spear gun, one breath and the very real fear that they may not be coming back up.

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Break the Rules: A Conversation with Ben Knight

The Music Bed Communty with an excellent interview of Felt Soul's Ben Knight.

How far are you willing to go for your films? Are you willing to break the law? Get arrested? Spend 18 hours hiding from helicopters to get a single shot of a dam exploding? For Ben Knight, one of the filmmakers behind the recent (and excellent) documentary DamNation, the answer is yes.

“Pretty much everything we did in the film was illegal,” Ben told us. “Every single day we were trespassing.”

But Ben is no stranger to working around the system. After dropping out of high school during his senior year, Ben carved out a career for himself as a photojournalist before finally transitioning into documentary filmmaking. He’s living proof there is no “right way” to get into this type of work. Ben’s lack of concern for the “rules” has become an asset. The monomania that made him a bad student has turned him into a visionary filmmaker.

We recently talked with Ben about his career, his activism, and how far he was willing to go to make a film about dams.

Here’s Ben.

Keeping the Wild Wild Behind the Redwood Curtain

Cliff Berkowitz spoke with filmmaker, and former student Shane Anderson prior to a recent sold out benefit screening in Arcata of his film Wild Reverence.

30 Minutes With: Lefty Kreh

Q.  What’s one thing every man should know?
A.  How to treat his wife. Mama ain’t happy, nobody’s happy.

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Our goal with the film is to crack down on these “deadbeat dams.”

The Adventure Journal interviews filmmaker Travis Rummel between DamNation tour stops.

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