OSB director Kirsten Nicholl said the festival was gathering momentum in its third year and had attracted the best and most diverse line-up yet.
"There's a good mix of action thrills and personal journeys. The two mini feature films are completely different.
"Psyche: Patagonian Winter is very funny, good British humour, and Oil & Water Project is an interesting road-trip in a vegetable oil-fuelled truck."
Artist and director Corrie Francis interviewed hunters, fishermen, farmers, trampers, mountaineers, adventurer-racers, conservationists, ecologists, artists, urban and rural dwellers, Pakeha, Maori, and tourists about their passion for the wilds of New Zealand during her year as a Fulbright scholar.
Her animated, visually arresting 15-minute documentary Conversing With Aotearoa/New Zealand is the result.
Oil & Water Project, by American director-producer Seth Warren, follows two world-class kayakers and mates who travelled more than 21,000 miles from Alaska to Argentina in a retro-fitted Japanese fire truck named Baby.
After converting the truck's regular diesel engine to run on any kind of natural oil, Warren and Tyler Bradt journeyed for more than a year through 16 countries, an endless summer adventure of paddling, driving, exploring and promoting alternative fuel sources along the way.
Canadian director Brian MacKenzie delivers his 8-minute short Inner Balance, an extraordinary film depicting Kiwi, Australian, Canadian and American unicyclists riding through the snow of Northern Ontario, along mountain biking trails and in a variety of hectic urban settings.
Stunning photography, mostly from board-mounted cameras, gets audiences up close and personal with giant wave surfers in Quest.
The 9-minute piece by director-producer Ryan Casey features spectacular surfing at Peahi Jaws in the Hawaiian Islands, plus punishing wipeouts and some heroic riding.
As reported in the Queenstown Times last week, the festival line-up is rounded out with North American mountain sports documentary Lost And Found, speed-riding expose Play Gravity and Psyche: Patagonian Winter, about two bantering Brits and their first winter ascent of Torre Egger.
