Featured Call for Entries
Upload your submissions now. Over $8,000 is prizes.
Les Stroud's New Spooferman Video Contest
"Best
Survival Fire Starting Spoof"
 Les
Stroud's new Spooferman video contest is challenging
true Survivorman fans, aspiring filmmakers, animators, creative
thinkers and outdoor enthusiasts to create the Best
Survival Fire Starting Spoof. Here are the rules: Create
a maximum 5 minute video that showcases your Best Survival
Fire Starting method in true Les Stroud-style. This means
no matches, lighters or flamethrowers allowed. Bonus points
will be given to those who incorporate Stroud’s Signature
Self-Filming techniques. Deadline for the Best Survival
Fire Starting Spoof is October 30th, 2010. Upload your submissions
now. Over $8,000 is prizes from Sony and Algonquin Outfitters.
www.lesstroud.ca
About Les Stroud
Filmmaker, Outdoor Adventurer, Singer-Songwriter, Performer
Best known as star of the six-time Gemini nominated hit
TV series Survivorman (OLN Canada, The Science Channel US,
Discovery Channel International, City TV (Rogers) Canada),
Les Stroud continues to forge new pathways as a prolific,
creative force. He single-handedly created, produced, wrote,
filmed, hosted, edited and composed the theme music for
the first two original, one-hour pilots that would eventually
become the hit Survivorman TV series. The only producer
in the history of television to produce an internationally
broadcast series entirely written, videotaped and hosted
alone, Stroud is credited with starting a new genre of television
known as ‘Survival TV’. Survivorman became the
highest rated show in the history of both OLN Canada and
the Science Channel US and among the most popular and highest
rated shows on Discovery Channel US.
Stroud has appeared on the Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson
(3 times), The Ellen DeGeneres Show, MTV Live (2), The View,
The Hour, and Larry King Live (4 times). In July 2010, Les
was invited by the Prime Minister of Canada (The Honourable
Stephen Harper) to meet the Queen of England and the Duke
of Edinborough during their 2010 Royal Tour of Canada. Stroud’s
commercial with famous Geico Gecko was referenced by David
Letterman, Howard Stern and numerous other media personalities
and he has been parodied on the hit TV sitcoms ‘The
Office’ and ‘King of the Hill’.
Stroud has appeared in and/or produced numerous television
specials including hosting the 20th Anniversary of Discovery
Channel’s Shark Week (2007); I Shouldn’t Be
Alive: the Science of Survival (2008), Surviving Sharks
(Shark Week 2008), Expedition Everest, Surviving Urban Disasters,
After the Experiment (Discovery), Deadly Waters (Shark Week
2009), and “Off the Grid with Les Stroud”. In
2010, he Executive Produced/Hosted the hit kids TV series
‘Survive This’ and ‘Survive This 2’
(YTV, Cartoon Network). He is also Executive Producer/Host
of NHL celebrity survival series “Survival Challenge”
(OLN). In Fall 2010, look for his new series “Les
Stroud Beyond Survival” on Discovery Channel International,
OLN and Rogers Canada.
Celebrated keynote speaker, musician and author, his debut
book: “Survive! – Essential Skills and Tactics
to Get You Out of Anywhere–Alive!” (Harper Collins)
made the bestseller list for 20 weeks and broke the top
100 on Amazon.com. His next book “Will to Live”
(Harper Collins) is scheduled for release in Fall 2010.
Musically, Stroud has worked with the top in the business,
including Alice Cooper, Robby Krieger, Tommy Shaw, Steven
Stills, Canadian’s The Northern Pikes , and renowned
producer Terry Brown and is currently in the studio composing
the opening theme for “Les Stroud Beyond Survival”
(Fall 2010).
A proud member of the Explorers Club, Les contributes to
dozens of charities and benefits, most prominently those
that benefit children including; The Solid Rock Foundation
and War Child.
Resources:
www.lesstroud.ca
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