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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