Chasing Water, judged the Best Short Mountain Film of the 2011 Banff Film Festival and screening on March 10 in Los Altos, didn’t begin as a film at all. The original idea was to shoot writer Jonathan Waterman’s paddling trip down the length of the Colorado River. “Then I was like, ‘This is too dear to my heart,’ and I thought maybe we could get a book, and then sponsors showed up.”
