2010 Banff Mountain Film Festival World Tour
Los Altos High School Eagle Theater
March 12, 2010 and March 13, 2010
Hosted by REI
A benefit for Snowlands Network
This community event brings together extreme sports and travel in two nights of films. Each night the show will be unforgettable. This must-not miss event is a benefit for Snowlands Network.
Experience adventure filmmakers at their best!
Two nights.
Two great programs!
This year's Mountain Film Festival features inspiring and thought-provoking action, environmental and adventure films. Skiing, kayaking, climbing, exploring - the 2010 World Tour takes you to remote landscapes and cultures, and up close and personal with adrenaline-packed action sports. The World Tour is an exhilarating and provocative exploration of the mountain world.
Both shows were sold out in 2009. Don't miss out this year ... get your tickets early.
Hot on the heels of the largest and one of the most prestigious mountain festivals in the world, the Banff Mountain Film Festival World Tour stops in more than 250 communities and 25 countries across the globe.
Location:
Los Altos High School Eagle Theater
201 Almond Ave.Los Altos, CA 94022
Time:
Doors open at 6:30 PM. Films begin at 7:00 PM. Show ends about 9:45 PM.
Tickets:
Available at Saratoga, Mountain View and San Carlos REI stores,
and will-call (650-969-1938).
$15 in advance to REI members at stores.
$18 non-members, will-call and at the door (if not sold out).
Film list:
Friday, March 12, 2010
The Ultimate Skiing Showdown
Nordic skiing, Canada, 2009, 4 minutes
Directed and produced by David McMahon
The final sprint showdown between the fastest skiers on Earth in juxtaposition with a stunt performer showing some of the sickest moves on Nordic skis. A lot of fun!
Shining Spirit
Culture, Canada, 2009, 26 minutes (Special Edit for Banff Tour)
Directed and Produced by Karen McDiarmid
Filmed in Canada, India and Tibet, "Shining Spirit" documents a recording project that brings together the family of Jamyang Yeshi through music and multi-track recording technology. With the help of Western friends, Jamyang, in exile in Canada, and his brother Tsundue, in exile in the U.S., join voices with the family they left behind in Tibet. For the first time in over a decade, they sing together once again. The film is a testament to the power of music, the resilience of the Tibetan culture, and the enduring bond of a family separated by politics and geography.
Take a Seat
Cycling,UK, 2009, 46 minutes
Special Jury Mention
Directed by Ed Stobart, Dominic Gill, Produced by Lucy Wilcox
Dominic Gill’s mission is to cycle the 32,000 kilometres from the northern coast of Alaska to the southern tip of South America, on a tandem bike, picking up random strangers on the way. A gripping tale of two years and two continents, full of extraordinary characters and incidents.
Deep/Shinsetsu
Powder skiing, Japan, 2009, 3 minutes
Directed and Produced by Masaki Sekiguchi
"Shinsetsu" means deep powder in Japanese.
This short film expresses a typical day in the mountains in Japan.
Pick-up Sticks
Environment, Canada, 2009, 9 minutes
Directed by: Julia Szucs, Producd by: Steve Smith
Take an aerial plunge off the edge of an Arctic coastal headland into the abyss of a seabird colony to find out how marine environmental change is affecting the delicate balance of life for a hardy creature of the northern seas. A visual and metaphorical cliffhanger for our times!
Africa Revolutions Tour
White-water kayaking, USA, 2009, 20 minutes (Special Edit for the Banff Tour)
Directed by Rush Sturges; Produced by Tyler Bradt
From the crocodile-infested White Nile in Uganda to big-water first descents in Madagascar, a group of friends seek adventure on African rivers. Accompanying the team is Rita Riewerts, the founder of the Sun Catchers Project, a non-profit that installs solar cooking facilities in orphanages, hospitals and communities.
Azazel
Mountaineering, France, 2007, 22 minutes
Directed and produced by Guillaume Broust
Four friends set out to establish a new route on the Trango Pulpit Tower, a mythic 6000-metre-high rock wall in Pakistan. Days and days of pleasure, quantities of testosterone expended, frozen fingers and naps on the wall.
Saturday, March 13, 2010
MedeoZ
Multi-sport, France, 2008, 6 minutes
Directed and Produced by Guillaume Broust
Filmed in the Mont Blanc range, this short features six different mountain sports: climbing, skiing, snowboarding, speed riding, paragliding and base jumping. A photographer wants to take one shot showing all the sports, instead of taking separate photos of each sport. It takes a lot of work!
Finding Farley
Adventure, culture, Canada, 2009, 63 minutes
Winner of Grand Prize, sponsored by Mountain Equipment Co-op
People’s Choice Award, sponsored by Timex
Directed by Leanne Allison, Produced by Tracy Friesen
When filmmakers Karsten Heuer and Leanne Allison, along with their two-year-old son Zev and indomitable dog Willow, set out to retrace the literary footsteps of Farley Mowat, they meant it literally. Their 5000-kilometre trip -- trekking, sailing, portaging and paddling from the Prairies to the Maritimes -- is captured in this film. The family's arrival at their final destination (Mowat's Nova Scotian summer home) is, as Karsten says, "an affirmation of what the land and animals had already told us".
"Stories aren't so much written or created as they are released, expressing what's been there all along."
Signatures: Canvas of Snow
Skiing, snowboarding, USA, 2009, 16 minutes
Directed by Nick Waggoner, Produced by Ben Sturgulewski
In Japan there is a cultural connection to the different signatures of terrestrial home - a sense that the rhythm of fall, winter, spring and summer influences the rhythm of the person, their energy, their riding style and the lines they choose. This special edit features skiers, snowboarders, a photographer and a noboarder who are each in tune with this connection to winter and the environment they ride in.
First Ascent: Alone on the Wall
Rock Climbing, USA, 2009, 24 minutes
Directed and produced by Peter Mortimer and Nick Rosen
After gaining international climbing renown for his landmark free-solo of "Moonlight Buttress" (V, 5.12+, 9 pitches) in Zion National Park, Utah, in April 2008, 24-year-old Alex Honnold moves on to his next big challenge: the first free-solo of the "Regular Northwest Face" route (VI, 5.12a, 23 pitches) on Yosemite’s Half Dome.
Kranked – Revolve
Mountain biking, Canada, 2009, 11 minutes (Special Edit for Banff Tour)
People’s Choice Award on Radical Reels Night
Directed and produced by Bjørn Enga
The coolest human-powered adrenaline tool ever invented -- the mountain bike? "Revolve" blasts in cinematic glory from the French Alps to the lush coast of B.C., incorporating dirt jump, trail, freeride, slopestyle and downhill.
All photos courtesy of The Banff Centre.
Films shown may differ from those depicted here.