Once again Banff Mountain Film Festival is finding it's way to the Eastern Sierra! Don't miss these two amazing nights of fun, laughter and pure enjoyment.
Location:
Bishop Tri-County Fairgrounds in the Charles Brown Auditorium
Time and Date:
Friday, March 30th and Saturday, March 31st both nights at 7:00pm.
Show up early to get the good seats!
Cost:
$10.00 per ticket per night
Friday Night Shows:
All films are subject to change without notice
Anomaly (custom edit)
USA, 2006, 16 minutes
Website: www.tetongravity.com
Focus: Ski/Snowboard
Rating: General - Course Language
ANOMALY n. (a-nom-a-ly) 1. Deviation or departure from the normal or common order, form, or rule. 2. One that is peculiar, irregular, abnormal, or difficult to classify. Hard to define, never easy to apply. Yet, this has come to embody a year of extraordinary feats, tribulation and continued progression within the ski and snowboard arena. Anomaly, TGR's newest 16mm and HD Ski and snowboard release, showcases the freakish and abnormal abilities of today's top athletes as they push the boundary of what is humanly possible.
First Ascent: Thailand (custom edit)
USA, 2006, 8 minutes
Website: www.senderfilms.com
Focus: Climbing
Rating: General - No Advisory
Steep towers of untouched rock jutting out of the ocean. And the best part is that with only the sea below you, there's no rope. Thailand is a dream come true for David Lama, perhaps the best on-sight climber in the world, and purportedly the future of the sport. Amidst the exotic beauty of the Andaman Coast, Lama and friends take 60-footers into the deep, bringing deep water soloing to a new level.
Asiemut
People's Choice Award and Special Jury Mention
Canada, 2006, 56 minutes
Website: www.asiemut.mine.nu
Focus: Cycling/Culture
Rating: General - No Advisory
In 2005, Olivier Higgins and Melanie Carrier went on their first cycling expedition - 8000 kilometres across Asia. In six months they pedalled from Mogolia to Calcutta, India, travelling through Xingjiang, the Taklimakan Desert, the high Tibetan plateau, and the jungle of Nepal. Why? Not only to discover the world, but also to discover themselves.
The Simplicity Factor
Canada, 2006, 7 minutes
Website: www.fanaticalfilms.com, www.top20classics.com
Focus: Climbing/Bouldering
Rating: General - No Advisory
The Simplicity Factor is a segment from The Top 20 Classic Boulder Problems of North America. Featuring an all female cast of athletes, it looks at bouldering's overall appeal while showcasing ascents of several famous boulder problems.
Tyrol - Land in the Mountains
Austria, 2001, 10 minutes
Website: www.brainsandpictures.com
Focus: Environment
Images of the Tyrolean Alps by Georg Riha combined with piano music composed by Philip Glass ("Koyaanisqatsi") form a symphony, a declaration of love for the beauty of the Tyrolean landscape.
Ride of the Mergansers
USA, 2004, 11 minutes
Website: www.ridethemergansers.com
Focus: Environment
Rating: General - No Advisory
The hooded merganser is a rare and reclusive duck found only in North America. Every spring, in the Great Lakes region, the wary hen lays and incubates her eggs in a nest high in the trees. Just 24 hours after hatching, the tiny ducklings must make the perilous leap to the ground below in order to begin life in the wild. Ride the Mergansers brings hidden drama to the screen.
Kids Who Rip (custom edit)
USA, 2005, 12 minutes
Website: www.kidswhorip.com
Focus: Sport/Humor
Rating: General - No Advisory
Kids Who Rip highlights amazing young athletes in the action sports community. This special edit for the Banff Mountain Film Festival features remarkable kids who love to ski, snowboard, skateboard, and surf.
Roam (custom edit)
Canada, 2006, 18 minutes
Website: www.thecollectivefilm.com
Focus: Mountain Biking
Rating: General - No Adivisory
Roam is a mountain-bike film that follows the travels of the world's top riders as they explore new places to ride, and visit some of the notorious meccas of mountain biking such as, Moab, Utah, and Whistler, B.C.
Saturday Night Shows:
All films are subject to change without notice
Yes to the No
Canada, 2006, 10 minutes
Website: www.rockymountainsherpas.com, www.biglines.com
Focus: Noboarding / Snowboarding
Rating: General — No Advisory
A look into the sport of noboarding, which is snowboarding without the use of bindings. The sport of snowboarding was essentially started by skate-boarders and surfers looking for a winter alternative to the two summer sports. Now that snowboarding has reached its peak, there is only one way to change the way snowboarding is done, and that is to take the bindings off the board and really surf the mountain.
The Best of Jo
Canada, 2006, 3 minutes
Focus: Sport / Animation / Humour
Rating: General — No Advisory
The Best of Jo is a stop-action Lego film about a coffee-addicted guy named Jo. He is eager to try all the mountain sports available to him, such as climbing, skiing, and fishing.
Conflict Tiger
Grand Prize
UK/Sweden, 2005, 62 minutes
Website: www.sashasnow.com
Focus: Environment
Rating: Parental Guidance — No Advisory, not suitable for small children
In the forests of the Russian Far East, an inexperienced and foolhardy poacher triggers an infamous series of tiger attacks on people. The authorities call upon the services of Yuri Trush, a specialist in tracking and eliminating tigers that have lost their fear of man. Conflict Tiger takes Yuri’s most notorious pursuit of a "man-eating" tiger as the basis for a documentary thriller. In the aftermath of this epic confrontation, the film emerges as a parable that challenges the cozy illusions of traditional "big cat" natural history by setting the animal’s precarious situation against the pressing needs of human survival.
Aweberg
Special Jury Mention
Canada, 2006, 26 minutes
Website: www.gravsports.com
Focus: Ice Climbing
Rating: Parental Guidance — Coarse Language
Will Gadd and Ben Firth are two top Canadian ice climbers. They thought climbing "awesome" bergs would be a lot of fun, so the Aweberg trip was born. The bergs looked great, but the reality was somewhat different. Note that the sounds of the picks in the film are much quieter than in real life!
Mission: Epicocity (custom edit)
USA, 2006, 15 minutes
Website: www.epicocity.com
Focus: Kayaking
Rating: General — No Advisory
This film features some of the world’s best kayakers running mind-bending waterfalls and rapids in South America and Africa, with a section that highlights native African paddlers.
The Thrill Seekers (Extreme Film School)
UK, 2005, 3 minutes
Website: www.nakedsledge.co.uk
Focus: "Exteme Sport" / Humour
Rating: General — Nudity
One of the 12 productions from the Kendal Mountain Film Festival Extreme Film School "48-hour Film Marathon." Two brothers try their hand at mountain biking, climbing and another extreme sport on a camping weekend with hilarious results.
First Ascent: Didier vs. The Cobra (custom edit)
USA, 2006, 25 minutes
Website: www.senderfilms.com
Focus: Climbing
Rating: Parental Guidance — Coarse Language
The elegant, granite Cobra crack in Squamish, British Columbia is perhaps the hardest crack climb in the world and Swiss climber Didier Berthod is among the world’s best crack climbers. Far from the spotlight, Didier spends months in his epic quest to snag the first ascent.
