Friday, November 5, at 8:00 pm
Eric Harvie Theatre

8:00 pm
Official welcome
Mary Hofstetter, President and CEO, The Banff Centre

Opening address
Bernadette McDonald, Vice-president, Mountain Culture, The Banff Centre

8:20 pm
Guest speaker: Carlos Buhler  Read more...

9:20 pm
Announcement of the 2004 Banff Mountain Book Festival awards

9:25 pm
Break

9:45 pm
The Reindeer People
(France, 2004, 52’) WORLD PREMIERE
Director: Hamid Sardar*
This film is an intimate portrait of a family of Dukha reindeer nomads following their migration route through the forests of northern Mongolia’s Hovsgol province. The nomads move with a herd of about 100 reindeer through a sacred forest inhabited by the spirits of their ancestors, who communicate to the living through songs. The oldest Dukha, a 96-year-old woman named Tsuyan, is a divine seer. She is the link between the healing songs of the forest ancestors, her people and their reindeer.

10:40 pm
Bozhestvo (The God)
(Russia, 2003, 4’)
Director: Konstantin Bronzit
Producers: Sergey Selvanoy, Alexander Boyarsky
In this animated short, even a god might have to reincarnate to get rid of a pesky fly!

10:45 pm
The Man Who Jumped beneath the Earth
(Wales, 2003, 29’)
Directors/Producers: Dylan Griffith, Llion Iwan*
Five years after becoming the oldest person to BASE jump off Venezuela’s Angel Falls, 66-year-old Eric Jones sets off for Mexico, to BASE jump the Cave of the Swallows. What makes a father of two teenage daughters risk everything to tackle the world’s toughest BASE jump in this 1400-foot-deep cave, and will this novice jumper achieve his dream?

* In person