Banff Mountain Film Festival
October 27 – November 4
Radical Reels
Tuesday, October 30 – Eric Harvie Theatre
Tickets: $18 in advance, $20 day of show
Faster, steeper, higher, deeper! Hang on to your seats as we present a selection of the world’s best skiing, climbing, BASE-jumping, and mountain-biking films. This one’s a MUST-SEE!
7:30 p.m. |
Balance Canada, 2006, 13 minutes
Balance profiles the rapidly growing world of new-school skiing. With a refreshing mix of high-energy shots cut to an upbeat soundtrack, the film challenges the audience to judge whether these athletes are crazy or just extremely talented, or maybe both. |
7:53 p.m. |
Yellow Boat, White Water Canada, 2007, 5 minutes
This film follows Logan Grayling, a young kayaker from Canmore, Alberta, on a trip down one of the highest waterfalls ever dropped in a kayak. |
8:01 p.m. |
Rock Wings France, 2007, 3 minutes
On the Eiger and the Jungfrau in Switzerland, professional wingsuit flyers Loïc Jean-Albert, Julian Boulle, and Ueli Gegenschatz perform the closest ever flight to the ground in formation. |
8:04 p.m. |
Committed: To Grit UK, 2007, 7 minutes
Held in awe by climbers around the world, the hard trad scene in Britain commands both respect and bewilderment. This segment of Committed follows James Pearson and Katherine Shirrmacher on gritstone routes in England’s Peak District. |
8:14 p.m. |
Trial & Error Canada, 2006, 8 minutes
Mountain biker Ryan Leech sets out to ride a very challenging trail in the coastal mountains of British Columbia. During his attempts at riding the trail, he reflects on what lessons the forestry industry could learn from mountain biking. |
8:25 p.m. |
Entropy (Festival edit) Norway, 2006, 15 minutes
Entropy follows some of the world’s best snowkiting riders as they search for the ultimate snow and wind conditions across the globe. Along the way, they reinvent snowkiting by taking a new-school approach and pushing the limit of wakestyle manoeuvres. |
8:40 p.m. |
The 2007 Mountain Idol finalists will be introduced, and the winner will be announced. |
8:55 p.m. |
Break |
9:15 p.m. |
Sevenvision USA, 2006, 30 minutes
The Cut is an international collection of seven of the most progressive and creative mountain-bike freeriders and downhill racers in the world. Ride shotgun with the boys and follow their inaugural season as they jet-set the globe, all for the sake of having fun on their bikes. |
9:47 p.m. |
It’s Fantastic USA, 2007, 19 minutes
As the first documentary on the new sport of speedflying, this film explains the origins of the sport and shows how quickly the sport is evolving. From the ski slopes of Europe to the volcanic island of El Hierro, some of the world’s best speedfliers risk their lives to find the limits of their abilities and their equipment. |
10:08 p.m. |
Light in Liquid — A Kayak Collage of Movement and Sound USA, 2007, 15 minutes
Light in Liquid features expeditions and adventures on rivers and creeks in Colorado, Idaho, and Mexico. This kayak collage pushes the creative edge in the whitewater film genre and focuses on the process of travel, the paddlers themselves, and the world around us, just as much as it does on running waterfalls and creeks. |
10:25 p.m. |
Trial & Air USA, 2006, 6 minutes
Trial & Air features amazing aerial ski footage obtained by tandem paragliding over skiers as they drop into gnarly lines and exposed couloirs in the Jackson Hole backcountry. |
10:32 p.m. |
Ephemere Switzerland, 2007, 6 minutes
The challenge: film and edit a five minute film by following five people performing their outdoor sports during five days. Action, humour, lifestyle – the script is totally open. In Ephemere, the athletes encounter a mysterious woman who can control time. |
Program subject to change.