Banff Mountain Festivals

Film Finalists by Category

This year’s Banff Mountain Film Festival competition received 263 entries from 38 countries. Thanks to all our film entrants for submitting your work. All finalists will now be viewed by our international film jury, and awards will be presented in front of a live audience on Sunday evening, November 9, at the closing ceremonies of the festival.

Categories

Alpine Club of Canada Award for Best Film on Climbing

Sponsored by Alpine Club of Canada

Best Film on Mountain Culture

Sponsored by Petzl

Best Film on Mountain Environment

Sponsored by Patagonia

Best Feature-length Mountain Film

Sponsored by Camper’s Village

Best Film on Mountain Sports

Sponsored by Western State College of Colorado

Best Short Mountain Film

Sponsored by Mountain Hardwear

Alpine Club of Canada Award for Best Film on Climbing

Acopan Tepui

Directed by Jochen Schmoll
Produced by Dierk Heimann, Till Hoffmann
Production company: medi cine medienproduktions GmbH (Germany)

Al filo de lo imposible: GIV, GIII — Gigantes olvidados (Forgotten Giants)

Directed by Sebastián Álvaro
Produced by Santiago Campo
Production company: TVE — Televisión Española S.A. (Spain)

Committed 2: Grit Kids

Directed by Paul Diffley
Produced by Dave Brown
Production company: Hot Aches Productions (UK)

Committed 2: Last Great Problems… The Groove

Directed by Paul Diffley
Produced by Dave Brown
Production company: Hot Aches Productions (UK)

Dosage Volume V: Meltdown

Directed and produced by Josh Lowell
Production company: Big UP Productions (USA)

If You’re Not Falling

Directed by Dave Brown
Produced by Paul Diffley
Production company: Hot Aches Productions (UK)

Psyche: Magic Numbers

Directed and produced by Alastair Lee
Production company: Posing Productions (UK)

Psyche: Patagonian Winter

Directed and produced by Alastair Lee
Production company: Posing Productions (UK)

Shake That Bear

Directed and produced by Chris Alstrin
Production company: Alstrin Films (USA)

The Sharp End

Directed and produced by Peter Mortimer, Nick Rosen
Production company: Sender Films (USA)

Spray: Window of Opportunity

Directed and produced by Brian Solano
Production company: BS Productions (USA)

Best Film on Mountain Culture

The Cable Car

Directed by Claudius Gentinetta, Frank Braun
Produced by Claudius Gentinetta
Production companies: Gentinettafilm/Schweizer Fernsehen (Switzerland)

Chadar — The Ice Trail

Directed by Anne Lapied, Erik Lapied
Produced by Benjamin Ternynck
Production company: Kwanza (France)

Greina

Directed and produced by Villi Hermann (Switzerland)

Himalaya — Land of Women

Directed by Marianne Chaud
Produced by Manuel Catteau
Production company: ZED (France)

The Last Nomads

Directed and produced by Andrew Gregg
Production company: 90th Parallel Film & Television Productions Ltd. (Canada)

Mountain Town: Chispas de la Vida

Directed by Brendan Kiernan, Frank Pickell
Produced by Steve Metcalf, Brendan Kiernan
Production company: Futuristic Films (USA)

Return to Nepal

Directed and produced by Robert Lang
Production company: Kensington Communications Inc. (Canada)

Tracking the White Reindeer

Directed by Hamid Sardar
Produced by Manuel Catteau
Production company: ZED (France)

Best Film on Mountain Environment

99 Days on the Ice

Directed by Jean-Gabriel Leynaud
Produced by Patrick Villeneuve, Karsten Kjaer
Production companies: Freeport Media/Sombrero and Co. (France)

Grand Canyon Adventure — River at Risk

Directed and produced by Greg MacGillivray
Production company: MacGillivray Freeman Films (USA)

A Matter of Degrees

Directed by Jill Singer
Produced by Jill Singer, Rick Godin
Production company: Chedd-Angier-Lewis (USA)

The Meadow

Directed by Jan Haft
Produced by Tom Synnatzschke
Production company: Nautilusfilm GmbH (Germany)

Papiroflexia

Directed and produced by Joaquin Baldwin (USA)

Red Gold

Directed by Ben Knight, Travis Rummel
Produced by Travis Rummel
Production company: Felt Soul Media (USA)

Silent Snow

Directed by Jan van den Berg
Produced by Ann Andreasen, Sabine Groenewegen, Jacob Gelt Dekker, Henk Sannes
Production company: drsFilm (The Netherlands)

Turkey — From Ararat to Bosphorus

Directed by Jan Haft
Produced by Britta Kiesewetter, Sabine Holzer
Production company: Nautilusfilm GmbH (Germany)

Best Feature-length Mountain Film

Encounters at the End of the World

Directed by Werner Herzog
Produced by Henry Kaiser
Production company: Creative Differences Productions Inc. (USA)

The Last Continent

Directed and produced by Jean Lemire
Production companies: Production Le Dernier Continent/Glacialis Productions (Canada)

Saving Luna

Directed by Suzanne Chisholm, Michael Parfit
Produced by Suzanne Chisholm
Production company: Mountainside Films Ltd. (Canada)

Stranded — I’ve Come from a Plane That Crashed on the Mountains…

Directed by Gonzalo Arijón
Produced by Marc Silvera
Production companies: Ethan Productions/La Realidad/ARTE France/The ITVS — International Media Development Fund; IMDF/Morocha Films/Alea Docs & Films/Sylicone (France)

Zum Dritten Pol (To the Third Pole)

Directed by Andreas Nickel, Jurgen Czwienk
Produced by Andreas Nickel
Production companies: Bayerischer Rundfunk/ExplorerMedia (Germany)

Best Film on Mountain Sports

Crux

Directed by Alexander Lavigne
Produced by Ryan Leech
Production company: Alias Productions (Canada)

Daily Strips

Directed by Dominique Janiszewski
Produced by Claude Adam
Production company: Ride The Planets (France)

The Fine Line — A 16mm Avalanche Education Film

Directed by Dave Mossop
Produced by Malcolm Sangster
Production company: Rocky Mountain Sherpas Inc. (Canada)

Flying with Eagles

Directed and produced by Anton Gammelgaard
Production company: Paravision (Denmark)

Gobi Desert

Directed by Jeremy Grant
Produced by Derek Westerlund
Production company: Freeride Entertainment (Canada)

Hand Cut

Directed and produced by Nick Waggoner
Production company: Sweetgrass Productions (USA)

Journey to the Center

Directed by Jens Hoffmann
Produced by Iiro Seppanen, Jeb Corliss
Production company: Ground Impact Inc. (USA)

The Last Frontier — Papua New Guinea

Directed and produced by Trip Jennings
Production company: The Epicocity Project (USA)

Latitudes

Directed and produced by Don Hampton
Production company: DH Productions (USA)

The Massive

Directed and produced by Constantine Papanicolaou
Production company: Red Bull Moving Images (USA)

Mountain Town: Isabelle Fallardeau

Directed by Brendan Kiernan, Frank Pickell
Produced by Steve Metcalf, Brendan Kiernan
Production company: Futuristic Films (USA)

Mountain Town: Mac Smith

Directed by Brendan Kiernan, Frank Pickell
Produced by Steve Metcalf, Brendan Kiernan
Production company: Futuristic Films (USA)

Nike ACG Sweetspot, Annapurna, Nepal

Directed by Gilles Bonugli
Production company: Nike ACG (Canada)

The Red Helmet

Directed by Tyler Young
Produced by Dave Barlia
Production company: Expedition Films, LLC (USA)

Seasons

Produced by Jamie Houssian
Production company: The Collective (Canada)

That’s It, That’s All

Directed and produced by Curtis Morgan
Production company: Brain Farm Productions (USA)

The Unbearable Lightness of Skiing

Directed and produced by Greg Hill (Canada)

Under the Influence

Directed and produced by Todd Jones, Steve Jones, Corey Gavitt
Production company: Teton Gravity Research (USA)

Best Short Mountain Film

The Cable Car

Directed by Claudius Gentinetta, Frank Braun
Produced by Claudius Gentinetta
Production companies: Gentinettafilm/Schweizer Fernsehen (Switzerland)

Daily Strips

Directed by Dominique Janiszewski
Produced by Claude Adam
Production company: Ride The Planets (France)

Dosage Volume V: Meltdown

Directed and produced by Josh Lowell
Production company: Big UP Productions (USA)

Gobi Desert

Directed by Jeremy Grant
Produced by Derek Westerlund
Production company: Freeride Entertainment (Canada)

If You’re Not Falling

Directed by Dave Brown
Produced by Paul Diffley
Production company: Hot Aches Productions (UK)

Mountain Town: Chispas de la Vida

Directed by Brendan Kiernan, Frank Pickell
Produced by Steve Metcalf, Brendan Kiernan
Production company: Futuristic Films (USA)

Mountain Town: Isabelle Fallardeau

Directed by Brendan Kiernan, Frank Pickell
Produced by Steve Metcalf, Brendan Kiernan
Production company: Futuristic Films (USA)

Mountain Town: Mac Smith

Directed by Brendan Kiernan, Frank Pickell
Produced by Steve Metcalf, Brendan Kiernan
Production company: Futuristic Films (USA)

Nike ACG Sweetspot, Annapurna, Nepal

Directed by Gilles Bonugli
Production company: Nike ACG (Canada)

Papiroflexia

Directed and produced by Joaquin Baldwin (USA)

The Red Helmet

Directed by Tyler Young
Produced by Dave Barlia
Production company: Expedition Films, LLC (USA)

Silent Snow

Directed by Jan van den Berg
Produced by Ann Andreasen, Sabine Groenewegen, Jacob Gelt Dekker, Henk Sannes
Production company: drsFilm (The Netherlands)

Spray: Window of Opportunity

Directed and produced by Brian Solano
Production company: BS Productions (USA)

The Unbearable Lightness of Skiing

Directed and produced by Greg Hill (Canada)