Friday and Saturday, Feb. 11th and 12th
7:00 p.m.
JH High School Auditorium
Cost:
$12 per night or
both nights for $20.
Area students and faculty: $6 per night.
Coming in for the weekend?
Take advantage of our partnership with
Lexington Inn
$99/night for a suite style room
valid February 11th and 12th
for Banff Film Festival visitors!
Banff
Film Fest World Tour---Tentative Film Line-up
Friday
evening, Feb. 11th 7:00
p.m.
Dream Result
(Banff Mountain Film Festival World Tour edit)
Winner of People’s Choice Award,
Radical Reels Night
USA,
2009, 17 minutes
Directed
by Rush Sturges
Produced
by Tyler Bradt
Website: www.Rev-Inn.com
Classification: General - coarse language
Focus: White-water kayaking
A group
of top athletes and friends are driven by passion to explore the limits of
possibility. Expeditions to Norway and a quest for waterfalls throughout
Argentina and the US are all part of the program in Dream Result – so hang on for the ride!
Rush Hour Dream
Germany,
2009, 5 minutes
Directed
and Produced by
Kerim Jaspersen and Christian Menn
Website: N/A
Classification: General – no advisory
Focus: Paragliding, Environment
An
office worker in Düsseldorf, Germany, has a Rush Hour Dream in the tramway on his way to
work and wakes up on a beautiful mountainside to discover that he is carrying a
paraglider in his laptop.
A Life Ascending
Best Film on Mountain Culture,
sponsored by Petzl
& People's Choice Award, sponsored by Timex
Expedition
USA,
2010, 57 minutes
Directed
and Produced by
Stephen Grynberg
Website: www.alifeascending.com
Classification: General – no advisory
Focus: Ski Mountaineering, Culture,
Human Story
Living
with his wife and two young daughters on a remote glacier in the Selkirk
Mountains of British Columbia, Ruedi Beglinger has built a reputation as one of
the top mountaineering guides in the world. A Life Ascending follows his family’s unique
life in the mountains and their journey in the years following a massive
avalanche that killed seven people. The film ultimately explores the power of nature
as both an unforgiving host and profound teacher.
Intermission
Into Darkness
USA,
2010, 15 minutes
Directed
and Produced by:
John Waller
Website: www.uncagethesoul.com
Classification: General - no advisory
Focus: Caving, Environment
Into
Darkness is a
short adventure essay about the experience of exploring the secret underworld
of caves. Journey along with a group of cavers who push through impossibly
small passages to access some of the final frontiers on earth. The images and
sounds of spectacular and remote wilderness caves will reveal a fantastic world
unlike anything we experience on the surface.
Still Motion
Canada,
2008, 5 minutes
Directed
and Produced by
Jonathan Schmidt
Website: www.morninglightgraphics.com
Classification: General - no advisory
Focus: Environment / Wildlife
Compiled
from the highlights of a whole year of wildlife research, still images from
motion-triggered wildlife cameras create an intricately sequenced movie-like
production of Alberta’s amazing wildlife. Playful fawns, stalking cougars, and
curious elk take centre stage in Still Motion. The film asks an important
question: Just who is looking at whom?
Life Cycles
(Banff Mountain Film Festival World Tour edit)
USA,
2010, 14 minutes
Directed
and Produced by
Ryan Gibb and Derek Frankowski
Website: www.lifecyclesfilm.com
Classification: General – no advisory
Focus: Mountain Biking
Filmed
in Ultra HD, Life Cycles provides some of the most visually stunning images the mountain
sports world has ever seen. It’s a beautiful celebration of the bicycle, and is
sure to amaze anyone who has ever ridden one.
The Swiss Machine
USA,
2010, 20 minutes
Produced
by: Nick Rosen
and Peter Mortimer
Website: www.senderfilms.com
Classification: Parental Guidance - coarse
language
Focus: Climbing, Mountaineering
Ueli
Steck may be the greatest speed alpinist the world has ever seen. In The
Swiss Machine,
Steck tells of his record-breaking ascents in the Alps, accompanied by stunning
aerial footage that captures him racing up 2500-metre alpine faces. When he
joins Alex Honnold in Yosemite, Steck sets his ultimate goal: to take his
one-man alpine speed game to the largest, highest walls in the world.
Banff Film Fest World Tour---Tentative Film Line-up
Saturday evening, Feb. 12th 7:00 p.m.
Kranked Kids - Just down the
Road
Canada,
2010, 4 minutes
Directed
and Produced by
Bjørn Enga
Website: www.radical-films.com
Classification: General - no advisory
Focus: Mountain biking / Humour
Kranked
Kids – Just down the Road is a delightful four-minute coming-of-age mountain bike parody
The Fall Line
USA,
2010, 13 minutes
Directed
and Produced by
Tyler Stableford
Website: www.tylerstableford.com
Classification: General - no advisory
Focus: Downhill skiing / Human story
After
losing his legs in a grenade blast in Iraq, 101st Airborne Ranger Heath Calhoun
endures a tortuous recovery. Years later, the Virginia native finds freedom in
an unlikely location: on the ski slopes of Aspen, Colorado. Calhoun discovers a
talent for ski racing and earns a chance to represent his country again – as an
athlete on the 2010 Paralympic ski team. With a gold medal in the balance,
Calhoun commits everything to the challenge.
The Asgard Project
Best Film on Climbing, sponsored
by the Canadian Alpine Club
UK,
2009, 60 minutes
Directed
and Produced by
Alastair Lee
Website: http://www.posingproductions.com
Classification: Parental Guidance - coarse
language
Focus: Mountaineering
The
Asgard Project
follows Leo Houlding’s ambitious project to make a first free ascent on the
North Tower of the incredible Mt Asgard on Baffin Island deep in the Arctic.
Leo teams up with fellow big wall climber, Stanley Leary (USA), and the duo
then hopes to make a wingsuit descent from the summit. Arriving late in the
season, the trip soon begins to go wrong. After a spectacular arrival skydiving
over Mt Asgard, conditions turn against the team, so that just reaching the
base of the climb becomes a massive challenge.
Intermission
The Longest Way
Best Short Mountain Film,
sponsored by Mountain Hardwear
Germany,
2009, 5 minutes
Directed
and Produced by:
Christoph Rehage
Website: www.thelongestway.com
Classification: General - no advisory
Focus: Human Adventure / Humour
A
highly entertaining time-lapse of a one-year-walk from Beijing to Urumqi. Time
and distance travelled are charmingly demonstrated by the growth of a beard in
this five-minute short.
WildWater
USA,
2010, 25 minutes
Directed
and Produced by
Anson Fogel
Website: www.forgemotionpictures.com
Classification: General - no advisory
Focus: White-water paddling
When
ordinary people share a singular passion, the extraordinary emerges. WildWater is a journey into the mind and
soul of white-water and an exploration of places only river-runners can go —
places of discovery, solitude, and risk. It’s a visually stunning feast for the
senses, and an expedition into new ideas.
Last Paradise
(Banff Mountain Film Festival World Tour edit)
New
Zealand, 2010, 26 minutes
Directed
and Produced by
Clive Neeson
Website: www.lastparadisefilm.com
Classification: General - no advisory
Focus: Human Adventure / Extreme
Sports: Surfing, Skiing and others
In the
remote wilderness of New Zealand, when necessity was the mother of invention, a
maverick bunch of kids concocted a dream that they would one day share with the
world. In Last Paradise, through 45 years of stunning original footage we
relive the journey of legendary extreme sports pioneers on the roads less
travelled.