The Banff Mountain Film Festival returns for two nights of the world’s best mountain sport, culture, and environmental films.

Two Nights! Two Different Film Programs!

Schedule of Events:

April 19, 2024:

Feature: Fireweed Program

No Way
(2023, France, 4 min)
Filmmakers: Jean-Baptiste Chandelier, Marine Pascal, EURL JB Chandelier
Advisory: Coarse language

Jean-Baptiste Chandelier takes his unique low-flying, ground-skimming art combining paragliding and filmmaking to a whole new level.

The Ascension Series: Morag Skelton
(2023, United Kingdom, 5 min)
Filmmakers: Matt Pycroft, Matt Harmer, Harriet Sykes, Coldhouse Collective
Advisory: None

Morag Skelton doesn't let anything stand in the way of her love of nature. As a deaf climber, she is constantly pushing the limits of what is possible on the mountainside.

School of Fish (Best Short Film)
(2022, USA, 19 min)
Filmmakers: Colin Arisman, Oliver Sutro, Wild Confluence Media, Orvis
Advisory: None

Indigenous people and salmon have been intertwined for thousands of years in Bristol Bay, Alaska. For the last century, corporations have sought to extract the wealth of this rich region and now Pebble Mine threatens to pollute its pristine headwaters. Can the next generation step up to defend the most prolific salmon run left on earth?

Chronoception (Tour Edit)
(2023, France, 41 min)
Filmmakers: Guillaume Broust, Picture Organic Clothing
Advisory: None

Thomas Delfino, Lea Klaue and Aurelien Lardy, embark on an ambitious expedition in the mountains of Kyrgyzstan to ski the Kokshaal-Too range. This skilled team, accompanied by renowned guides Helias Millerioux and Jean-Yves Fredriksen, finds themselves propelled into a space where time seems to have suddenly come to a halt.

To Be Frank
(2023, USA, 12 min)
Filmmakers: Anna Wilder Burns, Morgan Sliff
Advisory: None

Frank Paine is a 73-year-old South Bay icon and humble local legend whose life orbits around a two-block stretch of beach. His unforgettable moustache is what most first notice, but his magnetic spirit and unwavering passion are what keeps the Hermosa Beach surf community connected and whole.

Going Greenland
(2023, USA, 23 min)
Filmmakers: Erich Roepke, Jessica Baker, Rachael Burks, Going Greenland Production
Advisory: Coarse language

What happens when you combine a renewable energy sailboat with an arctic ski expedition in Greenland for the first time ever? Athletes Rachael Burks and Jessica Baker put the idea to test, and endure a both harrowing and inspiring journey along Greenland's West coast fjords and towering mountains.

Well Worn Life with Dani Reyes-Acosta
(2022, USA, 6 min)
Filmmakers: Daniel Mitchell, Kelsey Ferguson, BLK ELK Media
Advisory: Coarse language

Meet Dani Reyes-Acosta: a mountain athlete, land cultivator, and storyteller whose path consistently seeks the limits of her possibility.

Reel Rock: DNA
(2023, USA, 23 min)
Filmmakers: Josh Lowell, Zachary Barr, Reel Rock
Advisory: Coarse Language

French sport climber Seb Bouin has been quietly working his way through elite grades, culminating in his attempt to establish a long pitch through an overhanging cave in the Verdon Gorge of France - possibly the most difficult route in the world!

April 20, 2024:

Feature: Paintbrush Program

Desert Wings
(2023, USA, 4 min)
Filmmakers: Nathan McBride, NVisualMedia
Advisory: Coarse language

Paramotoring is a niche, largely undocumented, and little-known flying sport. This piece brings it to light in a rightfully epic way. Shot over 6 days, with multiple paramotor pilots, Desert Wings highlights some of the most dramatic desert landscapes in the American Southwest.

SoundScape
(Creative Excellence Award)
(2023, USA, 14 min)
Filmmakers: Timmy O'Neill, Sarah Lee Steele, Well Travelled Collective
Advisory: None

SoundScape features Erik Weihenmayer, a globa adventure athlete and author who is fully blind, as he ascends a massive alpine rock face deep in the Sierra Nevada.

The Blackcountry Journal (Best Film: Snow Sports)
(2023, USA, 10 min)
Filmmakers: Mallory Duncan, Patrick Elmore, Uhuru Mountain Collective
Advisory: None

A skier contemplates his connection to skiing and the mountains. As he hurries through the streets of LA., his path takes a turn after bumping into a jazz musician who helps him discover the correlation between jazz and skiing-an expression of art, skiing, and black culture.

Georgia Astle: Flip The Switch
(2023, Canada, 3 min)
Filmmakers: Scott Secco, Scott Secco Films
Advisory: None

Watch Georgia Astle explore some of British Columbia's most striking landscapes, on a search for terrain to push her riding, inspired by a rising tide of female f reeriders around the world.

Canada Vertical (Tour Edit)
(2023, Canada, 35 min)
Filmmaker: Laurent Poliquin, Nicolas Roulx
Advisory: Coarse language

Follow a team of highly motivated Quebeckers on one of the longest wilderness expeditions ever documented. Stage one involves skiing in relentless polar conditions from Ellesmere Island to the Northwest Passage. Cue canoes for a 2,000 km journey across Nunavut and North West Territories until they get on bikes and pedal 4,000 km to Point Pelee in Ontario.

Leo and Chester (Best Film: Mountain Culture)
(2022, Canada, 8 min)
Filmmaker: Andrea Wing, Aline Mayerhoffer, MMGY Origin
Advisory: None

Leo, a sought-after rock star with a promising career, turns his back on the industry to pursue a life on the land with a herd of buffalo.

Earthside
(2023, USA, 33 min)
Filmmaker: KakiOrr, Rob Wassmer, Aidan Haley, Christina Lustenberger, The North Face
Advisory: Coarse language

In 2022, Hilaree Nelson, Emily Harrington, Christina Lustenberger, and Brette Harrington embarked on an expedition above the Arctic circle. What they found was a celebration of where they've been and of where they're going - and the trip's success was contingent not on what they skied but the time they had together.

Near The River
(2023, USA, n min)
Filmmakers: Darby McAdams, Ashley Peel, Rush Sturges, McAdams Films
Advisory: None

In the tourism town of Livingstone, Zambia, a group of local men who make their living portering kayaks aspire to become safety kayakers on the Zambezi River. The proposed Batoka Gorge Hydroelectric Scheme threatens to flood the famous rapids of the Zambezi and eliminate river related jobs.

El Gavilan
(2022, USA, 20 min)
Filmmakers: Bronwyn Hodgins, Savannah Cummins, Savy Media
Advisory: None

Rising out of the arid Mexican desert lies a 900 ft ship's prow of elegant limestone sporting a 9-pitch 5.13 established in the 90s by Jeff Jackson. Shrouded in mysticism, the bolts rusted and the holds collecting dust until a couple of young gals from Canada decided to give it a try.

Dates: April 19 - 20, 2024

Time: 7:00 p.m - 10:10 p.m.

Location:

The Reg Lenna Civic Center,
116 East 3rd Street,
Jamestown, NY 14701.

Ticket Prices:

VIP Two-day Ticket: $75
VIP One-day Ticket: $50 (Friday only)
Adult Two-day Ticket: $45
Adult One-day Ticket: $25
Active Military/Student/Child/Senior Two-day Ticket: $30
Active Military/Student/Child/Senior One-day Ticket: $15

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