Banff World Tour Film Fest

Is coming to town next week at the Science Center Omnimax! We're headed there on Wed/Thurs. Here's the preview (check out the last 20 sec if you don't have time for the whole thing - I think it's CG enhanced, or I hope it is. Unreal.). I'm pretty excited to see Honnold's solo of Half-Dome. I haven't had a chance to see it yet.


The Wednesday lineup of movies:
Wednesday, March 31 Schedule:

Deep/Shinsetsu -
Focus: Skiing
Description: Set to the music of indie-folk artist, José Gonzales, Deep/Shinsetsu captures in three minutes the essence of Japan’s bottomless powder skiing.

Finding Farley - WINNER OF GRAND PRIZE & PEOPLE'S CHOICE AWARDS
Focus: Adventure, Canoeing, Family-friendly (note: some nudity)
Description: When filmmakers Karsten Heuer and Leanne Allison, along with their two-year-old son Zev and indomitable dog Willow, set out to retrace the literary footsteps of Farley Mowat, they meant it literally. Finding Farley ended up being a 5000-kilometre trip -- trekking, sailing, portaging and paddling from the Prairies to the Maritimes. The family's arrival at their final destination (Mowat's Nova Scotian summer home) was, as Karsten says, "an affirmation of what the land and animals had already told us". "Stories aren't so much written or created as they are released, expressing what's been there all along."

First Ascent - Alone on the Wall
Focus: Climbing, Free solo climbing
Description: New from renowned climbing filmmakers, Sender Films, First Ascent: Alone on the Wall follows 24-year-old Alex Honnold as he readies himself for an unbelievable challenge: the first free-solo of the ‘Regular Northwest Face’ route (VI, 5.12a, 23 pitches) on Yosemite’s Half Dome.

Kranked – Revolve - PEOPLE'S CHOICE AWARD RADICAL REELS NIGHT
Focus: Mountain Biking
Description: Kranked – Revolve is a high-adrenaline mountain bike journey from the insane Megavalanche race in the French Alps to the lush coast of British Columbia, incorporating dirt jump, trail, freeride, slopestyle and downhill riding.

MedeoZ
Focus: Multi-sport, Humor, Family-friendly
Description: Filmed and edited in just five days at the 2008 Nissan Outdoor Games in Chamonix, MedeoZ is the story of a photographer’s mission to capture six mountain sports in a single shot. As the world class climber, skier, snowboarder, speed rider, paraglider, and BASE jumper race to meet one another, Guillaume Broust readies himself for the perfect moment to close the shutter.

Mont-Blanc Speed Flying
Focus: Speed riding, Family-friendly
Description: An excerpt from the sequel to the 1980s cult ski film Apocalypse Snow, Mont-Blanc Speed Flying is a breathtaking continuous shot that follows a group of six speed riders from the upper slopes of Mont Blanc down to Chamonix.