Banff Mountain Film Festival World Tour

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Banff Mountain Film Festival World Tour

Grab your popcorn and enjoy the world’s most inspiring and thought-provoking action, adventure and mountain films at Ster-Kinekor cinemas in Cape Town

Get set to take a journey across the world with the 2016 Banff Mountain Film Festival’s series of action-packed documentaries from Friday, 21 October to Saturday, 29 October 2016. The annual fandango features the globe’s top adventure climbing, base jumping, alpine skiing and mountain expedition movies and flickers onto screens with a bigger, better extravaganza in Cape Town’s Ster-Kinekor cinemas in Cavendish Square and Tyger Valley Centre.

This year, the heart-racing, nine-day global tour makes a home in 35 countries and features the best of hundreds of short flick submissions, giving viewers a chance to experience some of the most beautiful parts of the world by watching the escapades of seasoned adventurers who head out to explore remote corners of the planet. Expect to see crazy stunts, gain insight into far-off cultures and even get a peek at some of the last great wild places left on this earth, all on the big screen.

Audiences can look out for Josh Lowell’s Reel Rock 10: A Line Across the Sky; a short film exploring the five-day long journey across the Fitz Traverse or enjoy Balloonskiing – Heimschnee by Stefan Ager, which focuses on the stunning experience of a hot air balloon ride to undiscovered locations. Choose from over ten films over the duration of the festival and see the breathtaking regions up close.

Started in 1986 as an outreach programme aimed at collecting top-notch films that showcased mountain culture and the exploits of adrenaline junkies to communities across the globe, the Banff Centre for arts and creativity in Canada has morphed into an annual worldwide tour. In 2006, two decades into the world tour’s existence, Cape Union Mart brought this international adventure film festival to South Africa for the first time, and since then the festival has gone from strength to strength.

LINE-UP FOR THE 2016 BANFF MOUNTAIN FILM FESTIVAL WORLD TOUR IN CAPE TOWN

Each evening during the festival’s run at 8pm, patrons can settle down at their cinema of choice to view eleven short flicks; the films show back-to-back in one screening that lasts approximately 3 hours and 50 minutes.

FILMS

55 Hours in Mexico

FOCUS: Rock Climbing and skiing
RUN TIME: 9min
DIRECTOR: Joey Schusler and Thomas Woodson

 

Builder (Tour Edit)

FOCUS: Mountain Biking  
RUN TIME: 8min 
DIRECTOR: Scott Secco

Scottsecco.com 

Living Rivers - Surf

FOCUS: Surfing
RUN TIME: 4min
DIRECTOR: Max Lowe

Montanafilm.com

Women’s Speed Ascent

FOCUS: Rock Climbing
RUN TIME: 4min 
DIRECTOR: Chris Alstrin

3stringspro.com

Balloonskiing - Heimschnee

FOCUS: Hot air ballooning and skiing   
RUN TIME: 5min 
DIRECTOR: Stefan Ager

Heimschnee.at

Will Sutton: Homefree

FOCUS: Free-running / Parkour
RUN TIME: 4min
DIRECTOR: Stu Thomson

Cutmedia.com

Denali

FOCUS: Surfing
RUN TIME: 8min 
DIRECTOR: Ben Knight, Skip Armstrong, Ben Moon

 

Curiosity

FOCUS: Trail Running
RUN TIME: 13min
DIRECTOR: Renan Ozturk and Tim Kemple

Camp4collective.com 

Pretty Faces

FOCUS: Skiing
RUN TIME: 10min 
DIRECTOR: Lynsey Dyer

Unicornpicnic.com

unReal

FOCUS: Mountain Biking
RUN TIME: 11min
DIRECTOR: Teton Gravity Research

Tetongravity.com

Reel Rock 10: A Line Across the Sky

FOCUS: Rock Climbing 
RUN TIME: 
40min
DIRECTOR:
Josh Lowell

Reelrocktour.com

TICKETS FOR THE 2016 BANFF MOUNTAIN FILM FESTIVAL WORLD TOUR IN CAPE TOWN

Tickets for the festival cost R71p/p and are available online at Sterkinekor.com as well as via Ster-Kinekor’s ticket booking hotline (+27 (0)861 668 437) and at the ticket office (depending on availability). All regular concessions apply and a nominal fee will be charged for online bookings.

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