Banff Mountain Film Festival - Keswick

Theatre by the Lake                    

6th February 2010   7:30pm                         

£10/£9 (conc)

Tickets -   http://www.theatrebythelake.co.uk/whatson.asp?category=Film

The Banff Mountain Film Festival is uprooting from the mothership festival in the Canadian Rockies and will shortly be heading to the Keswick in Manchester on Saturday February 6 as part of a UK wide tour.

The Banff World Tour features award-winning films and audience favourites from about 300 films entered each year in Banff. Come and see why more than 200,000 people across the globe gather indoors at Banff screenings to celebrate the outdoors! 

A selection of award-winning mountain based films featuring climbing, mountain biking, skiing/snowboarding, whitewater kayaking and speed flying (a cross between paragliding and skiing) will be shown. Some of the films that will feature include:

• Africa Revolutions: From the crocodile-infested White Nile in Uganda to big-water first descents in Madagascar, a group of friends experience epic whitewater adventure on African rivers.
• Mont Blanc - Speed Flying - A beautifully shot film that features six speed riders descending thousands of metres from the upper slopes of Mont Blanc down the broken but spectacular mountainside to Chamonix in one continuous and awe-inspriing 10-minute shot.
• Kranked Revolve - Featuring some of the planet's best riders, "Revolve" blasts in cinematic glory from the French Alps to the lush coast of B.C., incorporating dirt jump, trail, freeride, slopestyle and downhill riding. A high energy experience.
• Hunlen - What happens if you show up to climb one of the biggest frozen waterfalls in Canada -- but it isn't completely frozen? Will Gadd and EJ Plimley battle to do the first ascent of B.C.'s remote Hunlen Falls. Falling ice, crashing water, fear, big fun!
• Revolution One - takes a look into the history, people and places that have defined the rapidly emerging sport of off-road unicycling. Follow world champion unicyclists as they display riding that has blown the minds of viewers worldwide.
• A Little Bit Mongolian - Set in the high ranges of northern Mongolia, Angus a 12 year old from Australia, came to Mongolia the year before and saw children racing cross-country in long-distance horse races. He vowed he would one day join them. Angus trained for a year and returned to Mongolia, to compete in the big Naadam Festival horse races. A heart warming story of a dream that came true.

Tickets - £10/£9 in advance (tickets available on door if not sold out)
For full details of the films showing & to buy tix head to http://www.banff-uk.com/

As well as seeing some great films, you can also win some great nightly prizes as well as go in the draw to win a 7 day Mont Blanc trek. The bar will be open too!

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