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October 20, 1999
New Programs at Banff Mountain Film
and Book Festivals
A spectacular selection of extreme snowboarding, kayaking, mountain biking and skiing
films will be shown as Radical Reels, just one of the new programs that
will be part of this year's Banff Mountain Book and Film Festivals which run November 3 -
7, 1999 at The Banff Centre.
"We received 138 entries for this year's film competition
and our pre-screening committee saw phenomenal footage featuring the exploits of some of
the best skiers and boarders on the planet," said Bernadette McDonald, Director of
The Banff Centre for Mountain Culture, which produces the event.
"We decided to package these epic adventures from around the
globe into Radical Reels, a special program which is now three and a half
hours of the 'best of the best'." The program starts at 8 p.m. on Saturday November
6. Tickets are $12.
Other festival additions and highlights include:
- Book Festival Opening with authors Terry Tempest Williams
and Wade Davis. (Wednesday, November 3 at 8 p.m. Tickets $16.)
- Literary Lunchbreak with author Ed Douglas.
(Thursday, November 4 at noon. Tickets $15.)
- Presentations by author and filmmaker David Breashears,
and climber Jack Tackle in addition to the presentation of the Book
Awards (Thursday, November 4 at 8 p.m. Tickets $16.)
- Literary Lunch Break with author Sid Marty.
(Friday, November 5 at noon. Tickets $15.)
- Film Festival Opening with Swedish adventurer Göran Kropp
of the film I Made It who travelled from his home town to Everest - by bicycle.
(Friday, November 5 at 8 p.m. Tickets $23.)
- The world premier of the Leisl Clark/WGBH film Lost
on Everest, a special film festival edition documenting the incredible discovery
earlier this year of George Mallory's body high on the north side of Everest. (Friday,
November 5 at 8 p.m. following Göran Kropp's presentation - see above.)
- Retro Reels with Henry Barber
who will show classic films and slides of German climbing pioneers Fritz
Wiessner, Perry
Smith, Harry and Herbert Rost, Herbert Richter and Dietrich Hasse. His presentation will
be followed by a screening of the films The Bat, The Mountains of Yesterday,
and Bonington's Secret Mountain: Episode 7. (Saturday, November 6 at 8 p.m.
Tickets $23.)
- Different Lives, Different Lands, a unique
collection of environmental and cultural films shot in exotic locations around the world.
(Sunday, November 7 at 7:30 p.m. Tickets: $15.)
Debra Hornsby, Marketing and Communications Manager,
Mountain Culture, The Banff Centre
phone: 403-762-6446, fax: 403-762-6277,
email: debra_hornsby@banffcentre.ca
Web site: www.banffmountainfestivals.ca
Mountain Culture at The Banff
Centre promotes understanding and appreciation of the world’s mountain places by creating opportunities for people to share – and find
inspiration in – mountain experiences, ideas and visions.
The 24th Annual Banff Mountain Film Festival,
presented by Eagle Creek Travel Gear,
sponsored Sierra Designs Outerwear, by Moonstone/Gore, the National Geographic Society,
Polartec, Salomon Footwear, and Air Canada,
with assistance from Ski Lake Louise, Electrohome and MountainZone.com.
The 6th Annual Banff Mountain Book Festival,
Presented by Canadian Mountain Holidays.
Sponsored by the National Geographic Society and Patagonia
with assistance from the Alpine Club of Canada, the Banff Book & Art Den
The Mountaineers Books and Mountainzone.com
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