2011 Banff Mountain Film Competition

Complete List of 2011 Entries

Films in brown have been selected as finalists.

100 Days

Canada, 2011, 45′

110%

USA, 2010, 58′

2 Frogs in the West

Canada, 2010, 97′

23 Feet

USA, 2011, 29′

300 Days Alone

Bulgaria, 2009, 52′

40 Days at Base Camp

Canada, 2011, 89′

5 Islands, 5 Climbs

UK, 2010, 59′

50 Years in the Mountains

UK, 2011, 20′

78 Days

Canada, 2011, 62′

A Downhill Affair

USA, 2011, 12′

A Female Tale

Germany, 2011, 20′

A la Vita! The Last Woodcutter

Italy, 2010, 83′

A Steelhead Family

Canada, 2011, 19′

A Tribute to Claremount

Canada, 2011, 5′

A Year in the Clouds

Taiwan, 2011, 85′

Above the Ashes

USA, 2011, 30′

After 5

Canada, 2011, 15′

Alaska Wingmen: Gold Rush

USA, 2011, 50′

Algonquin Wildlife

Canada, 2011, 30′

All.I.Can

Canada, 2011, 75′

Almost Alpine

USA, 2011, 45′

Among Giants

USA, 2011, 14

An Endangered Culture

Canada, 2011, 11′

Anna, Emma and the Condors

USA, 2011, 20′

Annapurna the Key

Spain, 2010, 27′

Arctic: Life in the Deep Freeze

UK, 2011, 60′

Arlberg

Austria, 2010, 50′

The Art of Flight

USA, 2011, 80′

Atl (Water)

Mexico, 2008, 46′

Backyards

USA, 2011, 23′

Beads on One String

USA, 2010, 60′

Beyond the Wall

Italy, 2009, 34′

Biking Monte Rosa

Austria, 2010, 11′

Bird Island

USA, 2011, 39′

Blue Obsession

USA, 2011, 9′

Bolted or Screwed

USA, 2011, 3

Bon-Mustang to Menri

USA, 2011, 60′

Book of Legends

New Zealand, 2010, 26′

Boom

Canada, 2011, 3′

Boys of Winter

USA, 2011, 12

Broken Tail

Ireland, 2010, 59′

C.A.R.C.A.

Canada, 2011, 10′

Call of the White

UK, 2011, 43′

Calling on Others

USA, 2010, 27′

Cape Horn

Austria, 2010, 48′

Carve — Travel

Canada, 2011, 4′

Cast Alaska

USA, 2011, 80′

Cat Skiing

Canada, 2011, 8′

Cerro Rico, Tierra Rica

Colombia, 2011, 100′

Cetaceans of the Great Bear Rainforest

Canada, 2011, 5′

Chalk & Ski

USA, 2010, 2′

Changing Gears on Kilimanjaro

Canada, 2008, 48′

Chasing the Light

USA, 2011, 57′

Chasing Water

USA, 2011, 18′

Chercher le courant

Canada, 2010, 86′

Cold

USA, 2011, 19′

Colder

USA, 2011, 5′

Colorado Front Range Cyclocross

USA, 2010, 6′

Concrete Dreams

Germany, 2011, 6′

Connecting the Gems

USA, 2011, 27′

Crackoholic

Sweden, 2010, 29′

Crossing Over: The Art of Jeremy Down

Canada, 2011, 14′

Day and Age

Canada, 2011, 40′

Deep Sea Under the Pole

France, 2010, 52′

Deklaracja Niesmiertelnosci (Declaration of Immortality)

Poland, 2010, 29′

Dem Himmel Ganz Nah

Germany, 2011, 93′

Demencia Senil 9a+

Spain, 2010, 5′

Denmark

USA, 2010, 6′

Destination 3 (Degrees)

USA, 2010, 66′

The Distant Peak

Australia, 2011, 45′

Does This Canoe Make Me Look Fat?

Canada, 2011, 39′

Dougie Moffats Return

UK, 2011, 6′

Downhill: The Bill Johnson Story

USA, 2010, 77′

Dream

Canada, 2010, 60′

Duck! (A Duckumentary)

USA, 2011, 61′

The Eighth Parallel

Canada, 2011, 27′

The Eighth Parallel (A Short)

Canada, 2011, 15′

Encounters

Canada, 2011, 52′

Encounters at the Summit Cross (Treffpunkt Gipfelkreuz — Zwischen Himmel und Erde)

Switzerland, 2010, 43′

Encounters in a Forgotten Country

Switzerland, 2011, 57′

Endorphin Rush

Switzerland, 2010, 52′

Enjoyable State of Being

Norway, 2011, 11′

Equal to Everybody Else

Wales, 2010, 11′

Exceeding Strength Limits

Colombia, 2011, 3′

Explorer: Man vs Volcano

USA, 2011, 50′

Extreme Tobagganing

Canada, 2010, 5′

Facing the Killer Volcano

France, 2011, 90′

Family of the Wa’a

USA, 2011, 81′

First on Everest

Austria,2010,53′

Fjord

Norway, 2009, 24′

Flight For Survival

Nepal, 2011, 55′

Four Strokes of Luck

Australia, 2011, 75′

The Free China Junk

New Zealand, 2010, 100′

The Freedom Chair

Canada, 2011, 15′

Friends of Georgia

USA, 2011, 14′

Fringe Elements — A different kind of Race

Canada, 2011, 4′

Fringe Elements — Adventure Vision

USA, 2011, 4′

Fringe Elements — Everlast

Canada, 2011, 4′

Fringe Elements — Giving the Bird the Bird

Canada, 2011, 4′

Fringe Elements — Height doesn’t Matter

Canada, 2011, 4′

Fringe Elements — Safety Third

USA, 2011, 4′

Frontier

USA, 2010, 45′

G Bear & B Bear

Canada, 2011, 4′

G.N.A.R. the Movie

USA, 2010, 60′

Glacier Express

Canada, 2011, 10′

Go Death Racer

Canada, 2011, 24′

Goold’s Gold

USA, 2011, 76′

The Grand Ballet of Nature

Germany, 2011, 5′

Grand Libre au Grand Cap

France, 2011, 18′

Granite in Spires

UK, 2008, 31′

Green Fire

USA, 2010, 75′

Greg Hill And His 2 Million Vertical Feat

Canada, 2011, 10′

Gus

Australia, 2010, 8′

Halo Effect

USA, 2011, 47′

Hanuman Airlines

USA, 2011, 29′

Here We Go Again

USA, 2010, 55′

Hidden in the Ice — The Climate of the Future

France, 2008, 34′

Highlining California

Canada, 2010, 52′

Highway Gospel

Canada, 2010, 90′

Hood To Coast

USA, 2011, 102′

I Just Love to Paddle

USA, 2010, 31

Ice Balance

USA, 2011, 3′

Ice Philosophy

Canada, 2011, 4′

In the Shadow of the Mountain

USA, 2010, 25′

The Incomappleux

Canada, 2010, 30′

Journey on the Wild Coast

USA, 2010, 90′

Journey on the Wild Coast

USA, 2010, 45′

Kadoma

USA, 2011, 42′

Katabasis

Canada, 2011, 42′

Kawalek lata

Poland, 2010, 24′

La Grave Mountain Risk Patrollers, Guardians of Freedom

Poland, 2010, 24′

The Last Wild Race

USA, 2011, 45′

Le Grand Cycle

Canada, 2011, 27

Le Nid

France, 2010, 52′

The Life & Death of Glaciers

USA, 2011, 39′

Life Along the Livingstone

Canada, 2010, 13′

Linea Continua

Italy, 2010, 17′

Lion’s Bay

Canada, 2010, 5′

Listen to the Mountain Sages

Japan, 2010, 52′

Living the Dream 2

USA, 2011, 2′

Locals Only

Canada, 2011, 56′

Look on the Bright Side

Canada, 2010, 42′

Lost Mummies of Papua New Guinea

USA, 2010, 50′

The Love Letter

USA, 2011, 12′

Makalu

USA, 2011, 10′

The Man and the Mammoth

Canada, 2010, 7′

Marysina polana

Poland, 2010, 39′

Mazungu: Canoeing the Congo

UK, 2011, 33′

Mazungu: Canoeing the Congo [15 minutes]

UK, 2011, 15′

Melting Paradise

India, 2010, 12′

Middle Teton

USA, 2011, 3′

Miller’s Thriller

USA, 2010, 90′

Miller’s Thriller [28 minutes]

USA, 2010, 28′

Mission Everest A Tale of Two Brothers

USA, 2011, 51′

The Mongol Rally

UK, 2008, 90′

Monks vs Mosquitoes

UK, 2008, 90′

Mont Blanc

Romania, 2010, 30′

Mount Everest Ice Fall

Canada, 2010, 7′

Mountain Man

USA, 2011, 14′

The Movement: One Man Joins an Uprising

USA, 2011, 40′

Mr Bingles goes skiing!

Canada, 201, 6′

Musky Country: Zero 2 Hero

USA, 2010, 20′

Nancy, Sid and Sergio

UK, 2011, 19′

Narsicame

USA, 2011, 4

Natural World: The Himalayas

UK, 2010, 58′

Never Enough

USA, 2010, 45′

No Experience Required

Canada, 2010, 33′

Nomads

Switzerland, 2010, 43′

Nomads, the Generation After

France, 2010, 52′

Oil in Eden

Canada, 2010, 17′

Oil Literacy

Canada, 2010, 50′

On Assignment: Jimmy Chin

USA, 2010, 6′

On the Line

Canada, 2011, 52′

On Mont Blanc with Don Planner

USA, 2011, 15′

On Quiet Pond

Canada, 2011, 3′

On the Trail of Genghis Khan: Crossroads

Australia, 2010, 44′

On the Trail of Genghis Khan: In the Skin of a Wolf

Australia, 2010, 44′

On the Trail of Genghis Khan: The Land That God Forgot

Australia, 2010, 44′

On the Trail of Genghis Khan: The Last Frontier

Australia, 2010, 44′

On the Trails of the Glaciers

Italy, 2010, 52′

Once Upon a Time In Paradise

Czech Republic, 2011, 48′

One Degree Matters

Denmark, 2009, 58′

One Revolution

USA, 2011, 84′

The Oriental Honey Buzzards of Ninety-nine Peaks

Taiwan, 2011, 50′

Out of the Shadows

Canada, 2010, 58′

Out of the Shadows [11 minutes]

Canada, 2010, 11′

Out of the Shadows [30 minutes]

Canada, 2010, 30′

Pair of Opposites

Canada, 2011, 20

Panaroma

Spain, 2010, 12′

Parallels

Canada, 2011, 7′

Parenthese á 8000

France, 2009, 33′

Parlier's Project

USA, 2010, 14′

Patagonia Rising

USA, 2011, 86′

Path of Roses — A Girls’ Skiing Episode in Kashmir

Austria, 2011, 25′

Peace Through Education: Stealing the Light

USA, 2010, 51′

Pedal Driven: A Bike-umentary

USA, 2011, 63′

Persona

Japan, 2010, 55′

The Pinnacle

UK, 2010, 45′

Play Again

USA, 2010, 80′

Polepole rafiki yangu (Slowly My Friend)

USA, 2011, 43′

The Powder Highway

Canada, 2011, 45′

Power in the Pristine

USA, 2010, 23′

The Prophet

UK, 2010, 42′

Punch Line

France, 2010, 50′

The Purist

USA, 2010, 2′

The Pursuit

USA, 2011, 15′

Put Out of Action

Austria, 2010, 27′

Raging Torrent

UK, 2011, 20′

Reel Rock: Ice Revolution

USA, 2011, 13′

Reel Rock: Origins — Obe & Ashima

USA, 2011, 22′

Reel Rock: Project Dawn Wall

USA, 2011, 11′

Reel Rock: Race for the Nose

USA, 2011, 24′

Reel Rock: Sketchy Andy

USA, 2011, 20′

Remy’s War

Canada, 2010, 11′

Rescue on Cascade Mountain

Canada, 2010, 7′

Rider of the Year

Canada, 4′ 2011

The Road Home

UK, 2010, 20′

The Road to Ironman

USA, 2011, 50

Running on Empty

Canada, 2011, 22

The Sacred Science

USA, 2011, 76′

Sarajevo Challenge

Germany, 2011, 7′

The Sea of Tranquility

Belgium, 2010, 12′

Seasons: Fall

USA, 2010, 4′

Seasons: Spring

USA, 2011, 4′

Seasons: Winter

Canada, 2011, 4′

Seasons: Winter Redux

USA, 2011, 6′

Second Go at the Peach

Canada, 2011, 8′

Sentire il Mio Passo Sul Sentiero

Italy, 2010, 50′

Sfinga (The Sphinx)

Slovenia, 2011, 70′

Shane Untamed: The Lost Jungle

USA, 2011, 50′

Silent Snow

Netherlands, 2011, 71′

Six Million Steps: A Journey Inward

USA, 2011, 93′

Six Seconds of Jib Academy

Canada, 2011, 5′

Skylight

USA, 2009,5′

Snow

USA, 2011, 1′

Snowboarding XXL

Germany, 2011, 5′

So Board! The X-4 Challenge

USA, 2010, 15′

Solitaire

USA, 2011, 45′

The Source

USA, 2011, 45′

SPOIL

USA, 2011, 40′

Stance

USA, 2009, 32′

Step by Step

Canada, 2011, 59′

Stepping into the Stream (v.2)

USA, 2010, 30′

The Stoney Mountain

UK, 2010, 12′

Stoney Point: Portrait of an American Crag

USA, 2011, 56′

The Story

USA, 2010, 93′

Story of a Mountain Rescue

USA, 2010, 9′

Strathcona Centennial Expedition 1910–2010

Canada, 2011, 58′

Strong

Hungary, 2011, 88′

Sugarloaf: Big Mountain. Big Love

USA, 2010, 22′

The Summit

Canada, 2011, 5′

The Sun Behind the Clouds: Tibet’s Struggle for Freedom

India, 2009, 79′

Superhero

India, 2010, 2′

Take a Seat: Sharing a Ride Across America

USA, 2010, 57′

TB20

USA, 2011, 45′

Tchang

Spain, 2010, 27′

Tenacity on the Tasman

UK, 2009, 70′

Thaitanium Project

USA, 2010, 45′

Thirty Thousand

Australia, 2011, 50′

This Is My Winter

France, 2011, 26′

Tilos — The Walk

UK, 2011, 34′

Tobias Wood

New Zealand, 2011, 3′

Tora

Canada, 2010, 29′

Towers of the Ennedi

USA, 2011, 14′

Trail Blazers: The Story of the Monkman Pass Memorial Trail

Canada, 2010, 30′

The Trail Collector

Switzerland, 2010, 5′

Trail Scat (A Story of the Mountains)

USA, 2011, 6′

Treeverse

USA, 2011, 27‘

Tres Rocas

Mexico, 2011, 66′

Trou de Fer — The Iron Hole

Slovakia, 2011, 55′

True North

Canada, 2010, 7′

Type 2 Fun

UK, 2011, 24′

Unbreakable: The Western States 100 [Sprint version]

USA, 2011, 61′

Uncertain Ice

USA, 2011, 58′

The Unpublished

Sweden, 2010, 36′

Up Not Down

USA, 2011, 42′

Uprooting

USA, 2011, 5′

Urs

Germany, 2010, 10′

UTMB: Heart Beats

France, 2010, 9′

Vertige d’une Rencontre

France, 2010, 75′

Walking the Line: New Energy in the Old West

USA, 2010, 27′

Wall, the Journey Up

USA, 2011, 6′

Water Films — Banff Edition

USA, 2011, 40′

The Waters of Greenstone: The Long Way Home

USA, 2011, 62′

The Waters of Greenstone: The Long Way Home [20 minutes]

USA, 2011, 20′

The WC

Australia, 2010, 90′

What do Polar Bears Dream‚ While They’re Dying

USA, 2011, 33′

What Happened on Pam Island

Poland, 2010, 30′

What Is Mountainbiking About?

Switzerland, 2010, 3′

What You Dream Is What You Get

Canada, 2011, 12′

Whitewater Grand Prix

Canada, 2011, 4′

White Water, Black Gold

Canada, 2011, 78′

White Water, Black Gold

Canada, 2011, 54′

Wild Eyes: The Abby Sunderland Story

USA, 2011, 78′

Wild Russia — Kamchatka

Germany, 2009, 45′

Wild Scandinavia —Norway

Germany, 2011, 50′

Wild Year

Canada, 2011, 5′

Wildie

Canada, 2011, 44′

With My Own Two Wheels

USA, 2010, 44′

The Wolf & the Medallion

USA, 2011, 25′

Wolves Unleashed

Canada, 2011, 89′

World’s Wildest Encounters II, part 3

Germany, 2010, 50′

World’s Wildest Encounters II, part 4

Germany, 2010, 50′

Yosemite Falls High-Line

USA, 2011, 4′

You Like This

Canada, 2010, 27′

Yukon John

Canada, 2010, 5′

The Zambezi — Part 1: Source of Life

Austria, 2010, 53′

The Zambezi — Part 2: A River Untamed

Austria, 2010, 52′

Zero Currency

USA, 2010, 10′

Zero Degrees

Canada, 2011, 7′

2011 Film Jury
Past Juries

Jakub Brzosko

Jakub Brzosko is the Artc Director for Meetings with Mountain Film in Zakopane, Poland (Spotkania z Filmem Górskim), a member Festival of the International Alliance for Mountain Film. A mountain rescuer, mountain guide, climber, and ski alpinist, Brzosko has participated in the biggest ski mountaineering competitions in the world, Pierra Menta and Patrouille des Glaciers. Brzosko was also a member of the Polish National Ski Mountaineering Team from 2003 to 2004 and winner of the Polish Ski Mountaineering Cup in 2003. A graduate of the Cracow School of Arts, in his other life he is a painter, sculptor, filmmaker, journalist and sailor, and enjoys spending free time on the high seas.

Manuel Catteau

Manuel Catteau co-founded Société ZED, one of Frances’s top exporters of documentary films and has managed operations there for over 15 years. Within ZED, and as an executive producer, Catteau has been involved in more than 150 documentary films, including the series Becoming a Man, which aired in more than 50 countries. He has brokered many co-production agreements that have enabled the funding of ambitious productions requiring substantial investments, creating loyal global partners like Discovery Channel and National Geographic.

Chris Davenport

Aspen's Chris Davenport is widely regarded as one of the most progressive and accomplished big mountain skiers of his generation. As a competitive skier, Davenport won two World Championships, an ESPN Winter X medal, many Powder Magazine Readers’ Poll awards, the 24 Hours of Aspen, and was a fixture on the podium of the Freeride World Tour. He has been featured in over 35 feature ski films, has produced two of his own: Ski the 14ers and Australis: An Antarctic Ski Odyssey, and has written two acclaimed books, Ski the 14ers and most recently, Fifty Classic Ski Descents of North America.

Tracey Friesen

Tracey Friesen joined the National Film Board of Canada as producer ten years ago, and in 2007 became executive producer at their Pacific and Yukon Centre. Friesen works with the independent community to create innovative and socially-relevant documentaries, animation, and original digital content. She has credits on over two dozen projects, including Being Caribou, Finding Farley, Carts of Darkness, This Land, and Force of Nature: The David Suzuki Movie. As the interactive media landscape evolves, Friesen is striving to diversify her slate to include new creators and alternative forms of narrative expression.

Jacki Ochs

Jacki Ochs is an award-winning documentary producer/director whose films include Vietnam: The Secret Agent about the herbicide Agent Orange; and Letters Not About Love, a poetic journey through Russian and American cultures. Jacki was executive producer of Emmy Award-nominated Untold Story of Emmett Louis Till, winner of the National Board of Review’s Freedom of Expression award. Currently she is producing The Migraine Project, a feature film about the ubiquitous and devastating disease, and executive producing Everybody Knows… Elizabeth Murray, about the monumental painting of an important 20th century artist. Jacki is executive director of Human Arts Association, a not for profit arts organization which sponsors educational and artistic media, events and spaces in New York City. Her work has been broadcast worldwide and she teaches film and video at the Pratt Institute.  

The Banff Centre Audio Post Production Award

Charlie Robinson

No stranger to The Banff Centre, Robinson is back – this time to adjudicate films with the goal of awarding the 2011 Audio Post Production Scholarship. The recipient, chosen from the finalists in this year’s film competition, will receive approximately $10K in Banff Centre studio services and on-site expertise to produce a surround DVD soundtrack for their chosen project. The winner will be announced at the Best of the Festival awards night on Sunday, November 6. According to Robinson, sound for film should strive for “being better than being there” — sometimes quieter and cleaner, sometimes more intense and complex — while maintaining some production sounds to give a first-person feel. Robinson is a leader in the field of surround sound formatting for Dolby Research. As an engineer who studied at the University of Illinois, he worked on real-time music synthesis at the CERL Music Laboratory. Current areas of interest include acoustics, audio coding, interactive audio, spatial audio, and audio production with applications to broadcast, gaming and cinema. He has authored or coauthored nine patents in audio signal processing, contributed to two Emmy-award winning products, and is a member of AES and IEEE.  

The 2011 Film Competition is now closed.

Entries for the 2012 competition will be accepted starting in May 2012.

Enter your film into the Banff Mountain Film Competition and bring the magic of mountain places and cultures, and the adrenaline of exploration and adventure to an appreciative, international audience.

Why you should enter your film into the competition

Interested in reaching a global audience in about 32 countries all over the world? Looking for better recognition, more revenue, and a chance to collaborate with the best in the adventure film industry? Plan on entering your film this coming May!

A World-Class Reputation

After 35 years, the Banff Mountain Film and Book Festival has a proven track record as the world’s largest and one of the most prestigious mountain film festivals in the world. The Banff Mountain Film and Book Festival, presented by National Geographic, The North Face, and Parks Canada, is the flagship program of Film and Media at The Banff Centre.

Outreach and Prizes

• Be part of the largest mountain film festival and tour in the world.
• Reach broadcasters, distributors, tour hosts and acquisitions agents via our catalogue listing and on-demand screening room at the Festival.
• Over $40,000 in cash and prizes will be awarded at the 2011 Festival.

An opportunity to network

The Festival offers you the chance to meet other filmmakers and to exchange ideas and collaborate in a relaxed atmosphere. It’s also a great opportunity to connect with leaders in the outdoor adventure field including climbers, mountaineers, gear manufacturers, and journalists. Festival finalists are invited to join us in Banff during Festival week. As our special guests, attending film finalists will receive:

• two film program passes
• admission to special invitation-only events during the Festival
• one hotel room for up to three nights during the Festival
• an invitation to introduce your film in person at our public theatre screenings
• an opportunity to sell copies of your films at the Festival

An opportunity to learn

Banff Adventure Filmmakers’ Workshop: Take your next adventure film project to a new level. This workshop focuses on topics essential to every independent filmmaker. The faculty are award-winning, entrepreneurial filmmakers and influential decision-makers. The format is lively and interactive with lots of opportunity for one-on-one feedback. And best of all, attendance at the world-renowned Banff Mountain Film and Book Festival is mandatory!

Check out our Adventure Filmmakers’ Workshop and sign up for email updates.

A worldwide audience

Immediately following the Festival in November, a selection of the best films submitted to the competition goes on tour. The World Tour spans the globe, reaching over 245,000 audience members through more than 635 screenings in 350 locations in 32 countries. From armchair adventurers to world-class climbers, from business leaders to schoolchildren, from Argentina to Iceland, and from South Africa to Japan – the World Tour is where you want your film to be. In addition to our well-established World Tour program, we also present a high-adrenaline, sport-oriented Radical Reels Tour based on our very successful Radical Reels screenings during the Festival. A separate license agreement is arranged if your film is selected for the World Tour.

Check the World Tour website for locations, dates, and local host contact details

ALSO SEEKING SHORT FILMS!

The Banff Mountain Film and Book Festival and World Tour are looking for additional action-oriented films that focus on high adrenaline adventure in the outdoors to be featured in the Festival, World Tour, and in the rapidly-expanding Radical Reels Tour.

Each year we provide a diverse selection of exciting films from the Banff Festival to our tour hosts to choose from. Through our experience in touring films, we find short films are more often chosen. For this reason we also encourage you to enter your short films, or a shorter version of your film (5 to 15 minutes). If you are submitting a longer film to the Festival, consider providing a shorter version (special edit or excerpt) for the Tour. Check out our World Tour website and see where we’re off to next!

What is the Tour audience looking for?

• Films that are less than 15 minutes long – these can be special edits from longer films
• High energy, action, adventure, and excitement in outdoor settings
• Female athletes and adventurers

Why is the length of the film important?

Shorter films allow more programming flexibility. Shorter films are shown more often on our World Tour. No film is too short – some of our most popular films from the World Tour are less than five minutes long! You can submit a full version and a short version as one entry, if desired.

If your film is longer than 15 minutes, call us to discuss creating a special version for the World Tour. We are happy to advise and may be able to provide technical assistance.

Payment

We pay royalties based on the number of times your film is screened on each tour. Prize money is awarded to category winners at the Banff Mountain Film and Book Festival.

Film Entry inquiries

Phone: 1.403.762.6441
Email: banffmountainfilms@banffcentre.ca

How to Enter

How to Enter your film

For reference only. The 2011 Film Competition is now closed.

1. Read the Entry Procedures and Regulations 2011 (pdf)
2. Read the technical specifications (pdf)
3. Submit an entry form online or download a film entry form (pdf) or register though Withoutabox. (These online links have now been disabled. This is for reference only.)
4. Complete a Canada Customs Form (pdf) and affix it to the outside of the package if your entry is from outside Canada. The declared value in Canadian dollars should be equivalent to the materials only (approximately $3.00 CDN per DVD).
5. Before you send your film please review the Film Entry Checklist
6. Find out about the Audio Post Production Scholarship at The Banff Centre