Banff Centre Stories

What It's Like Being a Media and Production Practicum

Practicum positions offer hands-on experience in a varied work environment featuring our state-of-the-art equipment and world-class faculty. Read on to learn more about the Media + Production...

Jeremy Collins Wild Inside Project Timelapse

Video

Time-Lapse: What This Artist Created in Seven Hours

From a blank canvas to a full-blown work of art in seven hours.

Deepa Mehta in conversation with Ian Brown

Film

How 'Water' Director Deepa Mehta Visualizes a Film in Her Head

There's so much work to be done before Deepa Mehta puts pen to paper.

Media and Production

Making Visual Effects Come to Life

Marvelous Designer is the name of a software program used for simulating cloth textures, but it is also an apt description for the team of visual effects designers at The Banff Centre. Both staff and...

Partners

We acknowledge, with deep respect and gratitude, our home on the side of Sacred Buffalo Guardian Mountain. In the spirit of respect and truth, we honour and acknowledge the Banff area, known as "Minhrpa" (translated in Stoney Nakoda as "the waterfalls") and the Treaty 7 territory and oral practices of the Îyârhe Nakoda (Stoney Nakoda) – comprised of the Bearspaw, Chiniki, and Wesley First Nations – as well as the Tsuut'ina First Nation and the Blackfoot Confederacy comprised of the Siksika, Piikani, Kainai. We acknowledge that this territory is home to the Shuswap Nations, Ktunaxa Nations, and Métis Nation of Alberta, Region 3. We acknowledge all Nations who live, work, and play here, help us steward this land, and honour and celebrate this place.