Grimper les cascades de glace dans l'ouest canadien, gravir des sommets du Himalaya et décoller en parapente, vivre des moments forts avec les bergers Tibetains Nomad ou découvrir les aventures du chien grimpeur "Biscuit", le Banff Mountain Film Festival World Tour réunit l'esprit de l'aventure et la montagne. Soyez prêt à vivre cette aventure lors de la présentation du Festival au Foyer Culturel à l'Argentière - La Bessée le 11 janvier 2008 !
Les films présentés cette année nous font voyager jusqu'au bout du monde ! Le mélange de sport, culture et environnement de montagne créé une diversité d'images et de sensations fortes.
Parmi les films sélectionnés pour le Banff Mountain Film Festival World Tour 2007/2008, il faut souligner les suivants :
Voici la liste des 13 films sélectionnés pour la tournée européenne !
1/Aerialist
USA
, 2007, 27 minutes
Directed by Brad Lynch, Jim Hurst
Produced By Brad Lynch
Website: www.aerialistmovie.com
Rating: Parental Guidance: Coarse Language
Focus: Climbing, BASE jumping
Dean Potter is obsessed with being attached to the world by as little as possible. He began his journey as a free-soloist on rock, but his refusal to be confined has pushed him to the outer edge of the climbing world and into the realms of high-lining, BASE jumping and "bird-manning". Possessed by the idea that anything is possible, Dean maniacally pursues the most natural yet bizarre dream of man: to fly.
2/Ain't Got No Friends on a Powder Day
Switzerland
, 2007, 5 minutes
Directed and Produced by Nicolas Falquet and Loris Falquet
Website:
www.huckandchuck.com
Rating: General
Focus: Skiing
Loris is a "classic" freerider. Jean-Yves, however, has a more or less "accidental" style. This film draws a parallel between two styles and two approaches to the same mountain, which are otherwise worlds apart.
3/Badgered
Best Film on Mountain Environment
UK
, 2005, 7 minutes
Directed by Sharon Colman
Produced by Jamie Wolpert
Website:
www.nftsfilm-tv.ac.uk
Rating: General
Focus: Environment/Animation
The tale of a badger who just wants the world to let him sleep.
4/Balance
Canada
,
2007, 11 minutes
Directed and Produced by Paul Cotton
Website:
www.PaulCottonFilms.com
Rating: Parental Guidance: No Advisory
Focus: Skiing
Balance
profiles the rapidly growing world of new-school skiing, looking at all aspects of the sport: big mountain lines, terrain parks and half-pipes, and jibbing. This film captures the athletes' desires to push the edge of their abilities while facing the obvious safety risks associated with high caliber skiing. With high-energy footage cut to an upbeat soundtrack, the audience is challenged to judge whether these athletes are crazy or just extremely talented, or maybe both.
5/Climber
Canada
, 2007
, 2 minutes
Directed by Carlos Villarreal-Kwasek
Produced by
Vancouver
Film
School
Website:
www.vfs.com
Rating: General
Focus: Climbing/Animation
A climber attempts an icy mountain
climb and faces his inner demon in this animated short.
6/Committed: To Grit
UK
, 2007, 7 minutes
Directed and Produced by Paul Diffley, Dave Brown
Website:
www.hotaches.com
Rating: Parental Guidance: Coarse Language
Focus: Climbing
Held in awe by climbers around the world, the hard trad scene in Britain commands both respect and bewilderment
. This segment of
Committed
follows James Pearson and Katherine Shirrmacher on gritstone routes in England's Peak District.
7/Entropy
Norway
, 2006, 11 minutes
Directed and Produced by Morten Gjerstad
Website:
www.snowkitefilm.com
Rating: General
Focus: Snowkiting
Entropy
documents the most progressive season in snowkiting so far. Join a couple of the world's best riders as they search for the ultimate snow and wind conditions. Along the way, they reinvent snowkiting by taking a new-school approach and pushing the limit of "wake style" maneuvers.
8/Great Day for Climbing
USA
,
2007, 7 minutes
Directed and Produced by Stephen Burgess
Website: http://www.williswall.comRating
Rating
: General
Focus: Climbing, Humour
A sleepy climber has trouble distinguishing dream from reality as his climbing buddy bursts into song
at the most inopportune moments. Who are those guys dancing in his driveway? How did his dog end up above him on the route? Where is that music coming from?
9/Ice Mines
Canada
,
2007, 30 minutes
Directed and Produced by Will Gadd
Website: www.gravsports.com
Rating: Parental Guidance: Coarse Language
Focus: Ice climbing
What's an ice climber to do in the age of global warming? Go underground. Deep underground. Five years
ago Will Gadd heard rumours of ice hidden in the blackness of abandoned mines in Sweden. Gadd and his friend Andreas Spak explore the mines, finding challenge, danger, and amazing ice formations.
9/In- Flux
France
, 2005, 17 minutes
Directed and Produced by David Arnaud
Website: www.thinkliquid.net
Rating: Parental Guidance: No Advisory
Focus: Kayaking
In-Flux
is about the true meaning of paddling - the perpetual need to go and travel the globe with your kayak in search of the magic something you can
find only on the river. Shot in Italy, Canada, Norway, and the Reunion islands, the film combines adrenaline-driven action and remarkable natural wonders.
10/
Inner Balance
Canada
, 2007, 5 minutes
Directed and Produced by BrianMacKenzie
Website: www.balanceproductions.ca
Rating: General
Focus: Unicycling
Inner Balance features some of the top riders in their respective riding styles from Canada, USA, New Zealand, and Australia. Riders take unicycling to the next level with amazing drops and trials riding in a massive indoor bike park. You won't believe what's possible on a unicycle.
11/King Lines: Es Pontas
USA
, 2007, 13 minutes
Directed and Produced by Josh Lowell and PeterMortimer
Website: www.senderfilms.com, www.bigupproductions.com
Rating: General
Focus: Climbing
A segment from King Lines, filmed on location in Mallorca, Spain. This spectacular segment captures Chris Sharma's challenging ascent of the Es Pontas arch. Deep water soloing at its best.
12/La Ventana
Venezuela, 2007, 21 minutes
Directed and Produced by Federico Pisani
Website: N/A
Rating: General
Focus: Climbing, Mountaineering
The landscape in Patagonia is breathtaking, and so is its bad weather. In this film, a group of Venezuelans are determined to write their own story on Cerro Torre and St. Exupéry, beautiful and icy giants of granite. But only the winds decide when. Patience and motivation are essential in order to endure the harsh conditions. Sometimes, the mountains show themselves in their best light and allow us to visit this vertical and forbidden world.
13/The Western Lands - Hoy
Best
Short
Mountain
Film
UK
, 2007, 9 minutes
Directed and Produced by Grant Gee
Website: N/A
Rating: General, contains suggestive language
Focus: Climbing, Human Interest
Writer Jim Perrin's attempted climb of the Old Man of Hoy on his 60th birthday. A poetic documentary of love, loss and landscape under the dying of the light.
Le Banff Mountain Film Festival World Tour est produit par la section Mountain Culture du "Banff Centre". Cette tournée regroupe les films présentés lors du Banff Mountain Film Festival, qui a lieu chaque année en novembre au Banff Centre à Banff, Alberta, Canada. Cette année en compétition, il y a eu plus de 300 films entrées de plus de 38 pays.
Le Banff Mountain Film Festival World Tour fait le tour du monde, en passant par l'Amérique du Nord, du Sud, l'Europe, l'Afrique du Sud & l'Inde. Vivez l'expérience du Banff Mountain Film Festival World Tour à l'Argentière - La Bessée le 11 janvier 2008.