The World Tour brings all the excitement of the Banff Centre Mountain Film and Book Festival to audiences around the globe. This year’s tour features a collection of the most inspiring action, environmental, and adventure films from the festival. Travelling to exotic landscapes and remote cultures and bringing audiences up-close and personal with adrenaline-packed action sports, the 2017/2018 World Tour is an exhilarating and provocative exploration of the mountain world.
From approximately 400 films entered the annual festival, award-winning films and audience favourites are among the films chosen to travel the globe. The 2017-2018 World Tour is on the road in over 550 locations and 40 countries bringing audience favourites and special tour edits to a location near you.
Alberta Tour Dates:
Calgary (U of C)
January 15, 16, 17, 18, 20, 20, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 26, 27, 27, 2019
Tickets available at MEC Calgary
Tickets on-line at www.mountainfilm.ca
403-714-2402
info@mountainfilm.ca
Evening shows each night plus matinees on Saturday & Sunday
Edmonton
January 11, 12, 12, 13, 13, 15, 16, 17, 2019
Track ‘n Trail
780-432-1707
Two shows Saturday & Sunday at 1:30 pm & 7:30 pm
Fort McMurray
January 10, 11, 2019
Wood Buffalo Regional Library
780-792-5138
nicole.andrews@wbrl.ca
Grande Prairie
January 12, 13, 14, 2019
Wapiti Nordic Ski Club
For tickets and information contact the Revolution Place Box Office
780-538-0387
jodihenry74@gmail.com
Jasper
December 9, 2018
Chaba Theatre
780-852-3484
Lethbridge
January 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 2019
Lethbridge Public Library
403-380-7310
Medicine Hat
January 14, 15, 2019
Medicine Hat Public Library
403-502-8525
Valhalla Pure
403-487-5474
Venue: Esplanade Arts and Heritage Centre
Tickets available at all locations
Olds
January 19, 2019
Olds Municipal Library
403-556-6460
oml@prl.ab.ca
Red Deer
January 9, 10, 11, 2019
Kerry Wood Nature Centre
403-346-2010
Kathryn.Huedepohl@waskasoopark.ca
There are 36 films on the 2018/2019 World Tour. Please note not all films will play in every location – a standard program will have between six and ten films.
Are you ready for some inspiration? Live vicariously and experience rock climbing, riding a fast horse, paddling a canoe through the Inside Passage, cave diving, free ride mountain biking and other amazing mountain adventures. Watch the short trailers for some of the films.
Fast Horse
Fast House follows the return of the Blackfoot bareback horseracing tradition in a new form: the Indian Relay. Siksika horseman Allison Red Crow struggles to build a team with second-hand horses and a new jockey, Cody Big Tobacco, to take on the best riders in the Blackfoot Confederacy at the Calgary Stampede.
https://vimeo.com/236145346 | 60 second trailer
The Passage
In 1974 a small determined team built their own canoes, launched them into the Pacific, and became some the first people in modern history to canoe from Washington to Alaska up the Inside Passage. The Passage is a story about revisiting that journey, fathers and sons, and the wild places that define us.
Year: 2018
Country: United States
Director: Nate Dappen
Producer: Nate Dappen
Production Company: Day’s Edge Productions
The Ario Dream
This is a gripping account of expedition-style cave exploration and at the apex are the cave divers, pushing into the unknown in deep sumps where rescue is not an option. The tension, as each diver disappears into the blackness, is genuine…
Production Company: Hot Aches Productions
Boy Nomad
Nine year old Janibek lives with his family in Mongolia’s Altai Mountains. His first love is racing horses, but this winter, his father will bring him on the toughest journey in a nomad’s life: the winter migration.
Production Company: Handful of Films
Brothers of Climbing
Production Company: Cause+Effect
Craig’s Reaction
The Moment
Country: Canada
Director: Darcy Hennessey Turenne
Producer: Darcy Hennessey Turenne
Sacred Strides
Year: 2018
Country: United States
Director: Marie Sullivan, Forest Woodward, Anna Callaghan
Producer: Anna Callaghan, Marie Sullivan
Production Company: Outside Magazine
Surviving the Outback
Could you survive alone across hundreds of kilometres of remote outback for a whole month, trekking and sailing on a makeshift raft, with nothing but a time capsule of antique stuff from 1932? Mike wasn’t sure he could pull it off either!
And my own personal inspirational favourite…
Jacques is an 82 year old, badass athlete, but the real story is how he inspires us with his contagious love of life, epic tales of survival and his ability to counter aging through laughter.
See more about tour dates and films at: www.banffcentre.ca/2018-19-world-tour-films
General Inquiries
World Tour Program Coordinator
Phone: 403.762.6104
Email: worldtourinfo@banffcentre.ca
Jim Baker, Manager
Phone: 403.762.6423
Email: jim_baker@banffcentre.ca