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Banff Mountain Film Festival - Day 1

Tuesday, February 23, 2016, 07:30pm

Best of the 40th Annual Banff Mountain Film Festival World Tour
Day 1: TUE, FEB 23 / 7:30 PM / ARLINGTON THEATRE (128 min.)
Paradise Waits (special edit)
USA, 2015, 7 minutes / Filmmakers: Teton Gravity Research
How do you celebrate winter when snow finally falls? Freeskier Tim Durtschi takes tram laps at Jackson Hole and big
mountain skier Angel Collinson rips up some Alaskan lines.
Project Mina (special edit)
United Kingdom, 2014, 17 minutes / Filmmaker: Jen Randall
A rare, intimate, behind?the?scenes look at the life of pro climber Mina Leslie?Wujastyk during a season on the world
cup bouldering circuit.
The Last Dragons
USA, 2014, 10 minutes / Filmmakers: Jeremy Monroe, David Herasimtschuk
An intimate glimpse at North America's Eastern Hellbender, an ancient salamander as mythical as it is real. And in
many waters, myths are all that remain of these sentinel stream?dwellers.
Chasing Niagara (special edit)
Best Film – Mountain Sports – sponsored by Sea & Summit
USA, 2015, 31 minutes / Filmmakers: Red Bull Media House GmbH, Rush Sturges
When pro kayaker Rafa Ortiz decides to paddle over Niagara Falls, he sets in motion a series of events leading his team
on a remarkable two?year journey from Mexican rainforest rivers to the waterfalls of the U.S. Northwest before coming
to a heart?stopping climax at the iconic falls. (Mature language)
Intermission
The Rocky Mountains Traverse (special edit)
Canada, 2015, 25 minutes / Filmmakers: Bryan Smith, David Pearson
When Will Gadd and Gavin McGlurg decided they wanted to define a bold new style in paragliding, they could not have
picked a more vegetated, convoluted and downright burly route to test their concept. With one simple rule of only
being able to make forward progress in the air, they set off on a 700?kilometer traverse of the Canadian Rockies.
(Mature language)
Salween Spring
USA, 2015, 9 minutes / Filmmaker: Will Stauffer?Norris
Travis Winn has been running rivers in China for 15 years. He’s explored first descents, but also watched rivers
disappear behind dams. Now he’s founded a rafting company to bring Chinese to see their rivers before they’re gone. A
film about change, personal struggle, and kayaking along China’s frontier.
Climbing Ice: The Iceland Trifecta
USA, 2015, 17 minutes
Filmmakers: Chris MacAskill, Anton Lorimer
Join award?winning photographer Tim Kemple and ice climbers Klemen Premrl and Rahel Schelb for an expedition to
Iceland’s Vatnajökull Glacier to discover new ways to push the boundaries of climbing ice. (Mature language)
unReal (special edit)
USA, 2015, 12 minutes / Filmmaker: Teton Gravity Research
Imagine a world where you ride the perfect trail perfectly, and sometime snow isn’t the only stuff that falls from the
sky. When you spend all of your time at work dreaming about mountain biking, which life is real?