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| Banff Mountain Festival films announced |
Stephanie
Marshall
Entertainment Beat |
Appalachian Outdoor
Programs is bringing the Banff Mountain Film Festival to Boone March
27 and 28 in I.G. Greer Auditorium.
“This is an outdoor film festival that was started in Alberta,
Canada about 27 years ago and has grown into the world’s premiere
film festival that highlights and showcases films that deal with
mountain cultures, sports and environments,” Outdoor Programs
Coordinator Rich H. Campbell said Tuesday. “The Banff Film
Festival really captures the spirit of the people that live and
play in the mountains and call the mountains their home.”
That is why the film festival is such a good fit for Boone and why
Outdoor Programs has brought it to Boone for the last seven years,
Campbell said.
Every year the Banff Mountain Film Festival attracts 6,000 to 7,000
people during its premiere in November and has about 200 to 300
films submitted by individuals and professional filmmakers from
all over the world, Campbell said.
“This year about 30 different countries are represented in
this film festival, so it truly is a world-wide film festival,”
Campbell said.
On the last Sunday of the festival, after viewing these several
hundred submitted films, the jury and audience vote on the films
and pick the best 30 to 40 to take worldwide, Campbell said.
With these films, the festival hits about 250 locations, including
all of North America, Europe, Asia, Australia and New Zealand, Campbell
said.
“Each venue gets to choose their own films. We can choose from
the 30 to 40 films the films we think will resonate most with the
community here and on campus,” Campbell said.
“What we will do is pick about two-and-a-half hours worth of
film each night,” Campbell said.
Depending on the films Outdoor Programs chooses, there will be about
seven to eight films shown a night, Campbell said.
The Banff Film Festival will also send a representative that will
run the whole evening, pulling it all together, Campbell said.
The representative will tell stories about the filmmakers, describe
the different aspects of the film, talk about the importance of
some environmental issues and much more, Campbell said.
Some films the Outdoor Programs have chosen are, “Escape over
the Himalayas-Tibet’s Children on their Journey into Exile,”
“The Second Step-Warren Macdonald’s Epic Journey to Federation
Peak,” “The Essence of Adolescence,” “WhiteTrax,”
“The Yenisey River Expedition,” “Anomaly,” “Shepherd
Women of Shambala” and “A Matter of Doubt,” Campbell
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