2018 Banff Centre Mountain Film and Book Festival Program by Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity

Program Full film schedule inside.

Oct 27 – Nov 4 2018 banffmountainfestival.ca

DELICIOUS EVENTS IN BANFF AND LAKE LOUISE THIS FALL From October 26 to November 4, top chefs in Banff and Lake Louise will be creating food as awe-inspiring and adventurous as the landscape. Whether you want to relive your exhilarating outdoor adventures or just relax after the festivities, there are plenty of appetizing events and experiences to nourish your senses.

RISE ‘N SHINE BREAKFAST

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FESTIVAL FEASTS

Enjoy a delicious dinner before heading to an evening film screening.

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Après Film Charcuterie Platter $25pp Available between 4 p.m. – 10 p.m.

EDEN, RIMROCK RESORT HOTEL

GRAPES, FAIRMONT BANFF SPRINGS HOTEL

4-course dinner for $59pp

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3-course set menu for $59pp Available between 5 p.m. – 6.30 p.m.

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$10 Cocktail + $10 Appy Available 4 p.m. – 6 p.m. and 9 p.m. - close

THE VERMILLION ROOM, FAIRMONT BANFF SPRINGS HOTEL 3-course lunch for $40pp Available weekdays from 12 p.m. – 3 p.m.

Please present your 2018 Banff Centre Mountain Film and Book Festival ticket to receive this offer. *Offers subject to change.

Free corkage Available Sunday - Thursday

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Banff Centre is the only time you can wear hiking boots to a concert hall. Banff Centre is art that’s breathtaking. At an altitude that doesn’t help. Banff Centre is “I wish I could do that”. Banff Centre is

Welcome to the Festival On behalf of the Festival team, welcome to Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity. Located on Treaty 7 Territory, we acknowledge the past, present, and future generations of Stoney Nakoda, Blackfoot and Tsuu T’ina Nations who help us steward this land as well as honour and celebrate this place.

Image courtesy Banff Centre © Jessica Wittman

In our experience, the mountain community has always been a welcoming one. We relish time spent together in the hills and at the Festival, and we all enjoy seeing the reactions of first-timers to Banff. The stories told here are as diverse and as wide as this great mountain range we live in and we are proud to say that this year’s program includes more global voices than ever before. Films like The Weight of Water, Craig’s Reaction, and Stumped show us that physical disability never means inability and we watch in awe at the achievements of these athletes. From circumnavigating the globe, to outrageously long treks, to weekend trail runs, Sarah Outen, J.R. Harris, and Mirna Valerio (The Mirnavator) ask us to re-define the characteristics that make us adventurers. The possibilities seem as endless as the personalities who identify themselves as explorers, mountaineers or outdoorsy folk. And the Brotherhood of Skiing and Bawli Booch remind us how much fun we can have along the way.

Treeline, Big Lonely Doug, and Bird of Prey suggest that all living beings can have relationships and as humans we should try to understand how our natural world speaks to us both literally and metaphorically. Our human connection to the outdoors supersedes gender, age, and ancestry. Understanding our place in the world in the present moment hints at only splinters of a relationship that has existed for millennia, the depth of which we have yet to comprehend as the film Cielo reveals. Plan C-14 11, For the Love of Mary, and The Frenchy make us step out of the societal constraints of age and dive back into the youthful spirit that makes us all wide-eyed, first time adventurers. Stepping out of our comfort zone is something we do well at the Festival, just as Montréal based DJ JaBig does when he decides to Escape the city and cycle to the Arctic Circle. Free Solo and The Dawn Wall leave the idea of a comfort zone far behind, and Andrzej Bargiel knows what it means to put everything on the line as he skis down 8000-metre peaks in No Ski No Fun. The relationship with yourself sometimes speaks loudest when your natural environment offers little sympathy. So what does it mean to call yourself a mountaineer or an explorer? The answers are as diverse as the stories we celebrate at this festival and the people who tell them. But we know one thing for sure, the outdoors will always pull us together.

Deb Smythe Festival Director

Joanna Croston Programming Director

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Festival at a Glance Saturday

Sunday

Monday

Tuesday

Wednesday

OCTOBER 27

OCTOBER 28

OCTOBER 29

OCTOBER 30

OCTOBER 31

Mountain Art and Craft Sale

Mountain Art Exhibitions

Infused with Adventure: Reception and Dinner

The Snow Show

11 a.m. – 7:30 p.m. Free | pg. 9/11

11 a.m. – 5 p.m. Free | pg. 9/11

Various venues Free | pg. 42/43

6:30 p.m. | pg. 48

Opening Weekend Film Screenings

Mountain Artwalk

Kids Program Films

12 p.m., 3:30 p.m. pg. 8, 9

4 p.m. | Free pg. 8

Leo Houlding – Spectre Expedition 7:30 p.m. | pg. 9

Radical Reels

7:30 p.m. | pg. 16

The Dirtbag Café: Paul McSorley 7:30 p.m. | pg. 17

7:30 p.m. | pg. 14

12 p.m., 3:30 p.m., 7:30 p.m. pg. 10/11

3 pm | Free | pg. 36

Youth Adventure Photography Workshop

9 a.m – 4 p.m. | pg. 36

Films in Competition 7:30 p.m. | pg. 9

Opening Night Party

Live Music with Rapidgrass Maclab Bistro 10 p.m. | $15 Cover

Youth Adventure Photography Workshop

9 a.m – 4 p.m. | pg. 36

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Lux Cinema Screenings Throughout the Festival See pages 40–41

Mountain Art Exhibitions Throughout the Festival See pages 42–43

FREE Events and Learning Opportunities For all free events and special partner events, see pages 36–37

Thursday

Friday

Saturday

Sunday

NOVEMBER 1

NOVEMBER 2

NOVEMBER 3

NOVEMBER 4

Pat Morrow, Jeremy Schmidt Jan Redford

Voices of Adventure: Doug Scott

Mountain Marketplace

All Day Films: Program A

All Day Films: Program B

Indigenous Dialogues – Storytelling

Diversity in the Outdoors

10 – 11:30 a.m. | pg. 18

10 – 11:30 a.m. | pg. 22

Judith Matloff

Waymaking

Harley Rustad Bob Shepton

Mick Fowler David Roberts

12:30 – 1:45 p.m. | pg. 18

2 – 3:30 p.m. | pg. 19

Summit Cinema

Mountain Marketplace

Kate Harris, Book Awards and Films

9 a.m. – 5:30 p.m. | pg. 26/27

9 a.m. – 5:30 p.m. | pg. 28/29

4:30 p.m. | Free | pg. 22

7 p.m. – 10 p.m. Free | pg. 37

The Bikes of Wrath

12:30 p.m. | Free pg. 36/37

Nature Photo/ Adventure Video Seminar 3 p.m. – 6 p.m. Free | pg. 37

7 p.m. | pg. 25

By Phone: 1.800.413.8368 or 403.762.6301 In Person: Banff Centre Box Office See page 46 for hours of operation

9 a.m. – 5:30 p.m. | pg. 28/29

2 – 3:30 p.m. | pg. 22

Tales and Ales: A Mountain Reading

6 p.m. | pg. 36

9 a.m. – 5:30 p.m. | pg. 26/27

8 a.m. – 4 p.m. | pg. 37

12:30 – 1:45 p.m. | pg. 22

Old Style Storytelling

4:30 – 5:30 p.m. Free | pg. 19

8 a.m. – 10 p.m. | pg. 37

Purchase your tickets

12:30 p.m. | Free pg. 39

Kids Program – Mountain Art

Online: banffmountainfestival.ca Program subject to change.

2 pm | Free | pg. 37

Kids Program Films

@BanffMtnFest

3 pm | Free | pg. 37

Mountain Gallery Hop

7:30 p.m. | pg. 21

Tommy Caldwell and Films 8 p.m. | pg. 23

J.R. Harris and Films

8 p.m. | pg. 24

Films in Competition 8 p.m. | pg. 23

Ascending Afghanistan

9:30 p.m. | pg. 25

3 p.m. – 6 p.m. Free | pg. 45

Dreamland 7 p.m. | pg. 33

Best of the Festival

7:30 p.m. | pg. 35

Dining in Banff

This Mountain Life and Films

Discover delicious events in the Banff area during the Festival:

The Weight of Water and Films

Rise ‘n Shine Breakfasts, Festival Feasts, Banff ’s Best Bites, and Special Dining Events!

Sarah Outen and Films

See Banff and Lake Louise ad on the cover page 3.

Trembling Mountain

Find out more about dining at Banff Centre on page 48-49.

8 p.m. | pg. 30

8 p.m. | pg. 31

8 p.m. | pg. 32

9:30 p.m. | pg. 33 Photo, left: From the film In the Starlight © Paul Zizka

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Saturday, October 27

Opening Weekend 12 P.M. FILM PROGRAM #1 | ERIC HARVIE THEATRE | $15

3:30 P.M. FILM PROGRAM #2 | ERIC HARVIE THEATRE | $15

Bawli Booch

This special flight program is screened in partnership with: Coupe Icare, St. Hilaire du Touvet – Lumbin, France.

(India, 2017, 4 min) Director: Anuj Khurana* Producer: 4Play.in* Production Company: 4Play Media And Communication LLP

Embark on a zany twowheeled journey with Raj Kaushal, as he traverses through the streets, alleys, and forests of Manali, India.

Sacred Strides (USA, 2018, 12 min) Directors: Forest Woodward, Anna Callaghan, Marie Sullivan Producers: Anna Callaghan and Marie Sullivan Production Company: Outside Magazine

Bears Ears National Monument is a public land under threat. In 2017, a group of Native American tribes put their differences aside and ran 1280 kilometres to Bears Ears to send a message of unity.

Liv Along the Way (Canada, 2018, 22 min) CANADIAN PREMIERE Directors and Producers: Mike Douglas and Anthony Bonello Production Company: Switchback Entertainment

At 40 years old, Liv set out from her base in Chamonix, France to attempt to climb all 82 of the 4000-metre peaks in the Alps in a year. As she’s learned throughout her life, things don’t always go as planned. .

1:05 P.M. (BREAK, 20 MIN)

Ramsay's Round (Scotland, 2018, 21 min) NORTH AMERICAN PREMIERE Directors and Producers: Claire MacLeod and Dave MacLeod Production Company: Rare Breed Productions

Ultra-marathon runner Alicia Hudelson embarks upon one of Scotland’s toughest long distance challenges – 24 Scottish mountains, ascending 8500 metres, in 24 hours.

Kindred (Canada, 2018, 10 min) WORLD PREMIERE Director: Zoya Lynch* Producer: Izzy Lynch* Production Company: Cedar Street Creative

Sometimes you just have to say yes to adventure and figure out the details later. How a single leap-of-faith led a city-based family on the unlikely journey of becoming backcountry lodge owners, in one of the most beautiful settings on earth.

Altay Wild Snow (China, 2017, 28 min) Director: Li Shuang Producer: Zhang Dun Nan

Travel into the remote landscapes of the Altai Mountains and learn about the birthplace and the cultural origins of skiing.

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Hourya (France, 2018, 10 min) NORTH AMERICAN PREMIERE Directors and Producers: Laurent Roudneff and Quentin Chaumy

Fly above the ancient sands of the Moroccan coastline. Let your spirit soar with lightness and the feeling of Hourya.

Canada (Canada, 2018, 4 min) Director and Producer: Rachel Peressini* A program of Take Me Outside

Bird of Prey (USA, 2017, 95 min) CANADIAN PREMIERE Director: Eric Liner* Producers: Eric Liner and John Bowman Production Company: The Cornell Lab of Ornithology

Wildlife cinematographer Neil Rettig embarks on what could be the most challenging assignment of his career: to find and film the rarest eagle on the planet – the Great Philippine Eagle.

Mountain Artwalk 4 P.M. | FREE Meeting Place: Eric Harvie Theatre Patio

Explore mountain art and photography exhibits on Banff Centre campus. See page 42 for exhibitions.

7:30 P.M. FILM PROGRAM | ERIC HARVIE THEATRE | $35

7:30 P.M. | MARGARET GREENHAM THEATRE | $25

Leo Houlding – Spectre Expedition

In The Starlight

The Silver Branch

(France, 2018, 53 min) Director: Mathieu Le Lay* Producer: Valérie Grenon Production Company: Camera Lucida Productions

(Ireland, 2018, 74 min) NORTH AMERICAN PREMIERE Director: Katrina Costello Producer: Ken O Sullivan Production Company: Sea Fever Productions

Tonight's program begins with the presentation of the 2018 Summit of Excellence Award to Jacques Olek. Over 350 kilometres away from their destination of the Antarctic’s remote Gothic Mountains, climbers Leo Houlding (UK), Jean Burgun (FR) and Mark Sedon (NZ) landed by plane to embark on an ambitious, modern, and innovative expedition. During this 50-day self-supported trip the team endured extreme temperatures, whiteouts, and challenging winds – with a 21-hour non-stop ascent of the Spectre via a new route – before their 1700 kilometre kite ski back to their pick up point. The trio joins us on stage in Banff to share the adventure. Followed by films in competition.

Festival Opening Night Party Saturday, October 27 10 p.m. | MacLab Bistro $15 cover at the door

Join the Festival team and special guests for an opening party with live music, featuring bluegrass band Rapidgrass

8:50 P.M. (BREAK, 20 MIN)

FAST HORSE (Canada, 2018, 14 min) Director: Alexandra Lazarowich* Producer: Niobe Thompson* Production Company: Handful of Films

FAST HORSE follows the return of the Blackfoot bareback horse racing 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.

An intimate portrait exploring the passionate spirit of the celebrated local photographer Paul Zizka. Most of his photographs are taken in the mountain environment, during the darkest hours of the night under starfilled skies. While going on new astrophotography adventures, Paul finds balancing family, travel and work one of his biggest challenges. 8:35 P.M. (BREAK, 15 MIN)

The Moment

The Silver Branch is a philosophical visual poem on the life of a peasant farmer/poet Patrick McCormack, descendant of generations of farmers who live off the wild mountains in the West of Ireland. Patrick and his rural community are drawn into a divisive battle with the Government, leading him to the European supreme courts to decide on the fate of this iconic wilderness. * In person

(Canada, 2017, 74 min) Director and Producer: Darcy Hennessey Turenne*

In the backwoods of British Columbia, three small but dedicated crews of adventure seekers were quietly changing the course of a sport and carving their paths in history. The Moment captures the birth and success of the original free ride mountain bike movement.

Photos, this page: From the film In the Starlight © Paul Zizka; Opposite page: From the film Ramsay's Round © Dave MacLeod

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Sunday, October 28

Opening Weekend 12 P.M. FILM PROGRAM #3 | ERIC HARVIE THEATRE | $15

Choices (USA, 2017, 2 min) Director: Tim Dacosta* Producer: Caleb Weaver* Production Company: Lightbulb Media and Listen Up Media

A mountain biker has an amazing menu of rides to choose from – but which will he pick?

Derrik Pottle, Keeper of the Flame (Canada, 2017, 7 min) WORLD PREMIERE Director and Producer: Jason van Bruggen* Production Company: DOT DOT DASH

Derrick Pottle is an Inuit hunter, guide, and carver from Nuntsiavut, Labrador. Having grown up on the land, he relies on his 60year observations around the temporal and cultural impacts of climate change.

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Children of the Snow Land (UK/Nepal, 2017, 93 min) NORTH AMERICAN PREMIERE Directors/Producers: Zara Balfour and Marcus Stephenson Production Company: Mayfly TV and Picture on the Wall

A coming-of-age voyage in which children trek from their adopted city school all the way back to their birthplace in the highest inhabited villages on earth, to reconnect with family and an ancient way of life, and to make peace with those who gave them up for a ‘better’ life.

Photos, this page top: From the film Derrick Pottle © Jason van Bruggen; middle: From the film Children of the Snow Land; bottom: From the film Choices © Caleb Weaver; Opposite page top: From the film For the Love of Mary © Simon Perkins; bottom: From the film Break On Through © Matty Hong

Mountain Art And Craft Sale Saturday, Oct. 27 11 A.M. – 7:30 P.M.

3:30 P.M. FILM PROGRAM #4 | ERIC HARVIE THEATRE | $15

For the Love of Mary (USA, 2018, 6 min) Directors and Producers: Simon Perkins and Kirk Horton Production Company: Sharptail Media & Little Bear Creative

When 97-year-old runner George Etzweiler dons his lucky ancient green running shorts, he's not just running to the summit of Mt. Washington, Etzweiler carries something else special with him: the memory of his late wife of 68 years.

REEL ROCK 12: Break on Through (USA, 2017, 26 min) Directors: Peter Mortimer, Matty Hong, Nick Rosen Producer: Zachary Barr Production Company: REEL ROCK

Margo Hayes, a little-known 19 year old from Boulder, Colorado, has moved to Europe to train and climb with the goal of succeeding on two of the most iconic 5.15s in France and Spain. But by pushing her body and mind to the absolute limit, she risks injury and failure in her quest to be the first.

BREATH (ALIENTO) (Mexico, 2018, 17 min) WORLD PREMIERE Director and Producer: Ulises Fierro Production Company

Sunday, Oct. 28 11 A.M. – 5 P.M. Eric Harvie Theatre – Lobby | Free

Find unique mountainthemed art and handcrafted items.

Fear, breathing, movement, presence. Breath is an inside look at Margarita Cardoso’s process to climb one of the most technically difficult and beautiful sport climbing routes at Los Dinamos, Mexico City.

No Ski No Fun (Poland, 2015, 32 min) Director and Producer: Dariusz Zaluski

Andrzej Bargiel is one of the best ski alpinists in the world. His rural upbringing in Poland and his competitive nature have put him on course to climb and ski some of the highest peaks of the Himalaya.

4:15 P.M. (BREAK, 20 MIN)

* In person

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Sunday, October 28

Opening Weekend 7:30 P.M. FILM PROGRAM #5 | ERIC HARVIE THEATRE | $15 The 2018 Banff Mountain Photo Essay Competition Grand Prize will be presented to winner Beth Wald.

Ingrained (USA, 2017, 8 min) CANADIAN PREMIERE Directors: Jimmy Chin & WRKSHRT Producer: Shannon Ethridge Production Company: WRKSHRT

Growing up as a ranch kid in tiny Ten Sleep, Wyoming, Mark Carter was raised on small-town realities like fixing a fence, branding cattle, and herding steers across the sage-strewn acreage. Not exactly a typical candidate for a professional snowboarder.

Eighth Wonder (USA, 2018, 8 min) WORLD PREMIERE Director and Producer: Ryan Peterson Production Company: Alaskanist Stories/Yeti Presents

Set in the world's biggest, rowdiest salmon fishery of Bristol Bay, Alaska, this is the humourous story of a woman who quits her mid-career job as a scientist to become a commercial fisherman and her unlikely mentorship within a gang of young party dudes.

Life of Glide (USA, 2017, 16 min) Director: Todd Jones Production: Teton Gravity Research

Big Mountain rider Jeremy Jones dissects his lifelong passion for the simple and sacred feeling he calls, "The Glide".

Brothers of Climbing (USA, 2017, 7 min) Director: Duncan Sullivan Producer: Luke Boelitz Production Company: Cause+Effect

How can you be what you can’t see? Mikhail Martin, co-founder of Brothers of Climbing said, “I literally typed, ‘Are there black climbers?’ in Google … someone said, ‘black people don’t climb.'" 8:35 P.M. (BREAK, 20 MIN)

* In person

Photos, left: From the film Eighth Wonder © Ryan Peterson; right: From the film Free Solo

Free Solo (USA, 2018, 119 min) Directors: Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi and Jimmy Chin Producer: Evan Hayes Production Company: Lonely Films

From award-winning documentary filmmaker E. Chai Vasarhelyi (MERU) and world-renowned photographer and mountaineer Jimmy Chin comes National Geographic Documentary Film’s Free Solo, a stunning, intimate and unflinching portrait of the free soloist climber Alex Honnold, as he prepares to achieve his lifelong dream: climbing the face of the world’s most famous rock, the 900-metre El Capitan in Yosemite National Park... without a rope.

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Monday, October 29

Radical Reels 7:30 P.M. | ERIC HARVIE THEATRE (LIVE) / MARGARET GREENHAM THEATRE (SIMULCAST) | $25 Sponsored by Dan Sparks & Associates. Radical Reels is a Banff tradition for all ages, bursting with high-energy films of extreme sports, crazy adventures, and wild athletes.

Ride of the Dead (USA, 2017, 12 min) CANADIAN PREMIERE Director: Michael Parenteau Producer: Lindsey Hagen* Production Company: Stept. LLC

Enter into the world of Oaxacan mountain bike culture during Mexico's famous annual celebration known as Dia De Los Muertos.

Silence (Czech Republic, 2018, 18 min) Director: Bernardo Giminez Producer: Pavel Blazek Production Company: AO Production s.r.o

Adam Ondra is one of the best climbers in the world and he made a little piece of climbing history when he finally sent his project, Silence (9c/5.15d) in the spectacular Hanshelleren Cave in Norway.

Photos, top: From the film Ride of the Dead © Lindsey Hagen; bottom: From the film Beautiful Idiot © Robb Thompson

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Holocene (Japan, 2018, 12 min) WORLD PREMIERE Director: Yuta Watanabe* Producer: Ranyo Tanaka* Production Company: Rightup Inc.

Join two riders from Japan as they dive into the cultural history of the Dolomites, clattering up Via Ferratas, and shredding down couloirs along the way.

Beautiful Idiot (Canada, 2018, 15 min) Director: Harrison Mendel* and Robb Thompson* Producer: Harrison Mendel Production Company: GRAIN

Take a wild ride through the mindset and motivations of those who feel driven to pursue greatness, how it feels to fall short, and the consequences of reaching a lofty goal when the struggle to get there has defined you for so long.

The Mountain Idol Competion

Stumped (USA, 2017, 25 min) Directors: Cedar Wright and Taylor Keating Producer: Cedar Wright Production Company: Cedar Wright Productions

Maureen Beck has never let the fact that she is missing her lower left arm hold her back from climbing. She doesn't want to be considered a good onearmed climber or a good female climber, she just wants to be a good climber. 9:15 P.M. (BREAK, 20 MIN)

Perspectives // India (USA, 2018, 5 min) WORLD PREMIERE Director: Scott Secco* Producer: Brandon Watts Production Company: Freehub Media

Professional mountain bike athlete and artist Micayla Gatto adventures to the Indian Himalayas to experience the culture with her unique artistic perception.

Inside the Indus – A Pakistani Odyssey (France, 2017, 27 min ) CANADIAN PREMIERE Director: Ciarán Heurteau* Producer: Mike Dawson Production Company: Twelve Productions

Celebrate youth, sport, and the spirit of the outdoors with the Mountain Idol competition. The 2018 Mountain Idol will be announced on-stage during Radical Reels. Mountain Idol is sponsored by Banff Mount Norquay, Rab, and Alpine Club of Canada. banffmountainfestival.ca/idol

An international team of kayakers heads to Pakistan to attempt a descent of the fabled Rondu Gorge, on the Indus river. Hidden behind a wall of political and security factors meant it had been eight years since the last expedition had ventured into the gorge.

Notes from the Wall (Belgium, 2017, 34 min) NORTH AMERICAN PREMIERE Directors: Nicolas Favresse, Sean Villanueva O'Driscoll, Siebe Vanhee Producer: Guillaume Lion and Siebe Vanhee

In February 2017 three of world’s best and fun-loving climbers, Sean Villanueva O'Driscoll, Nicolas Favresse, and Siebe Vanhee freeclimbed one of the hardest routes of Patagonia, “El Regalo de Mwono”, a 1200-metre-high route on the east side of Torre Central, Torres del Paine.

* In person

Photos, top: From the film Stumped; bottom: From the film Silence © Pavel Klement

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Wednesday, October 31

The Snow Show 7:30 P.M. | ERIC HARVIE THEATRE | $25 Sponsored by The Lake Louise Ski Resort and Summer Gondola Wait no more! It’s time for fresh tracks and big air in our annual night of snow films to get you stoked for the winter.

Skier Vs. Drone (Canada, 2018, 4 min) NORTH AMERICAN PREMIERE Director: Mike Douglas Producer: Mike Douglas and Mike Gamble Production Company: Switchback Entertainment

It's the classic battle of man vs. machine but Olympic Bronze Medalist ski racer, Victor Muffat-Jeandet isn't worried.

The Faction Collective Presents: La Grave (Switzerland, 2018, 17 min) Director: Etienne Mérel Producer: Tim Harty Production Company: The Faction Collective

Sam Anthamatten and Johnny Collinson travel to La Grave to push the limits of steep skiing and discover what makes La Grave so unique – a mythic freeride location where time stops.

HOJI (USA, 2018, 50 min) Director: Scott Gaffney Producers: Murray Wais and Steve Winter Production Company: Matchstick Productions

Eric Hjorleifson* lets his skiing speak for itself. He doesn’t stand on the bar and shout out his accolades. He chases storms. He ditches his cell phone for weeks at a time. His exploits are rarely flaunted on social media. In spite of all of this – or maybe because of it – he is a hero to legions of skiers across the globe. This is who Eric is – this is “HOJI.” 9 P.M. (BREAK, 20 MIN)

Ice & Palms (Germany, 2018, 32 min) NORTH AMERICAN PREMIERE Directors and Producers: Philipp Becker, Jochen Mesle, Johannes Müller Production Company: El Flamingo Films

Bikepacking, summiting mountains, AND skiing some iconic lines along the way, friends Max and Jochen have one dream – 5 weeks, 1,800 km and 35,000 vertical metres self-propelled across the Alps.

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The Dirtbag Café 7:30 PM | THE CLUB, THEATRE COMPLEX | $15

Children of the Columbia: A Skier’s Odyssey (Canada, 2018, 20 min) WORLD PREMIERE Director: Jay MacMillan, Mitchell Scott* Producer: Mitchell Scott* Production Company: Sherpas Cinema

A cultural ski journey up the historically-charged waters of the Columbia River in interior British Columbia.

The Sky Piercer (New Zealand, 2018, 42 min) Director: Jason Hancox Producers: Jason Hancox, Martin Winkler, Beanie De Le Rue Production Company: CoLab Creative

With three weeks to prepare and scope the West face of Aoraki, Xavier De Le Rue and Nadine Waller are confident that they will have the opportunity to tackle the mountain, but local Sam Smoothy knows that weather in New Zealand is not so kind.

The Dirtbag Café with Paul McSorley After discovering climbing on the crags of Ontario’s Niagara Escarpment as a teenager, Paul McSorley found his calling. Over the last twenty years Paul has become one of Canada’s most respected alpinists – traveling the world from Pakistan to Patagonia, making first ascents on big alpine walls and many new friends along the way.

Photos: opposite page, top: From the film Ice & Palms © Jochen Mesle; bottom: From the film Hoji; this page, left: From the film The Sky Piercer © Mickey Ross; right: Courtesy of Paul McSorley

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Thursday, November 1

Mountain Books DAYTIME PROGRAMS | MAX BELL BUILDING

Pat Morrow and Jeremy Schmidt Searching for Tao Canyon

Jan Redford

End of the Rope 10 – 11:30 A.M. Max Bell Auditorium | $15

At a time before guidebooks and high-resolution satellite images, Pat Morrow, Jeremy Schmidt, and Art Twomey spent spring and fall seasons over ten years hauling their cameras through the wildest slot canyons they could find in the American Southwest. Together they reveal an exquisite world in Searching for Tao Canyon. Mountains challenge her. Her marriage almost destroys her. And motherhood could have been the breaking point. End of the Rope is a raw climbing memoir from author Jan Redford. How she climbs out of the hole she dug for herself is as thrilling and inspiring as any of her climbs.

Photos, this page, top: © Pat Morrow; bottom: Image courtesy of Bob Shepton Opposite page: Image courtesy of Harley Rustad

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Judith Matloff

No Friends but the Mountains 12:30 – 1:45 P.M. Max Bell Auditorium | $15

Mountainous regions are home to only ten percent of the world’s population yet host a strikingly disproportionate share of the world’s conflicts. Traveling to conflict zones across the world, Judith Matloff sheds light on the drugs, terrorism, and instability cascading down the mountainsides that affect us all in her latest book No Friends but the Mountains.

Harley Rustad

Old Style Storytelling

Captain Reverend Bob Shepton

4:30 P.M. Max Bell Auditorium | $15

Big Lonely Doug

Addicted to Adventure 2 – 3:30 P.M. Max Bell Auditorium | $15

This is the story of how a logger saves Big Lonely Doug, a 60-metre tall Douglas fir. Author Harley Rustad reveals how this single tree is a symbol for the future of both the timber industry and the old-growth conservation movement on Vancouver Island. Trapped in ice off Greenland in a burning ship and losing a mast in the Falklands are just a few of Captain Reverend Bob Shepton’s adventures. Captain Bob is an ordained minister, now in his 80s, who brings to Banff one-ofa-kind tales of his life spent sailing the Arctic and making first ascents of previously inaccessible peaks.

Sit back and enjoy authentic, heartfelt, and unscripted tales from some of the Rockies’ best storytellers including Rob Wood, Gillean and Tony Daffern, Brad White, and Meghan Ward. Hosted by Andrew Brash

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Thursday, November 1

Mountain Books and Films EVENING PROGRAM | 7:30 P.M. | ERIC HARVIE THEATRE | $35 The program begins with the 2018 Banff Mountain Book Competition awards.

Kate Harris, Book Awards – and Film Between sneaking illegally across Tibet, studying the history of science and exploration at Oxford, and staring down a microscope for a doctorate at MIT, Kate Harris has realized that explorers are unconventional. Weaving adventure and reflection, Harris explores the wildness of a world that can never be fully mapped – as she sets off by bicycle down the Silk Road in her latest work, Lands of Lost Borders. 9:10 P.M. (BREAK, 20 MIN)

Cielo (Canada, 2017, 78 min) Director: Alison McAlpine Producers: Alison McAlpine, Paola Castillo, Sean Farnel and Carmen Garcia Production Company: Second Sight Pictures, Errante Producciones

Drifting between spirituality and science, Cielo is a cinematic reverie on the crazy beauty of the night sky, as experienced in the Atacama Desert, Chile, one of the best places on our planet to explore and contemplate its splendour.

* In person Photos, top: From the film Cielo © Alison McAlpine; bottom: Image courtesy Kate Harris

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Friday, November 2

Mountain Books DAYTIME PROGRAMS | VARIOUS VENUES

Voices of Adventure: An Interview with Doug Scott 10 – 11:30 A.M. Max Bell Auditorium | $15

With over 40 expeditions to the high mountains of Asia including the bold first ascent of the South-West face of Mt. Everest, Doug Scott is one of the UK’s most prolific mountaineers. He’s the recipient of a Piolet d’Or Lifetime Achievement Award, author of five books including The Ogre (2017), and founder of Community Action Nepal. Scott joins climber and writer Geoff Powter on stage for an in-depth interview.

Waymaking: An Anthology of Women's Adventure Writing Poetry and Art 12:30 – 1:45 P.M. Max Bell Auditorium | $15

Waymaking is an anthology of prose, poetry, and artwork by women who are inspired by wild places, adventure, and landscape. Adventurers Sarah Outen and Hazel Findlay, renowned filmmaker and writer Claire Carter, and and artists Tessa Lyons and Genevieve Carver join us in Banff sharing their own contributions to this pivotal work. Moderated by Paula Wright.

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Book signings follow most presentations.

Mick Fowler No Easy Way

David Roberts

Limits of the Known 2 – 3:30 P.M. Max Bell Auditorium | $15

World renowned alpinist Mick Fowler is the ultimate weekend warrior. Until retiring in January 2017, he focused on technically challenging, eye-catching lines and first ascents around the world – all during his holidays from a desk job in a UK tax office. He joins us in Banff to celebrate his new book No Easy Way. With a career documenting adventures in extreme landscapes, David Roberts is one of the most wellknown American climbing authors of his generation. In Limits of the Known, and in the wake of his diagnosis with stage IV throat cancer, he reflects on our relationship to extreme risk.

Tales and Ales: A Mountain Reading 4:30 P.M. Kinnear Centre, Room 203 Free

Enjoy undertones of adventure and subtle hints of earthy humour with full-bodied tales featuring mountain writers David Smart, Geoff Powter, and Eva Holland.

Friday, November 2

Films and Speakers 8 P.M. | ERIC HARVIE THEATRE | $35

8 P.M. | MAX BELL AUDITORIUM | $35

Tommy Caldwell

J.R. Harris – and Films

The Dawn Wall (Austria/USA, 2017, 100 min) Directors: Josh Lowell, Peter Mortimer Producers: Josh Lowell, Philipp Manderla, Peter Mortimer Production Company: Red Bull Media House in association with Sender Films

In January, 2015, American rock climbers Tommy Caldwell* and Kevin Jorgeson captivated the world with their effort to climb The Dawn Wall, a seemingly impossible 900-metre rock face in Yosemite National Park, California. The pair lived on the sheer vertical cliff for weeks, igniting a frenzy of global media attention. But for Tommy Caldwell,

The Dawn Wall was much more than just a climb. It was the culmination of a lifetime defined by overcoming obstacles. Sponsored by MEC 9:50 P.M. (BREAK, 20 MIN)

With a sub-two-hour goal in their sights, and under the world’s eye, legendary American rock climbers Tommy Caldwell and Alex Honnold set the speed record on the Nose on El Capitan this past spring at 1 hour 58 minutes and 7 seconds. Caldwell joins us in Banff to share his latest accomplishments and his recent memoir, The Push: A Climbers Journey of Endurance, Risk, and Going Beyond Limits.

After almost 50 years of wilderness travel since he first impulsively drove out of New York in a VW Beetle headed towards the most northern road in Alaska, J.R. Harris has plenty of tales to tell. Way Out There is his account of ordinary and extraordinary exploits, twists and turns, while backpacking in some of the world’s most tantalizing places. 9:10 P.M. (BREAK, 15 MIN)

The Lorax Project (Australia, 2018, 35 min) NORTH AMERICAN PREMIERE Director: Peter Wyllie Producer: Simon Blair Production Company: Mission Control Collective

Six friends embark on a determined quest to climb, and then BASE jump 'The Lorax', a formidable climb in remote western Tasmania. Surrounded by some of the most pristine wilderness in all of Australia, they contend with extreme weather and rugged terrain, relying on each other's skills and a bit of humour to reach their goal.

Divided

Photos, opposite page: top: Image courtesy of Doug Scott; bottom: Image courtesy Hazel Findlay; opposite page: From the film The Lorax Project © Jared Irwin

(Scotland, 2018, 43 min) NORTH AMERICAN PREMIERE Directors: Lee Craigie* and Mike Webster* Producer: Lee Craigie Production Company: The Adventure Syndicate

Follow Lee and Rickie in this raw and real portrayal of the places we go emotionally when under extreme duress while riding 190 kilometres a day from Banff to Mexico. * In person

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Friday, November 2

Films and Speakers 8 P.M. | MARGARET GREENHAM THEATRE | $25

Escape (Canada, 2018, 8 min) Director: Anjali Nayar Producer: Yves J. Ma* Production Company: MEC

JaBig, a Montreal-based DJ, buys a bike on a whim and decides to attempt to beat the record for the longest continuous bike ride in a single country. What’s more, he’ll ride a single speed, fixed-gear bicycle and finish in Tuktoyaktuk in winter.

We Are Rovers, NORWAY (France, 2018, 25 min) NORTH AMERICAN PREMIERE Directors and Producers: Antonin Michaud-Soret Production Company: Ahstudio Filmmakers

A paragliding adventure where laughs, discoveries, AND the unexpected make every moment unforgettable.

Craig's Reaction (USA, 2018, 24 min) Director: Cameron Maier Producer: Matthew Hulet Production Company: Bearcam Media

Ever since taking a 30-metre whipper in 2002 that left him with spinal injuries and only one leg, climber Craig DeMartino has led one hell of a life, including lauded First Disabled and In-A-Day Ascents on El Capitan. But his day-today life story is the one that should be making headlines. 24 / Buy tickets: banffmountainfestival.ca

9:15 P.M. (BREAK, 15 MIN)

Stirb Langsam (Austria, 2017, 16 min) NORTH AMERICAN PREMIERE Directors: Jakob Schweighofer and Simon Platzer Producer: Michael Wohlleben Production Company: Whiteroom Productions

Michi Wohlleben's ambition is hard to control. He accomplished one outstanding climbing performance after another until one day his body reveals its limits after a banal training session. From one moment to the next, Michi's life is turned upside down.

The Radicals (Canada, 2018, 55 min) Directors: Brian Hockenstein* and Tamo Campos* Producer: Brian Hockenstein Production Company: Brian Hockenstein Cinema & Beyond Boarding

The Radicals follows an active group of snowboarders and surfers who drift from their respective sport into the world of activism. Together they journey across the West Coast of British Columbia, weaving a story of learning, inspiration, and resistance. Photos, this page, top: From the film Escape © SteveTan & Gaelle Leroyer; bottom: From the film We Are Rovers, NORWAY © Louis Garnier; opposite page, top: From the film Stirb Langsam © Michi Wohlleben; bottom: From the film Ascending Afghanistan © Pablo Durana

EVENING PROGRAMS ROLSTON RECITAL HALL | $15 PER PROGRAM 7 P.M. Program

9:30 P.M. Program

The Bikes of Wrath

Space to Explore

(Australia, 2018, 101 min) CANADIAN PREMIERE Directors and Producers: Cameron Ford* and Charlie Turnbull* Production Company: Doss Flamingoss

(USA, 2018, 14 min) WORLD PREMIERE Director and Producer: Katherine DuBois*

The Bikes of Wrath tells the story of five Australian friends as they attempt to cycle from Oklahoma to California in honor of the mighty westward migration undertaken by the Joad family of Steinbeck’s famous novel, The Grapes of Wrath.

* In person

Natalie Panek* has spent her life focused on her biggest dream – to be the first to set foot on another planet. In the sky high arches, and under a canopy of stars in Moab, Utah it's easy to believe that all the adventure you need is right here on earth.

Facing Sunrise (Canada, 2017, 8 min) WORLD PREMIERE Director: Julia Kwan* Producers: Yves J. Ma*, Lainey Mullins* and Jeff Thomas Production Company: MEC

While dealing with one of the darkest times of her life, Azzah overhears a conversation around the question, “what do you want to do before you die?”

Ascending Afghanistan

WARNING Graphic Content

(USA, 2016, 50 min) NORTH AMERICAN PREMIERE Director: Erik Osterholm Producers: Erike Osterholm and Alyse Walsh Production Company: Vice Media

Follow the first female Afghan mountaineering team as they navigate their first expedition and fight for recognition as athletes amongst their country, culture, and families. Buy tickets: 403.762.6301 / 1.800.413.8368 / 25

Saturday/Sunday

Film Program A EHT & RRH – SATURDAY NOVEMBER 3 | MGT & MBA SUNDAY NOVEMBER 4 | 9 A.M. – 5:30 P.M. | $60

Brotherhood of Skiing (USA, 2018, 10 min) WORLD PREMIERE Directors: Colin Arisman* and Tyler Wilkinson-Ray* Producer: Faith E. Briggs* Production Company: Wild Confluence Media & The Wilder Studio

Blue Heart

The Ario Dream

(USA, 2018, 44 min) Director: Britton Caillouette Producers: David Burden and Tim Lynch Production Company: Farm League and Patagonia

(UK, 2017, 42 min) Director and Producer: Paul Diffley* Production Company: Hot Aches Productions

Since 1973, the National Brotherhood of Skiers has overcome barriers by bringing soul, smiles and a party to the mountain.

The Balkan Peninsula is home to the last wild rivers in Europe. However, a deluge of hydropower development threatens to destroy the culture and ecology of this forgotten region.

How to Run 100 Miles

10:41 P.M. (BREAK, 20 MIN)

(USA, 2018, 28 min) CANADIAN PREMIERE Director and Producer: Brendan Leonard* Production Company: Semi-Rad Media

The odds were stacked against Jayson Sime early in life: poverty, homelessness, dyslexia, bullying. But he learned to fight. In 2017, he entered his first 100-mile mountain ultramarathon, betting on his lifelong resilience to carry him to the finish line.

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RJ Ripper (USA, 2018, 19 min) CANADIAN PREMIERE Director and Producer: Joey Schusler Production Company: Joey Schusler Films

The chaotic streets of Kathmandu may not seem like a typical breeding ground for world-class mountain bikers, but then again nothing is typical about Rajesh (RJ) Magar and his beat-up clunker.

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.

Carving Landscapes (Canada, 2018, 6 min) WORLD PREMIERE Director and Producer: Agathe Bernard*

Through the inspiring legacy of Mary Vaux we will venture onto the Illecillewaet Glacier, reenacting her research and her mountain travel in the restriction of Victorian dresses.

Enjoy a full day of watching films – choose from TWO different film programs (Program A or B) EHT & RRH – SATURDAY NOVEMBER 5 | MGT & MBA SUNDAYM NOVEMBER 6 | 9 A.M. – 5:30 P.M. | $49

Tierra del Viento (Land of the Wind) (UK, 2017, 18 min) Director: Laura Belinky Producer: Laura Belinky and Theo Ribeiro Production Company: Wild River Films

In Patagonia, further South than most people ever dare to venture, there's a land of infinite vastness and beauty. Fine-art photographer Eliseo Miciu explores this mythical place, and also learns a bit more about himself.

The Passage (USA, 2018, 25 min) CANADIAN PREMIERE Director and Producer: Nate Dappen Production Company: Day's Edge Productions*

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.

Photos, opposite page, top: From the film The Ario Dream © Paul Diffley; bottom, left: From the film The Serengheti Rules © Nicolas Brown; bottom, middle: From the film Brotherhood of Skiing © Tyler WilkinsonRay; bottom, right: From the film The Passage © Nathan Dappen

Inwards

The Botanist

(Germany, 2017, 12 min) NORTH AMERICAN PREMIERE Director and Producer: Ulf Wogenstein Production Company: Wogenstein Pictures

(Canada, 2016, 20 min) Directors and Producers: Maxime Lacoste-Lebuis and Maude Plante-Husaruk

For two decades he made up some the worlds hardest first ascents, some of them even barefoot. 70-year-old saxonian climbing pioneer Bernd Arnold bridges between success in climbing and inner experiences. From the roots of childhood to distant mountain regions and friendship he draws a line back home to the present. 3:12 P.M. (BREAK, 20 MIN)

Grizzly Country (USA, 2018, 12 min) WORLD PREMIERE Director: Ben Moon* Producers: Shannon Ethridge and Annie Nyborg* Production Company: Moonhouse LLC

After serving in the Vietnam War, author and eco-warrior Doug Peacock spent years alone in the Wyoming and Montana wilderness observing grizzly bears. This time in the wild changed the course of his life. With the protection of Yellowstone grizzlies now under threat, Peacock reflects on the importance of habitat and why he continues to fight for wild causes.

After the fall of the Soviet Union, Tajikistan plunged into a devastating civil war. A famine struck the mountainous region of the Pamir where Raimberdi, a passionate and ingenious botanist, built his own hydroelectric station to help his family survive through the crisis.

The Serengeti Rules (UK/USA, 2018, 84 min) Director: Nicolas Brown Producer: David Allen Production Company: HHMI Tangled Bank Studios & Passion Planet

Beginning in the 1960s, a small band of young scientists headed out into the wilderness, driven by an insatiable curiosity about how nature works. Immersed in some of the most remote and spectacular places on Earth – from the majestic Serengeti to the Amazon jungle – they discovered a single set of rules that govern all life.

Daytime Film Program Schedule

PROGRAM A Saturday, November 3 EHT AND RRH Sunday November 4 MGT AND MBA A.M. 9:12

Brotherhood of Skiing