Oct 26 – Nov 3 2019 banff mountainfestival.ca Festival Guide Festival Photo Credit Katie Whitt, Banff Centre AROUND TOWN BANFF GALLERY HOP Oct 26, 12 p.m. - 5 p.m. Self-guided or bus gallery tour of Banff BOOTS AND BREWS Fjällraven Banff | Oct 26, 3 p.m. - 5 p.m. Learn about boot care, boot repair and more SO YOU WANT TO SKI IN THE MOVIES Helly Hansen | Oct 30, 5 p.m. - 7 p.m. Filmmakers, producers, athletes and more! THE ART OF THE OUTDOORS Smartwool Banff | Oct 31, 1:30 pm - 5 p.m. Join John Fellows and Kate Zessel in a snowboard artwork demonstration. Their unique, “live” pieces will be auctioned off and all proceeds will go to Protect Our Winters - Canada ELEVATE YOUR FESTIVAL EXPERIENCE WHAT BETTER PLACE TO CELEBRATE MOUNTAIN CULTURE THAN IN BANFF AND LAKE LOUISE? DISCOVER HOW TO MAKE THE MOST OF YOUR FESTIVAL EXPERIENCE. DELICIOUS EVENTS FESTIVAL FEASTS DEEP POWDER & STEEP ROCK BAKER CREEK MOUNTAIN BISTRO SKY BISTRO: WINEMAKERS DINNER FILM PRESENTATION Pulled Alberta pork on a house-made biscuit | $24 Oct 19 - Nov 30, Saturdays 5 p.m. - 8 p.m. | $199 Whyte Museum | Nov 1, 7 p.m. Hans Gmoser’s adventures skiing backcountry LE TERRAZZA SKY BISTRO: SKY EXPERIENCE PACKAGE Inspired by Adventure 3-course menu | $39 2 courses + gondola ticket. Prices vary CARE FOR THE LAND Fjällraven Banff | Nov 2, 3 p.m. - 4 p.m. PARK DISTILLERY THE TERRACE LOUNGE Guided walk with two local naturalists Summit Traverse Tapas 2 p.m. - 12 a.m. | $32 Oct 31, 9 p.m.: Cocktails for a Cause | $25 Nov 1, 5 p.m.: Whisky/Spirit Masterclass | $50 PAUL PREUSS: LORD OF THE ABYSS SLEEPING BUFFALO RESTAURANT BY DAVID SMART 3-course menu | $55 HIGH ROLLERS Whyte Museum | Nov 2, 7 p.m. Oct 30, 9 p.m.: Snow Show After Party Intriguing biography of alpinist Paul Preuss BANFF AVENUE EVERGREEN RESTAURANT & LOUNGE Locals vs Legends Bowl Off 3-course elk short rib dinner | $38 STAY WILD THE RIMROCK RESORT HOTEL - EDEN Fjällraven Banff | Nov 3, 12 p.m. - 2 p.m. BLOCK PARTY Wild Stuff’s Alyse shares local plant knowledge 3-course menu special | $59 A COMMUNITY KICK-OFF CELEBRATING AUTHOR MEET& BOOK SIGNING: MARK SYNNOTT THE JUNIPER BISTRO THE BANFF CENTRE MOUNTAIN FILM AND 3-course pre-theatre menu – The North Face Banff | Nov 3, 3 p.m. available until 6 p.m. | $49 Meet the author of The Impossible Climb BOOK FESTIVAL Après film charcuterie & wine special: Friday, October 25 Oct 30 - Nov 3, 4 p.m. - 6 p.m. *Please present your 2019 Banff Centre Mountain Film 25% off brunch dining* and Book Festival ticket to receive this offer. All offers 6 p.m. to 10 p.m. subject to change and availability. For more info see: BANFF AVE BREW CO. Banff Avenue, between Buffalo 20% off food and $6 18oz beers* BANFFLAKELOUISE.COM/FILMFESTIVAL and Caribou Streets. friends and mentors can be of any . Photo by Katy Whitt. Katy by . Photo age, and from any walk of life. We can all be friends, we just have to try. Transformation Piano to Zanskar and Holy Tour remind us that sometimes we as humans have an innate desire to do something ridiculous, against our better Bianca Hyslop, Bianca Hyslop, judgement, and that perhaps our connection to each other while on the journey is more important than the end destination. Risk taking is not always for climbers or endurance athletes, sometimes it comes in the form of cowboys riding horses in the streets of South Central L.A. Fire on the Hill breaks conventional ideas of what adventure and survival can mean to Every year at the Festival we try to di erent people. Ban Centre is create balance in our programs by Some of the most notable icons and Welcome including high-adrenaline climbing legends of mountaineering will be at lms, environmental lms, and a this year’s Festival – Sharon Wood, art that’s breathtaking, few adventure surprises along the Mark Twight, and Reinhold Messner to the way. With 442 lms submitted this to name a few. Their collective at an altitude that year, what stands out for me is the knowledge of the art and ethics of rich tapestry of cultural lms we climbing is overwhelming. They are Festival received into our competition. Some teaching younger generations about doesn’t help. of these stories merge culture and how important it is to do things the sport, or draw on mountain culture right way, not just any way you can. On behalf of the Festival history but many focus on gathering So as you’re sitting in the theatre at team welcome to Ban knowledge from elders and revisiting ancient wisdom – perhaps the Festival taking in some amazing Centre located on the slopes something we could use a little stories and wonderful lms, look Ban Centre is . of Sacred Bu alo Guardian more of in this digital age of virtual around and say hi to your neighbour. relationships. You never know what story they may Mountain and Treaty 7 have to tell and we all just might territory, the traditional The lovely short lm Bayandalai: have something to learn from each Lord of the Taiga lands of the Stoney Nakoda, tells the story of an other. Together we can make the elder and his reindeer herd and mountains we love a better place if Blackfoot, and Tsuut’ina how our relationship with animals we listen to the wisdom of the past Nations. is millennia-old and should not be as we carve a new path forward. forgotten. In Attla we meet George, a village elder in Alaska who was once a ten-time world champion in Experience art in the Rockies. dogsledding who now must teach his grandnephew how this traditional Indigenous mode of transportation Home of Ban Centre is reframed in a modern world. Chasing the Sublime dees stereotypes Joanna Croston Mountain Film and Book Festival. Festival Director and enforces a unique notion that ban centre.ca Image courtesy Ban Centre © Jessica Wittman Cover image: Valentine Fabre, Dent Blanche © Ben Tibbetts Buy tickets: 403.762.6301 / 1.800.413.8368 / 5 Festival at a Glance Saturday Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday Sunday Don’t miss! Ban Avenue OCTOBER 26 OCTOBER 27 OCTOBER 28 OCTOBER 29 OCTOBER 30 OCTOBER 31 NOVEMBER 1 NOVEMBER 2 NOVEMBER 3 Block Party All Day Films All Day Films Mountain Art Infused with Snow Show Craig Childs Voices of Mountain Mountain Friday, October 25 9 a.m. – 5 p.m. 9 a.m. – 5 p.m. Exhibitions Adventure: 7:30 p.m. | pg. 18 – 19 Frank Wolf Adventure: Marketplace Marketplace pg. 8 – 9 pg. 12 – 13 6 – 10 p.m. Various venues Reception 10 – 11:30 a.m. | pg. 20 Ian Welsted 10 a.m. – 8 p.m. 10 a.m. – 7 p.m. Free | pg. 48 – 49 and Dinner Dirtbag Café: 10 – 11:30 a.m. | pg. 24 Free | pg. 40 Free | pg. 40 See ad on page 3 Mountain Kids Program – 6 p.m. | pg. 58 Barb Clemes Mark Twight for details. Gallery Hop Mountain Radical Reels 7:30 p.m. | pg. 19 12:30 – 1:45 p.m. | pg. 20 Corey Rich All Day Films All Day Films 12 p.m. – 5 p.m | Free Printmaking 7:30 p.m. | pg. 16 – 17 12:30 – 1:45 p.m. | pg. 24 9 a.m. – 5 p.m. 9 a.m. – 5 p.m. pg. 14 pg. 28 – 29 pg. 34 – 35 2 p.m. | Free | pg. 42 Je Smoot Kate Rawles Mark Synnott Climbing Through Kids Program – 2 – 3:30 p.m. | pg. 21 Caroline Van Indigenous Searching for Purchase Barriers – and Films Films Hemert Dialogues – Return Climbers 7:30 p.m. | pg. 10 3 p.m. | Free | pg. 15, 42 FREE Events of the Bison 9:30 a.m. | Free | pg. 47 Old Style 2 – 3:30 p.m. | pg. 24 your tickets and Learning 12:30 p.m. | Free Storytelling pg. 47 Evening Films Evening Films Opportunities 4 – 5:30 p.m. Tales and Ales: Love & Loss – By Phone: 7:30 p.m. | pg. 11 7:30 p.m. | pg. 15 Free | pg. 21 Our Relationship with For all free events and A Mountain Reading 1.800.413.8368 or 4 – 5:30 p.m. | Free MEC Camp re Mountains special partner events, Conversations 12:30 p.m. | Free 403.762.6301 Youth Photography Youth Photography Sharon Wood, pg. 24 Workshop see pages 42 – 43 Protect our Winters pg. 47 Tuesday – Saturday Workshop Reinhold Messner, 4 p.m. – 5 p.m. 10 a.m. – 5 p.m. 12 – 5 p.m. 10 a.m. – 5 p.m. and Book Awards Mountain Free | pg. 41 pg. 42 pg. 42 7:30 p.m. | pg. 23 Marketplace Kids Program – 4 p.m. – 8 p.m. Mountain Mountain Artwalk Free | pg. 40 Printmaking In Person: 4 p.m. | Free | pg. 48 Ban Centre Box O ce 2 p.m. | Free | pg. 43 Photo: From the lm Adelie © Kate Stanton Tuesday – Saturday MEC Camp re David Roberts – 12 – 5 p.m. Conversations Kids Program - Lux Cinema Screenings Escalante’s Dream See page 56 for extended Sustainability in the Films Throughout the Festival 4 p.m. | Free | pg. 43 hours of operation Outdoor Retail Industry 3 p.m. | Free | pg. 15, 43 See pages 38 – 39 4 – 5 p.m. | Free during the festival. pg. 41 Andrzej Bargiel MEC Camp re and Films Conversations 8 p.m. | pg.