MARCH 19, 2009 ISSUE
Banff Mountain Film Festival Returns to ASU March 27 and 28
Tickets Available Now
The Banff Film Festival screening on Friday, March 27, will include the People’s Choice Award film, Red Gold, and the screening on Saturday, March 28, will include the Grand Prize Award film, The Last Nomads. Photo from The Last Nomads by A. GreggThe Banff Mountain Film Festival is coming back to Boone on Friday, March 27, and Saturday, March 28, and plenty of tickets are still available as of press time, according to ASU Outdoor Programs Associate Director Rich Campbell.
Ticket prices are $7 for students, $9 for adults and $12 at the door. Purchase tickets from the Farthing Auditorium Box Office at 1-800-841-2787 or 828-262-4046, by clicking to www.op.appstate.edu or from Footsloggers Outdoor Travel and Outfitters in downtown Boone at 828-262-5111.
For 33 years, Banff Best of the Festival video presentations have been inspiring audiences by showcasing the world’s best films highlighting mountain adventure, culture and the environment.
A popular and critically acclaimed international film event, the Banff Mountain Film Festival is hosted by ASU Outdoor Programs and takes place at ASU’s Farthing Auditorium. The 2009 screening is the 13th anniversary of Banff Film Festival screenings in Boone, annually one of the largest screenings in all of North America.
The 2008-09 World Tour is traveling to more than 275 communities in more than 30 countries on all continents, including Antarctica. The Boone screenings have a history of selling out quickly, so organizers recommend planning ahead to get tickets.
Local tour hosts, such as ASU Outdoor Programs, choose the program from the best of more than 300 films submitted to the Banff Film Festival in November. Two completely different screenings will be shown on March 27 and 28.
“We try to keep each night well balanced but entirely different and unique so audiences are exposed to as many different films as possible during the festival,” Campbell said.
“We had another very successful event last year, underscoring how strongly this festival is received in our mountain community,” he continued. “This year, there is a strong resurgence of mountain culture films that captures the spirit of the unique relationship between people and their remote, mountain environments. Some of the films this year highlight extraordinary and rare aspects of mountain culture from Borneo, Papua New Guinea, Peru and Alaska.”
Photo from Red Gold by Ben Knight
According to Campbell, the screening on Friday, March 27, will include the People’s Choice Award film, Red Gold, and the screening on Saturday, March 28, will include the Grand Prize Award film, The Last Nomads.
On Friday, March 27, the screening will also include the six-minute film The Red Helmet, which features the music of Asheville-based Stephaniesid.
Stephanie Morgan, lead singer of Stephaniesid, will attend the screening to present the film and speak with the audience. After the screening, Stephaniesid will perform a live show at Legends on the ASU campus on Friday at 10:30 p.m. Sponsored by ASU Outdoor Programs, the show is open to the public and attendees receive a discount off admission with their Banff ticket stub.
“The comments from the Banff Centre of Mountain Culture—the organization who produces the Banff Film Festival—indicate that this is one of the strongest selection of films in years. We can’t wait to present the films this year, in part as a way to contribute to our own mountain community, which is so strong,” Campbell said.
The Banff Centre organizes the film festival for Mountain Culture in Banff, Canada. For information, click to www.banffmountainfestivals.com.
For more information about the Banff Mountain Film Festival at ASU, click to www.op.appstate.edu or contact Rich Campbell at campbllrh@appstate.edu.
ASU Outdoor Programs and Footsloggers Outdoor and Travel Outfitters are the presenters of this event.
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