To attend the Banff Mountain Film Festival each year likely would drain the annual travel budget of most Durango lovers of all things outdoors. Fortunately, we don’t have to worry about that because if you wait long enough, the festival will come to us.
Each year after the November festival, organizers pick the top films from Banff and send them out on a world tour. Thanks to the San Juan Citizens Alliance and Rocky Mountain Wild, we’re on the itinerary. The local event is a joint fundraiser for the two nonprofit organizations.
The festival is a collection from across the globe including films about skiing, biking, climbing, surfing, kayaking and other miscellaneous adventuring.
This year’s lineup includes “North of the Sun,” a beautifully shot film of two young Norwegian adventurers surfing and skiing in the far north. The film won both the Grand Prize and the People’s Choice Award at the festival in Banff.
Also showing are “Push It,” documenting two women climbers, and “Sea of Rock,” covering mountian biking in the Austrian Alps.
Rounding out the lineup are “Into the Mind,” “Sensory Overload,” “Valhalla,” “35” and “Keeper of the Mountain.”
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If you go
The Banff Film Festival World Tour will be shown at 7 p.m. Saturday at the Smiley Building Auditorium, 1309 East Third Ave. Doors open at 6 p.m. with food from Zia’s Taqueria and drinks from BREW Pub and Grill.
Tickets cost $12 preshow (available at Pine Needle Mountaineering in the Main Mall and online at www.rockymountianwild.org) and $15 at the show.
For more information, call San Juan Citizens Alliance at 259-3583.
