2008 Films -
Fiolmichean airson 2008
Here's where you'll find more about all the films showing during the festival,
including competition entries and our selection from the Banff Mountain Film Festival World Tour.
The Best of Banff Mountain Film Festival World Tour
Direct from the Banff Mountain Film Festival competition, the World Tour brings us stunning films that capture the spirit of the mountains with mesmerising cinematography. Explore breath-taking mountain environments and cultures from around the world. Whether you are an experienced mountaineer or an armchair adventurer, these films are sure to inspire you.
From its grass roots beginnings in 1976 when approximately 450 people gathered to view 10 films, the Banff Mountain Film Festival now attracts audiences of 8,300 plus with over 250 films submitted from 27 countries.
Festival organisers wanted to showcase the efforts and talents of the world's finest mountain filmmakers. Like the first festival in Banff, the tour began small, visiting just three cities in central Canada. The Banff Mountain Film Festival World Tour brings some of the world's best mountain films and videos to thousands of people around the world who cannot make the annual trek to the Canadian Rockies.
'Best of Banff World Tour' evening, Friday 22 February, Nevis Centre Festival Theatre, 7-10pm, £10/£8 for under 16s. Parental guidance: some films contain coarse language.
The 2008 films are:
20 Seconds of Joy
Germany, 2007, 60 minutes
Directed by Jens Hoffmann
Produced by Clenonice Comino
Website: www.f24film.com
Parental Guidance - Coarse language
“I don’t want to die, I want to live. I’m pretty good at running away, and this is my escape!” This is how Karina Hollekim describes her dedication to BASE jumping.
Documentary filmmaker Jens Hoffman first met the now 30-year-old Norwegian in 2002. He immediately started to film, accompanying her through many stages of her BASE-jumping career, until it comes to a sudden stop, changing all aspects of her life.
Badgered
UK, 2005, 7 minutes
Directed by Sharon Colman
Produced by Jamie Wolpert
Website: www.nftsfilm-tv.ac.uk
The tale of a badger who just wants the world to let him sleep!
Balance
Canada, 2006, 11 minutes
Directed and produced by Paul Cotton
Website: www.paulcottonfilms.com
Balance profiles the rapidly growing world of new-school skiing, looking at all aspects of the sport: big mountain lines, terrain parks and half-pipes, and jibbing. This film captures the athletes’ desires to push the edge of their abilities while facing the obvious safety risks associated with high calibre skiing. With high-energy footage cut to an upbeat soundtrack, the audience is challenged to judge whether these athletes are crazy or just extremely talented, or maybe both...
Entropy
Norway, 2006, 15 minutes
Directed and produced by Morten Gjerstad
Website: www.snowkitefilm.com
Entropy documents the most progressive season in snowkiting so far. Join a couple of the world’s best riders as they search for the ultimate snow and wind conditions. Along the way, they reinvent snowkiting by taking a new-school approach and pushing the limit of ’wake style’ manoeuvres.
King Lines
USA, 2007, 50 minutes
Directed and produced by Josh Lowell and Peter Mortimer
Website: www.senderfilms.com, www.bigupproductions.com
Focus: Climbing
Parental Guidance - Coarse language
Filmed on location in France, California, Venezuela, Greece, Utah, and Mallorca, King Lines captures Chris Sharma’s most outrageous ascents and visionary projects, and explores his fascinating lifestyle as a nomadic professional climber and global citizen.
Trial & Error
Canada, 2006, 8 minutes
Directed by Bjørn Enga
Produced by
Radical Films
Website: www.radical-films.com
Focus: Mountain Biking, environment 
Rating: General
Mountain biker Ryan Leech sets out to ride an incredibly difficult trail in the coastal mountains of British Columbia. With the valley slated for clearcut logging, Trial & Error combines Ryan’s extraordinary riding with his thoughts about the very special location.
Click here to see 2007's films.
Competition Films Evening
Catch the next big thing before everyone else does with our film competition evening.
This is a chance to see the short-listed entries in the categories of Best Scottish Film, Best International Film, Best Short and Best Young Film-maker. Last year's entries went on to do well at Banff and Kendal Mountain Film Festivals.
Trish Gordon from the Scottish Highland and Islands Film Commission presented the winners's prizes.
Sponsored by the Outdoor Capital of the UK, the winners received prize money and commemorative plates made by Fired Art Pottery Cafe.
Best Scottish Film
“Gravity Chasers”, Directed by Robb Wallace.
Cliff and bridge jumping in the Highlands of Scotland.
WINNER (£1,000) “68 degrees North”, Produced by Simon Christy of Ridestyle Productions.
A group of British skiers fly to Greenland for first descent of unclimed peaks.
“Relentless 24”, by Andrew McKenna & Kenny Loughray.
Action and comment from competitors and organisers of Lochaber’s 24 hour mountain bike marathon. Filmed at Leanachan Forest, Lochaber.
Best International Film
“Islenska”, Film made by Cecile Cusin, a 23 year old, self-taught, French Filmmaker.
Lured by timeless volcanoes, sweeping glaciers and medieval landscapes, three journalists and friends descend in Iceland, an island of mystery and intrigue, isolated high in the North Atlantic Ocean, cresting the Ardtic Circle.
“Pacific Horizon”, Film made by Bryan Smith
Filmed in the Pacific Northwest – a heaven for kayakers.
WINNER (£1,000) “Tepuy”, Script, photography, direction: Pavol Barabáš
Deep, in the middle of the Orinduik rainforest, enormous sandstone massifs suddenly emerge skywards. The mythical Lost World - the Table Mountains of the Guyana Highlands. Thanks to its almost absolute inaccessibility, prehistoric forms of life have been preserved here that, as endemic species, have survived for million of years.
Best Short Film
WINNER (£600) “End of the Affair”, A film made by Simon Gee and John Houlihan for the 48 hour film marathon of the Adventure Film Academy, Kendal Mountain Film Festival, 2007.
After a relationship ends how will a day’s bouldering turnout? Filmed at Badger Rock, Kentmere, Cumbria.
“Sinergy Freeride” by Jim Lee.
Extreme off-piste skiing.
“Great White Fright”, Produced and Directed by Sandy Ogilvie.
The Great White Fright chalk route on the white cliffs of Dover. Ascent by Ian Parnell and Chris Cubitt.
Best Young Film Maker
“Munchatreeaforest” - Children of Knoydart
Film made by primary school children at Knoydart under the mentorship of Sam Firth.
WINNER (£400) “Mountains – they’re not just for climbing” by Oliver Smith
13 year-old Oliver is a recipient of Donald Dewar Award, Finalist in IFF Digital Eden Competition 2006, National Young Filmmaker Nominee 2007, Shortlisted Blue Peter My Movie Mansion Competition 2007, Bafta Nominee 2007.
“Macaroni and Cheese”, Jessica Young(15) and Bronwen Wilson(15) of WY Productions, Kinlochleven, (under mentorship of Ros Newman.) All music written and performed by Ian Brown(14).
Film made to show how happy people are living in the shelter of the mountains. How diverse and surprisingly simple are the things that we value and enjoy. The film was completed in four weeks from idea to edit.
Click here to see last year's films.
'Competition Films' evening, Monday 18 February, Nevis Centre Festival Theatre, 7-10pm, £6/£2 for under 16s.
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