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Banff Mountain Film Festival - (M)
Come to the Banff Mountain Film Festival World Tour -- for adventure, for excitement, for the inspiration of mountain stories, presented by National Geographic and The North Face. Experience the exhilarating beauty of mountain landscapes. Meet the world's top adventurers. Listen to their stories. Relive their challenges. Reconnect with adventure.

Blue Ridge Mountain Sports is proud to be hosting the legendary Banff Mountain Film Festival (a founding member of the International Alliance for Mountain Film) World Tour for the second time in Blacksburg! This year's tour features a collection of the most inspiring and thought-provoking action, environmental, and adventure mountain films. Traveling from remote landscapes and cultures to up close and personal with adrenaline-packed action sports, the 2010 World Tour is an exhilarating and provocative exploration of the mountain world. Produced by Mountain Culture at The Banff Centre, the festival features award-winning films and audience favorites from approximately 300 films entered in the annual festival in Banff, Alberta, Canada. Expect to see some of these exciting and inspiring films:



Mont Blanc Speed Flying Six wing-suited speed riders fly from the upper slopes of Mont Blanc down to Chamonix in one continuous 10-minute shot.

Kranked - Revolve The coolest human-powered adrenaline tool ever invented - the mountain bike? "Revolve" blasts in cinematic glory from the French Alps to the lush coast of B.C., incorporating dirt jump, trail, freeride, slopestyle and downhill.

To the Rainbow Paul Pritchard was on of Britain's most talented and outrageous climbers in the late 1980s. A head injury received while climbing the totem Pole in Tasmania left Paul with hemiplegia. Now 13 years on, he makes an emotional return to climbing--on The Rainbow in North Wales. Teaming up with his old climbing partner, the legendary Johnny Dawes, he takes on a 5.10 route. Inspirational.

Deep/Shinsetsu "Shinsetsu" means deep powder in Japanese. This short film expresses a typical day in the skiing the mountains of Japan.

Rowing the Atlantic A few years ago, Roz Savage gave up what for many would be an ideal life (husband, great job, big house,) picked up a few pairs of rowing oars and a boat to go with them and set off across the Atlantic Ocean--alone--in a rowboat.

Mustang - Journey of Transformation Lost in time, the Himalayan kingdom of Mustang is one of the oldest sanctuaries of authentic Tibetan Buddhist culture. However, long isolated by geography and politics, the people struggle to survive, and the centre of their culture--the 15th century monasteries and the art within--is dangerously close to collapse. Narrated by Richard Gere and featuring the Dalai Lama, the film tells the compelling story of the efforts to rescue this ancient place from the brink of extinction and to help spark a cultural renaissance.

Take a Seat Dominic Gill's mission is to cycle the 32,000 kilometres from the northern coast of Alaska to the southern tip of South America, on a tandem bike, picking up random strangers on the way. A gripping tale of two years and two continents, full of extraordinary characters and incidents.



Get tickets and catch a preview at the Blue Ridge Mountain Sports store at the First & Main Shopping Center and at the door the night of the show. Tickets are $8 for students with a valid ID, $10 otherwise. Proceeds will benefit the Appalachian Trail Conservancy regional headquarters in Blacksburg, VA.



Click here for more information and to the see the preview. For further information contact Adam Walker, Blue Ridge Mountain Sports, 540-953-7060.

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Wednesday March 17, 2010
7:00pm - $10.00 General Admission; $8.00 Students