This show is about celebrating and promoting adventures and exploration by Canadians. Featuring the MEC Adventure Grant awards and presentations from last years recipients.
Date/Time: Feb 15 2017, 7:30 pm to 9:30 pm
Vancouver, The Rio Theatre | Event calendarCost: $19.00
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VIMFF is celebrating 20 years so this the biggest festival ever featuring 31 shows and hosting 32 inspiring speakers! See some of the most jaw-dropping mountain adventures and hear incredible stories from around the world at the 20th Annual Vancouver International Mountain Film Festival.
Guest Speakers:
- Benjamin Jordan: Last summer, Benjamin Jordan realized his greatest dream, by flying his Paraglider from Vancouver to Calgary, and becoming the first person to have free-flown from Pacific to Prairie.
- Evan Guilbault: Follow Evan to the Eldred Valley in BC for a summer of living amongst big walls, exploring, developing new routes and linking big ridge traverses between the Toba and Jervis Inlets.
Films:
- Northern Soul: Directed by Pete Takeda , USA, 2016, 9 minutes, CANADIAN PREMIERE
A short film profiling exploratory ice climbing in Quebec, Canada.
- Boys In The Bugs: Directed by Zachary Barr, USA, 2016, 18 minutes
Will Stanhope and Matt Segal are elite-level crack climbers and world-class goofballs. Laugh along as they go for broke on an epic four-year battle to climb a forbidding 5.14 finger crack high in the Canadian alpine wilderness of the Bugaboos.
- The Never Melting Story: Directed by Guillaume Bertocchi, Belgium, 2016, 22 minutes, NORTH AMERICAN PREMIERE
Two men that had never met before, decide to undertake a contemplative skiing adventure together in the country that never melts in Canada's Arctic.
- 40 Winters: Directed by Drew Goldsack & Simon Donato, Canada, 2016, 10 minutes, WORLD PREMIERE
Three mountaineers attempt to traverse the 11 peaks of iconic Mt. Rundle in a single day. Facing snow, ice, and changing early spring conditions, the trio explore the spectacular terrain along this seldom traveled link between Canmore and Banff.
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