Banff Mountain Film Festival World Tour

From TODAY... There are two NEW programs - Ruby and Sapphire with 11 films in total - available for online streaming as part of the Banff Centre Mountain Film Festival World Tour For all info and to BUY access visit http://mountainfilm.ca... Enjoy the experience!

"Voice Above Water" - 11min documentary - is the story of Wayan, a 90-year-old fisherman who can no longer fish because of the amount of plastic piling up in the ocean... Instead, he uses his fishing boat and net to pull trash from the water in hopes of being able to fish again. To watch this documentary online along with other World Tour movies from the 2020 Banff Film Festival visit out website http://mountainfilm.ca/

NEWS from K2: Currently, the famed K2 is crowded with four teams trying to achieve one of the coveted last "firsts" in mountaineering: a winter ascent of the world's second-tallest peak. Climbers have made it to Camp 2, begun fixing lines and are getting acclimatized... among them is also Nirmal Purja, a Nepalese mountaineer who in 2019 climbed all 14 of the 8,000m peaks in 6 months!!

"A rock pile ceases to be a rock pile the moment a single man contemplates it, bearing within him the image of a cathedral." - Antoine de Saint-Exupery French writer, poet, journalist and aviator, best know for his book The Little Prince.

"In the mountains there are only two grades: you can either do it, or you can’t." - Rusty Baille An iconic British climber that also took part in the first Canadian expedition to summit Mount Everest.

2020-21 World Tour is here... streaming online now!! 17 films in two programs... MOUNTAIN FILM Calgary is excited to present the Banff Centre Mountain Film Festival World Tour - taking place online over the next weeks due to the Covid restrictions. Visit our website - http://mountainfilm.ca/ - to Buy Access and to find out the programs & films that have been selected this year.

LAST tickets are available for our Calgary shows this weekend. All other shows are 99.9% SOLD OUT. Shows at the University of Calgary are running from Thursday, Jan 23 to Sunday, Jan 26. Remaining tickets can be purchased online: http://www.mountainfilm.ca/mfbo/online_box_office_1.php

Got your tickets for our Calgary shows? They start next week and we are about 80% SOLD OUT! Shows in SW Calgary, at Mount Royal University, run from Wednesday Jan 15 to Sunday Jan 19. Shows at the University of Calgary run from Thursday Jan 23 to Sunday Jan 26 and are 95% sold out.... Remaining tickets can be purchased online: http://www.mountainfilm.ca/mfbo/online_box_office_1.php See more

The 2 lucky winners (2 tickets each) from our recent Facebook contest are... Jodi Algra Shawna Bava Jodi and Shawna, please contact us via FB messenger to arrange the shipping and choose the shows you would like to attend.... Congrats and see you at the shows!

WIN 2 FREE Tickets for Our January Shows in Calgary By January 6th, in comments below, list your two favourite outdoor activities (hiking, skiing, travelling, etc.) for a chance to win two free tickets to one of our Calgary shows of your choice. Tag one friend only for an extra entry.... How to Participate & Rules: 1- To enter for a chance to win, comment below with your two favourite outdoor activities. 2- You can tag one friend for extra entry. 3- Final date to enter is January 6, 2020. 4- Two winners (two tickets each) will be randomly picked and announced in a Facebook post on January 7, 2020. 5- Each winner will win two free tickets for a show of their choice (once the winners are announced they will let us know which show they would like to see). 6- Winners must contact us via Facebook Messenger to claim their prize. We will announce them in a post as well as reply on their original comment so they get notified.

"Love the life you live, live the life you love." - Bob Marley Legendary Jamaican singer and songwriter, considered one of the pioneers of reggae.