ADVENTURE -- The lineup of films for the three-day run of the Banff Mountain Film Festival World Tour in Spokane has been decided -- just hours before the first films will be shown tonight starting at 7 p.m. at The Bing Crosby Theater.
Friday and Saturday night snows are sold out. Only a few tickets remained for Sunday at last check.
See the always exciting World Tour trailer here .
Note: The new owners of The Bing have just installed a new state of the art projector and larger screen to debut with this weekend's film festival showing. Also, for the first time, alcoholic beverages will be sold during the festival event.
World Tour host -- better known as the World Tour road warrior -- Charla Tomlinson and her traveling partner Lorraine Fung from Canmore, Alberta, met with Phil Bridgers of Mountain Gear at Northern Lights Brewery this afternoon to work through the options. Several films Bridgers wanted to show still were not licensed and a couple more were hung up in U.S. Mail.
But they came up with a good lineup of shows for each night. This is the second week Tomlinson and Fung have been on the road. They'll log 60 hours of driving and 4,000 kilometers of travel from Nov. 8-Dec. 10 to show the World tour around the region.
Read on for the lineup in Spokane, subject to minor modifications.
FRIDAY
The Gimp Monkeys
Five Races, Five Continents
Industrial Revolutions (Special Juy Mention)
Flow Hunters
Last of the Great Unknown
Gone Curling (Special Jury Mention)
Ernest
Highway Wilding
Last of the Great Unknown
On Thin Sea Ice
REEL ROCK: Wide Boyz (Best Short Mountain Film)
SATURDAY
Huck
Moonwalk
Crossing the Ice (Winner of Grand Prize, People's Choice and Best film on Exploration and Adventure)
Denali Experiment
Mountians in Motion
REEL ROCK: Honnold 3.0 (Best Film on Climbing)
SUNDAY
Unicorn Sashimi
The Way Home
Wild Bill's Run
Petzl Roctrip China (Best Film for Creative Excellence)
1st Afghan Ski Challenge (Best Film on Mountain Sports)
Viva La Vie
On Thin Sea Ice
