Last Friday I enjoyed a stop of the Banff Mountain Film Festival World Tour in Santa Cruz. This event has become a little bit of a tradition for me. It's put on by the outdoor recreation department of UCSC at the Rio Theater. This years showing featured seven films including an episode of Sender Flim's First Ascent series they produced together with National Geographic. 'Alone on the Wall' described the free-solo endeavors of Alex Honold on Moonlight Buttress in Zion NP and on the Northwest Face of Half Dome in Yosemite.
'Finding Farley' was the main film, documenting the travels of a young family across Canada by boat to meet Farley Mowat. Although I think that the movie is a little too long, it is amazing to see a couple their two year old son and their dog travel 5000km during a five month journey.
Other films were 'Kranked-Evolution' a mountain biking movie, which made me want to dust off the bike, 'Project MegaWoosh', a short spoof made in Germany, a documentary about the restauration about monasatries in Mustang, and a short film about incredible powder skiing in Japan.
For the fourth time in a row the festival did not disappoint!
2 comments:
Did you win anything this year?!
No! A complete bummer!
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