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National Geographic and New Balance present
 Banff
Mountain Film Festival
World Tour
Friday,
April 4, 2008
7:00 pm
Bullock Creek High School Auditorium
1420 S. Badour Rd.
Midland, MI
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Tickets on sale now!
Member: $10 ź
Non-member: $12
Ages: 12+
Call
989.631.0830
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See a preview of this year's films!
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Special thanks to our sponsors:
Ray's Bike
Shop, Little Forks Outfitters, Midland Community
Center, Trikke World
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Plan to see some from the best mountain films from
2007! In November, the Banff Mountain Film Festival celebrates the spirit of adventure and mountains by hosting a festival that draws the world's best films on mountain themes. The top films from that festival go on tour and Chippewa Nature Center is proud to host one of the stops on the World
Tour. You'll enjoy messages about the environment and the mountains that involve high adventure, humor and a love for the out of doors.
www.banffcentre.ca
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Film Selections for Chippewa
Nature
Center
Screening
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Entropy,
11 minutes, snowkiting
Entropy
documents the most progressive season in snow-kiting
so far. Join a couple of the world's best riders as
they search for the ultimate snow and wind conditions.
Along the way, they reinvent snow-kiting by taking a
new-school approach and pushing the limit of ‘wake
style’ maneuvers.
©Entropy (Festival
edit). Credit: Alf Kollen. Courtesy of The Banff
Centre
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Badgered
- 7 minutes,
environment
Badgered is
an animated tale of the struggle between a badger who
just wants to sleep and the outside world.
©Badgered.
Courtesy of The Banff Centre
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Inner
Balance
- 5 minutes,
unicycling
Inner Balance features top riders taking
unicycling and trials riding to the next level.
©Inner Balance.
Credit: Brian MacKenzie. Courtesy of The Banff Centre
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Searching for the Coastal Wolves - 52 minutes, environment
Gudrun Pflueger is an ex-world champion cross-country
skier and long-distance runner. For the last six
years, she has been studying rare wolves in the wilds
of Canada,
collecting evidence for use in scientific projects. In
Searching
for the Coast Wolves she
goes in search of the elusive animals, a quest that
culminates in a dramatic and powerful encounter.
©Searching
for the Coast Wolves.
Courtesy of The Banff Centre
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King
Lines: Es Pontas
- 13
minutes, climbing
Filmed on location in
France,
California,
Venezuela,
Greece, Utah,
and Mallorca, King
Lines
captures Chris Sharma's most outrageous ascents and
visionary projects, and explores his fascinating
lifestyle as a nomadic professional climber and global
citizen.
King
Lines: Es Pontas is
a segment from King
Lines,
filmed on location in
Mallorca,
Spain. This
spectacular segment captures Chris Sharma's
challenging ascent of the Es Pontas arch.
It’s deep water soloing at its best.
©King
Lines. Credit: Big Up
Productions/Sender Films. Courtesy of The Banff Centre
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In-Flux - 17 minutes, kayaking
In-Flux
is a film about the true meaning of kayaking - the
perpetual need to travel the globe in search of that
magic “something” found only on the river.
Adrenaline-driven action and remarkable natural
wonders are featured in the film.
©In-Flux.
Credit: Paul Villecourt/outdoor-reporter.com. Courtesy
of The Banff Centre
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Higher Ground:
Mountain Photographer - 8 minutes, human/climbing
In Higher
Ground: Mountain Photographer,
Andrew Querner, a professional photographer from
Canmore,
Alberta,
explains what drives his quest for the perfect shot.
Difficulty and challenge are climbing's chief
attractions, but the objective hazards the sport
presents tap deep sources of fear as well. Andrew
Querner's photography feeds on that, and captures many
facets of the climbing experience.
©Higher
Ground: Mountain Photographer.
Photo by Andrew Querner. Courtesy of The Banff Centre
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Cross Country
with Snakes
- 7 minutes,
Nordic
Cross-country with the Snakes,
a short film about a nordic-skiing punk band,
documents a tour with the Black-eyed Snakes as they
ski all day and play all night. Nordic skiing, long
portrayed as serene and classical, is cast in an
exciting and dynamic new light through the lens of
punk/blues rock and fast-action photography.
©Cross-Country with the
Snakes. Photo by Hansi Johnson. Courtesy of
The Banff Centre
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Trial
& Error - 8 minutes,
mountain biking
In Trial
& Error, mountain biker Ryan Leech sets
out to ride an incredibly challenging trail in the
coastal mountains of British Columbia. During his attempts to ride the extraordinary trail,
he reflects on the planned clear-cutting of the
surrounding forest.
©Trial
& Error. Credit: Harookz.
Courtesy of The Banff Centre
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Ain't Got No
Friends on a Powder Day - 5
minutes, skiing
Ain’t Got No Friends on a Powder Day features
Loris, a "classic" freerider. Jean-Yves,
however, has a more or less "accidental"
style. This film draws a parallel between two styles
and two approaches, which are otherwise worlds apart.
©Ain’t
Got No Friends on a Powder Day.
Credit: Lang-Willar. Courtesy of The Banff Centre
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