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The Banff Mountain Film Festival will be held Friday, March
27, and Saturday, March 28, in Appalachian State University’s
Farthing Auditorium. Tickets are $7 for students and $9 for
nonstudents. Tickets will be $12 at the door.
Red Gold is one of the
award-winning films that will be featured during the
Banff Mountain Film Festival in March at Appalachian
State University. The film is about a mining project
that threatens the sockeye salmon habitat and an Alaskan
community’s fishing heritage.
Photo by Ben Knight, courtesy of The Banff Centre
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Tickets are available from the Farthing Auditorium Box Office
weekdays from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., by calling (800) 841-2787 or
(828) 262-4046, or online by following the appropriate link
at www.op.appstate.edu. Tickets also are available at Footsloggers
in Boone.
For more information, visit www.op.appstate.edu or e-mail Rich
Campbell at campbllrh@appstate.edu.
Among the films to be shown are Red Gold about a small Alaskan
community coming to grips with its fishing heritage and a proposed
mine at the headwaters of the world’s largest remaining
sockeye salmon; Mountain Town, a documentary about ordinary
people in a mountain town who are doing their own thing to contribute
to the culture of their town; and “Last Frontier,”
a film that looks at the local culture and environment in Papua
New Guinea juxtaposed with caving and kayaking.
Two different screenings will be shown March 27 and 28. “We
will highlight award-winning mountain films each night that
combine elements of mountain adventure, culture and the environment,”
said Rich Campbell, associate director of Outdoor Programs at
Appalachian.
“We try to keep each night well balanced but entirely different
and unique so audiences are exposed to as many different films
as possible during the festival,” Campbell said. “This
year, there is a strong resurgence of mountain culture films
that capture the spirit of the relationship between people and
their remote, mountain environments. Some of the films this
year highlight extraordinary and rare aspects of mountain culture
from Borneo, Papua New Guinea, Peru and Alaska.
The Banff Mountain Film Festival is an annual international
competition celebrating its 33rd year featuring the world’s
best films on mountain themes. The film festival is organized
by The Banff Centre for Mountain Culture in Banff, Canada. For
more information, visit www.banffmountainfestivals.com.
Appalachian’s Outdoor Programs and Footsloggers Outdoor
and Travel Outfitters are event sponsors.
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