The highly anticipated Banff Mountain Film Festival World Tour is returning to Australia this May and June and will include a screening at Avoca Beach Theatre on June 6.
This year’s festival holds a special significance for Australian audiences featuring a captivating film paying homage to Australian legend Dr Glenn Singleman’s world record BASE jump from Pakistan’s Trango Tower in 1992.
Regarded as the pinnacle of mountain film festivals worldwide, the Banff Mountain Film Festival showcases a meticulously curated collection of world firsts in their prospective sports.
With the world of adventure and exploration having had a long and celebrated history, it has often been thought that most world firsts have been achieved and there’s nowhere left to discover.
However, in recent years extreme sports have been experiencing a form of rebirth with new and exciting hybrid sports surfacing.
The 2024 Banff Mountain Film tour features multiple pioneering stories with the first ever discovery of a huge cave system in Canada to the first ever Tandem cross-country ski venture.
“Extreme sports people will always continue to push the boundaries, they tend to believe that If we don’t take risks, we won’t know what’s possible,” Australian world record holder Singleman said.
“So as technology improves and human training and skill development improves, it is natural for the realm of possibility to be stretched.
“That is what is so exciting about events like the Banff Centre Mountain Film Festival, in this space limits will always be stretched, and we get to see that happen on the big screen.”
The selection process for the festival is rigorous, involving extensive deliberation and voting to narrow down the entries to a final program of more than 80 films, which are then screened during the nine-day festival in Banff, Canada.
From this prestigious line-up, a unique selection of over two hours of captivating films is curated specifically for Australian audiences.
Embarking on a journey across every state and territory in Australia, this year’s exhilarating line-up of seven gripping adventure films stays true to the festival’s core mission of motivating and inspiring audiences to embrace the full spectrum of life’s possibilities.
For more information and to book tickets, visit Banff Centre Mountain Film Festival Australia website.