11th Vancouver International Mountain Film Festival
11th Vancouver International Mountain Film Festival
MEDIA RELEASE
For Immediate Release - January 08, 2008
Wallcrawlers, Hi-liners and Earth Alive featured at
11th Vancouver International Mountain Film Festival
February 22-March 1, 2008
“Illuminating the cutting edge…30 frames a second”
An incredible mix of daredevils that risk their lives and activists trying to save the planet will come together at this year’s Vancouver International Mountain Film Festival (VIMFF), February 22-March 1 at various locations throughout Metro Vancouver. Additional information can be found at www.vimff.org.
The fest promises to thrill audiences with stories of adventure from all over the world. With presentations from veteran alpinists, high altitude explorers, endurance runners, big wall solo climbers and wild river paddlers, this year’s festival will leave the crowd speechless.
But getting them talking is the focus the new environmental series of speakers and films presented at the MacMillan Space Centre. The Earth Alive series will focus on sustainability, environmental stewardship, and alternative fuels with speakers, slides and films.
The 11th annual VIMFF will showcase the talents of those that dare to push the limits of climbing and exploration with those that wish to preserve and heal our precious planet.
This year’s guest speakers are the celebrities and backyard heroes of mountaineering, climbing, skiing and mountain biking.
With more than 1,000 first ascents to his credit, Jeff Lowe has been a leading proponent in the Alpine movement toward light and fast climbs of the most technically difficult routes in the remote mountain ranges on Earth. Jeremy Frimer is a PhD student at UBC that disappears to the far corners of the Earth to tackle huge alpine walls. While his team climbed one tower this past summer a female ascent of another tower with climber Jacqui Hudson was taking place across the valley. Their different takes on alpine big wall climbing will enlighten us all. Steph Davis is a record-setting free climber. She has made first ascents in Patagonia, Baffin Island, Kyrgyzstan, and Pakistan. Her husband, Dean Potter, free solos big walls, base jumps off cliffs and hi-lines without a safety rope. Conrad Anker recently returned from Mt Everest again where he continues to investigate the Mallory-Irvine mystery and help the locals learn to climb safely. Joining them at
VIMFF will be world-class kayakers, runners and mountain bikers, who will inspire with their stories of survival, adventure and achievement.
The Earth Alive series is a new initiative at the festival that is taking place at the MacMillan Space Centre (aka the Planetarium). It is focused on preserving the environment through decreasing our impact, finding alternatives to our resource-dependent lifestyles and exploration of the world’s different approaches to saving the planet. Seth Warren is coming to the festival in his vegetable oil fuelled van to educate and entertain. Anna Cosentine will tell an intimate story of living “off the grid” in her self-sufficient earthship on the mesa in Taos, New Mexico. Ian McAllister will present “The Great Bear Rainforest of British Columbia” which focuses on one of the largest contiguous tracts of temperate rainforest left in the world. Ian Bruce and Lindsay Coulter of the David Suzuki Foundation will present “Protecting B.C.'s Mountain Playground”, a presentation on the impact of global warming on the mountains and mountain communities in BC.
The Vancouver International Mountain Film Festival (VIMFF) has been bringing films, multimedia shows and special events on mountain sports and mountain culture to Vancouver since 1998. Over the years, VIMFF has established itself as one of the key cultural events in Vancouver.
For more information about the festival, see the web at www.vimff.org <http://www.vimff.org/> <http://www.vimff.org/>
Tickets are available online at www.vimff.org; at Mountain Equipment Co-op (Vancouver and North Vancouver Stores), and at the Centennial Theatre, 2300 Lonsdale Avenue, North Vancouver, (604) 984-4484.
VIMFF is sponsored by Mountain Equipment Co-op, The City of North Vancouver, the District of North Vancouver, Arc’teryx, Petzl, Kiwanis Club of North Vancouver, The North Shore News, Explore and Gripped.
For Immediate Release - January 08, 2008
Wallcrawlers, Hi-liners and Earth Alive featured at
11th Vancouver International Mountain Film Festival
February 22-March 1, 2008
“Illuminating the cutting edge…30 frames a second”
An incredible mix of daredevils that risk their lives and activists trying to save the planet will come together at this year’s Vancouver International Mountain Film Festival (VIMFF), February 22-March 1 at various locations throughout Metro Vancouver. Additional information can be found at www.vimff.org.
The fest promises to thrill audiences with stories of adventure from all over the world. With presentations from veteran alpinists, high altitude explorers, endurance runners, big wall solo climbers and wild river paddlers, this year’s festival will leave the crowd speechless.
But getting them talking is the focus the new environmental series of speakers and films presented at the MacMillan Space Centre. The Earth Alive series will focus on sustainability, environmental stewardship, and alternative fuels with speakers, slides and films.
The 11th annual VIMFF will showcase the talents of those that dare to push the limits of climbing and exploration with those that wish to preserve and heal our precious planet.
This year’s guest speakers are the celebrities and backyard heroes of mountaineering, climbing, skiing and mountain biking.
With more than 1,000 first ascents to his credit, Jeff Lowe has been a leading proponent in the Alpine movement toward light and fast climbs of the most technically difficult routes in the remote mountain ranges on Earth. Jeremy Frimer is a PhD student at UBC that disappears to the far corners of the Earth to tackle huge alpine walls. While his team climbed one tower this past summer a female ascent of another tower with climber Jacqui Hudson was taking place across the valley. Their different takes on alpine big wall climbing will enlighten us all. Steph Davis is a record-setting free climber. She has made first ascents in Patagonia, Baffin Island, Kyrgyzstan, and Pakistan. Her husband, Dean Potter, free solos big walls, base jumps off cliffs and hi-lines without a safety rope. Conrad Anker recently returned from Mt Everest again where he continues to investigate the Mallory-Irvine mystery and help the locals learn to climb safely. Joining them at
VIMFF will be world-class kayakers, runners and mountain bikers, who will inspire with their stories of survival, adventure and achievement.
The Earth Alive series is a new initiative at the festival that is taking place at the MacMillan Space Centre (aka the Planetarium). It is focused on preserving the environment through decreasing our impact, finding alternatives to our resource-dependent lifestyles and exploration of the world’s different approaches to saving the planet. Seth Warren is coming to the festival in his vegetable oil fuelled van to educate and entertain. Anna Cosentine will tell an intimate story of living “off the grid” in her self-sufficient earthship on the mesa in Taos, New Mexico. Ian McAllister will present “The Great Bear Rainforest of British Columbia” which focuses on one of the largest contiguous tracts of temperate rainforest left in the world. Ian Bruce and Lindsay Coulter of the David Suzuki Foundation will present “Protecting B.C.'s Mountain Playground”, a presentation on the impact of global warming on the mountains and mountain communities in BC.
The Vancouver International Mountain Film Festival (VIMFF) has been bringing films, multimedia shows and special events on mountain sports and mountain culture to Vancouver since 1998. Over the years, VIMFF has established itself as one of the key cultural events in Vancouver.
For more information about the festival, see the web at www.vimff.org <http://www.vimff.org/> <http://www.vimff.org/>
Tickets are available online at www.vimff.org; at Mountain Equipment Co-op (Vancouver and North Vancouver Stores), and at the Centennial Theatre, 2300 Lonsdale Avenue, North Vancouver, (604) 984-4484.
VIMFF is sponsored by Mountain Equipment Co-op, The City of North Vancouver, the District of North Vancouver, Arc’teryx, Petzl, Kiwanis Club of North Vancouver, The North Shore News, Explore and Gripped.
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