The Banff Film Festival has continued to be well supported and has become a regular annual event for many Taranaki people. This year NZAC - Taranaki Section are again bringing this popular event to New Plymouth.
The exclusive ticket outlet for this years event is Kiwi Outdoors Centre, 18 Ariki St New Plymouth.
Tickets are available on the night but it is strongly advised to pre-purchase.
Prices:
$20 Adult
$15 Children (15yrs and under)
$15 NZAC members (current membership card required)
FILM PROGRAM...
1. Introduction – 2 mins
Highlights of the ‘Best of Banff’
2. World Record Waterfall Descent – 3 mins – Kayaking
In this short but unforgettable film, Tyler Bradt sets the new world-record waterfall descent at 60m.
3. Revolution One – 10 mins – Unicycle
Follow world champion unicyclists Kris Holm and Dan Heaton as they take a look into the history, people and places that have defined the rapidly emerging sport of off-road unicycling.
4. First Ascent – Alone on the Wall – 23 mins – Rock Climbing
After gaining international climbing renown for his landmark free-solo of “Moonlight Buttress” in Zion National Park, Utah, 24-year-old Alex Honnold moves on to his next big challenge: the first free-solo of the “Regular Northwest Face” route on Yosemite’s Half Dome.
5. Take a Seat – 46 mins – Cycling
Dominic Gill’s mission to cycle the 32,000 kilometres from the northern coast of Alaska to the southern tip of South America, on a tandem bike, picking up random strangers on the way. A gripping tale of two years and two continents, full of extraordinary characters and incidents.
6. Ultimate Skiing Showdown – 4 mins – Nordic Skiing
The final sprint showdown between the fastest skiers on Earth in juxtaposition with a stunt performer showing some of the sickest moves on Nordic skis. A lot of fun!
7. Kranked–Revolve – 11 mins – Mountain Biking
The coolest human-powered adrenaline tool ever invented – the mountain bike? “Revolve” blasts in cinematic glory from the French Alps to the lush coast of B.C., incorporating dirt jump, trail, freeride, slopestyle and downhill.
8. Ten-A Cameramans Tale – 36 mins –Free Skiing/Snowboarding
This snowboard/ski freeride documentary gives an insight into the world of freeriding through the lens of cameraman Guido Perrini. Featuring some of the world's best freeriders in locations from Alaska and Canada to Chile and Russia, the film delves into the passion, joys and dangers that are an everyday part of freeriding.
9. Mont Blanc–Speed Flying – 9 mins – Skiing/Parapenting
Six speed riders fly from the upper slopes of Mont Blanc down to Chamonix in one continious 10- minute shot.
10. Hunlen – 12 mins – Waterfall Ice Climbing
What happens if you show up to climb one of the biggest frozen waterfalls in Canada – but it isn’t completely frozen? Will Gadd and EJ Plimley battle to do the first ascent of B.C.’s remote Hunlen Falls. Falling ice, crashing water, fear, big fun!
11. Project Megawoosh – 4 mins – Water Slide
Bruno Kammerl, a German engineer, works to perfect the world’s tallest human water slide.