Tickets

Tickets for both shows are available in advance from the Tidemark Theatre Box Office at 250-287-7465.
It's recommended to purchase tickets for the Campbell River, Tidemark show in advance to reserve your seats but usually there are a few left on the night available at the door. But you never know this might just be the first year it sells out, it was close in 2008!

The Quadra show is a completely different program and gives CR & Quadra locals an opportunity to see most of the best films available on the tour. Tickets are on sale in advance but it is festival seating at the Quadra show, ie: not reserved seats. Tickets are also available at the door. If you're coming over from Campbell River head for the 6:15 pm ferry which gives plenty of time to reach the community centre at 970 West Road. The show finishes with lots of time to make the 11 pm sailing back to town.

For each show tickets are $25 for adults, $20 for youth, Student and seniors.

Film Lineup

The Banff Mountain Film and Book Festival takes place between October 31 and November 8 in Banff.
The lineup of films on the world tour is steadily being released and we've compiled tentative list of some of the films catching our eye. Feel free to drop us a line with your ideas, any you'd love to see, do with out? Send an email to: info@wildisle.ca The tentative programs are as follows:

Campbell River
Friday Nov. 27

Signatures: Canvas of Snow

• USA, 2009, 16 minutes
• Directed by: Nick Waggoner
• Produced by" Ben Sturgulewski
• Website: www.sweetgrass-productions.com
• Classification: General - no advisory
• Focus: Skiing, snowboarding and noboarding
In Japan there is a cultural connection to the different signatures of terrestrial home - a sense that the rhythm of fall, winter, spring and summer influences the rhythm of the person, their energy, their riding style and the lines they choose.
This special edit features skiers, snowboarders, a photographer and a noboarder who are each in tune with this connection to winter and the environment they ride in.

Hunlen

• Canada, 2009, 12 minutes
• Directed and produced by Will Gad
• Website: www.gravsports.com
• Classification: General - no advisory
• Focus: 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!

A Little Bit Mongolian

Best Film on Mountain Culture, sponsored by PETZL

• Australia, 2009, 55 minutes
• Directed and Produced by Michael Dillon
• Classification: General – no advisory
• Focus: Horse-back riding in Mongolia, adventure, family-friendly
Over the high ranges of northern Mongolia, a foreign boy is racing on horseback with the local children.
Angus is 12 and he's from Australia. He came to Mongolia on vacation the year before and saw children his age racing cross-country in long-distance horse races.
He vowed he would one day join them. Angus trained for a year and returned to Mongolia, intent on finding a willing trainer so he too could compete in the big Naadam Festival horse races. This is the heart warming story of a dream that came true.

INTERMISSION

Africa Revolutions Tour

• USA, 2009, 20 minutes
• Directed by Rush Sturges
• Produced by Tyler Bradt
• Website: www.Rev-Inn.com
• Classification: Parental Guidance - coarse language
• Focus: White-water kayaking, Sun Catcher’s Project (NGO in Africa)
From the crocodile-infested White Nile in Uganda, to big-water first descents in Madagascar, the film follows this group of friends on their dangerous mission.
Accompanying the team is Rita Riewerts, the founder of the Sun Catchers Project, a non-profit that installs solar cooking facilities
in African orphanages, hospitals and communities.
Join the team as they set out on an ambitious kayaking expedition in eastern Africa.
Every cent this film generates will be donated to the Sun Catchers Project

Azazel

• France, 2007, 22 minutes
• Directed and produced by: Guillaume Broust
• Website: www.petzl.com
• Classification: General - no advisory
• Focus: Mountaineering, family friendly
Four friends set out to establish a new route on the Trango Pulpit Tower, a mythic 6000-metre-high rock wall in Pakistan.
Days and days of pleasure, quantities of testosterone expended, frozen fingers and naps on the wall.

Kranked - Revolve

• Canada, 2009, 11 minutes
• Directed and produced by Bjørn Enga
• Website: www.radical-films.com
• Classification: General - coarse language
• Focus: 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.

Project Megawoosh

Special Jury Mention

• Germany, 2009, 4 minutes
• Directed by Minh Duong
• Produced by Nikolas Hannack
• Website: www.okifilms.com
• Classification: General, no advisory
• Focus: Humour, spoof
Bruno Kammerl, a German engineer, works to perfect the world's tallest human water slide.

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Quadra Island
Saturday Nov. 28

Revolution One

• USA, 2009, 10 minutes
• Directed and Produced by Dan Heaton
• Website: www.sykoproductions.com
• Classification: Parental Guidance - coarse language
• Focus: Unicycling
"Revolution One" takes a look into the history, people and places that have defined the rapidly emerging sport of off-road unicycling.
Follow world champion unicyclists Kris Holm and Dan Heaton as they display riding that has blown the minds of viewers worldwide.

Pick-up Sticks

• Canada, 2009, 9 minutes
• Directed by: Julia Szucs
• Producd by: Steve Smith
• Website: www.meltwatermedia.ca
• Classification: General – no advisory
• Focus: Environment, family-friendly
Take an aerial plunge off the edge of an Arctic coastal headland into the abyss of a seabird colony to find out how marine environmental change is affecting the delicate balance of life for a hardy creature of the northern seas. A visual and metaphorical cliffhanger for our times!

Solo

Award for Best Film on Mountain Sports, sponsored by Western State College of Colorado

• Australia, 2008, 58 minutes
• Directed by: David Michod, Jennifer Peedom
• Produced by" Jennifer Peedom
• Website: http://essential-media.com
• Classification: Parental guidance, contains some coarse language
• Focus: Sea-kayaking, adventure, human story
On January 11, 2007, Andrew McAuley set out on his quest to become the first person to kayak from Australia to New Zealand across 1600 kilometres of one of the wildest and loneliest stretches of ocean on Earth. Thirty days later, New Zealand maritime authorities received his distress call.

INTERMISSION

Committed 2: Walk of Life

Alpine Club of Canada Award for Best Film of Climbing

• UK, 2008, 20 minutes
• Directed by Paul Diffley
• Produced by Dave Brown
• Website: www.hotaches.com
• Classification: Parental Guidance - coarse language
• Focus: Rock Climbing
The biggest and most difficult challenge of James Pearson's life - a vast blank slab on the Devon sea cliffs.
This beautiful but terrifying line takes over his life until finally, sick with nerves and fear, he is ready for this scary lead.

Mustang - Journey of Transformation

• USA, 2009, 28 minutes
• Directed and produced by Will Parrinello
• Website: www.mvfg.com
• Classification: General – no advisory
• Focus: Tibetan culture, family-friendly
Lost in time, the Himalayan kingdom of Mustang is one of the last sanctuaries of authentic Tibetan Buddhist culture. However, long isolated by geography and politics, the people struggle to survive, and the centre of their culture -- the 15th-century monasteries and the art within -- is dangerously close to collapse. Narrated by Richard Gere and featuring the Dalai Lama, the film tells the compelling story of the efforts to rescue this ancient place from the brink of extinction and to help spark a cultural renaissance.

Mont-Blanc Speed Flying

Award for Best Short Mountain Film, sponsored by Mountain Hardwear

• France, 2008, 10 minutes
• Directed and produced by Didier Lafond
• Website: www.didierlafond.com
• Classification: General – no advisory
• Focus: Speed riding, family-friendly
Six speed riders fly from the upper slopes of Mont Blanc down to Chamonix in one continuous 10-minute shot,
filmed in Cineflex.

Uruca (5.12c R/X)

• Brazil, 2009, 8 minutes
• Directed and produced by Erick Grigorovski
• Website: www.grigorovski.com
• Classification: Parental guidance, no advisory
• Focus: Rock climbing, animation
On a Sunday morning perfect for rock climbing, Hugo attempts one of the hardest and most sought-after climbing routes at the Sugar Loaf in Rio de Janeiro: "Uruca". Extremely difficult and dangerous, it will demand all of his skill and concentration.

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