Climb ZA was privileged to get an invite to the Premier of The Banff Film Festival at the Grand Daddy Hotel in Cape Town. The uber-cool rooftop cinema set the scene for the best (in our opinion) Banff Film Festival that has ever come to SA!
The selectors at Cape Union really out did themselves this year (not sure if there was a climber on the selecting team!?
The entire show plays for 2 hours, which seemed to fly past in minutes.
Four of the eight movies are climbing related with Alone on the Wall (Alex Honnold free soloing Moonlight Buttress & Half Dome) being the longest play of the evening. You also get to find out the significance of the famous picture of him standing out alone (see pic below)
Personal favourites included:
- Kranked - radical, free flowing mtb riding
- Africa Revolutions Tour – if you’ve ever been held under water for an uncomfortable amount of time this movie will bring back the nostalgia!!!
- Azazel – One big wall, one BASE rig, four Frenchies, 4000 Euro and 17 days
- First Ascent: Alone on the Wall – A very interesting look at Free Soloist Alex Honnold – yours hands will sweat for this one!
The rest of the movies are great and we really enjoyed them – as usual all the movies present athletes (and engineers) taking their crafts to the next level.
WARNING: Get your tickets before they get sold out (and they always sell out)
Premier outdoor retailer, Cape Union Mart in association with LED Lenser, Deuter, Merrell and K-Way, has announced the launch date for the local leg of international extreme sports film festival, Banff Mountain Film World Tour 2010. Showcasing the world’s finest mountain culture and extreme sports filmmakers, the festival kicks off on South African big screens on 17 September 2010.
Launched in 2006, the tour has received widespread acclaim by outdoor enthusiasts across the globe. 2010 sees this trend continuing as Cape Union Mart showcases short films featuring mountain biking, rock and ice climbing, kayaking, skiing and skateboarding. Included on the list of must-see films is the 2009 Banff People’s Choice winner – Kranked Revolve. Directed by Bjorn Enga, the film creatively displays mountain biking as the ultimate adrenaline rush.
Cape Union Mart Marketing Manager, Evan Torrance, says, “We’ve been in the business of outdoor and mountain sports since 1933. Our association with Banff, for the fifth consecutive year, is testament to the growth and popularity of these and related activities in South Africa.” He adds, “Locals are in for a treat as the festival promises a unique viewing experience.”
The South African leg of the Banff Mountain Film Festival will run from the 17-23 September at selected Ster Kinekor cinemas including Cavendish Square and Tygervalley in Cape Town, Sandton Square in Johannesburg and Brooklyn Mall in Pretoria. Bookings can be made through Ticketline on 08216789 or www.sterkinekor.com.
For more information visit www.banff.co.za or call 021 464 5800.
If they do what they have done for the previous years, it will be awesome trailers and epic posters of amazing climbing from Antarctic ice climbing to the Eiger to bouldering at Hampi and then what we will actually see is some stuck-up base jumpers and mountain bikers. The best film last time was a Lego man climbing a carpet. Lets hope it will be better this year.
Good news, just checked the website and it looks like CUM have listened and it’s mostly climbing movies this year.
I enjoyed the slacklining video too, but perhaps i would…
What happens right at the end of the trailer?Is the crazy guy landing in the pool on skis? Anybody know if this was his first try?
For the end bit of the trailer,have a look on youtube for “project megawoosh” .. silly stuff
Pretty sure that’s a bum slide he is doing! Being a (Swiss) engineer I’m sure he did it first time
The website quotes: “Bruno Kammell, a German engineer, works to perfect the world’s tallest human water slide”.
Climb ZA was privileged to get an invite to the Premier of The Banff Film Festival at the Grand Daddy Hotel in Cape Town. The uber-cool rooftop cinema set the scene for the best (in our opinion) Banff Film Festival that has ever come to SA!
The selectors at Cape Union really out did themselves this year (not sure if there was a climber on the selecting team!?
The entire show plays for 2 hours, which seemed to fly past in minutes.
Four of the eight movies are climbing related with Alone on the Wall (Alex Honnold free soloing Moonlight Buttress & Half Dome) being the longest play of the evening. You also get to find out the significance of the famous picture of him standing out alone (see pic below)
Personal favourites included:
* Kranked – radical, free flowing mtb riding
* Africa Revolutions Tour – if you’ve ever been held under water for an uncomfortable amount of time this movie will bring back the nostalgia!!!
* Azazel – One big wall, one BASE rig, four Frenchies, 4000 Euro and 17 days
* First Ascent: Alone on the Wall – A very interesting look at Free Soloist Alex Honnold – yours hands will sweat for this one!
The rest of the movies are great and we really enjoyed them – as usual all the movies present athletes (and engineers) taking their crafts to the next level.
WARNING: Get your tickets before they get sold out (and they always sell out)
@ nic. Hey Nic,
Banff SA Tour coordinator here. Thanks for your comments re. the film selection. It certainly is a difficult process, and we struggle to please everyone. Check out http://www.capeunionmart.co.za/news/default.php?news_id=127 for some of our answers to the most frequently asked questions. Might clear things up a bit.
I’m sorry you didn’t enjoy the previous years’ selections. Perhaps we need to get you onto our selection committee
Cheers,
Nick
Hey!
Why don’t we get to see it in Durban? Last years one was rad!
Seriously, this is balls- who can I talk to?
I agree with Trent, why isn’t the Festival comingto Durban. Instead we get stuck with Ster Kinekor’s usual garbage dump of Spy Kidds 55 and High School Nightmare 23 etc..
Come on SK with all the cinemas you have in KZN, many of which run mostly empty during the week anyway, why can’t the festival be held here?
Make a plan!
go and get tickets!!!!! this is friggen rad. 9or10 different shortish films, covering most kiff mountain sports, everything is quality (only one was below par imho); the ski and white water rafting films are insane; honnold left all of us with sweaty palms; the frenchies on the trango big wall were hillarious; the skate boarders were in there somewhere (a polite clap clap for the quota players getting some show time); the dirt jumpers let fly with awesome cinematography allolwing you to take-off with them ….. two thumbs up!
Banff = Hmff = Gumph Never again for me! Two of the films were OK, the rest for a consumptive audience who like watching others get their kicks out of thrills – the amount of effort and money spent in getting so much great footage ought to be matched by some kind of substance. Huge potential, but for me the only one that delivered was the one about the 4 Frenchies. The Alex Honnold one was OK, but they could have done much more with such an amazing phenomenon that he is. The quirky one at the end was fun. The rest was gumph (in my view).