Celebrate the Season with the 8th Annual Winter Wildlands Alliance Backcountry Film Festival
Port Angeles, WA --- Winter is upon us and once again the Winter Wildlands Alliance Backcountry Film Festival is answering the call. Wax those skis, tune those boards and gather your friends! There is no better way to celebrate the fun and beauty of winter than with the Backcountry Film Festival, a true celebration of winter played and lived as told thru the seven unique films included in the eighth annual Backcountry Film Festival.
The Backcountry Film Festival will be shown at Wine on the Waterfront in Downtown Port Angeles at 7 pm on Saturday January 12.
All proceeds will go directly to funding “Hurricane Chasers” for members of the Olympic Peninsula Boys and Girls Club at Hurricane Ridge this winter. Hurricane Chasers is a program combining snowboard instruction with a winter science curriculum designed to create lifelong winter sports enthusiasts out of local students who otherwise would not have the opportunity. The program has received a $2,500 grant from The North Face Explore Fund, but more funding will provide the opportunity for more participants. The event will include raffle and live auction of winter related gear. Admission is $10 at the door.
The films come from renowned filmmakers who search backcountry corners across the globe to submit their best work, and from grassroots filmmakers who take a video camera out on their weekend excursions and submit their best film short. The entries are juried by a panel of judges and the top selections are assembled into a 90 minute program.
This year’s program includes seven films:
• Winner of the Best of the Backcountry award, Skiing the Void from Sweetgrass Productions is a reflection on taking chances during their two-year odyssey in the Andes.
• A festival cut of Further, from Teton Gravity Research, brings the return of Jeremy Jones and friends to push the limits of their mountain experience under their own power.
• Luc Mehl, winner of the Hans Sari Scholarship and winner of this year’s Best Grassroots Film, chronicles an epic trip across the wild in Alaska Wilderness Classic.
• A Story of Trust is a call for climate recovery from a nine-year-old activist and the winner of this year’s Best Environmental Film.
• Denali Experiment is a look at a different type of expedition film from Camp4Collective.
• From Switchback Entertainment comes Freedom Chair, an athlete’s journey back to the slopes and his love of winter.
• Unicorn Sashimi from Felt Soul Media highlights the amazing winter snowscapes of Japan
For a trailer of the Backcountry Film Festival visit
www.backcountryfilmfestival.org
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