Get ready for a face full of snow, sweat, and high altitude endurance at the 2015 Banff Mountain Film Festival World Tour showing at 55 theatres across the UK and Ireland.  The two-and-a-half-hour film event is a collection of the very best adventure and mountain films to come from the annual two-week Banff Mountain Film Festival in the Canadian Rockies. Now in its sixth UK edition, the Banff Tour has a reputation that’s fast becoming legend. It brings together the outdoors and adventure community for a night of inspiration and reignites peoples’ passion to get outside – whatever their sport, whatever their level. 

 

 

 

“More than stunning climbing, skiing, biking, and paddling films – there’s something special about the spirit of the Banff collection,” says UK Tour Director, Nell Teasdale. “Banff Mountain Festival stories are about reaching beyond ourselves – about people pushing the boundaries of what they can achieve.”

 

A community of more than 47,000 audience members will snatch up tickets to the 2015 UK and Ireland Banff Tour, joining a global movement of 400,000 Tour fans in 45 countries. Tickets to 82 screenings are available now. Club and group bookings are available. Accompanied children are welcome. Film details, previews, and insider interviews with athletes and adventurers, will be released in December 2014 at the Banff UK website. 

 

 

FILM HIGHLIGHTS: 

 

SUN DOG 

The star of this snow film is two years old and has to sleep outside in the cold snow, rather than inside the ski hut with the other skiers. He is a dog called Conga, and as he carves new lines through untouched snow in the stunning Patagonian mountain range in South America - he proves that the joy of deep powder snow need not only be enjoyed by human riders. 

 

THE RIDGE (shown on the big screen for the first time) 

World renowned trials rider Danny MacAskill is back! He returns to his native home of the Isle of Skye in Scotland for a new challenge: riding a mountain bike on the notorious death-defying Cuillin Ridgeline. A extraordinary film made to be experienced on the big screen!

 

DRAWN 

Four years, four cardinal points, four epic adventures. Acclaimed climber and artist Jeremy Collins embarks on four journeys, from the Venezuelan Amazon, to the China-Mongolian Border, to the northern reaches of Canada, and to Yosemite Valley in California. Played out across three continents, this powerful adventure changes everything. 

 

SUFFERFEST 2: DESERT ALPINE 

Less than a year after enchaining the 15 tallest peaks in California, by bike, Alex Honnold and Cedar Wright are at it again.  This time they embark on an ambitious goal to climb 45 of the American Southwest's most iconic desert towers, via their most difficult routes. Linking it all together is an epic bike journey that takes them through Colorado, Utah, New Mexico and Arizona. This movie has it all, including: gale force winds, hard climbing, snow in the desert, a puppy, huge phallic towers, loose rock, and Alex Honnold's bare ass. What more could you ask for?

 

TOUCH

A colourful and spectacular flying tour that visits some of the most visually spectacular areas in Europe including Santorini, Mont Blanc, and the Col du Galibier in France. This is a paragliding adventure that combines the enormous talent and cheekiness of Jean-Baptiste Chandelier. 

 

CERRO TORRE (tbc) 

Storms are expected in Patagonia, but the drama that ensued during the big-budget filming of Lama’s quest to free climb Cerro Torre, the infamous mountain, brought a new level of controversy, scandal, adventure and transformation to a mountain often said to be the most difficult in the world.

 

 

UK and Ireland 2015 Tour dates are as follows:

 

• 24 January Edinburgh, Festival Theatre

• 27 January Cambridge, Lady Mitchell Hall

• 29 January Leeds, Town Hall

• 30 January Leeds, The Carriageworks

• 31 January Stockport, Stockport Plaza

• 05 February Leamington Spa, The Royal Spa Centre

• 06 February Llandudno, Venue Cymru - Theatre

• 07 February Birmingham, Town Hall 

• 10 February Cambridge, Lady Mitchell Hall

• 12, 13 February Inverness, Eden Court

• 14 February Pitlochry, Festival Theatre

• 18 February Shrewsbury, Theatre Severn

• 19 February Stafford, Gatehouse

• 20 February Liverpool, Plaza Cinema

• 21 February Stockport, Stockport Plaza

• 24 February Salisbury, City Hall

• 25, 26 February Bath, Komedia Club

• 27, 28 February Malvern, Forum Theatre

• 03 March Canterbury, Gulbenkian Cinema

• 04 March Tunbridge Wells, Assembly 

• 05 March Dorking, Dorking Halls

• 06 March Weymouth, Pavilion - Theatre

• 07 March Croydon, Fairfield Halls, 

• 10-21 March London, Union Chapel (10 shows)

• 11 March Reading, The Hexagon

• 12 March Colchester, Charter Hall

• 13 March Peterborough, Cresset Theatre

• 18 March Porthcawl, Grand Pavilion

• 19 March Brecon, Theatr Brycheiniog

• 20 March Llanelli, The Ffwrnes

• 24 March Abingdon, Abingdon School

• 25 March Portsmouth, Kings Theatre

• 26 March Truro, Hall for Cornwall

• 27, 28 March Exeter, Corn Exchange

• 09 April Shrewsbury, Theatre Severn

• 10 April Cardiff, New Theatre

• 11 April Brighton, Brighton Dome

• 15 April Weston Super Mare, Playhouse

• 16-18 April Bristol, Victoria Rooms (3 shows)

• 22 April Harrogate, Royal Hall

• 24, 25 April Keswick, Theatre by the Lake

• 27 April Truro, Hall for Cornwall

• 28 April Cheltenham, Town Hall

• 30 April Swindon, Wyvern Theatre

• 01 May Watford, Colosseum

• 02 May Torquay, Babbacombe Theatre

• 06 May Matlock Bath, Grand Pavilion 

• 07, 08 May Whitley Bay, Playhouse

• 09 May Yarm, Princess Alexandra Auditorium

• 10 May Glasgow, SECC

• 13 May Wimborne Minster, Tivoli Theatre

• 16 May Norwich, Theatre 1

• 21 May Kilkenny, The Watergate

• 22 May Dublin, Helix

• 24 May Cork, Everyman Theatre

• 26 May Galway, Town Hall

• 30 May Milford Haven, Torch Theatre

• 27, 28 May Belfast, Theatre at the Mill

• 05, 06 June Poole, Lighthouse Theatre

 

This year we are pleased to announce Cotswold Outdoor and Keen will join the Tour as Presenting Partners. The 2015 Tour will also be partnered by Buff, Osprey, Banff Lake Louise Tourism, Clif Bar, Sea to Summit, World Expeditions and Artemis. 

 

For Banff Mountain Film Festival World Tour tickets and information go to

www.Banff-uk.com.