Witness extreme adventure as film festival comes to Stafford
The Banff Mountain Film Festival, filled with adrenaline-packed challenges and incredible cinematography, is at Gatehouse in March
Pictured above are stills from The Bridge Boys taken by Ray Wood and A Baffin Vacation taken by Erik Boomer
The Banff Mountain Film Festival World Tour is bringing the latest action and adventure films to big screens around the UK and Ireland in 2023 - including Stafford Gatehouse Theatre on March 9.
With wild journeys, adrenaline-packed challenges and incredible cinematography, the tour features two new collections of inspirational films from remote areas of the planet.
Tour director Nell Teasdale said: “Buckle up for a night of nail-biting adventure – from the comfort of a cinema seat!
“These epic short films feature gripping climbing, skiing, biking, paddling and more, and they’re made by the world’s top adventure filmmakers.
“Plus, we guarantee you’ll leave inspired to have an adventure of your own too!”
As well as thrilling films, each event features a free prize draw for outdoorsy goodies from the tour’s partners.
Banff tour films are chosen from hundreds of entries into the Banff Mountain Film and Book Festival, which is held every November in the Canadian Rocky Mountains.
This year the film highlights include ‘A Baffin Vacation’ about a duo on a romantic getaway with a difference, skiing over a frozen fjord, cliffs to climb and unexplored rivers to whitewater kayak, ‘Bridge Boys’ about top British climbers looking closer to home for adventure because of lockdown and finding a 2,600ft horizontal groove beneath a motorway bridge on the M5 and ‘Saving Glaciers’ about glaciologist Dr Felix Keller observing the steady retreat of the Morteratsch glacier in the Swiss Alps each year, determined that the melting and eventual disappearance of glaciers can be averted.
The UK and Ireland tour will visit over 50 locations in spring and autumn 2023.
For more information and to book tickets, visit their website.
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