| Date | Centennial Theatre, 2300 Londsdale Avenue, North Vancouver Tel (604) 984-4484 | Pacific Cinématheque, 1131 Howe Street, Vancouver |
Fri
Feb
20 | 7:30 pm (doors 6:30 pm)
VIMFF “Festival Opening BC/Canada Evening, presented by Outdoor Research”, with VIMFF 2009 Photo Competition Awards and Exhibition opening; “One Step Beyond: Adventures in Leglessness” live presentation by Warren Macdonald (Australia/Canada) on his experiences of being footless and fancy free - from Yosemite to South Georgia, from Tanzania to the Rockies; North Vancouver explorer Kevin Vallely in "Polar Express" short presentation on his team's record breaking fastest unsupported traverse to the South Pole; and screening of other selected festival films fabriqué au Canada: Young Blood (Matt Maddaloni sends a hair raising high-ball boulder problem in Squamish, BC); Cliff Notes (cliff jumping action-documentary shot in beautiful Lynn Canyon in North Vancouver); Rivers at Risk: Koch Creek (biologist, community organizer, and kayakers joining forces to save their beloved river); Unbearable Lightness of Skiing (Greg Hill takes you on a season of backcountry skiing in the Columbia mountains of BC); Borealis (Filmmaker Frank Wolf and Taku Hokoyama tackle raging rapids and gruelling portages on a 3,100 km canoe trip through Canada's Boreal forest). | |
Sat
Feb
21 | 7:30 pm (doors at 6:30 pm)
VIMFF “Women and/in Climbing Evening”, with Colorado’s Majka Burhardt’s “Vertical Ethiopia” multimedia show from climbing virgin sandstone towers in Northern Ethiopia; Canada’s top all around adventurer Margo Talbot in “Cold Passion” - a journey to the outer limits of the healing power of Nature; and other VIMFF films: Sharp End – Steph Davis (Steph Davis free solos a hard 5.11 testpiece route on Longs Peak’s Diamond in California); Mansions in the Sky (Two "lipstickblondes" women set out with two aims on Cho Oyu in the Himalayas); Himalaya, Land of Women (life of four generations of women during harvesting season in the Himalayan region of Zanskar). | |
Sun
Feb
22 | | 7:30 pm (doors at 7 pm)
VIMFF “Polish Mountain Film Show” with Polish mountain filmmaker Darek Za³uski and his recent films from the Himalayas; and screening of the other recent Polish climbing and mountaineering films: Annapurna in Light Style (light Alpine ascent of Annapurna‘s North-West face); Women in the Mountains (Gripping stories of passionate Polish Himalayan women climbers); Free Tibet Expedition (35 days in the Canadian Northern wilderness, featuring Marek Klonowski and his friend on a climb of the East Ridge of Mount Logan). N.B. All films will be screened in original Polish version with English subtitles. |
Mon
Feb
23 | | 7:30 pm (doors at 7 pm)
VIMFF “Earth Alive” evening film show with screening of films on mountain environment and sustainability: Symbiosis ( exquisite paddling footage from numerous West Kootenay creeks in BC that are being proposed for controversial independent power projects); POWERPLAY: Up the Mountain (action-packed short from BC's Harrison Lake under siege from multiple private river power projects); POWERPLAY: The Theft of BC’s Rivers (The history, the players, and the real deal on the privatization of BC’s rivers and historic public power); Red Gold (award-winning documentary facing the issue of proposed mines at the rivers above Bristol Bay in Southwest Alaska). |
Tue
Feb
24 | | 7:30 pm (doors at 7 pm)
VIMFF “Paddle Sports Show” with Squamish kayaker Bryan Smith in "The Headwaters of the Amazon…Peruvian Whitewater" multimedia show, as well as screening of his most recent recent film Eastern Horizons from paddling the Canadian East Coast oceans; Hayley Shephard’s “A Sacred Passage” – a solo sea kayak journey around the rich and wild coast of the remote Queen Charlotte Islands; and other paddling films: The Endangered Creeks Expedition (West Kootenay based collective of whitewater paddlers raising concerns over the invasion of private hydro-electric projects in BC); The Acobamba Abyss (three paddlers drop into the Acobamba River Abyss in Upper Amazon); Solo (Andrew McAuley sets out on his quest to become the first person to kayak from Australia to New Zealand across 1600km of one of the wildest and loneliest stretches of ocean on Earth). |
Wed
Feb
25 | | 7:30 pm (doors at 7 pm)
VIMFF “Ski Show, presented by G3” with Vancouver’s own Matt Gunn in a multimedia show “ South Coast Ski Touring & Mountaineering” on ski touring in the Southwestern British Columbia; Kari Medig’s “Cordillera Darwin Expedition” slideshow from Southern Patagonia; and screening of other VIMFF ski films: Arbitrary Winter (humorous look into one Canadian snowboarder’s season as he travels through the world on a quest to find the deepest powder); Sublimation Experiment (a handful of athletes advance their skills while struggling to integrate their passion for skiing and snowboarding with a sustainable lifestyle); AK The Hard Way (three unpolished athletes on a road trip and backcountry ski journey to Haines, AK); Daily Strips (action-packed humorous Chamonix-based ski film with an attitude); Hand Cut (old-timer wisdom blended with self-propelled, big mountain, lines from Alaska, British Columbia, and Colorado). |
Thu
Feb
26 | 7:30 pm (doors at 6:30 pm)
VIMFF “Mountain Biking Evening, presented by Norco” with North Vancouver local adventurer Pat Mulrooney’s slide show from ripping the trails the Chilcotin Ranges of BC; Dan Barham’s “everything” presentation of mountain biking images with music; Jamie Houssian’s “Collective: A Look Back Behind the Scenes” – presentation on the art of shooting biking films.by the most prolific and innovative mountain biking director; and screening of the sickest and dirtiest mountain biking flicks: Brocation (travels of Wylie Easton on his bike trips around the Lower Mainland and the Interior or British Columbia); Gobi (Two of the world's best freeride mountain bikers search for the ultimate riding experience in the Gobi Desert of China); Revolution One (Scenes from the upcoming unicycling film by Dan Heaton); Seasons – Festival Cut (scenes from the last year’s film by the Collective crew). | 7:30 pm (doors at 7pm)
VIMFF “Wanders Through Eastern Asia” Evening with China’s Ed Jocelyn’s “Ten Thousand Rivers, One Thousand Mountains: Five years on foot through rural China” presentation in the footsteps of Mao’s Great Red March; and screening of films from the high regions of Eastern Asia: Journey of a Red Fridge (a story of a 17-year-old boy named Hari Rai and his extraordinary journey with the red fridge on his shoulders through the Himalayan Mountains of Nepal); Hope in the Himalayas (Short inspiring documentary about an orphanage in the mountains of Nepal); Komi, a Journey Across the Arctic (document of a perilous four-month journey of the most ancient indigenous people of Siberia with their 5,000 reindeer). |
Fri
Feb
27 | 7:30 pm (doors at 6:30 pm)
VIMFF “Big Rock Evening, presented by Boreal and Arc’teryx” with Spanish big wall diva Sílvia Vidal in “Solo Ascent, Shipton Spire (Pakistan)” from Sílvia’s 21-day epic solo single push wall climb; JP “PeeWee" Ouellet’s Crack Addict film; and screening of other rock films: Uruca (cartoon character Hugo tries one of the hardest climbing routes at the Sugar Loaf in Rio de Janeiro); Azazel (humorous doc from a 19-day vertical trip on a big wall of Trango in Pakistan); Ice, Anarchy, and the Pursuit of Madness (Vince Anderson, Marko Prezelj and Steve House make the first ascent of an unclimbed Karakoram giant K7 West); To Hell and Back (frightening portrait of climber Dave MacLeod becoming obsessed with a new route in Scotland where falling off from the crux would have meant death). | |
Sat
Feb
28 | 7:30 pm (doors at 6:30 pm)
VIMFF “Finale” with VIMFF 2009 Film Awards; “The 5th Dimension” live multimedia presentation by world’s leading all around climber Alex Huber from Germany on his bold solos and speed climbs in Yosemite; and other VIMFF films: Cerro Torre (Bruno Sourzac and Ramiro Calvo climb the famous West Face of the granite monolith of Cerro Torre in Patagonia); Acopan (Stefan Glowacz, Kurt Albert and friends climb on the table mountain Acopan Tepui with its 700 m steep rock face in a remote region of Southern Venezuela); The Rock: Bouldering in Newfoundland (visually stunning exploration of bouldering in Newfoundland); The Walk of Life (the biggest and most difficult challenge of James Pearson's life - a vast blank slab on the Devon sea cliffs). | |
Ticket Information
VIMFF Tickets will be $17 in advance and $19 at the door for each event, unless otherwise posted.
VIMFF Packages:
1. 2 Ticket voucher for 2 separate shows: $27
2. 3 Ticket voucher for 3 separate shows: $37
Advanced tickets will be available online at www.vimff.org, and at the Centennial Theatre, 2300 Lonsdale Avenue, North Vancouver, tel (604) 984-4484. |
