Media Room
Media contact: Jill Sawyer, Media and Communications Officer
403.762.6475 jill_sawyer@banffcentre.ca
Photos: Image Galleries For Media Download
Videos:
2007 Film Festival introductory video: You Tube, Windows Media Player
2007/08 World Tour introductory video (Canada and USA):
YouTube, Windows Media Player
2007/08 World Tour introductory video (International): YouTube,
Windows Media Player
2008 Radical Reels introductory video: YouTube, Windows Media Player
Fact Sheets: Banff Mountain Film Festival | Banff Mountain Book Festival | World Tour
Media Accreditation: 2008 Banff Mountain Festivals
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Media Releases — Mountain Culture
2008 |
| October 2 |
Rim Lit Climber wins 2008 Banff Mountain Photography Competition Grand Prize |
| September 30 |
Acclaimed alpinists Peter Habeler, Jim Donini headline 2008 Banff Mountain Festivals |
| September 29 |
Appalachian environmental documentary among 2008 Banff Mountain Grant winners |
| September 26 |
Mountaineer Don Vockeroth awarded 2008 Summit of Excellence Award |
| September 9 |
Andrew Skurka talks about epic hike at The Banff Centre September 16 |
| January 10 |
Mountain Culture and Environment Speakers’ Series explores a sustainable world |
| January 3 |
Avalanche Awareness Night |
2007 |
| November 16 |
Mountain Culture Speakers’ Series uncovers hidden corner of Arabia |
| November 4 |
Banff Mountain Film Festival Grand Prize winner examines “the cult of hero” |
| November 1 |
Story of 1967 Mount McKinley tragedy takes Banff Mountain Book Festival Grand Prize |
| October 25 |
“Final Four” selected for the Bow Valley’s Mountain Idol event |
| October 25 |
2007 Banff Mountain Film Festival to screen world’s best in outdoor,
environment, adrenaline sports films
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| October 17 |
Oilsands documentary among recipients of 2007 Banff Centre Mountain Grants program |
| October 4 |
Bernadette McDonald awarded 2007 Summit of Excellence Award |
| September 13 |
Winter Fury takes 2007 Banff Mountain Photography Competition Grand Prize |
| September 13 |
Top adventure and wilderness photographers to lead Banff Centre photography workshop |
| September 4 |
Bestselling author to describe The World Without Us at The Banff Centre September 17 |
| September 4 |
Everest climber and survivor Lincoln Hall headlines the 2007 Banff Mountain Festivals |
| May 29 |
Mountain Culture Speakers’ Series hosts arctic explorer Jerry Kobalenko June 14 |
| May 16 |
David Cox appointed executive director of
Mountain Culture at The Banff Centre |
| May 8 |
Mountain Culture Speakers’ Series maps Himalayan geography and culture |
| April 12 |
Mountain Culture Speakers’ Series explores the origins of skiing |
| January 22 |
Mountain Culture Speakers’ Series journeys to Labrador’s Torngat Mountains Reserve |
| January 4 |
Latest expert advice, tools, and techniques featured at Avalanche Awareness Night |
2006
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| November 28 |
2006/ 2007 Banff Mountain Film Festival World Tour hits the road |
| November 5 |
Story of man versus tiger takes Mountain Film Festival Grand Prize |
| November 2 |
Jeff Long’s thriller The Wall wins Grand Prize in 2006 Banff Mountain Book Festival competition |
| October 19 |
2006 Banff Mountain Book Festival finalists travel the world for the best in adventure nonfiction, literature, and photography |
| October 13 |
World’s top films in adventure, environment, and adrenaline sports chosen for 2006 Banff Mountain Film Festival |
| October 2 |
Banff Centre awards $15,000 in Mountain Grants to support mountain stories |
| September 25 |
Rocky Mountain Books founders awarded Banff Centre’s 2006 Summit of Excellence Award |
| September 25 |
Public invited to explore mountain issues and stories at international alpine conference |
| September 2 |
Canadian mountain centre receives prestigious mountain award |
| August 28 |
World’s water conservation experts converge on The Banff Centre September 7 to 11 |
| August 21 |
Canmore photographer wins 2006 Banff Mountain Photography Competition Grand Prize |
| August 1 |
Top National Geographic photographers to lead Banff Centre adventure photography workshop |
| July 7 |
2006 Banff Mountain Film Festival puts out call for the world’s best mountain films |
| June 5 |
2006 Banff Mountain Book Festival seeks best adventure books |
| May 25 |
Andes survivor Nando Parrado headlines 2006 Banff Mountain Festivals |
| May 12 |
Bow Valley builds interactive web portal for idea share in
environmental, social, and community issues |
| April 20 |
2006 Banff Mountain Photography Competition seeks awe-inspiring images |
| April 13 |
Banff Mountain Speakers’ Series hosts a look inside the world’s most spectacular caves |
| March 3 |
Author, photographer, conservationist Edwin Bernbaum travels to sacred mountain sites at The Banff Centre March 13 |
| January 31 |
Images and stories from India kick off 2006 Mountain Speakers’
Series at The Banff Centre |
| January 31 |
Banff Mountain Grants Program to fund projects on mountain
landscape, culture, ecology
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| January 5 |
Expert speakers, high adrenaline films headline Avalanche Awareness Night in Banff |
2005
| December 15 |
Mountain Culture at The Banff Centre to receive
King Albert Mountain Award
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| November 29 |
2005 / 2006 Banff Mountain Film Festival World Tour hits the road
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| November 6 |
Sur le fil des 4000 takes film festival Grand Prize
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| November 5 |
Karsten Heuer’s Being Caribou wins Grand Prize in Banff Mountain Book Festival competition |
| October 26 |
2005 Banff Mountain Book Festival finalists cover the best in outdoor and adventure writing and photography
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| October 13 |
2005 Banff Mountain Film Festival finalists showcase the best in
adrenaline sports,
adventure, and environment |
| September 28 | Climber, artist Glen Boles receives 2005 Banff Centre Summit of Excellence Award |
| September 20 |
International creative projects share $20,000 in Banff Centre Mountain
Grants |
| September 9 | Image of Tibetan prayer flags wins 2005 Banff Mountain Photography Competition |
| August 29 | Banff Centre adventure photography workshop led by top National Geographic lensmen |
| August 9 | Artists from Tibet, Ecuador, Appalachia to perform in Banff August 19 to 21 |
| June 21 | Vertical stories wanted for 2005 Mountain Book Festival |
| June 21 | 2005 Banff Mountain Film Festival seeks big-screen adventure |
| April 1 | 2005 Banff Mountain Photography Competition seeks awe-inspiring images |
| March 9 | Banff Centre hosts photo exhibition and presentation by arctic adventurer Jerry Kobalenko |
| February 10 | Banff Centre grants program to fund projects on mountain ecology, adventure, and culture |
| January 19 | 2005 Mountain Speakers’ Series kicks off with West Coast kayaking adventure tale |
| January 7 | Learn, and Live at Avalanche Awareness Night, January 16 |
Banff Centre media releases
Mountain Culture Media Archives
2003 Mountain Summit Biographies
2003 Banff Mountain Festivals Biographies
2004 Banff Mountain Festivals Biographies
Media Releases: 2004 2003 2002 2001 2000 1999
