Last night, Cameron and I had a little impromptu date night when we drove to Reno to see a screening of the Banff Mountain Film Festival! I’ve blogged about it before, but basically the Banff Mountain Film Festival is a competition put on by the Banff Centre in Alberta, Canada. (Sidenote: Banff National Park was one of the places they went on this past season of the Bachelor where they swam in that freezing cold water and Tierra “supposedly” got hypothermia–I thought that might jog the memory of some of my fellow Bachelor fans!) The Banff Centre holds a competition for short films and the criteria for entry is they all have to have mountain content. The winning films go on tour all over the world, and the local screenings often involve community sponsors and are just really fun events. The cool part is that the individual location gets to pick which films they want to show for their screening, so if you attend a screening in one location you might see totally different films than if you go somewhere else. (For example, last year’s screening in Tahoe feature quite a few ski films!)
Cam and I have attended the Banff Film Festival for the last few years in all the different places we’ve lived–Michigan, South Carolina, and Tahoe–and we’ve never been disappointed. This year was no exception as the films we saw last night were absolutely incredible! Here’s an idea of what I’m talking about: