Banff Mountain Film Festival World Tour @ Alamo Drafthouse - West Oaks

Whole Earth is pleased to announce the presentation of the 2011 Banff Mountain Film Festival.  The film selection for this tour exceeds all of the five previous festivals that Whole Earth has hosted. There’s excitement to satisfy the most adventuresome; there’s great diversity in terms of sports and locales; and there’s human interest and multiple cultures to captivate us all.

Tickets are $18. Available  at both Houston Whole Earth Provision Co. stores, the Alamo Drafthouse-West Oaks box office, and online at http://www.drafthouse.com/westoaks/shows.php?id=732

WORLD TOUR FILMS

The Longest Way

A highly entertaining time-lapse of a one-year walk from Beijing to Urumqi. Time and distance travelled are charmingly demonstrated by the growth of a beard in this five-minute short.

AZADI:Freedom

AZADI:Freedom takes a look at Kashmir in the wake of the violent militant insurgence of the ‘90s through the lens of skiing. The unique role that skiing is playing in rebuilding tourism in Kashmir is explored using cinematography, animation, and the story of local characters. The film crew explores the future presented to young Kashmiri as they venture into the mountains – on backcountry skis. The world’s highest skiable gondola sits amid the most militarized region in the world, yet the freedom of adventure is drawing foreigners back to this former Shangri-La.

Eastern Rises

The Kamchatka Peninsula in the Russian Far East may as well be the end of the earth. Its enormously wild landscape is swarming with bugs and bears and threaded with rivers full of massive mouse-eating trout. In the stunning film Eastern Rises, fishing is poetry, Bigfoot lurks in the fog, and fishermen risk life and limb in decommissioned Cold War helicopters to explore rivers that have never been fished before.

Parking Garage: Beyond the Limit

A spoof of the Discovery Channel show, Everest: Beyond the Limit.

Last Paradise

In the remote wilderness of New Zealand, when necessity was the mother of invention, a maverick bunch of kids concocted a dream that they would one day share with the world. In Last Paradise, through 45 years of stunning original footage we relive the journey of legendary extreme sports pioneers on the roads less travelled.

As It Happens

Renan Ozturk and Corey Richards “go rogue” and file video dispatches from their attempt at the first ascent of Nepal’s 6,000 meter Tawoche Himal. As It Happens takes these individual pieces and ties them together in one well-made story that lets a challenging trip unfold as it happens.

Dream Result

A group of top athletes and friends are driven by passion to explore the limits of possibility. Expeditions to Norway and a quest for waterfalls throughout Argentina and the US are all part of the program in Dream Result – so hang on for the ride!