The seventh annual world tour of the Winter Wildlands Alliance Backcountry Film Festival, taking place Friday April 6th with the films starting at 7:30pm, highlights the beauty and fun of the winter backcountry experience. Submissions come from renowned filmmakers who travel every corner of the globe to submit their best backcountry work, and from grassroots filmmakers who take a video camera out on their weekend excursion a and submit their best film short The films are juried by a select panel of judges and the fop film are assembled into a 90 minute program.
Backwoods has 150 tickets available at $10.00 each and will be donating 100% of the proceeds to both GORC and Trailnet. Should all tickets be sold, the club has the potential to receive over $750.00 which will assist in the development of trails at Lost Valley, Greensfelder, and other general trail development. This is awesome!
We will have a membership table setup for the event and members will receive a 20% discount off one item the evening of the event (with normal restrictions).
2011/2012 Films
Best of the Festival: "Solitaire", by Sweetgrass Productions
Best Short Award: "Chalk and Ski", by Purple Orange
Best of the Backcountry Award: "Breaking Trail", by Powderwhore
Other film selections include...
- 40 Tribes Kyrgyzstan
- Berber Turns
- Ski Bums Never Die
- Winters of My Life
- Seasons; Winter
- Bike, Ski, Raft Denali Traverse
Below is a preview trailer for one of the films:
The event will take place Friday April 6th with the films starting at 7:30pm. GORC will also set up a informational and membership table the night of the event. Hope you can make it!
1 comment:
The film Powderwhore is fantastic.
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