Banff Mountain Film Festival

The Banff Mountain Film Festival is an international film competition featuring the world's best footage on mountain subjects. The festival began in 1976 and is held annually on the first weekend in November in Banff, Alberta, Canada. The year 2010 marks the 35th anniversary of the festival.

This year's film festival begins with the Feature-Length Films Weekend on Saturday, October 30, and Sunday, October 31. Regular programming runs Saturday, October 30, through Sunday, November 7. On Sunday evening, the international jury will announce the Best of the Festival Award Winners.

What is the Banff Mountain Film Festival World Tour?

Immediately after the festival in November, a selection of the best films entered in the festival and goes on tour. The host organization in each tour location chooses a program that reflects the interests of their community. Each community creates a unique celebration of local adventure and adventurers.

The world tour spans the globe, making its way from Austria to Argentina and from Iceland to India. The world tour spans the globe reaching over 200,000 audience members in 30 countries and 360 locations with over 550 screenings.

Many of the tour screenings benefit an outdoor program, community cause, or a nonprofit organization. Some of the causes supported by the tour are bursaries for outdoor pursuits, adventure programs for disadvantaged children, search and rescue operations, climbing clubs, youth ski programs, and trail maintenance groups.

The Banff Mountain Film Festival website lists the World Tour locations and local contact details at www.banffmountainfestival.ca/tour

Within Our Region

The Banff Mountian Festival is being brought to Keyano Theatre by the  Fort McMurray Public Library for two nights this January. On January 13 and 14, starting at 7:30 PM you'll enjoy a two hour screening of the best films submitted by Canadian, Australian and American film makers. Each night will feature different films, so to see them all you must attend both Thursday and Friday.The selected films encompass a variety of mountain and adventure sports, human journeys, culture and even some humourous stories as well.

Tickets can be purchased at Keyano Theatre box office or online, click here to be taken to the Keyano Box Office site.

Thursday, January 13 at 7:30pm
Brought to you by the Fort McMurray Public Library and Northland Forest Products

Friday, January 14 at 7:30pm

Brought to you by the Fort McMurray Public Library

Adult: $20

Student/Seniors: $15

For more information contact: Carolyn Murray Marketing Manager 780-743-7807

Email: carolyn.murray@fmpl.

Community Image Summit

Keyano College in partnership with the Regional Municipality of Wood Buffalo are proud to invite you to the Community Image Summit, a gathering of communication practitioners, on Thursday, January 20th, 2011.

This is an opportunity communications professionals come together from industry, government, public, private and nonprofit sectors to discuss the community image challenge that we all face. Are we singing from the same song sheet? Do we effectively manage the message? Can we inspire a better sense of truth and understanding about Fort McMurray, Wood Buffalo and oil sands?

Highlighted by The Global Address with Terry O’ Reilly (host of The Age of Persuasion on CBC Radio), the Community Image Summit will feature a World Café facilitated discussion, a presentation of the Faces of Fort McMurray project and a panel discussion featuring O’Reilly, Mayor Melissa Blake, Janet Annesley from CAPP and Tim Reid from MacDonald Island Park.

For more information on the event agenda please see the image at the bottom of the post.

Your $50 conference fee includes entrance to the daytime program, dinner and a ticket to The Global Address with Terry O’Reilly.

To reserve your seat at the Community Image Summit please follow these steps:

1. Visit the Keyano Box Office website by clicking here.

2. Click on “Buy Tickets”

3. Scroll down to Keyano College Global Speaker Series presents Terry O'Reilly

4. Click on “Buy Tickets”

5. Select “Thursday, January 20th at 8:00 pm” and pick your seat

6. When you Check Out be sure to select the Community Image Summit box

Keyano College, looks forward to your participation on what promises to be a stimulating and constructive day of dialogue and discovery.

Julian Schnabel - A Retrospective

During the Christmas holidays I was able to travel back home to Toronto and enjoy the holiday season with my family and friends. Despite the frenetic pace of my trip I made sure that I had the opportunity fo visit the Art Gallery of Ontario and catch a few of the exhibitions currently on display in the gallery. My original purpose in going to the AGO was to view the Maharaja exhibit. Although the show was fantastic, I was more struck with an exhibit showcasing the works of Julian Schnabel.

Schnabel is an American artist who has spent his life pushing the boundaries of painting while intersecting artistic pursuits by working as an award winning filmaker. The AGO display pays homage to his work by offering a major retrospective examing the connections between painting and film in his work and "tracing how his paintings exist in dialogue with the cinema and reveal the rich interplay between the two media." (http://www.ago.net/ago-to-mount-major-julian-schnabel-exhibition) I found Schnabel's work to have an almost haunting quality to it and particularly enjoyed his portrayal of another well-known artist, Andy Warhol. I've uploaded the image for you all to see.

To view other images by Schnabel you can go to the AGO website. Enjoy!