Every year Banff Centre Mountain Film and Book Festival kicks off in Banff, Alberta. Banff Centre welcomes some of the best adventurers and storytellers in the outdoor community to celebrate epic adventures and mountain culture.
We have compiled some of our favourite memories from years past.
Full Program Description.
2020's annual Indigenous Dialogues focuses on Indigenous place names and includes a sharing circle on how reinstating Indigenous names for rivers, peaks and landscape is an important element of decolonizing historic and modern narratives. With Reneltta Arluk, Christie H...
Learn more about this year's Festival Signature Image with photographer Christian Pondella!
Doug Scott and Geoff Power in conversation at the 2018 Banff Centre Mountain Film and Book Festival.
Conservation photographer Ian McAllister was underwater photographing a reef system off the coast of B.C.'s Great Bear Rainforest. Then, a pod of humpback whales swam up around him and the whole day changed. Watch this animated video of his amazing story, told during 2014's Banff Centre Mountain ...
Sometimes when you're adventuring out in the world, things can go very, very wrong. Luckily, filmmaker and cameraman Keith Partridge always carries a handy roll of duct tape in his bag—and you'll never guess what he uses it to fix.
Keith is a faculty member for Banff Centre for Arts and Creativ...
Professional climbers Greg Boswell and Nick Bullock went out to the mountains in Banff to set a route, but their trip took a turn when they met up with a startled grizzly bear. The pair were at the 2017 Banff Mountain Film and Book Festival to tell their tale, where we got all the details.
Climbing mentors Kai Lightner (professional climber), Mikhail Martin (Brothers of Climbing), Erynne Gilpin (Indigenous Womxn Climb), and Bethany Lebewitz (Brown Girls Climb) are working to bring diversity to climbing and they are bridging gaps so that we can celebrate an outdoor community where e...
Australian born rock climber, mountaineer, author, and filmmaker Greg Child sits down with world-renowned rock climber Alex Honnold.
They discuss Alex's recent adventures and adversity.
Sarah McNair-Landry joined us at Banff Centre as a speaker during the 2017 Banff Centre Mountain Film and Book Festival. While here, she sat down with us to talk about the film Into Twin Galaxies—A Greenland epic, which recounts the journey she took with two other National Geographic Adventurers ...
