sedona news – The Sedona International Film Festival is proud to join theaters around the world to introduce the world tour of the Vancouver International Mountain Film Festival, which will run July 21-27 at the Mary D. Fisher Theater. will be

Get ready for heart-pounding action, big laughs, and pure inspiration. Each year, the Vancouver International Mountain Film Festival tours award-winning films and other selected films to various locations in Canada, the United States, and around the world.

This year’s tour will feature the following films:

Dream a better place: Deep in British Columbia, the Gostlin family finds solace in the mountain spirit and culture of powder skiing after an unexpected tragedy changed their family’s dreams forever. (8 minutes)

7 summits in my neighborhood: Brendan Leonard explores the 7 tallest mountains visible from the neighborhood and ideas for adventure. (19 minutes)

continuation: Everything is connected. Each ride is an extension of the previous one. Each re-entry is a transition to the next launch. Each experience builds upon itself towards an infinitely progressive flow state. Only setting and perspective change along this continuum. (2 minutes)

Mama has gone mountain climbing: Five years later, after raising two babies, Nell rediscovered climbing. She soon realized that her climbing was the antidote to her challenges as a mother, and she took on a mission to find other climbing moms. What she found was an amazing group of women. Each had their own stories, struggles and horrors, all powered by climbing. (22 minutes)

Squamish Highliner Journey: The Squamish Highline community comes together to rig a wide variety of highlines of all types, from bouncy freestyle lines to Cheakamas’ new longest 420m line. This film is about community and offers an insight into the beautiful, supportive, inspirational and loving social network that is BC’s highline. (15 minutes)

Bear witness: Subarctic: As sea ice shrinks to record lows and polar bears spend more time on land, a photographer sets out to document what increased bear-human interaction means for northern communities. (12 minutes)

Darkest before dawn: Get a peek into the real, raw process world of Belgian climber Seeb Vanhee’s first season of climbing Yosemite’s hardest big wall. The infamous Dawn Wall has proven difficult in many ways. (19 minutes)

Georgia Astle: Flip the switch: Inspired by the growing wave of female freeriders around the world, Georgia Astle explores some of British Columbia’s most striking landscapes in search of terrain to propel her riding . (3 minutes)

Freerider: Explore Alaska’s most pristine locations for the craziest spine walls to ski or snowboard. Bush pilots will drop a small crew of five onto a remote, unexplored glacier and set up base camp. They attempt to conquer the Wall of the Spine on foot in a series of climbs, always getting more enthusiastic after each. (34 minutes)

The Vancouver International Mountain Film Festival runs July 21-27 at the Mary D. Fisher Theater. Showtimes are Friday, Sunday and Monday July 21st, 23rd and 24th at 7pm.and Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday July 25th, 26th and 27th at 4pm

Tickets are $12 or $9 for festival members. For tickets and more information, please call 928-282-1177. Both the theater and film festival offices are located at 2030 W. Hwy. 89A, West Sedona. See below for details. www.SedonaFilmFestival.org.