sedona news – Banff Mountain Film Festival World Tour returns to Sedona. The 10th annual Sedona International Film Festival brings the spirit of outdoor adventure and mountain culture to Red Rock Country.

This year's screenings will feature some of the world's best mountain sports, culture and environmental films, allowing you to experience the thrills and challenges of the mountain environment that inspires us all.

The Sedona tour will be held again this year for two nights, Tuesday, March 5th and Wednesday, March 6th at 7pm at the Sedona Performing Arts Center. A different film program is shown each night. Spectators can attend either night or receive a package discount for attending both nights.

The Banff Center Mountain Film and Book Festival is one of the largest and most prestigious mountain festivals in the world. The Banff Center Mountain Film Festival World Tour follows this film festival, held each fall in beautiful Banff, Alberta. The Banff World Tour celebrates amazing achievements in outdoor storytelling and filmmaking around the world, with visits planned in over 600 communities and over 40 countries around the world.

Each year, the festival receives a selection of more than 400 entries, and a selection of award-winning and audience favorites are screened in theaters around the world.

Traveling through far-flung landscapes, dissecting hot-button environmental issues and taking spectators up close and personal with adrenaline-pumping action sports, the 2022/2023 World Tour is an exhilarating and provocative exploration of the mountain world.

Featured movies for Tuesday, March 5 are:

• Fuego: An ode to escape and adventure travel, Fuego is a new masterpiece in mountain biking. From Guatemala to Peru via Bolivia, his team spent two months exploring the most beautiful locations and bringing to life breathtaking footage.

• Best skier you've never heard of: Adrian Grabinski needed a change. After a successful ski racing career and joining the Canadian national team from Team Alberta as a junior, he ventured further west. He discovered his true calling at Shames His Mountain, a small, secluded cooperative non-profit ski area near Terrace, British Columbia. He was initially drawn to the mountains, the snow, and the big lines, but it was his local ski community that really won him over.

• Driving sweep: Few river guides get the chance to drive one of Idaho's iconic sweep boats. “Driving Sweep” follows Katie Vetet as she learns the “driving sweep” at the middle fork of the Salmon River. She learned about rapids and rivers. Now she's learning to drive 4,000 pounds through steep, rocky rapids.

• Leo and Chester: Leo, a popular rock star with a promising career, turns his back on the industry and pursues a life on the land with a herd of buffalo.

• Canada Vertical: After years of preparation, a team of motivated Quebecers set out on the longest wilderness expedition ever recorded. Stage 1 involves unrelenting polar skiing from Ellesmere Island to the Northwest Passage, where the challenge is to reach the mainland. He signals his canoe for the 2,000 km journey across Nunavut and the Northwest Territories, reaching the first available dirt road. There, he waits for his bike to pedal 4,000 km to Point Perry, Ontario.

• Desert Wings: Paramotoring is a niche flying sport, largely undocumented and little known. This piece reveals that in a truly spectacular way. Filmed over his six days using multiple paramotor pilots, Desert Wings highlights some of the American Southwest's most dramatic desert landscapes.

• Mountain slide: Two young brothers from the Lil'wat Nation set out to ski the sacred mountains where they grew up, evolving both themselves and their culture.

• After leaving: The story of a female Adirondack fishing guide who overcomes the hardships of battling cancer and losing her husband. She then goes on a once-in-a-lifetime trip to Argentina, where she reignites her hope, passion, and her life.

• Two point four: It's not your typical family vacation, but this is not your typical family. Leo Holding, his wife Jess, and their two children Freya (age 9) and Jackson (age 5) climb Norway's national mountain over a massive 2,000-foot wall.

Featured movies for Wednesday, March 6 are:

• no way: Jean-Baptiste Chandelier takes the unique low-flying, gliding art of paragliding and filmmaking to a whole new level.

• Soundscape: “Soundscape” shares the sightless experience of climbing a mountain through the location, feel and imagination of echoes. The film follows blind and world-renowned adventure athlete and author Eric Weihenmayer as he climbs a massive alpine rock face deep in the Sierra Nevada mountains. It's an amazing and soulful adventure.

• JoJo: The Toad Musical: Join Jojo Nyaribo, a young nature lover and wildlife advocate, as she explores the implications of biodiversity and stewardship in her own backyard. The story interweaves JoJo's love for the natural world with JoJo's journey to learn about and fight a particular fungus that is wiping out an alarming number of amphibians around the world. JoJo believes we can all make a difference.

• Underground: In a remarkable year, two gritty teams of hobby cavers are attempting to break the record for Canada's longest and deepest cave. After discovering a flooded basement, Katie, an accountant by day, becomes obsessed with returning to Bizarro Anima Cave in the Rocky Mountains to break the cave depth record. At the same time, a passionate team on Vancouver Island is trying to connect two systems of tunnels to create the longest known cave in the country. From deep ocean depths and muddy crawlways to heart-pounding vertical holes and underwater oppressive sensations, these are places like no one has been before.

• Frankly: Frank Payne is 73 years old and a South Bay icon, a humble local legend whose life revolves around two blocks of beach. His unforgettable mustache and charming spirit are the first things most people notice, but Frank's layers reveal a depth that may answer some of the questions surfers constantly ask themselves. Surfing, which can be isolating for some, becomes whole again with Frank.

• Crying Glacier: The louder the glacier, the stronger its melting force. Creaks, cracks, and ripples are the voices of impermanence. Sound His artist Ludwig Berger shows how important it is to listen to the sounds of the world around us.

• Near the river: In Zambia's tourist town of Livingstone, a group of local men who make a living transporting kayaks are aiming to become safe kayakers on the Zambezi River. The proposed Batoka Gorge hydropower project threatens to flood the Zambezi River's famous rapids and destroy river-related jobs.

• Sea to Sky Trail Series: Progress: The trail running community is always moving upwards, one step at a time. Advancements have come in leaps and bounds in recent years, with runners combining inspiration from the worlds of alpinism, rock climbing, and running to tackle technical terrain in ways never seen before.

• Pioneer: Tandem XC Skis: Joe Dubay was disqualified for wearing the wrong bib after winning the American Birkebeiner, North America's largest cross-country ski race. Now, 11 years later, Joe and the former roommate who lent me his bib are recording his return to Birkebeiner to pioneer a new sport: tandem cross-country skiing.

Sedona International Film Festival and Film and Adventure as the Banff Mountain Film Festival World Tour brings the spirit of outdoor adventure to Sedona on Tuesday and Wednesday, March 5 at the Sedona Performing Arts Center (995 Upper Red Rock Loop Road) Join the lovers of. March 6, every night at 7 p.m.

Bringing the Banff Mountain Film Festival World Tour to Sedona is made possible by a generous grant from the Leo and Leah Faye Fruman Foundation.

Tickets for each night are $20 general admission. $17 for festival members and students. To attend both nights he will be offered a 2 night package discount. General admission is $35, $29 for film festival members.

For tickets and information, visit here www.SedonaFilmFestival.org Or call us at 928-282-1177. Tickets may also be ordered in person at the Sedona International Film Festival office located at 2030 W. State Route 89A in West Sedona.