Archive:VIMFF 2009

In collaboration with Alan Formanek from VIMFF, VOC members and related friends will have access to a group rate of $12/evening (instead of the regular price $17/evening) for the duration of the festival. In order to obtain these tickets, we'll need first to know how many people will be interested to come see these films and which evenings. Please post the evenings where you, your friends and/or family members will be coming.

Price: $12 / evening, to be paid at the door.
Deadline: 30 minutes before the start of the evening's shows (7:00 pm). A limit number of tickets will be placed aside under the name VOC. First-com, first served policy will be enforced.

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Dates

Friday, February 20^th

VIMFF Festival Opening BC/Canada Evening

presented by Outdoor Research
with VIMFF 2009 Photo Competition Awards and Exhibition opening. “One Step Beyond: Adventures in Leglessness” live presentation by Warren Macdonald (Australia/Canada) on his experiences of being footless and fancy free - from Yosemite to South Georgia, from Tanzania to the Rockies; and screening of other selected festival films fabriqué au Canada.

Location: Centennial Theatre, 2300 Lonsdale, North Vancouver

Time: Before 7:00 pm or else you lose your discount ticket

Present:

Saturday, February 21^st

VIMFF Women and/in Climbing Evening

with Colorado’s Majka Burhardt’s “Vertical Ethiopia” multimedia show from climbing virgin sandstone towers in Northern Ethiopia; Canada’s top all around adventurer Margo Talbot in “Cold Passion” - a journey to the outer limits of the healing power of Nature; and other VIMFF films.

Location: Centennial Theatre, 2300 Lonsdale, North Vancouver

Time: Before 7:00 pm or else you lose your discount ticket

Present:

1. tif

Sunday, February 22^nd

VIMFF Polish Mountain Film Show

with Polish mountain filmmaker Darek Załuski and his recent films from the Himalayas; and screening of the other recent Polish climbing and mountaineering films.

Location: Pacific Cinémathèque, 1131 Howe Street, Vancouver

Time: Before 7:00 pm or else you lose your discount ticket

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Monday, February 23^th

VIMFF Earth Alive

evening film show with screening of films on mountain environment and sustainability.

Location: Pacific Cinémathèque, 1131 Howe Street, Vancouver

Time: Before 7:00 pm or else you lose your discount ticket

Present:

1. Joanna (+1)
2. tif

Tuesday, February 24^th

VIMFF Paddle Sports Show

with Squamish kayaker Bryan Smith in "The Headwaters of the Amazon…Peruvian Whitewater" multimedia show, as well as screening of his most recent recent film "Eastern Horizons" from paddling the Canadian East Coast oceans; and other paddling films.

Location: Pacific Cinémathèque, 1131 Howe Street, Vancouver

Time: Before 7:00 pm or else you lose your discount ticket

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Wednesday, February 25^th

VIMFF Ski Show

presented by G3 with Vancouver’s own Matt Gunn in a multimedia show “ South Coast Ski Touring & Mountaineering” on ski touring in the Southwestern British Columbia; and screening of other VIMFF ski films.

Location: Pacific Cinémathèque, 1131 Howe Street, Vancouver

Time: Before 7:00 pm or else you lose your discount ticket

Present:

1. Scott W.
2. Line
3. Veenstra

Thursday, February 26^th

VIMFF Mountain Biking Evening

presented by Norco with North Vancouver local adventurer Pat Mulrooney’s slide show from ripping the trails the Chilcotin Ranges of BC; and screening of the sickest and dirtiest mountain biking flicks.

Location: Centennial Theatre, 2300 Lonsdale, North Vancouver

Time: Before 7:00 pm or else you lose your discount ticket

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VIMFF Wanders Through Eastern Asia Evening

with China’s Ed Jocelyn’s “Ten Thousand Rivers, One Thousand Mountains: Five years on foot through rural China” presentation in the footsteps of Mao’s Great Red March; and screening of films from the high regions of Eastern Asia.

Location: Pacific Cinémathèque, 1131 Howe Street, Vancouver

Time: Before 7:00 pm or else you lose your discount ticket

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Friday, February 27^th

VIMFF Big Rock Evening

presented by Boreal and Arc’teryx” with Spanish big wall diva Sílvia Vidal in “Solo Ascent, Shipton Spire (Pakistan)” from Sílvia’s 21-day epic solo single push wall climb; JP “PeeWee" Ouellet’s “Crack Addict” film; and screening of other rock films.

Location: Centennial Theatre, 2300 Lonsdale, North Vancouver

Time: Before 7:00 pm or else you lose your discount ticket

Present:

1. tif

Saturday, February 28^th

VIMFF Finale

with VIMFF 2009 Film Awards; “To the Limit” live multimedia presentation by world’s leading all around climber Alex Huber from Germany on his bold solos and speed climbs in Yosemite; and other VIMFF films.

Location: Centennial Theatre, 2300 Lonsdale, North Vancouver

Time: Before 7:00 pm or else you lose your discount ticket

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External links

Vancouver International Mountain Film Festival

Translink schedule from Main UBC Bus Loop to Centennial Center, 2300 Lonsdale Ave., North Van.

Translink schedule from Main UBC Bus Loop to Pacific Cinémathèque, 1131 Howe St., Vancouver