Backcountry Film Festival

You will not want to miss this! The Backcountry Film Festival is back in Los Alamos for another year, and it promises to be an evening of entertainment, prizes, inspiration and fun.

The Winter Wildlands Alliance Backcountry Film Festival celebrates its 10th Anniversary, with nine unique films aimed to inspire winter adventurers to seek the snow less traveled. 

PEEC and the Reel Deal Theater in Los Alamos are teaming up for a fourth year in a row to offer this popular event. The Pajarito Brewpub will be joining us to sell beer and wine before the show and at intermission, and as always we'll have a raffle with really great prizes during intermission.

Buy your tickets in advance at the Reel Deal Theater, or at the door. Tickets are $12 in advance or $15 at the door. As in years past, it is expected to sell out, so we recommend you get your tickets in advance! 

The Backcountry Film Festival is renowned for its mix of professional and grassroots films – from well-known filmmakers who search backcountry corners across the globe to submit their best work to first-timers who take a video camera out on their weekend excursions. This year’s program includes:

• Winner, Best of Festival, Out on a Limb from T-bar Films tells the story of Vasu, who’s love for skiing and the backcountry overcomes all obstacles. 
• Best of the Backcountry Award winner, Powder Pilgrimage from Joey Howell, chronicles the ventures of two friends ski-bumming it to Valdez, Alaska, a trip we should all take once.
• Best Grassroots Film winner, Backcountry Baker by Jeremy Lurgio follows Labrador retriever Baker and his owner as they pursue their love of mountains through backcountry skiing.
• From the Road by Fischer Creative portrays the balance between liberation and limitation as a group of athletes come together to help a skiing comrade gain reconciliation with the Alaska peak where a 2009 accident ended his professional guiding career.
• Afterglow from Sweetgrass Productions is a revolutionary and visually spectacular film that brings a whole new light to skiing in the dark.
• 95 to Infinity by Doglotion Media follows brothers Andy and Mike Traslin as they keep the torch lit for 95 months of winter turns.
• IRS Traverse by filmmaker Luc Mehl is fun and quirky adventure through the Alaska Wilderness
• Sundog from SturgeFilms capture the dog days of skiing in Patagonia.
• Higher continues the journey of athlete Jeremy Jones as he reaches new heights. From Teton Gravity Research.  

For more information about the Backcountry Film Festival and the tour, visit www.backcountryfilmfestival.org.