Everyday Activist - 2017 Banff World Tour Award Winners

Posted on Sunday, January 15, 2017 at 10:00 PM

"The Accord"

2017 Banff World Tour Award Winners

Movie Review by Everyday Activist X CalgaryMovies.com

Both films, The Accord and Metronomic, will be featured on the Blue program during the Calgary stop of the Banff Mountain Film Festival World Tour 2016/17 #1 & #2.

The Accord

2016 Award: Creative Excellence 

Driving home on Tuesday from Edmonton, after experiencing blowing snow that turned the road into one big cloud, I decided that I had to review The Accord. I’m not afraid of wind since, I grew up in Southern Alberta; by southern I mean Crowsnest Pass and Lethbridge, with wind gusts up to 100 km/hr, but always from the west. The Accord compares the North Atlantic wind to a drunk played by Gudmundur Thorain with many moods coming from all directions.

Flipping back and forth between the drunk and Icelandic scenery, surfer Heiðar Logi, scours the Icelandic coast for the perfect waves. Sometimes he makes it and sometimes the search continues. I can’t imagine anyone wanting to get into never mind surf in such cold water, though I enjoyed the videography. I’m sure the footage could be recut for a “Discover Iceland” tourism video.

The Accord will also screen in Banff on Wednesday January 18th, 2017 for free at the Banff Avenue Brewing Company as part of Snowdays.

Metronomic

2016 Award: Best Mountain Sports

French people have some of the strangest ideas of what to do in the mountains. A few years ago, I watched a film called Petit Bus Rouge; basically, a circus in the mountains with skyliners, acrobats, wingsuit flyers, clowns and musicians. When I watched Metronomic, I immediately thought of the Little Red Bus, though I didn’t make the immediate connection between the two films. Because back then they were called Skyliners, instead of the catchier name of the Flying Frenchies.

As the name suggests, this film has a strong musical component and like a metronome the musicians go back and forth – across a gorge. While I’m not sure that swinging across a canyon with a drum kit is a necessarily a sport, it is entertaining. The actual film is only 12 min, but the tour edit is 5 min. Sadly, one of the founders of the Flying Frenchies/Skyliners, Tancrède Melet, who is in Metronomic, died in a freak balloon accident in January 2016.

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