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Missoula, Montana – Calling all “go big or go home” winter enthusiasts! Get ready
to get goosebumps while you “Ooh!” and “Ahh!” at the impact and importance of
our winter wildlands through this collection of short films. The fourteenth annual
Winter Wildlands Alliance Backcountry Film Festival will show in Missoula on
Friday, February 1st at The Wilma. All proceeds will benefit
Montana Backcountry Alliance. Montana Backcountry Alliance is a statewide group
formed in 2005 to represent thebackcountry ski, snowboard, and snowshoe
community in land management policy decisions.
Produced each year as a celebratory, backcountry community event by the Winter
Wildlands Alliance, the 14th Annual Backcountry Film Festival film line-up is full of
snowy, cinematic adventure sure to inspire both the local backcountry and general
communities. Winter Wildlands Alliance is a national nonprofit organization
dedicated to promoting and preserving winter wildlands and a quality humanpowered
snow sports experience on public lands.
By partnering with groups like Montana Backcountry Alliance at a local level, the
Winter Wildlands Alliance raises funds for these groups and communities through
the annual Backcountry Film Festival national tour. All funds raised directly benefit
local projects and programs that perpetuate access and stewardship of public
lands.
Adventure, environment and climate, youth outdoors, ski culture- youʼll find it all in
this award winning lineup. Films in this yearʼs program include:
· Ode to Muir (Festival cut), Teton Gravity Research
· Ski the Wild West, Thomas Woodson and Drew Petersen
· The Abbey, DPS Cinematic
· The Backcountry Snowsports Initiative: Human-Powered, Wool Hat
Creative Productions
· Abandoned (Festival cut), The Road West Traveled
· Blue, Aly Nicklas
· I Am Here, David Hanson and Michael Hanson
· Surfer Dan, Camp4 Collective
· Searching for Christmas Tree, Lie Feng
· Westward: Brennan Lagasse, KGB Productions