Backcountry Film Festival- Melbourne, April 30 – Press Release
Mountainwatch | Press Release
The Backcountry Film Festival is produced each year by Winter Wildlands Alliance as a celebration of the human-powered winter experience and a gathering place for the backcountry snowsports community.
In 2019 it features a program of ten films, including productions from Colorado, Washington state, California and China. There will be a screening of the classic splitboarding film Ode to Muir, featuring Jeremy Jones and Elena Hight.
Tuesday April 30
Get there early for a drink: Bar from 6.30pm. Films from 7pm – 9.30pm.
Co-hosted with RMIT Outdoors Club.
Storey Hall (RMIT), 342-344 Swanston St, Melbourne.
Suggested donation: $8 conc & students/ $15 waged. Tickets at the door. There will be plenty of room. Sorry, cash only sales.
There will be a bar run by the RMIT Outdoors Club before the films start.
Facebook event page for Melbourne available here.
Full listing of films available here.
This screening is family friendly.
All proceeds will go to the Friends of the Earth campaign to stop offshore oil and gas exploration in western Victoria.
