P.O.W. and Patagonia present the 2013 Backcountry Film Festival

Mountainwatch | Press Release

Non-profit environmental organisation Protect Our Winters and Patagonia have teamed up to host the Australian premiere of the Winter Wildlands Alliance Backcountry Film Festival this May.

Winter Wildlands Alliance created the Backcountry Film Festival in 2005 to help grassroots and professional filmmakers show audiences their love of the winter outdoors. Since then, the annual festival has been shown in many towns and cities around the world, and raised thousands of dollars to help efforts to preserve our winter environment.

Now over half a decade old, the festival highlights the fun and magic of our country’s winter backcountry. At the same time, it raises funds to help Winter Wildlands Alliance and our grassroots groups to continue to protect wild areas throughout the world.

Protect Our Winters

POW’s mission is to unite and actively engage the global snow sports community to lead the fight against climate change. Protect Our Winters (POW) was started in 2007 by pro snowboarder Jeremy Jones who witnessed first-hand the impact of climate change on our mountains.

After having been turned away from areas that had once been ride-able and seeing resorts closed due to lack of snow, Jeremy saw a gap between the winter sports community and the action being taken by us all to address the problem.

Dates

The BFF will premiere at the Sydney Patagonia store at 93 Bathurst St, Sydney, NSW 2000 on Monday 20 May at 6:30 pm. The films will also be shown at the Melbourne store at 485 Chapel St, South Yarra 3141 on Thursday 23 May at 7:00 pm.