MIT Lecture Series Committee

March 15, 2016

format: bluray

Backcountry Film Festival (2016)

Co-hosted with MITOC! Buy your tickets TODAY to reserve your seat - http://www.mit.edu/~mitoc/#events/special.shtml

At the intersection of snow, community, and human-powered recreation comes the Backcountry Film Festival. Created in 2005 as a way to gather the winter tribe in celebration of all things human-powered, the film festival is the common ground where similar interests and diverse skill-sets meet. The Backcountry Film Festival is renowned for its collaboration with filmmakers from all corners of the globe, ranging from grassroots to professional. The festival provides a fresh lineup committed to get you stoked on powder turns as well as environmental initiatives happening all around the world. [winterwildlands.org]

Professional skier and filmmaker, Kt Miller, will be on hand to help MIT's Outing Club host the festival. Her film about a skiing and sailing expedition from Iceland to Greenland, Shifting Ice + Changing Tides, won the festival's award for Best Environmental Message. During Intermission, Kt will give a talk about her work as a professional skier, photographer, and environmentalist, and the push by groups like the Winter Wildlands Alliance to preserve our winters.

We also have a great raffle of awesome gear, so don't miss out!

2016 Films:
The Weight of Winter (Ben Sturgulewski)
I Love Splitboarding (Right on Brother)
Shifting Ice (Kt Miller)
The Forecaster (Spindle Productions)
55 Hours in Mexico (Joey Schusler)
Always Above Us (Sherpa Cinema)
Connections (Dynafit)
Shared Lines (T-bar Films)
Japan by Van (Sweetgrass Productions)