Fernie Mountain Film Festival

The Fernie Mountain Film Fest is going live this year with two incredible guests speakers.

Barry Blanchard will take the stage on Friday Feb 20 to tell stories and discuss his new book.
The Calling: A Life Rocked by Mountains by Barry Blanchard: Memoir of a poor kid saved from juvenile delinquency by the mystery and challenge of the Canadian Rockies. A portrait of the power of mountains to lift us physically, emotionally, intellectually and spiritually.

And on Saturday Feb 21 Jon Turk will enthrall all with his talk:
Exploring Deep Wilderness – When Wild Animals Talk To You
If you spend enough time in Deep Wilderness, every once in a while, maybe once in a decade, wild animals will come into close proximity and stay close for a prolonged period of time. Author, Jon Turk, will explore the relevance of these encounters in this internet crazed, oil soaked world.

Feature Film Saturday Feb 21 will be:
NORDFOR SOLA – NORTH OF THE SUN
North of the sun – a documentary about following the dream

Inge Wegge (25) and Jørn Ranum (22) spent nine months of cold, Norwegian winter in the isolated and uninhabited bay of a remote, arctic island by the coast of Northern-Norway, facing nothing but the vast Atlantic Ocean. There they built a cabin out of driftwood and other cast-off materials that washed up on shore, and ate expired food the stores would otherwise have thrown away. But the boys brought with them two items of utmost importance: Their surfboards – perhaps their biggest motivation for the arctic adventure. Because the remote bay holds a well kept secret; Some of the worlds finest surfing waves..

North of the sun – Trailer from weggebros on Vimeo.