IDAHO FALLS — A popular film festival dedicated to celebrating achievements in outdoor storytelling and filmmaking worldwide is returning to Idaho Falls.
The Banff Centre Mountain Film Festival World Tour will take place Jan. 23 to 25 at the Colonial Theater, located at 498 A Street in Idaho Falls. Each night the lobby will open at 6 p.m., seating begins at 6:30 p.m. and an introduction gets underway at 7 p.m.
“Every year in Banff, Canada, they do the Banff’s Mountain Film Festival, where amateur and some semi-professional outdoor filmers, photographers and artists, film adventures and different things outdoors and submit them to this festival,” Rick Williams, spokesman for the Idaho Falls Nordic Ski Patrol, explained.
The traveling film festival is a fundraiser for the Idaho Falls Nordic Ski Patrol, an organization that has sponsored the event for 27 years. The ski patrol serves communities within a 110-mile radius around …