LIVE TO PLAY Reviews

 Easy process.

 The gay advert was lame! Who asks? Silly stuff. Jews have a problem. Not gays but please don’t do a Jews in the outdoors next year.

 Great variety of amazing athletes and beautiful places.

 I really liked the hummingbird film. The mountaineer one was so long and

 Thanks, we had a great time.

 It was easy to purchase tickets and the automatic reminders of the event were nice.

 Good experience. Easy to buy the tickets.

 Great ticketing service! Thank You!!!

 Liked that I could print out the large bar codes and take them with me. I'm old school.

 The prizes were sweet!

 The films were ok this year but nothing spectacular. Way too much “agenda pushing” … “acknowledge you are on ancestral lands”, “must go green (all the while the athletes & filmmakers are taking long haul flights to hard to reach locations .., ugh hypocrite much?” Won’t go again. You’ve lost your connection to the audience while doubling down on your nonsense agenda.

 Appreciated reminders

 Fabulous films!

 The show was excellent.

 Dolomites was my favorite

 especially the weather observers in Sweden

 Like the old says of Banff.

 Need some “action” type outdoors activities.

 Fabulous films!

 Well organized. Especially liked the skiing in Antartica.

 One of my favorite movie experiences ever!

 We love these films, and try to attend the Banff Mountain Film Festival as often as we can. Our only concern with Saturday’s event was that most of the films were far too loud. It hurt our ears, and we had to put our hands over our ears for the films.

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 Not many films based on adventure.

 Wunderful

 Loved it!

 I've been to dozens of Banff Film Festivals. This was the first one I was disappointed with because there were too many long films and not enough subject variety. Mostly for skiers and climbers.

 I liked the choice of films better than in a lot of years. A nice mix of extreme sports, human interest, and people overcoming adversity to make the world a better place.

 Nice event. Cool 124 year old theater. That being said, they need a new screen. The one where they showed the film was dirty or stained. Streaks were evident during several of the films when scenes had white or light backgrounds.

 Loved it!

 My only complaint is that everyone I do business with floods my inbox with requests to review my experience. Most of them I just delete. I’m responding to yours because I like your organization, but I don’t like it when organizations all want to know what I think. Please consider some form of opt in for these requests.

 Nerve wracking to watch, just the way I like it! I still can't get into people projecting their personal bias in the films. The Rafting Mama's daughter's attitude ruined it for me. I didn't dare push back against my parents since I got walluped all the time as a kid.

 Some of this year's program choices were disappointing. For instance, everyone was happy for Jamaicans now that rock climbing has been introduced, but the film went far too long. Also, the audience had less energy than Friday's audience. It would have been great if the MC could have been more energetic. I think this could be an amazing event if you got the crowd energized, which wouldn't be hard to do.

 Liked this series better. It didn't have any "justification for my lifestyle episodes. The guys climbing that 6,000 meter mountain gave me the willies, it looked so challenging and dangerous. The climbers' personalities were portrayed in manner that supported their craziness.

 Better selection of films than Saturday's showing.The Bird in My Backyard, Wild Days and Dropping Molly were standouts.

 Great films and Live To Play made it so easy to purchase tickets! Thank you!

 Some of the films were silly. I want to see people doing incredible things outside, not a rationalization of some one's agenda. The 5 gay guys rafting: OK, so what. They only were in class 2 water. The girl rock climbing: if she places 5 anchors and 4 fail, then she isn't a very good climber. That she fell and broke her back so close to the ground is an indication that a lot higher up she would have been dead. Find your thrill in another sport that you are good at.

 Really disappointing films tonight. Hard to believe this is the cream of the crop. Hope Saturday’s films are better.

 Much better on the 2nd day! That said, the hummingbirds were the best! I appreciated the human elements in the mountain climb too...no issues, just substance. Very good.

 This is an average of the first half and of the second half. First half=0. Second half=5. Stick to your roots and get off the progressive messaging that the audience didn't sign up for. We all know and work with gay guys. We all know and work with people with organic and acquired mental and emotional challenges. We come to you to see outdoor adventure and drama and even humor (remember CARCA? Goats? remember the guys who got unbanned from a ski race?). Get with it!

 Is this date correct?

 Didn't care for the political films on Saturday. Not my kind of entertainment. We did enjoy the man who opened the evening with his insane ability with his para sail.

 Lost a star due to projection issues and a not very communicative emcee

 Worst Banff film festival I've ever seen. The fun is gone. Everything had to be inclusive or focused on environmental issues. Or old content.

 The films were ok this year but nothing spectacular. Way too much “agenda pushing” … “acknowledge you are on ancestral lands”, “must go green (all the while the athletes & filmmakers are taking long haul flights to hard to reach locations .., ugh hypocrite much?” Won’t go again. You’ve lost your connection to the audience while doubling down on your nonsense agenda.

 Films were not as good as they were the last time we attended in 2020. Also, during the 40 minute French film with subtitles we could not read what was being said due to the subtitles being outside the bottom of the screen and not visible for the first half of the film. An audience member had to go advise someone of the problem, but too much of what was said had been missed to really enjoy the production.

 Did not enjoy the selection of films as in the past. Too much focus on climbing.

 Not much energy or excitement from the host to start the show. He mentioned he has done it 23 times before and you could tell. Last film ends and no closure or thanks, just a blank screen.

 Films not as interesting as some prior years. Event was nicely moderated by Paul Fish. Nice raffle too.

 The films made me tear up multiple times in the best way possible - people pushing their physical and psychic limits to LIVE fully!