Backcountry Film Festival

Sun Valley Opera House

Come support the Nordic and Backcountry Skiers' Alliance of Idaho at the 19th annual Backcountry Film Festival! Where: Sun Valley Opera House When: Saturday, February 10, 2024, Doors 6pm, Shows 7pm How: $20 tickets can be purchased online at www.ticketstripe.com/bcff-SV-2024 Presented by Winter Wildlands Alliance, Backcountry Film Festival manifests the power of humans and their spirit. We screen cinematic stories of outdoor stewardship, grassroots policy and advocacy work, backcountry adventure, and snow cinema by human-powered advocates, athletes, brands, activists, adventures, and outdoor enthusiasts. Celebrating the connecting between humans and wild winters. A collage of human-powered stories and backcountry-inspired experiences. Backcountry Film Festival ignites wild conversations and inspires action to communities that celebrate the present while looking towards the future. Every winter, BCFF tours 100+ cities and is hosted by local retailers, grassroots groups, outdoor affinity groups, and many more community organizations. Funds raised stay in the local community to support human-powered recreation and conservation efforts, winter education and avalanche/safety programs and to raise awareness of winter management issues. The 19th Annual Backcountry Film Festival is screening documentaries and ski movies about athletic pursuit in the mountains, artistic vision, friendship, and how the snowsports community is adapting to a changing environment. ...

$20

FILM: Oscars Shorts—Live Action

Merlin's Magic Lantern

For the 9th consecutive year, the Sun Valley Museum of Art and the Magic Lantern Cinemas present the Oscar-Nominated Short Films. With all three categories offered—Live Action, Animated and Documentary—this is your annual chance to predict the winners. A perennial hit with audiences around the country and the world, don’t miss this year’s selection of shorts. The Academy Awards take place Sunday, March 10, 2024. $10 member / $12 nonmember

$10 – $12

Oscars Shorts—Animated

Merlin's Magic Lantern

For the 9th consecutive year, the Sun Valley Museum of Art and the Magic Lantern Cinemas present the Oscar-Nominated Short Films. With all three categories offered—Live Action, Animated, and Documentary—this is your annual chance to predict the winners. A perennial hit with audiences around the country and the world, don’t miss this year’s selection of shorts. The Academy Awards take place on Sunday, March 10, 2024. $10 member / $12 nonmember

$10 – $12

FILM: Oscars Shorts—Documentary

Merlin's Magic Lantern

For the 9th consecutive year, the Sun Valley Museum of Art and the Magic Lantern Cinemas present the Oscar-Nominated Short Films. With all three categories offered—Live Action, Animated, and Documentary—this is your annual chance to predict the winners. A perennial hit with audiences around the country and the world, don’t miss this year’s selection of shorts. The Academy Awards take place on Sunday, March 10, 2024. $10 member / $12 nonmember

$10 – $12

FILM & TALK: Idaho’s Hidden Gems on Idaho Experience—Teater’s Knoll

Sun Valley Museum of Art

Henry Whiting & Brent Hale in conversation with Idaho Public Television Producers Andy Lawless & Forrest Burger. The newest episode of Idaho Public Television’s Idaho Experience features the only Frank Lloyd Wright structure in Idaho, Teater’s Knoll. Located in Bliss, Idaho, Teater’s Knoll was commissioned as a studio and home by the painter Archie Teater and his wife Patricia in 1952. Join SVMoA for a screening of a program on Teater’s Knoll and early Idaho photographer Clarence Bisbee that IdahoPTV is calling “Idaho’s Hidden Gems.” Following the screening, Henry Whiting, who owns and lives in Teater’s Knoll and has overseen two extensive restoration projects on the building, will join Brent Hale, son of stonemason Kent Hale, who completed much of the studio’s meticulous stonework, in a conversation moderated by Idaho Public Television.

Free

Wood River Valley reGEN Film Club

Wood River Valley

We are excited to invite you to join the local Wood River Valley chapter of the reGEN Film Club. reGEN Media is the first and only Indigenous-owned and female-led regenerative media studio and their North American film club program uses films to enrich and strengthen local communities. reGEN Film Club is a series of curated films that will give you an opportunity to watch, digest, and discuss films through the lens of different perspectives. Expect to meet or deepen your relationship to both the film and Club community through these 75-minute discussions. Think of it like a book club, but for movies! Discover hidden indie film gems and hear perspectives and commentaries from our brilliant reGEN filmmakers who will expand your minds and hearts as you investigate your own perspectives and experiences of the films in your comunity. How it works: -Our curators - made up of our reGEN filmmakers - will each select a film to present to you during the course of a year (October 2023 - July 2024) -You can watch the selected film online at your convenience (we will provide information as to where you can find it). -We will then have an in-person 75-minute discussion ...

$150

Paradise Paradox Film

Join us at Sun Valley Opera House for a special screening of a groundbreaking film that explores the mental health crisis affecting America’s mountain towns and the innovative solutions being developed in response. ABOUT THE FILM Executive produced by Olympic ski racer Bode Miller and Emmy Award-winning impact sports filmmaker Brett Rapkin, THE PARADISE PARADOX explores the mental health crisis affecting America’s mountain towns and the innovative solutions being developed in response. By opening up the conversation, the stigmas can start to melt away and real progress can be made for the citizens of these towns and beyond. Date: Wednesday, April 3rd Doors: 6pm Start Time: 6:30pm Reserve Free Tickets HERE

Classic Flicks @ HPL

Hailey Town Center West

Classic Flicks at HPL celebrates spring showers with a 1952 musical romantic comedy starring the light-footed Gene Kelly getting wet while showing off his famous dance steps with Debbie Reynolds. It is considered by many to be the greatest musical film ever made and one of the greatest movies of all time. The film will be shown at 6:00 PM at Town Center West, 116 S River St., in Hailey. Join us for popcorn and a free movie!

Free

SVFF Best of the Fest – Maya and the Wave

The Argyros

2024 Sun Valley Film Festival Award for Best Feature: Documentary. Maya and the Wave Maya Gabeira grew up in Brazil with a dream to surf competitively. Like any surfer, she had to overcome the hazards of the ocean through training and discipline. But she was also forced to confront deep chauvinism in the male-dominated sport as naysayers second-guessed her every move.

$20

FILM: Robert Irwin: A Desert of Pure Feeling

Merlin's Magic Lantern

The film explores the life and career of experimental artist Robert Irwin, whose installations have radically expanded the possibilities of what art can be. Irwin began as a painter in LA’s “Cool School” scene, before developing a new way of working that made perception itself the subject. Irwin’s notable works include the Central Garden at the Getty Center in LA and untitled (dawn to dusk) in Marfa, Texas. The film will be introduced by, Tom Michael, by Boise State Public Radio’s general manager. Michael was the founder and general manager of Marfa Public Radio and West Texas Public Radio. Prior to founding the station in 2005, Michael was a freelance writer and editor. He also served as an editor for Encyclopedia Britannica in the 1990s. He’s a 1991 graduate of Loyola University of Chicago.

$11 – $13

Classic Flicks @ HPL Concludes

Hailey Town Center West

Classic Flicks @ Hailey Public Library concludes with the 1933, black and white classic starring the renowned Marx Brothers. One brother is the appointed leader of a small, financially struggling country; meanwhile, the ambassador of a nearby country plots a revolution. A masterpiece of comedy, it is considered their finest film. The free film showing will be held on Thursday, June 6, at 6:00 PM at Town Center West, 116 S River St., in Hailey. Join us for popcorn and a movie! Rescheduled from 6/13.

Free

Wood River Valley reGEN Film Club

Wood River Valley

We are excited to invite you to join the local Wood River Valley chapter of the reGEN Film Club. reGEN Media is the first and only Indigenous-owned and female-led regenerative media studio and their North American film club program uses films to enrich and strengthen local communities. reGEN Film Club is a series of curated films that will give you an opportunity to watch, digest, and discuss films through the lens of different perspectives. Expect to meet or deepen your relationship to both the film and Club community through these 75-minute discussions. Think of it like a book club, but for movies! Discover hidden indie film gems and hear perspectives and commentaries from our brilliant reGEN filmmakers who will expand your minds and hearts as you investigate your own perspectives and experiences of the films in your comunity. How it works: -Our curators - made up of our reGEN filmmakers - will each select a film to present to you during the course of a year (October 2023 - July 2024) -You can watch the selected film online at your convenience (we will provide information as to where you can find it). -We will then have an in-person 75-minute discussion ...

$150

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