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Backcountry Film Festival to benefit Wild Montana

by The Whitefish Pilot
| January 22, 2025 1:00 AM

The 20th annual Backcountry Film Festival is headed to Whitefish on Tuesday, Feb. 4, at O'Shaughnessy Cultural Arts Center. All ticket proceeds will benefit Wild Montana’s Flathead-Kootenai Chapter. 

Presented by Winter Wildlands Alliance, the Backcountry Film Festival celebrates human-powered recreation and wild winters. For 20 years, the festival has sparked conversations about the human connection to wild places, encouraged grassroots activism in the face of warming winters, and inspired stewardship of our wild public lands and waters. Festival-goers will enjoy films featuring backcountry experiences, conservation efforts, and personal stories of reflection and discovery while traversing wild landscapes. 

The festival raises funds for local groups and nonprofits through a national film tour directly benefiting local projects and programs that promote access and stewardship of public lands. The Whitefish screening will benefit Wild Montana’s Flathead-Kootenai Chapter, which unites and mobilizes communities to keep Montana wild by organizing trail maintenance and other projects, as well as leading free group hikes that connect people with wild public lands.

At the Whitefish screening, attendees will have a chance to win prizes donated by local businesses, including a six-person raft trip from Glacier Guides and Montana Raft, gift certificates for the Polebridge Mercantile, the Tap House, Tamarack SkiShop and Bias Brewing, lift tickets to Whitefish Mountain, and many more.  

Doors open at 6:15 p.m. and the screening begins at 7 p.m. Tickets are $20 and can be purchased online at wildmontana.org/fkc/bcff or at the door.