The Art of Adventure Leads Available Light Film Festival Winners

The Art of Adventure topped the winners at this year's Available Light Film Festival (ALFF). The documentary by Alison Reid won the ALFF Audience Choice Award for Best Canadian Documentary. The Art of Adventure also scored the overall number one spot in the audience award rankings for the Whitehorse festival, which drew over 7,100 attendees across the 10-day event.

Reid's film chronicles the enduring friendship of artist Robert Bateman and biologist Bristol Foster as they revisit their 1957 globe-trotting adventure in their Land Rover The Grizzly Torque. The film won the overall audience vote out of 50 films in contention.

On the international front, Champions of the Golden Valley, directed by Ben Sturgulewski, won the Audience Award for Best International Feature. The US doc chronicles the rise in downhill ski culture in Afghanistan.

The top films in the ALFF Audience Award rankings included: The Art of Adventure, Beyond the Left Hand Path, Nechako: It Will Be A Big River Again, Champions of the Golden Valley, Mr. Nobody Against Putin, and Saints and Warriors.