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Banff Mountain Film Festival
Picks Signiant Media Shuttle

Banff Filmmakers reach for the sky

T

he Banff Mountain Film and
Book Festival, which celebrates
the world’s best mountain and
adventure themed ﬁlms and books,
has standardised on Signiant’s
Media Shuttle ﬁle sharing solution
for digital film submission and
distribution.
Requiring fast, reliable delivery
of massive HD ﬁles with security,
acceleration and tracking, the
Festival selected Media Shuttle to
easily upload, download and transfer
large ﬁles from a shared file system.
“We needed a delivery solution that
is reliable and effortless for our host
organisations. Media Shuttle gives
us the ﬂexibility to work with a wide
range of global partners regardless
of those elements.”
A flagship programme of The
Banff Centre in Alberta, Canada,
the Banff Mountain Film and Book
Festival is a nine-day event that
continues throughout the year as
an international ﬁlm tour featuring
about 740 ﬁlm screenings across
every continent, including Antarctica.
Banff will rely on Media Shuttle to
receive more than 300 ﬁlm entries
and promotional content from
around the world.
Media Shuttle deﬁnes a new class
of ﬁle sharing solutions tuned for
the movement of large ﬁles, highvalue digital assets that are tens or
hundreds of gigabytes in size, and
provides simple interfaces delivered
from the cloud, enterprise-class
security, acceleration and storage
control. Media Shuttle portals can
be quickly conﬁgured in one of three
modes, Send, Share or Submit, to
ﬂexibly support the needs of any
project, team or media enterprise
in a single, multi-purpose solution.
“We have ﬁlmmakers in far-ﬂung
locales around the world submitting
content on-the-ﬂy, and we need

to make the submission process
as easy as possible for them.
Past delivery solutions could not
support the ﬁle size and transfer
speeds required to deliver ﬁlms of
this complexity and quality,” said
Woody MacPhail, Producer of the
Banff Mountain Film and Book
Festival and World Tour at The
Banff Centre. “With Media Shuttle,
we’re able to transfer large ﬁles
quickly in any form, access them
anywhere and not limit the type
of content received. We want our
ﬁlmmakers focused on creating their
content, and not ﬁle delivery. Media
Shuttle lets them really embrace
the lifestyle they are ﬁlming – lastminute deadlines, living in the instant,
capturing the moment.”
Following the Festival, Media
Shuttle will be used to distribute
ﬁles to broadcast partners such as
National Geographic, and to support
the Banff Mountain Film Festival
World Tour, which screens ﬁlms in
approximately 40 countries around
the world. Many locations receive
unique master ﬁle uploads, typically
a terabyte of HD ﬁlm, often with
regional dialect.
“The host organisation in each tour
location chooses a programme that
reﬂects the interests of their local
audiences and exchanging digital
assets of this size, frequency and
specification can be complex,”
added MacPhail. “We needed a
delivery solution that is reliable and
effortless for our host organisations.
Media Shuttle gives us the ﬂexibility
to work with a wide range of
global partners regardless of
those elements.”
The Banff Mountain Film and Book
Festival will be held October 26 to
November 3, 2013. It is accepting
ﬁlm submissions from May 7 through
August 6, 2013.

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