LaCrosseAF - Adventure Festival

LaCrosseAF - Adventure Festival - October 8th - 12th 2025

We are excited to host our fourth La Crosse Adventure Film Festival! Four nights of unique venues and opportunities to share the adventures of the human spirit with our guests. And, a FULL WEEK of adventure experiences in our region! We are partnering with local organizations and businesses to showcase a variety of outdoor recreation experiences that will bring the community together and provide opportunities to experience new activities in outdoor recreation. As part of it, we're excited to share YOUR films!!!

Films will be selected by a small jury to be screened in front of audiences of up to 350 people at a cornerstone theater in our community, the Rivoli Theater and Pizzeria. These films will be honored and shared via social media, email marketing, and live at the event. Then, audience members will live vote for their favorite films in a variety of categories including People's Choice category on the night of the event.

*We are seeking grant funding to help support filmmakers travel to our event! If a film is selected, we will do our best to support your travel to the event. While we cannot guarantee covering the full cost of travel, we believe wholeheartedly that honoring filmmakers in-person and giving you the opportunity to see your films showcased on the big screen in-front of an audience of 350 is extremely important! We are committed to doing what we can to financially support this.

**We are seeking OUTDOOR ADVENTURE FILM submissions AND stories of the human spirit while experiencing "adventure". We understand that term, adventure, is REALLY broad! That's kind of what we love. We are open to SO many films, but just want to be transparent that we are seeking to share.**

La Crosse Adventure Festival - Program Under the Direction of La Crosse Adventure Films

Mission Statement - To provide experiences that bring the community together and encourage and inspire outdoor activity in our region.

Summary - La Crosse Adventure Festival believes the community is stronger when we are together. Together sharing ideas, encouraging each other, and inspiring adventures. The outdoor adventure opportunities in the La Crosse area are rapidly growing. These resources have added great value to our area and the ripple effects are being seen in a variety of tertiary industries. La Crosse Adventure Festival is excited to give a platform for local organizations and businesses to share their message and reach new participants while encouraging and inspiring our community through the shared experiences.. As a program under the direction of La Crosse Adventure Films, the La Crosse Adventure Festival seeks to provide a week of experiences that add value to the community. Any profits from the events will be used to sustain operations, fund the programs and experiences offered, to help provide future experiences and to give back to local organizations and nonprofits in the outdoor recreation community.

Description & Details

Dates: October 8th - 12th

**FILM DATES - Wednesday, October 8th at the Main, Thursday, October 9th at Mt. La Crosse, Friday, October 9th at the Rivoli Theater, Saturday, October 10th at the Rivoli Theater, and Sunday, October 11th at the Pump House Regional Arts Center

BACKGROUND ON LA CROSSE ADVENTURE FILMS:
La Crosse Adventure Film Festival seeks to bring our community together, through film. We believe everyone needs a "third space" in their life. Most of us are blessed with a home and a workplace. Each of these spaces provides connections, relationships, and meaning. However, what's your third space? This is the space in which you can count on other folks, build relationship, find inspiration and encouragement, and have deep challenging conversations to move our personal needle. La Crosse Adventure Films works to have bi-monthly film showings that provide community members a third space in their life. Each film experience is free for everyone to attend (sponsorship provided by local non-profit Beer By Bike Brigade) and is held at a local historic theater (The Rivoli Theater). With 350 seats, amazing food and beverages, and a unique blend of a 100 year old theater with state of the art technology...we love where we're headed! Now, we want you to be a part of it!

LaCrosseAF works to showcase adventure films in a variety of genres (winter recreation, climbing, mountaineering, hiking and backpacking, mountain biking, and truly anything outdoors). Our goal is to plan each film experience around local events and organizations that are doing great things in the outdoor recreation community. We believe in partnerships and collaboration to bring attention to other events and to collectively build the adventure community in our region.