Banff Mountain
Film Festival - Augusta, Maine
Tuesday,
February 19, 2002 - 7 p.m.
Film Menu
Kjerag
(USA/1998/3 minutes)
Director: Tom Day
Producer: Mike Hatchett, Dave Barlia; Standard
Films
This musical visual features Dave Barlia snowboarding
off Kjerag, a
3000-foot cliff in the Lysefjord, in Norway.
Gelada Baboons - The Battles of Braveheart
UK/2001/30 minutes
Producer: Mark Linfield, Green Umbrella Ltd.
The gelada baboon is a high-altitude specialist
confined to Ethiopia's harsh
but beautiful Simien Mountains. The camera team
follows a male gelada as he
defends his harem from a precocious and aggressive
band of bachelor baboons
- a rare view into gelada social life.
Mountain Men: The Ghosts of K2
2001 Special Jury Mention
UK/2001/50 minutes
Director: Mick Conefrey
Producer: Mick Conefrey, BBC TV
Ed Webster, in person, who is featured in
Mountain
Men: The Ghosts of K2,
will intriduce the film. He is author
of Snow in the Kingdom, an autobiography of his "storm years"
on Everest (www.mtnimagery.com).
He will be available to sign his newly aclaimed book.
The story of the pioneer climbers of K2, Fritz
Wiessener and Charles
Houston, and their battle with the second highest
mountain in the world.
Mountain Men draws on rare archive film footage,
in-depth interviews, and
specially shot material to tell the story of
the men who risked their lives
to conquer "the Savage Mountain".
1140
USA/2001/9 minutes
Director: Randy Waldschmidt
Producer: Randy Waldschmidt, Resident Films
1140 inches of snow at Mt. Baker broke all the
records for snowfall in one
year. Join the residents as they snowboard and
ski the snowiest place on
earth.
The Last Ascent
(USA/2000/14 minutes)
Producer: Jonathan Halperin
Production Company: National Geographic Television
A portrait of world-class climber Alex Lowe,
who was tragically killed in an
avalanche on Shishipangma in October of 1999.
Mustang
2001 Best Film on Mountain Culture
Slovakia/2001/28 minutes
Director/Producer: Pavol Barabas, K2 Studio
Two friends travel along an ancient trade route
in Nepal over the main ridge
of the Himalayas to reach Lo Manthang, the capital
of Mustang. There they
secretly shoot a film. Time seems to have stopped
in this medieval fortress.
Electricity, roads and cars are unknown to these
people, and yet in some
ways they are ahead of us in their incredible
knowledge of nature and their
way of life.
Film Menu subject to change
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