24th ANNUAL BANFF MOUNTAIN FILM FESTIVAL

‘BEST OF THE FESTIVAL’ NORTH AMERICAN TOUR

Presented by Eagle Creek Travel Gear

Sunday, November 21, 1999

• 7:30 INTRODUCTION
• 7:40 LE DOLOMITI DI PIETRO
• 8:06 NEW WORLD DISORDER
• 8:09 VISION MAN
• 9:00 SOUL PILOT
• 9:13 INTERMISSION
• 9:30 DOOR PRIZE DRAWS
• 9:40 FREE BASE -- THE DEPTH OF AIR
• 9:46 KIWI WILD WATER
• 10:29 MOCKUMENTARY
• 10:31 FROM NOWHERE TO THE MIDDLE OF NOWHERE

Le Dolomiti di Pietro Climbing

• (Switzerland, 1998, 26min)
• Director: Fulvio Mariani
• Producer: Enzo Pelli
• Filmed on the splendid walls of the Dolomites, the camera follows Pietro Dal Pra climbing difficult routes and solo ascents, all the while exuding his own very personal style through his running commentary and dialogue with his silent partner, Gino.

New World Disorder (Sport)

• (Canada, 1999, 3min)
• Directors/Producers: Jeff Lawrence/Derek Westerlund
• A short and tasty morsel of mountain biking at its most extreme.

Vision Man Culture

• (Sweden, 1997,51min) Grand Prize–1999 Banff Mountain Film Festival
• Director: William Long
• Producer: Lars Aby
• At age 87, a warm and wise Inuit hunter looks back on his life in the Arctic. Within his lifespan, he has seen his community advance 4,000 years, but he also understands and tells the inevitable story of profound loss – a loss of connectedness and balance between man and nature in this remote region of northern Greenland.

Soul Pilot Sport (skiing)

• (Switzerland, 1999 13min)
• Directors: Dominique Perret, Rob Bruce
• Producer: Vertical Zoo
• Dominique Perret teams up with his Vertical Zoo Crew and launches an all-out assault from the air on some of Alaska’s nastiest, untamed mountains. Ripping off the tops and keeping it at the edge, Dominique navigates his way through the fault lines and glaciers of your brain, carves through the deep powder of your soul, and then grabs your heart and out-races avalanches to catch the last plane out.

Free BASE -- The Depth of Air Sport

• (France, 1999, 6min)
• Directors: Jerome Ruby, Marc Marchand, Sam Beaugey
• Producers: Et Alors Production, Jerome Ruby, Andre Rhem, Lars Pyk
• A group of Base Jumpers travels to Norway’s fjords and the Italian and French Alps in search of free fall excitement.

Kiwi Wildwater – Women’s Heli-Kayaking in New Zealand Sport

• (USA, 1999, 43min)
• Director: Debra Karls
• Producer: John Wilcox
• Referred to by locals as "the last frontier", the west coast of New Zealand’s South Island is home to some of the most rugged terrain in the world. It is a kayaker’s paradise for a group of radical women boaters with a common passion – first descents.

Mockumentary Culture (comedy)

• (Canada, 1998, 2min)
• Director/Producer: Mark Stanger (Mark grew up in Victoria, BC)
• Mockmunentary offers a glimpse into the day-to-day lives of a herd of wild sheep and the perils they must face.

From Nowhere to the Middle of Nowhere Sport

• (UK, 1999, 31min)
• Director/Producer: Alun Hughes
• Special Jury Award – 1999 Banff Mountain Film Festival
• Using a solitary camera, this film captures the raw adventure of the first crossing of western Nepal by paraglider, with pilot John Silvester and film maker Alun Hughes in May of 1999.