24th ANNUAL BANFF MOUNTAIN FILM FESTIVAL
BEST OF THE FESTIVAL NORTH AMERICAN
TOUR
Presented by Eagle Creek Travel Gear
Sunday, November 21, 1999
- (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.
- (Canada, 1999, 3min)
- Directors/Producers: Jeff Lawrence/Derek Westerlund
- A short and tasty morsel of mountain biking at its most
extreme.
- (Sweden, 1997,51min) Grand Prize1999 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.
- (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
Alaskas 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.
- (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 Norways fjords
and the Italian and French Alps in search of free fall
excitement.
Kiwi Wildwater
Womens 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 Zealands South Island is home
to some of the most rugged terrain in the world. It is a
kayakers paradise for a group of radical women
boaters with a common passion first descents.
- (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.