Documentary Competition

NATIONAL PREMIERE
CINCO DIAS DE MAYO
Five Days in May
Sebastian Alvaro, SPAIN, 2002, 60', col., video
Director Sebastian Alvaro
Cameraman Victor Jimenez
Production TVE Torrespaña
Distribution TVE Sales

A group of Spanish mountaineers attempt to climb Everest in 2002 with the intention to broadcast live their emotional exploit. The documentary is a chronicle of those days in May.

DIRECTOR
Sebastian Alvaro is a Spanish journalist from Madrid, and director of "Al filo de lo impossile", a long running television programme which deals predominately with extreme sports and adventure in general. Together with his crew, they find themselves in some of the world's most inaccessible and unexplored lands, including the Antarctica.

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