Documentary Competition

NATIONAL PREMIERE
PARAHAWKING
Graham Saunders-Griffiths, Adam Hill, Scott Mason, GREAT BRITAIN, 2003, 36', col., video
Director Graham Saunders-Griffiths, Adam Hill, Scott Mason
Screenplay Graham Saunders-Griffiths, Adam Hill
Cameramen Graham Saunders-Griffiths, Adam Hill
Editing Graham Saunders-Griffiths
Production Himalayan Frontiers Ltd.
Distribution Himalayan Frontiers Ltd.

Pokhara, a city in the heart of the Himalayas, witnessed the birth of a curious friendship. In Spring 2001, Adam Hill and Rajes Bomjan, proprietors of the paragliding school "Sunrise Paragliding", met Scott Mason, an English bird trainer. Their passions became communal and so they embarked on a mission to try to make two birds and a hovering paraglider fly side by side. However, the two protagonists of this adventure are really Sappana and Shadoko, two wild birds saved by a farmer and consequently trained by Scott.

DIRECTORS
Graham Saunders-Griffiths is a photographer and lawyer, and has spent more time on the Nepalese mountains then in law-courts. He is an expert in paragliding and a founding member of the "Himalayan Hawk Conservancy"; he has been flying and travelling throughout Nepal for five years.

Adam Hill established his paragliding school "Sunrise Paragliding" eight years ago in Nepal and it has become a reference point among aerial sports. He works in close contact with the Nepalese authorities.

Scott Mason has been breeding and training hawks for seventeen years. He was born in Great Britain where he attended a bird training school. During a trip to Nepal, he met Adam Hill and developed a passion for paragliding. Flying in pairs with Hill and Pokhara, he realised that there were a lot of birds of prey flying in the skies of that zone and therefore, he decided to settle in Nepal where he founded a rehabilitation centre for birds of prey.

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