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2004 AWARD OF INTERNATIONAL ALLIANCE FOR MOUNTAIN FILM
The 2004 special award from the International Alliance for Mountain Film goes to Fulvio Mariani, in recognition of his more then twenty year career in mountain cinema.

Fulvio Mariani is a director and producer, born in 1958 in La Chaux de Fonds in Switzerland. He has passionately devoted himself to mountaineering and photography since he was a boy. In 1981, he began working as a cameraman at the RTSI. He participated in the international expedition to the south face of Lhotse lead by Reinhold Messner, where he produced "200 metri al 21¡ secolo" and also an expedition lead by Jerzy Kukuczka. "L'anno nero del Serpente" is his tribute to this great Polish mountaineer. He was responsible for the cinematography for "Grido di Pietra" by Werner Herzog and in 1994 along with Andrea Gobetti he co-produced "L'uomo di legno". In 1999, together with Giovanni Cenacchi, he made the documentary "I cavalieri delle vertigini", awarded with the Genziana d'Oro at the Trento Film Festival and the grand prix at the Cervino Film Festival. He produced and directed together with Mario Casella, "Hurricane, la Pompei degli scalpellini d'America". He has personally chosen this film to be screened during the evening in his honour at the Cervino International Film Festival, as he did with the other Alliance film festival. He proposed a short film on the late mountaineer, Patrick Bérhault.

PATRICK BERHAULT A FINALE LIGURE
SWITZERLAND 1997, 9', col., video
Director Fulvio Mariani
Cameraman Fulvio Mariani
Editing Alberto Eisenhardt
Production Enzo Pelli per TSI

In this short 1997 film, Patrick Bérhault climbs in Finale Ligure, on the Monte Cucco face. The documentary is part of the TSI television series "Verticale".

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