FESTIVALS PARTICIPATING TO THIS EDITION
FESTIVALS PARTICIPATING TO THIS EDITION
FESTIVAL INTERNATIONAL DU FILM D'AUTRANS - MONTAGNE & AVENTURE - AUTRANS - FRANCE
Director: Mireille Chiocca
A lively background, prestigious personalities, festival-supporters, fans of mountains, magic and spectacular images, are the key to this festival that had its 16th edition in 1999 and usually attracts more than 10,000 people.
The festival, an excellent mix of television and film personalities with those from mountaineering and exploring, is first of all the great French mountain festivals. Set in a small village in the middle of Vercors Natural Park, this event quickly won a place among the best. This is also because France is one of the main producers of films and documentaries about adventure, ethnology and travel.
Aside from traditional sections, there is a full-length film competition and another for commercial spots set in the mountains. Unique in its category in France, the festival has now become a showcase for the professional market in this sector with the growing presence of operators, producers and media representatives.BANFF MOUNTAIN FILM FESTIVAL - BANFF - CANADA
Presented by Eagle Creek Travel Gear, the 25º Festival of Banff will take place November 3 - 5, 2000. The best mountain films and videos will be shown at this competition. It will take place in the midst of the Rocky Mountains of Alberta, at the Banff Centre, where meetings and public debates will be held with guests such as Maurice Herzog, Kurt Diemberger, Kitty Calhoun and Reinhold Messner. The winning films will then be distributed worldwide.
In celebration of its 25º anniversary and the new millennium, the Centre for Mountain Culture will present, on the 30th and 31st of October, the Banff Mountain Summit (two days with personalities, climbers, writers and directors from the past century), along with a memorial book, a travelling exhibition and the opening of the film archives.
Among the guests will be Sir Edmund Hillary, Riccardo Cassin, Lynn Hill, Sir Christian Bonington, Silvo Karo, Yvon Chouinard, Catherine Destivelle and Anderl Heckmair.
CMC, directed by Bernadette McDonald, is coordinating the organisation of the film-festival, the Banff Mountain book and photographic competition.FESTIVAL INTERNATIONAL DU FILM ALPIN - LES DIABLERETS - SUISSE
31 years ago, Jacques Lavenex and some of his mountaineering friends, fond of cinema, launched "Le Festival International du Film Alpine (FIFAD)", designed to promote and develop film production in the mountains. Its aim is to make the Alps, and mountains worldwide, better known along with their inhabitants, both in Switzerland and abroad. FIFAD is now the only Swiss festival which promotes and defends mountain culture. It is the first festival which takes into consideration the defence of mountain environments and has rewarded those alpinists, often anonymous, who have dedicated most of their lives to helping others. After nearly thirty years, AndrÈ Roch, Marcel Ichac, RenÈ Arnold, Guido Tonella, Franco Garda and Loulou Bouloz were recognized.
This year's festival will be held from September 24 to October 1 and as usual, it will be a meeting point for people who love the mountains and cinema.MEDZINARODNY FESTIVAL HORSKYCH FILMOV - POPRAD - SLOVAKIA
The 7th edition of the Poprad Festival, directed by Maria Hamorova, took place from the 13th to the 17th of October, 1999. Poprad is situated at the foot of the high Tatra mountains in a delightful landscape marked by a variety of colours, from the green hills to the grey Tatra mountains, from snow-covered peaks to the multi-coloured burst of flowers in spring and summer.
Established in Poprad, and promoted by the Koliba Studio, the National Centre for Audio-visual Arts, the Slovak Mountaineering Club and Slovak Film Union, this festival represents a very important event for those fond of exploration and adventure, with special guests such as Alain Robert, Aubrey Salked and Michael Dillon. It often shows remarkable documentaries about alpine expeditions and interesting elements from films about that specific geographic area.MOUNTAIN FILM IN TELLURIDE - TELLURIDE - USA
This year, from May 26th to the 29th, the 22nd film-festival took place in the glorious town of Telluride, Colorado, an exceptional chance to meet people and experience events about the mountains.
This festival believes in the power of art and cinema to promote social change. During this event, participants and guests will have the opportunity to meet and discuss. The political aspect concerning the mountains, their inhabitants, and human rights violations, will be discussed through feature films and documentaries, such as those concerning Tibet. Topics concerning ecology and environment will also be discussed. The festival broadens its themes year after year in the Moving Symposium. It's main subject remains discussion on these themes and cinema.FESTIVAL INTERNACIONAL DE CINEMA DE MUNTANYA I AVENTURA VILA DE TORELLÓ - ESPAÑA
Torelló, a small town of 12,000 inhabitants, is situated to the north of Barcelona and surrounded by mountains which constitute the first slopes of the Pyrenees.
Torelló is full of cultural activities and not far from regions famous for sports activities such as mountain climbing, hang-gliding and paragliding.
Because of this cultural and sporting spirit, a Mountain Film Festival was established in 1983. A festival known worldwide since its fourth edition and today one of the most well known in Europe. Now in its 17th edition, it has an attendance of over 5,000 people.
During the festival, about 40 films from 14 countries are shown.
Various sections of this festival include competitions, retrospectives and memorials. Lectures, discussions and exhibitions are other activities that make up this event. Several important personalities have taken part in the Torelló Film Festival such as Tardivel, Diemberger, Campagnoni, Cassin, Hillary and Bonatti.FILM FESTIVAL INTERNAZIONALE MONTAGNA ESPLORAZIONE AVVENTURA "CITTÀ DI TRENTO" - TRENTO - ITALIA
This festival was established in Trento in 1952 as a project of the City of Trento and the Italian Alpine Club (later joined by the City of Bolzano in 1998). It is the world's oldest mountain climbing and adventure film festival. The directors who compete for the "Cittý di Trento" Grand Prize come from all over the world. There are several awards, the Genziana d'oro for best film, the Genziana d'oro given by the Italian Alpine Club for the best mountaineering documentary, along with other prestigious awards. Witness to the progress of the alpine techniques and philosophy, this festival also publicizes problems concerning the mountains.
This event is also an opportunity for international meetings and discussions, exhibitions and celebrations dedicated to mountains and mountaineering. The "Cittý di Trento" International Film Festival, a historic meeting place of the most authentic mountain traditions, promotes knowledge, appreciation and respect for all mountain areas and the cultures of their inhabitants.