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Banff Mountain Film Festival
October 27 – November 6, 2005

2005 Finalists by Category

This year’s Banff Mountain Film Festival competition received 319 entries from 39 countries. Thanks to all our film entrants for submitting your work. All finalists will now be viewed by our international film jury, and awards will be presented in front of a live audience on Sunday evening, November 6, at the closing ceremonies of the festival.

Images and details of selected finalist films are available.

The Ozarks

Directed and produced by Josh Lowell
Production company: big UP productions (USA)
This film is part of the Daytime Film Screenings: Program A

Passe-moi les jumelles: Le Clocher du Portalet

Directed by Pierre-Antoine Hiroz
Produced by Benoît Aymon , Jean-Paul Mudry, Claude Schaull
Production company: Télévision Suisse Romande (Switzerland)
This film is part of the Daytime Film Screenings: Program B

Return2Sender: Bug Out

Directed by Peter Mortimer
Produced by Peter Mortimer,Timmy O’Neill
Production company: Sender Films (USA)
This film is part of the Daytime Film Screenings: Program B

Return2Sender: Parallelojams

Directed by Peter Mortimer
Produced by Peter Mortimer,Timmy O’Neill
Production company: Sender Films (USA)
This film is part of the Daytime Film Screenings: Program A

Return2Sender: Rebel without a Rope

Directed by Peter Mortimer
Produced by Peter Mortimer, Timmy O’Neill
Production company: Sender Films (USA)
This film is part of the Feature-Length Films Program: Saturday, October 29, 3:30 p.m.

Return2Sender: Rebels with Paws

Directed by Peter Mortimer
Produced by Peter Mortimer,Timmy O’Neill
Production company: Sender Films (USA)
This film is part of the Radical Reels

Sur le fil des 4000

Directed by Gilles Chappaz
Produced by Philippe Savoyat, Babeth Leprince, Quentin Mourey, Eric Blanc
Production company: Migoo Productions/Ville de Grenoble/Association La Grande Cordée (France)
This film is part of the Saturday Evening at Eric Harvie

Unconquerable Summit

Directed by Vladimir Tulkin
Produced by Alexander Severnuk
Production company: M’Art Production (Kazakhstan)
This film is part of the Daytime Film Screenings: Program A

TOP

Best Film on Mountain Culture

Becoming a Man in Siberia

Directed by Benoît Segur
Produced by Manuel Catteau
Production company: ZED/Discovery Networks International (France)
This film is part of the Daytime Film Screenings: Program B

Charles, Edouard ou le temps suspendu

Directed and produced by Bernard Boyer
This film is part of the Daytime Film Screenings: Program A

Hockey Night… in Ladakh

Directed and produced by Baiba Auders Morrow, Pat Morrow
Production company: Morrow Productions (Canada)
This film is part of the Feature-Length Films Program: Saturday, October 29, 7:30 p.m.

The Lost People of Mountain Village

Directed and produced by Carol Black, Neal Marlens
Production company: Lost People Films (USA)
This film is part of the Daytime Film Screenings: Program B

The Magic Mountain

Directed by Baiba Auders Morrow
Produced by Pat Morrow
Production company: Morrow Productions (Canada)
This film is part of the Daytime Film Screenings: Program A

Mujaan

Directed and produced by Chris McKee
Production company: Ragcha Media (USA)
This film is part of the Daytime Film Screenings: Program B

TOP

Best Film on Mountain Environment

Balancing Point

Directed and produced by Danny Brown
Production company: Sensei Productions (USA)
This film is part of the Feature-Length Films Program: Sunday, October 30, 3:30 p.m.

The Gorillas of My Grandfather

Directed by Adrian Warren
Produced by Adrian Warren, Harald Pokieser
Production company: Last Refuge/Cosmos Factory for ORF (Austria)
This film is part of the Daytime Film Screenings: Program A

The Hatch

Directed and produced by Ben Knight, Travis Rummel
Production company: Felt Soul Media (USA)
This film is part of the Daytime Film Screenings: Program A

Natural World: A Boy Among Polar Bears

Produced by Sue Flood
Production company: BBC Bristol (UK)
This film is part of the Feature-Length Films Program: Saturday, October 29, noon

Natural World: Elephant Cave

Directed and produced by Vanessa Berlowitz, Justine Evans
Production company: BBC/Animal Planet (UK/USA)
This film is part of the Daytime Film Screenings: Program A

Nature: The Good, the Bad and the Grizzly

Produced by Shane Moore, Janet Hess
Production company: Moore & Moore Productions/Thirteen-WNET New York (USA)
This film is part of the Saturday Evening at Margaret Greenham

Nature: Silent Roar — Searching for the Snow Leopard

Produced by Hugh Miles, Mitchell Kelly
Production company: Thirteen-WNET New York/Granada Wild at Bristol/Devillier Donegan Enterprises (USA/UK)
This film is part of the Daytime Film Screenings: Program B

Of Penguins and Men

Directed by Luc Jacquet, Jérôme Maison
Produced by Yves Darondeau, Christophe Lioud, Emmanuel Priou
Production company: Bonne Pioche (France)
This film is part of the Friday Evening Program at the Eric Harvie Theatre

Shining Mountains: Land of Riches

Directed and produced by Guy Clarkson
Production company: Raven HD Productions (Canada)
This film is part of the Saturday Evening at Eric Harvie

TOP

Best Feature-Length Mountain Film

Arktos — Le voyage intérieur de Mike Horn (The Inner Voyage of Mike Horn)

Directed and produced by Raphaël Blanc
Production company: Artemis Films/Arktos Expédition/TSR (Switzerland)
This film is part of the Friday Evening at Margaret Greenham

Au sud des nuages

Directed by Jean-François Amiguet
Produced by Bernard Lang, Jean-Luc Michaux, Bertrand Liechti, Jean-François Amiguet
Production company: Langfilm/Zagora Films/Native/TSR (Switzerland)
This film is part of the Feature-Length Films Program: Sunday, October 30, 7:30 p.m.

Flying Downhill — The Art of Bode

Directed and produced by W. C. Rogers
Production company: Flying Downhill Productions (USA)
This film is part of the Snow Show on Friday Evening at Max Bell

Grizzly Man

Directed by Werner Herzog
Produced by Erik Nelson
Production company: Real Big Production Inc. (USA)
This film is part of the Feature-Length Films Program: Thursday, October 27

Kekexili – Mountain Patrol

Directed by Lu Chuan
Produced by Wang Zhonglei, Du Yang
Production company: Huayi Brothers/Taihe Film Investment Co./Columbia Pictures Film Productions (China/Hong Kong)
This film is part of the Feature-Length Films Program: Sunday, October 30, 3:30 p.m.

March of the Penguins

Directed by Luc Jacquet
Produced by Yves Darondeau, Christophe Lioud, Emmanuel Priou
Production company: Bonne Pioche Production/Alliance de Production Cinématographique (France) Off Road to Athens , DIRECTOR:
This film is part of the Feature-Length Films Program: Saturday, October 29, noon

Off Road to Athens

Directed by Jason Berry
Produced by Ken Bell
Production company: Gripped Films (USA)
This film is part of the Feature-Length Films Program: Saturday, October 29, 3:30 p.m.

Travellers and Magicians

Directed by Khyentse Norbu
Produced by Raymond Steiner, Malcolm Watson
Production company: Prayer Flag Pictures (Bhutan)
This film is part of the Feature-Length Films Program: Sunday, October 30, noon

What Remains of Us

Directed by Hugo Latulippe, François Prévost
Produced by Yves Bisaillon, François Prévost
Production company: Nomadik Films/National Film Board of Canada (Canada)
This film is part of the Feature-Length Films Program: Saturday, October 29, 7:30 p.m.

TOP

Best Film on Mountain Sports

100% Woman

Directed by Karen Duthie
Produced by Diana Wilson
Production company: Artemis Dreams Productions/Producers on Davie Pictures (Canada)
This film is part of the Daytime Film Screenings: Program B

Bigger than Rodeo [short]

Directed by Trip Jennings
Produced by Ned Trice
Production company: Epicocity Project (USA)
This film is part of the Radical Reels

Bob

Directed by Nicolas Falquet, Guido Perrini, Myriam Hadik
Produced by Nicolas Falquet
Production company: Huck Productions (Switzerland)
This film is part of the Radical Reels

Bulletins from a Colder Planet: Cream Show

Directed by Dave Mossop, Eric Crosland
Produced by Robin Scrimger
Production company: Rocky Mountain Sherpa Productions (Canada)
This film is part of the Snow Show on Friday Evening at Max Bell

Everyday Extreme

Directed and produced by David Kvart
Production company: Kvart Film (Sweden)
This film is part of the Radical Reels

Grand Canyon Dreams

Directed and produced by Will Gadd
Production company: Gravsports (Canada)
This film is part of the Daytime Film Screenings: Program B

High Fly Summits

Directed and produced by Claude Adam
Production company: Ride The Planets Productions (France)
This film is part of the Friday Evening Program at the Eric Harvie Theatre

The Khumbu Mighty-Mites

Directed by Karl Swingle
Produced by Conrad Anker, Jennifer Lowe
Production company: Alex Lowe Charitable Foundation (USA)
This film is part of the Daytime Film Screenings: Program A

Middle Kaweah

Produced by Scott Lindgren
Production company: Oceanwatch Production Group (USA)
This film is part of the Daytime Film Screenings: Program A

Never Say Nevis Again

Directed and produced by Steve Rogers
Production company: Bread and Butter (Canada)
This film is part of the Radical Reels

New World Disorder V: Disorderly Conduct

Directed and produced by Derek Westerlund
Production company: Freeride Entertainment (Canada)
This film is part of the Radical Reels

Person as Projectile

Directed and produced by Slip
Production company: Team Thirteen (USA)
This film is part of the Radical Reels

Praszczur (Grandpa)

Directed and produced by Mirosław Dembiński
Production company: Film Studio Everest/Polish Television (Poland)
This film is part of the Feature-Length Films Program: Sunday, October 30, noon

Return2Sender: Mexico B.A.S.E.

Directed by Peter Mortimer
Produced by Peter Mortimer, Timmy O’Neill
Production company: Sender Films (USA)
This film is part of the Daytime Film Screenings: Program A

Solilochairliftquist

Directed and produced by Thomas M. Faversham
Production company: Faverman Films (USA)
This film is part of the Snow Show on Friday Evening at Max Bell

The Tangerine Dream [short]

Directed and produced by Todd Jones, Dirk Collins, Steve Jones, Corey Gavitt
Production company: Teton Gravity Research (USA)
This film is part of the Daytime Film Screenings: Program B

UFO

Directed and produced by Stephen Burgess
Production company: Willis Wall Multimedia (USA)
This film is part of the Radical Reels

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Best Short Mountain Film