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Banff Mountain Film Festival 2006
October 28 – November 5

Film Finalists by Category

This year’s Banff Mountain Film Festival competition received 324 entries from 37 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 5, at the closing ceremonies of the festival.

Images of selected finalist films are available.


Categories

Alpine Club of Canada Award for Best Film on Climbing

Sponsored by Alpine Club of Canada

Best Film on Mountain Culture

Sponsored by Petzl

Best Film on Mountain Environment

Sponsored by Patagonia

Best Feature-length Mountain Film

Sponsored by Lowepro

Best Film on Mountain Sports

Sponsored by Big Rock Brewery

Best Short Mountain Film

Sponsored by GORE-TEX


Alpine Club of Canada Award for Best Film on Climbing

Aweberg

Produced by Will Gadd
Production company: Gravsports (Canada)

First Ascent: The Obscurist

Directed by Peter Mortimer
Produced by Peter Mortimer, Timmy O’Neill , Nick Rosen
Production company: Sender Films (USA)

Cayesh — The Calling

Directed and produced by Steve House (USA)

Cobra Crack

Directed by Sonnie Trotter and Paul Bride

Produced by Ivan Hughes (Canada)

E11

Directed by Paul Diffley
Produced by David Brown
Production company: Hot Aches Productions (UK)

First Ascent: Thailand

Directed by Peter Mortimer
Produced by Peter Mortimer, Timmy O’Neill , Nick Rosen, Pascal Bronnimann
Production company: Sender Films (USA)

First Ascent: The Tombstone

Directed by Peter Mortimer
Produced by Peter Mortimer, Timmy O’Neill , Nick Rosen
Production company: Sender Films (USA)

First Ascent: Urban Ape Goes to Hollywood

Directed by Peter Mortimer
Produced by Peter Mortimer, Timmy O’Neill , Nick Rosen
Production company: Sender Films (USA)

Great Sporting Duels: Duel in the Himalayas — Great Britain / Germany

Directed by Jean Afanassieff
Produced by Marc Silvera
Production companies: ARTE France/Ethan Productions (France)

Kilimanjaro — Going for Broke

Directed and produced by Richard Heap, Ben Pritchard
Production company: Slackjaw Film (UK)

Mountains without Barriers

Directed by Michael Brown
Produced by Mark Wellman, Dave D’Angelo
Production company: Serac Adventure Films (USA)

Québec Givré (Crazy Quebec)

Directed by Sam Beaugey, Erwan Le Lann
Produced by Séverine Gauci
Production company: Seven Doc (France)

Shisha in Winter

Directed and produced by Dariusz Zaluski (Poland)

The Story of Indian Face

Directed by Alun Hughes
Produced by Justine Curgenven, Alun Hughes
Production company: Alun Hughes Productions (UK)

Thunderbird

Produced by Chris Alstrin
Production company: Higher Ground Productions (USA)

University Wall

Directed by Ivan Hughes
Produced by Angela Heck
Production company: Fringe Filmworks Inc. (Canada)

Best Film on Mountain Culture

Balapan — Wings of Altai

Directed by Hamid Sardar
Produced by Hamid Sardar/Axis Mundi (France)

Franklin’s Lost Expedition

Directed by Peter Bate
Produced by John Murray
Production company: Crossing the Line Films (Ireland)

L’homme qui revient de haut (Return from the Heights)

Directed by Gilles Perret
Produced by Evelyne July
Production companies: France 3/Mècanos Productions (France)

Outside In

Directed by François Desrosiers
Production company: FD Productions (Canada)

Le Pianiste de la Sierra Madre (The Pianist of the Sierra Madre)

Directed by Judith Haussling, Alain Tixier
Produced by Pierre-Henri Loÿs
Production company: Aller Retour Productions (France)

Storms — The Movie: Touching My Self

Directed and produced by David Halsted, Alastair Lee
Production companies: Posing Productions/Shrewd Ape Media (UK)

Best Film on Mountain Environment

Cherub of the Mist

Directed by Naresh Bedi
Produced by Naresh Bedi, Rajesh Bedi
Production company: Bedi Films (India)

Conversing with Aotearoa/New Zealand

Directed by Corrie Francis
Production company: University of Southern California (USA)

Conflict Tiger

Directed and produced by Sasha Snow
Production companies: Sasha Snow Film Production/Scandinature for BBC/ARTE/Discovery Channel U.S. (UK/Sweden)

Exploring the Mother of Waters

Directed by Mick O’Shea , Brian Eustis
Produced by Mick O’Shea
Production company: Exploremore Productions (Australia)

Heartbeats of Denali

Directed and produced by Patrick McCloskey
Production company: McCloskey Productions Inc. (Canada)

Lemmings

Directed by Craig Van Dyke
Produced by R. Brent Adams
Production company: Brigham Young University (USA)

Natural World: Caribou and Wolves — The Endless Dance

Produced by Jeff Turner, Sue Turner
Production company: Quickfire Media for BBC (UK)

Pandas in the Wild

Directed by Tatsuhiko Kobayashi
Produced by Yoshimizu Kawano, Masaru Ikeo
Production company: NHK (Japan)

Ride of the Mergansers

Produced by Steve Furman
Production company: Furman Technologies (USA)

The Skater

Directed and produced by Guy Clarkson
Production company: Raven HD Productions (Canada)

Tyrol — Land in the Mountains

Directed and produced by Georg Riha
Production companies: Tirol Tourist Board/Cine Tirol (Austria)

Best Feature-Length Mountain Film

39 Pounds of Love

Directed by Dani Menkin
Produced by Dani Menkin, Daniel J. Chalfen
Production company: Hey Jude Productions (USA)

The Cave of the Yellow Dog

Directed by Byambasuren Davaa
Produced by Stephan Schesch
Production companies: Schesch Filmproduktion/Hochschule für Fernsehen und Film München (Germany)

First Ascent [full-length]

Directed by Peter Mortimer with Nick Rosen
Produced by Peter Mortimer, Timmy O’Neill, Nick Rosen
Production company: Sender Films (USA)

The Giant Buddhas

Directed and produced by Christian Frei
Production companies: Christian Frei Filmproductions GmbH/Schweizer Fernsehen DRS/ZDF-ARTE/Suissimage (Switzerland/Germany)

The Journals of Knud Rasmussen

Directed by Zacharias Kunuk, Norman Cohn
Produced by Norman Cohn, Zacharias Kunuk, Vibeke Vogel, Elise Lund Larsen
Production companies: Kunuk Cohn Productions/Igloolik Isuma Productions/Barok Film (Canada/Denmark)

The White Planet

Directed by Thierry Ragobert, Thierry Piantanida
Produced by Jean Lemire, Stéphane Millière, Jean Labadie
Production companies: Glacialis Productions/Gédéon Programmes/Bac Films in co-prod. with National Film Board of Canada/France 2 Cinéma (Canada/France)

Best Film on Mountain Sports

2nd Base

Directed by Espen Wang Kristiansen with André Bach, Terje Halvorsen
Production companies: Oslo BASE/Plastikk Media/Monster Media (Norway)

Anomaly [30 min.]

Directed and produced by Todd Jones, Dirk Collins, Steve Jones, Corey Gavitt
Production company: Teton Gravity Research (USA)

Asiemut

Directed and produced by Olivier Higgins, Mélanie Carrier (Canada)

The Bachelorette

Directed by Dom Janiszewski
Production company: Ride The Planets (France)

The Best of Jo

Directed and produced by Logan Carlstrom (Canada)

Dropstitch

Directed and produced by Josie Clyde, Lesley McKenna
Production company: ChunkyKnit Productions (UK)

Extreme Film School 2005: The Thrill Seekers

Directed by Roland Arnison, George Arnison
Production company: Kendal Mountain Film Festival (UK)

Fatima’s Hand

Directed by Jens Hoffmann
Production company: F24 Film GmbH (Germany)

Frozen Motion

Directed by Gilles Chappaz
Produced by Gilles Galud
Production companies: La Parisienne d’Images/Vertical Zoo Films (France)

Hustle & Snow

Produced by Duane Kubischta
Production company: Adventure Film Works (USA)

Kids Who Rip [short]

Produced by Rod Parmenter (USA)

Marco, étoile filante (Marco — Shooting Star)

Directed by Bertrand Delapierre
Produced by Séverine Gauci
Production companies: Delapierre/Seven Doc (France)

The Naghol — Origin of Bungy Jumping

Directed and produced by Magdalena Livingstone (Switzerland)

New World Disorder VI: Unchained [short]

Directed by Derek Westerlund
Produced by Derek Westerlund, Carey Bokser
Production company: Freeride Entertainment (Canada)

New World Disorder VII: Flying High Again

Directed and produced by Derek Westerlund
Production company: Freeride Entertainment (Canada)

The Otterbody Experience

Directed by Andrew Chapman
Produced by Andrew Chapman, Doug Coombs, David Gonzales, John Griber
Production companies: Grand Venture Productions/Wink Inc. Productions (USA)

Patagonia — A Travel to the End of the World

Directed and produced by Vebjørn Hagen
Production company: TV 2 AS (Norway)

The Professional Adrenalinists

Directed by Adam Besse
Production company: Green Knight Entertainment (Canada)

Roam

Directed and produced by Darcy Wittenburg, Jamie Houssain
Production company: The Collective (Canada)

Yes to the No

Directed by Dave Mossop
Produced by Spencer Francey, Cholo Burns
Production companies: Chasing Winter Media/Rocky Mountain Sherpas (Canada)

Alta Rezia Freeride Tour

Directed and produced by Alec Wohlgroth
Production company: Halsundbeinbruch Film (Switzerland)

Best Short Mountain Film

The Bachelorette

Directed by Dom Janiszewski
Production company: Ride The Planets (France)

The Best of Jo

Directed and produced by Logan Carlstrom (Canada)

Cobra Crack

Directed and produced by Sonnie Trotter (Canada)

Conversing with Aotearoa/New Zealand

Directed by Corrie Francis
Production company: University of Southern California (USA)

Extreme Film School 2005: The Thrill Seekers

Directed by Roland Arnison, George Arnison
Production company: Kendal Mountain Film Festival (UK)

First Ascent: The Obscurist

Directed by Peter Mortimer
Produced by Peter Mortimer, Timmy O’Neill , Nick Rosen
Production company: Sender Films (USA)

First Ascent: Thailand

Directed by Peter Mortimer
Produced by Peter Mortimer, Timmy O’Neill , Nick Rosen, Pascal Bronnimann
Production company: Sender Films (USA)

First Ascent: The Tombstone

Directed by Peter Mortimer
Produced by Peter Mortimer, Timmy O’Neill , Nick Rosen
Production company: Sender Films (USA)

First Ascent: Urban Ape Goes to Hollywood

Directed by Peter Mortimer
Produced by Peter Mortimer, Timmy O’Neill , Nick Rosen
Production company: Sender Films (USA)

Lemmings

Directed by Craig Van Dyke
Produced by R. Brent Adams
Production company: Brigham Young University (USA)

The Naghol — Origin of Bungy Jumping

Directed and produced by Magdalena Livingstone (Switzerland)

New World Disorder VI: Unchained [short]

Directed by Derek Westerlund
Produced by Derek Westerlund, Carey Bokser
Production company: Freeride Entertainment (Canada)

Outside In

Directed by François Desrosiers
Production company: FD Productions (Canada)

The Professional Adrenalinists

Directed by Adam Besse
Production company: Green Knight Entertainment (Canada)

Ride of the Mergansers

Produced by Steve Furman
Production company: Furman Technologies (USA)

The Skater

Directed and produced by Guy Clarkson
Production company: Raven HD Productions (Canada)

Storms — The Movie: Touching My Self

Directed and produced by David Halsted, Alastair Lee
Production companies: Posing Productions/Shrewd Ape Media (UK)

Thunderbird

Produced by Chris Alstrin
Production company: Higher Ground Productions (USA)

Tyrol — Land in the Mountains

Directed and produced by Georg Riha
Production companies: Tirol Tourist Board/Cine Tirol (Austria)

University Wall

Directed by Ivan Hughes
Produced by Angela Heck
Production company: Fringe Filmworks Inc. (Canada)

Yes to the No

Directed by Dave Mossop
Produced by Spencer Francey, Cholo Burns
Production companies: Chasing Winter Media/Rocky Mountain Sherpas (Canada)

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