Kendal Film Festival Results

© Tom Phillips
The results are in from this weekend's Kendal Film Festival. The main winners were Weekend Warrior (Film Short category), Storms - the Movie (both the Mountain Culture and the People's Choice), Being Caribou (Environment category), High Fly Summits (Mountain Adventure category), Ian Wrights Excellent Adventure (Mountaineering category), Parallelojams (Climbing category), Thrill Seekers (Extreme Film School).
Full results on the Kendal Web site.

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21 Nov, 2005
WOW, gobsmacked Kilimanjaro is squeezed in as a special mention. It was by far the best film I saw this weekend. Incredibly moving - I was crying and Im supposed to be a rufty tufty mountaineer. Kind of dissapointed to see films like "High fly summits" getting awards when they are basically fun and exciting yes but really bits of fluff round the edges of mountaineering. Kilimanjaro went deep to the heart of our activity and while it didn't have the jaw dropping visuals of base jumping and wingsuiting like HFS it was for me far far more inspiring. Looking deep at 4 people whose accidents could easy have been disabling but who through the power of the human spirit were able to battle through and turn their lives into a beautiful victory. The film went even further until you forgot about their various disabilities and willed on the climbers through their storm to reach the top as you would any able bodied team. A lovely powerful uplifting film. On a side note I did feel at times that I was watching a base jumping festival and while the first time you see a helmet cam shot of someone leaping off a cliff is pretty amazing by the 60th fairly indentical sequence the novelty does tend to wear off.
21 Nov, 2005
The other thing I'd add is that High Flying Summits is sponsored advert for Salomon - see the film and you'll know what I mean. Winning a prize at Kendal can be very influential for cash strapped independent film makers trying to secure funding or even maybe maybe the elusive TV time. The Kendal judges should be supporting independent film makers not conglomerates like Salomon (Addidas actually!) While Im on ranting I would like to say thanks to the organisers - as I really enjoyed the weekend, its always a great social and Ive come away re-energised and inspired.
21 Nov, 2005
The hot rock thing was even worse in terms of blurring the boundaries between film and free publicity. I'm sure some good films got turned away from the festival because of these things that are basicly extended adverts. Still pissed off that MarcC et al got banished to the K Village at lunchtime and were saw by virtually no-one. I was crying with laughter in some of the songs and even some passing pensioners sat through it all and thought it was great so making it hard for climbers was rather sad. Elvis is alive and well and is disguised as Gordon Stainforth!
21 Nov, 2005
Agree - how come Kilimanjaro didn't win anything?!!! Completely bonkers as it's a brilliant piece of film making that works on so many levels. It's very, very understated and totally unpredictable in lots of ways. And climbers and non-climbers would come away with very different things. An original and inspirational film. The Ian Wright thing was well-filmed and very funny, but I was slightly depressed that he never once seemed to appreciate where he was.
21 Nov, 2005
Adrian Im guessing you're the Adrian I know. If so I want to say how impressed I was by Hotel Supramonte. Not sure if you had anyone else apart obviously from Gaz and Steve filming - but managing to cover something as big as that and especially as it couldn't be re-enacted i.e. it was an onsight one chance attempt - very impressive. I think one thing I really like about Steve's climbing having seen him in a couple of films is that when it gets properly hard he genuinely struggles and slaps like every normal climber so you do get a sense of what he's going through. Anyway really good.
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