Kendal Mountain Festival programme 2006

Presented by 10th -19th November festival schedule and booking form

Welcome to the Kendal Mountain Festivals 2006 Film, Book and Art schedule.

We are delighted to present this year’s lineup which we believe is our best to date. You will find details of the various films, workshops, guest speakers and book readings that are taking place throughout the Festival. Please browse through, find what is of interest and use the booking form to make reservations. We look forward to seeing you in November.r

‘Cult & Classic’ – A Programme of Feature Films

Sat 11 - Tues 14 November

Film is a powerful medium not only for mountain drama and adventure. Historically, it has questioned man’s relationship with high places, and increasingly today explores the human conflicts taking place in some of the most dangerous and yet most spiritual landscapes in the world. This year KMFF presents a programme of feature films, which includes a mix of historical films, in which mountains are the setting for romance, adventure and drama, and new entries in this year’s competition, where mountain zones are the setting for civil war, cultural turmoil and lawlessness. We include with each feature a classic short, from Popeye in the Alps to Monty Python on the Uxbridge Road.

The films:

Die Weisse Hölle vom Piz Palü (Arnold Fanck – 1929)

The White Tower (Ted Tetzlaff – 1950)

The Eiger Sanction (Clint Eastwood – 1975)

Five Days One Summer (Fred Zinneman – 1982)

Himalaya (Eric Valli – 1999)

A Time for Drunken Horses (Ghobadi – 1999)

Tibet - The Cry of the Snow Lion (Tom Peosay – 2003)

What Remains of Us (Kalsang Dolma – 2004)

The Women of Mount Ararat (Erwann Briand - 2004)

Kekexili (Chuan Lu - 2004)

Extreme Film School

- The very best in adventure, extreme sports & expedition filmmaking

Mon 13 – Fri 17 November

Our Extreme Film School provides a short but incredibaly successful training programme for digital filmmaking. Beginner or professional, tailor your programme to meet your needs. The results of last years 48 hour marathon can still be viewed on our website. The programme runs over a full week, with three days of training before the challenge begins to make to make the perfect two-minute film in just 48 hours. The three courses run from 9:30am – 5:00pm at the Brewery Arts Centre. The 48 Hour Film Marathon begins at 7pm on Weds 15 at the Allen Building of Kendal College. The results of the marathon will be judged in the Brewery Arts Centre Studio at 8pm on Friday 17.

‘How to make a film’ – Mon 13

– entry level - led by Mark Batey

‘Using a DV Camera’ – Tues 14

– intermediate/advanced - led by Keith Partridge

‘Producing and Editing’ – Weds 15

– intermediate/advanced – led by Richard Else

‘The 48 Hour Film Marathon’

– led by Graham Hoyland and Brian Hall

Book Fair at K Village

10am - 6pm Saturday 18 Nov

10:30am – 4:30pm Sunday 19 Nov

A chance to buy both hot-off-the-press titles and collectors items from a range of book stalls.

Have your books signed by the writers and lecturers from the combined Book and Film Festival at the Book Signing Frenzy at K Village 4pm - 6pm.

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Friday 10 November

Guest Speaker

‘The Wild Places’

Robert MacFarlane

7:30pm The Eco Centre, Cockermouth School

Explore the links between art, literature and ecology in the UK with Robert MacFarlane, winner of the Guardian First Book Award for Mountains of the Mind.

Cult & Classic Feature Film Programme

‘Die Weisse Hölle vom Piz Palü’

1929 Arnold Fanck, Germany

5.45pm Brewery Arts Centre

Starring Leni Riefenstahl, this film follows a bereaved husband back to the mountain where his new wife died on their honeymoon. With two companions they brave crevasses and avalanches and are rescued in a truly dramatic way.

Cult & Classic Feature Film Programme

‘A Time For Drunken Horses’

1999 Bahman Ghobadi, Iran

8.15pm Brewery Arts Centre

Madi needs an operation in the next month or he will die, his siblings do everything they can to raise the money needed, including smuggling, marriage, and extremely hard physical labor. The first film from Bahman Ghobadi that highlights the extreme poverty and hardships of these people in an unsentimental but effective way.

Saturday 11 November

Cult & Classic Feature Film Programme

‘What Remains of Us’

(Kalsang Dolma – 2004)

2pm Brewery Arts Centre

We ask people to note and respect the security measures we need to implement to ensure the safety of those featured in the film. We will be scanning everyone who enters the theatre and kindly ask that you hand in your mobile phones and cameras which we will hold in a secure place for the duration of the film. Kalsang Dolma introduces her film on the impact of the Chinese occupation of Tibet, its people and its culture.

Writers’ Workshop

‘Turning Passion to Print’

2pm - 5pm Brewery Arts Centre

Learn how to write a guidebook to share your experiences and communicate your passion for travel and places to others. With Jonathan Williams of Cicerone Press.

Cult & Classic Feature Film Programme

‘The White Tower’

1950 Ted Tetzlaff , USA

5.45pm Brewery Arts Centre

A tale of love and treachery during WW2, downed American pilot (Glenn Ford) and Nazi SS Officer (Lloyd Bridges) join forces to with an international team to make a major first ascent All have reasons to reach the top, but these are not what they seem. Stunning cinematography shot on Mont Blanc with an all star cast.

Cult & Classic Feature Film Programme

‘The Women of Mount Ararat’

2004 Erwann Briand, France

8.15pm Brewery Arts Centre

In 1996 a group of Kurdistan women set up their own independent army. We follow 6 soldiers, always on the move, always climbing the next seemingly invisible enemy.

Sunday 12 November

Writers’ Workshop

‘The Path of the Journal’

10am - 1pm Kendal Library

Award-winning author Maria Coffey will share her experiences and techniques for turning a journal entry into a publishable piece of writing.

Writers’ Workshop

‘Life Stories’

2pm - 5pm Kendal Library

Julie Summers explains how the discovery of a trunk belonging to her great uncle Sandy Irvine led to the writing of a successful biography.

Guest Speaker

‘Into the Abyss’ Benedict Allen

7:30pm Brewery Arts Centre

Through his books and films and with great poise and humour, Benedict Allen describes what it’s like to face a personal abyss of fear and danger, from being shot by drug barons to being lost in Siberia in mid winter.

Cult & Classic Feature Film Programme

‘Best of Kendal 2005’

7:30pm Rheged

A selection of last year’s winners phone 01768 860 090 for details.

Cult & Classic Feature Film Programme

‘The Eiger Sanction’

1975 Clint Eastwood, USA

2pm Brewery Arts Centre

Fading climbing star (Clint Eastwood) is enticed by the CIA to help expose a spy and assassin. A ‘who done it’ set in the icy vertical wilderness of the North Face of the Eiger. Some of the best mountain action of all time. See Chic Scott talk about the making of the film on Sat the 18th.

Cult & Classic Feature Film Programme

‘Five Days One Summer’

1982 Fred Zinneman, USA

5.45pm Brewery Arts Centre

The obsessive love affair between an older Scottish doctor played superbly by Sean Connery and his niece takes a strange turn when they travel together to the Swiss Alps on a short holiday.

Cult & Classic Feature Film Programme

‘Tibet – Cry of the Snow Lion’

2003 Tom Peosay, USA

8.15pm Brewery Arts Centre

An extraordinary documentary, about the neardestruction of an enlightened 1,700 year old culture, the incredible suffering of the people, and the spiritual survival of hope in the hearts of those who believe that one day they will be able to re-taste the joys of freedom.

Monday 13 November

Extreme Film School

‘How to make a Short Film’

9:30am - 5pm Brewery Arts Centre

Guest Speakers

BMC Winter Skills Lectures

6.45pm - 5pm Brewery Arts Centre

Previously known as the Winter Lectures, this year’s series will be presented by IFMGA Mountain Guides

Martin Moran and Mike ‘Twid’ Turner. Both have vast experience in the Scottish mountains over many years and will be sure to educate and inspire you to enjoy everything that the Winter Mountains can throw at you.

Cult & Classic Feature Film Programme

‘Die Weisse Hölle vom Piz Palü’

1929 Arnold Fanck, Germany

5.45pm Brewery Arts Centre

Starring Leni Riefenstahl, this film follows a bereaved

husband back to the mountain where his new wife died on their honeymoon. With two companions they brave crevasses and avalanches and are rescued in a truly dramatic way.

Cult & Classic Feature Film Programme

‘Himalaya’

1999 Eric Valli, France

8.15pm Brewery Arts Centre

When the son of the village elder Tinle dies, he uses all his power to punish Karma who brought the news, and forbids him to lead an upcoming yak caravan. The conflict divides the village and both men decide to make the journey separately. Tensions finally come to a head when Karma and Tinle’s two caravans cross paths high up in the Himalayas.

Booking Form

No. Date Event / Ticket type

Fri 10 Talk‘The Wild Places’An Evening Exploring Wilderness and Words with Robert MacFarlane (The Eco Centre, Cockemouth School)

Fri 10 Cult & Classic Feature Film Programme‘ Die Weisse Holle Vom Piz Palu’

Fri 10 Cult & Classic Feature Film Programme‘ A Time for Drunken Horses’

Sat 11 Cult & Classic Feature Film Programme‘ What Remains of Us’ (special security measures in place please see event details)

Sat 11 Guide Book Writing workshop with Cicerone Press

Sat 11 Cult & Classic Feature Film Programme‘ The White Tower’

Sat 11 Cult & Classic Feature Film Programme‘The Women of Mount Ararat’

Sun 12 ‘ The Path of the Journal’writers workshop with Maria Coffey Library 10am1pm

Sun 12 Cult & Classic Feature Film Programme‘The Eiger Sanction’

Sun 12 ‘Life Stories’writers workshop with Julie Summers Library 2pm5pm

Cult & Classic Feature Film Programme‘Five Days One Summer’

Sun 12

Sun 12 Talk‘Into the Abyss’An Evening with Benedict Allen

Sun 12 FilmBest of Kendal Mountain Film Festival 2005for tickets please contact Rheged on 01768 860090 or go to www.rheged.com for more details BAC

Venue Time Price No. Tickets Total

Eco

7.30pm £5 £ 1

Centre

BAC 5.45pm £5 £ 2

BAC 8.15pm £5 £ 3

BAC 2pm £6 £ 4

BAC 2pm5pm £15 £ 5

BAC 5.45pm £5 £ 6

BAC 8.15pm £5 £ 7

£15 £ 8

£5 £ 9

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£15 £ 10

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Extreme Film School‘How to Make a Film’

& Classic Feature Film Programme‘Die Weisse Holle Vom Piz Palu’

Mon 13

Mon 13 WorkshopBMC Winter Skills Seminarsfor tickets please contact BMC on 0870 0104878 or go to Events section on www.thebmc.co.uk

& Classic Feature Film Programme‘Himalaya’

Extreme Film School‘Using a DV Camera’

& Classic Feature Film Programme‘The White Tower’

Tues 14

Talk‘Wheeling the World’ with Alastair Humphreys

Tues 14

Cult & Classic Feature Film Programme‘What Remains of Us’ For tickets please contact Theatre By The Lake on 017687 74411 or go to www.theatrebythelake.com TBL 7.30pm

Tues 14

Cult & Classic Feature Film Programme‘Kekexili’ BAC 8.15pm £5

Tues 14

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WorkshopExtreme Film School‘Producing and Editing’ BAC 9.30am5pm £75*

Wed 15

20

WorkshopExtreme Film School‘48 Hour Film Marathon’ BAC / Kendal College 7pm start £75

Talk‘Summit150 years of British Mountaineering Adventure’with George Band & Stephen Venables BAC 7pm £8

Talk‘Paddle the World’ with Justine Curgenven BAC 7.30pm £9

Talk‘Alfred Heaton Cooper and the Lakeland Legacy’Jane Renouf & Julian Cooper in conversation with Terry Gifford Library 2pm £5

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Thur 16 ‘ TalkOn the Ridge Between Life and Death’David Roberts & Maria Coffey in conversation with Ed Douglas BAC 7pm £8

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Talk‘New Made Tracks’ with Fredrik Ericsson BAC 7.30pm £9

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Friday All Day Film Pass BAC 9am10pm £10

Fri 17

Boardman Tasker Shortlist Event (price includes entry to Awards) BAC 1.30pm3pm £8

Fri 17

Boardman Tasker Awards BAC 4pm5.30pm -

Fri 17

Venue Time Price No. Tickets Total 13 Mon

BAC 9.30am5pm £75* £ 14

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5.45pm £5 £

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Cult

BAC 8.15pm £5 £ 16

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Workshop

BAC 9.30am5pm £75* £ 17

BAC 5.45pm £5 £ 18

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Fri 17 Talk‘A Life in Words’ with Chris Bonington Library 7pm

bought 14 days in advance

Talk -‘Slowly Down the Ganges’ with Dag Goering & Maria Coffeyfor tickets please contact Rheged on 01768 860090 or go to www.rheged.com Rheged 8pm £11

Fri 17

Film & Talk -‘Grizzly Man’ with Sid Marty BAC 7.30pm

Fri 17

Talk‘Don WhillansMyth & Legend’ The DMM Friday Night Programme BAC 7.30pm £12

Fri 17

Fri 17 Simulcast of DMM in BAC Maltroom

Fri 17 Extreme Film School Awards BAC 8pm Free

Sat 18 Saturday All Day Film Pass BAC 9am10pm £15

Sat 18 Talk‘Going to Extremes’ BMC / MEF Adventure Lectures KLC 10am

Sat 18 Talk‘Never Stop Exploring’ Baz Roberts

18 Talk‘The Making of The Eiger Sanction’ Chic Scott

18 Talk‘The Canadian Connection’ Barry

Sat 18 BMC Party

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Sunday All Day Film Pass (includes entry to the Awards Ceremony & Best of 2006 film showing) BAC / KLC 9am10pm

Sun 19

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Talk‘China’s Secrets Revealed’ Mick Fowler BAC 10am

Sun 19

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Talk‘Cordillera Crossing’ John Dunn BAC 11.30am

Sun 19

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Talk‘Young Spider’ Ueli Steck BAC 2pm

Sun 19

Talk‘Para-Alpine’ Tim Emmett BAC 3.30pm £8

Sun 19

Talk -‘Don WhillansMyth & Legend’ BAC 5pm £5

Sun 19

Kendal Mountain Film Festival Awards Ceremony & Best of 2006 film showing (limited release) BAC 5.30pm11pm £8

Sun 19

Rheged 7.30pm £6.50

Best of Kendal Mountain Film Festival 2006for tickets please contact Rheged on 01768 860090 or go to www.rheged.com for more details

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Blanchard KLC 4.30pm £8 £ 42 Sat 18 Talk‘Style Matters’ Marko Prezelj KLC 7pm £12 £ 43 Sat 18 British Mountain FilmThe Power of Adventure KLC 8.30pm £12 £ Sat 18 ‘Cost of Risk, Balance of Life’ debate BAC 12.30pm Free £ 44 Sat 18 Talk -‘Devon IslandJourneys on the Wildside’ John Dunn BAC 7pm £8 £ 45 Sat 18 Talk -‘Don WhillansMyth & Legend’ BAC

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Our venues in Kendal are the five screens at the Brewery Arts Centre (BAC), the Kendal Leisure Centre (KLC), Kendal Library (Lib), K Village (KV), and associated venues at Cockermouth School, Theatre by the Lake (Keswick) and Rheged (Penrith).

No. Date Event / Ticket Type Venue Time Price No. Tickets Total 11-19 Nov Kendal Pass (choose any 6 numbered events excluding nos 4,7,9,13,16,20,21) BAC / KLC £54 £ Sat 18 Saturday All Day Lecture Pass for Kendal Leisure Centre BAC / KLC 9am - 10pm £39 £ Sun 19 Sunday All Day Lecture Pass for Brewery Arts Centre BAC / KLC 9am - 10pm £24 £ 17-19 Nov Weekend Film Pass BAC / KLC £33 £ 13-17 Nov *Extreme Film School - All 3 day seminars BAC *£195 £ 13-17 Nov *Extreme Film SchoolStudent rates £25 per workshop / £40 marathon BAC £ 100 Charity Donation which goes straight to Jon Muir Trust and Community Action Nepal

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Tuesday 14 November

Extreme Film School

‘Using a DV Camera’

9:30am - 5pm Brewery Arts Centre

Cult & Classic Feature Film Programme

‘The White Tower’

1950 Ted Tetzlaff , USA

5.45pm Brewery Arts Centre

Classic drama set in WW2 as downed American pilot (Glenn Ford) joins forces with an SS Officer (Lloyd Bridges) to form an international team to attempt an unclimbed face in Switzerland. All have a reason to reach the top, but these are not what they seem. Stunning cinematography shot on Mont Blanc and an all star cast.

Guest Speaker

‘Wheeling the World’ with Alastair Humphreys

7:30pm Brewery Arts Centre

A fantastic programme of off road and radical bike films, and Alastair Humphreys takes us along with his challenging and entertaining bike journey around the world. Sponsored by BUFF

Cult & Classic Feature Film Programme

‘What Remains of Us’

7:30 pm Theatre by the Lake Keswick phone 017687 74411 / www.theatrebythelake.com

Cult & Classic Feature Film Programme

‘Kekexili’

2004 Chuan Lu China/Hong Kong

8.15pm Brewery Arts Centre

Set in stunning scenery on a Tibetan plateau, “Mountain Patrol: Kekexili” recreates an extraordinary grassroots effort in the 1990’s by supremely dedicated idealists to stop poaching of the Tibetan antelope.

Wednesday 15 November

Extreme Film School

‘Producing and Editing’

9:30am - 5pm Brewery Arts Centre

Guest Speakers

‘Summit’

150 years of British Mountaineering Adventure’ 7pm Brewery Arts Centre

Stephen Venables and George Band celebrate the 150th Anniversary of the Alpine Club with readings from the Alpine Journal and recollections of the men and women who have made the Alpine Club the most famous mountaineering club in the world.

Film with Guest Speaker

‘Paddle the World’ with Justine Curgenven

7:30pm Brewery Arts Centre

Justine Curgenven presents her most exciting sea kayak journeys with excerpts from her film – This Is The Sea - plus exciting new white water films from around the world. Sponsored by The North Face and Total Canoe & Kayak

‘48 Hour Film Marathon’ Starts 7:00pm – Allen Building Kendal College

Thursday 16 November

Guest Speakers

‘Alfred Heaton Cooper and the Lakeland Legacy’

2pm Kendal Library

Jane Renouf and Julian Cooper in conversation with Terry Gifford, assessing the impact of the Cooper family’s obsession with mountain painting.

Guest Speakers

‘On the Ridge Between Life and Death’

David Roberts, Ed Douglas & Maria Coffey

7:00pm Brewery Arts Centre

Award winning author David Roberts is no stranger

to controversy. He unflinchingly questions selfishness of the climbing community. Ed Douglas will lead discussions on Roberts’ motives and they are joined by Maria Coffey to assess the cost of risk.

Film with Guest Speaker

‘New Made Tracks’ with Fredrik Ericsson

7:30pm Brewery Arts Centre

An evening of unparalleled ski and snowboard films, thrilling and hilarious, with a first ever film lecture by ski mountaineer Fredrik Ericsson who last year made the first ski descent of Gasherbrum 2 (8035 m).

Sun 19 November

Guest Speaker

‘China’s Secrets Revealed’

Mick Fowler

10am Brewery Arts Centre

Mick Fowler’s three recent journeys to China have produced amazing ascents and won him the prestigious Piolet D’or. Tales of desperate climbing on Siguniang in the Qionglai Range, Mt. Grosvenor in the Daxueshan and Kajaqiao in the Nyanquentaghla East.

Guest Speaker

‘Cordillera Crossing’

John Dunn

11:30am Brewery Arts Centre

Another John Dunn a/v masterpiece - the story of a crossing of the entire British Columbian Cordillera from Stewart on the Pacific coast to Fort Nelson in the interior - the toughest expedition he has ever undertaken, hiking and paddling for 54 days.

Guest Speaker

‘Young Spider’

Ueli Steck

2pm Brewery Arts Centre

In the past five years Ueli Steck’s ascents are truly remarkable, from a first ascent of the West Face of Pumori (7165 m) to a first solo and first winter ascent of his own creation on the Eiger North Face ‘Young Spider’ earlier this year. A spectacular lecture from a rising star.

Film with Guest Speakers

‘British Mountain Film – the Power of Adventure’

8:30pm Kendal Leisure Centre

From the Abrahams on Kern Knots Crack in the 1890’s to Jack Osbourne on El Cap in 2005, from Mallory to Messner on Everest, from Alpamayo to Touching the Void - a fascinating journey through the archives and history of mountain films. Presented by some of the UK’s best known adventure filmmakers including Leo Dickinson, Jim Curran, Ed Stobart, and Graham Hoyland.

Film

‘Don Whillans - Myth and Legend’ 8:45pm Brewery Arts Centre

‘BMC Party’

10pm – 2am Brewery Arts Centre

Kendal’s legendary party sponsored by The British Mountaineering Council.

Guest Speaker

‘Para-Alpine’

Tim Emmet

3:30pm Brewery Arts Centre

When Kendal’s Shaun Ellison offered to mentor Tim Emmett into the world of BASE jumping, the reality was more than he bargained for. In 2005 Tim and Leo caught wind that a Redbull team was headed for the first BASE jump off the infamous Naranjo de Bulnes – the race was on. With Tim Emmett and guest appearances!

Film

‘Don Whillans - Myth and Legend’ 5pm Brewery Arts Centre

‘The Film Awards Ceremony’

5:30pm -11pm (approx) Brewery Arts Centre

The culmination of a fantastic week of films - Chris Bonington introduces the international panel of judges. Their decisions always hold a few surprises as clips from the winning films come on screen. And the audience has its say with People’s Choice – was it yours? Entry to the awards covers entry to the ‘Best of Kendal 2006’ which begins immediately after the awards ceremony in the Brewery Arts Centre cinemas.

‘Best Of Kendal 2006’ 7:30pm Rheged

A selection of this year’s best films. Phone 01768 860 090 for tickets

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