26th Banff Mountain Film Festival, the winners

Yellowstone — America's Sacred Wilderness takes Grand Prize at the Banff Mountain Film Festival 2001

November 2001

The winners

Grand Prize Banff Mountain Film Festival 2001
Yellowstone — America's Sacred Wilderness (U.S.A.)
Director: Hugh Miles and Shane Moore for ABC/Kane Productions

Best Film on Climbing
Desert Friction (South Africa)
Director: Nic Good, Producer: Brian Valentine, Production Company: Fresh Air Crew

Best Film on Mountain Culture
Mustang (Slovakia)
Director/Producer: Pavol Barabas, Production Company: K2 Studio

Best Film on Mountain Sports
Jump! (U.S.A.)
Directors /Producers: Allen Hill/John Catto, Production Company: Alpenglow Film & Video

Best Film on Mountain Environment
Wild Asia: At the Edge (Japan/New Zealand)
Director: Alan D'acrcy Erson
Producer: Shinichi Murata, Michael Stedman, Production Companies: NHK/Natural History New Zealand Ltd./Discovery Channel/NDR Naturefilm Studios Hamburg Fernseh Allianz

Best Short Mountain Film (15 minutes or less)
Will Gadd — This is Your Life (Canada)
Directors: Melissa Forman, Pat Morrow, Producer: Melissa Forman, Production Company: Sun Bear Productions

Best Feature-length Mountain Fiction Film
A Time for Drunken Horses (Iran)
Director/Producer: Bahmar Ghobadi, Production Company: Mongrel Media Inc.

Special Jury Award
Mountain Men: The Ghosts of K2 (U.K.)
Director/Producer: Mick Conefrey, Production Company: BBC/TLC

People’s Choice Award
Berserk in the Antarctic (Denmark)
Director/Producer: Kaare Skard, Production Company: TV2 Denmark

The 26th Banff Mountain Film Festival 2001 came to a close last on November 4 after an exciting week of film, books, photography and lectures by some of the greatest names in mountaineering including Carlos Carsolio, Patrick BÃ©rhault and Tomaz Humar.

The Film Festival’s Grand Prize was taken by Yellowstone — America's Sacred Wilderness for its portrayal of both the exquisite beauty and the savage brutality of the natural world in Yellowstone National Park. Directed and produced by Hugh Miles and Shane Moore, it saw off two hundred and fifty films from 27 countries and was chosen by an internatioal jury composed of George Band (U.K.), Gauthier Flauder (France), Antonio Cembran (Italy), Harish Kapadia (India) and Sharon Wood (Canada).

The Banff Mountain Book Festival Grand Prize was awarded to Hazard’s Way by Roger Hubank. Set at the turn of the 19th century, Hazard’s Way tells the story of a young man's struggles to cope with strict Edwardian family values and the contradictory influences of the friends he makes in his life as a climber.

The 2001 Photography Competition attracted 2200 entries from 17 countries and was won by Scott Spiker for his “Native Vision” of Blackfeet Tribe in Browning, Montana.

Further information:
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