Banff Mountain Festival 2002 winners

The Second Step wins the Banff Mountain Film Festival 2002. The Banff Mountain Book Festival Grand Prize was awarded to The Evidence of Things Not Seen, while the Photography Competition was won by James Delano

Planetmountain.com

December 2002

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Last month's 27th Banff Mountain Film Festival 2002 was won by The Second Step, an inspirational film about a double leg amputee who defies physical barriers to achieve a personal goal. The Grand Prize winning film recounts Warren Macdonald’s epic 28-day trek to climb Federation Peak in Tasmania. Macdonald’s lost both his legs in a 1997 climbing accident.

A record-breaking 263 films from 31 countries were entered in this year's Banff Mountain Film Festival competition, and 45 finalist films were screened during the festival. The annual event, organized by Mountain Culture at The Banff Centre, also featured world-renowned guest speakers including, Greg Child, Yvon Chouinard, Reinhold Messner and many more.

The Banff Mountain Book Festival Grand Prize was awarded to The Evidence of Things Not Seen, an autobiography of one of Scotland’s best-loved mountain writers, the late W.H. Murray. Murray’s memoirs focus on his life as a climber and mountaineer and his many travels throughout Europe and the Himalayas. The book also movingly describes Murray’s war experiences in the Middle East and his internment in prisoner-of-war camps — a period he used for writing and for intense philosophical study.

The Photography Competition was won by James Delano with his image of Jambeyang Holy Mountain, Kham, Tibet. The award attracted 2700 entries from 22 countries.

Further information:

	Banff PlanetMountain
	Film trailers
	w www.banffcentre.ab.ca

Photo: Mutnovsky Glacier, Kamchatka Peninsula, Russia © Carsten Peter

The winners

Grand Prize Banff Mountain Film Festival 2002
The Second Step, directed by Gary Caganoff and produced by Suzanne Davies for Kaganovich Productions/Part Animal Part Machine (Australia).

Best Film on Mountain Sports
The Essence of Adolescence by 15-year-old Daniel Kingsbury.

Best Film on Climbing
Vertical Frontier, directed and produced by Kristi Denton Cohen for Peloton Productions (USA).

Best Film on Mountain Culture
Rescue: The Cost of Risk, directed by Pierre-Antoine Hiroz and produced by BenoÃ®t Aymon.

Best Film on Mountain Environment and People's Choice Award
Cannibals and Crampons, directed by Bruce Parry and Mark Anstice and produced by Ed Stobart for Ginger Productions (UK).

Best Short Mountain Film
Front Range Freaks [Part 1]: Urban Ape, directed and produced by Peter Mortimer.

Best Feature-Length Mountain Fiction Film
Atanarjuat directed by Zacharias Kunuk's.

Special Jury Awards
WhiteTrax, Director/Producer: Sean White; Production Company: Black and White Productions (Canada).

Escape over the Himalayas - Tibet's Children on Their Journey into Exile, Director: Zazie Blumencron; Producer: Alecsander Faroga; Production Company: Tellux Film Munich (Germany).