Tickets for next month's Kendal Mountain Film Festival are already going fast, so if you want to get in there, get on with it...
The organisers of this year's Kendal Mountain Film Festival,
sponsored by Berghaus, tell us that tickets are going fast and if you
want to be sure of getting in, you'd better get on with it.
Particularly at risk are the special IMax presentations of the
Everest movie - though North Westerners might like to note that you
can also catch this in Manchester
right now - you can book tickets on the web www.mountainfilm.co.uk
or phone 01539 725760 or 725133.
The web site's also the best place to find out what's showing and
when, but we shamelessly reproduce the latest festival publicity shot
below:
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ART, PHOTO and FILM SEMINARS
We are having two seminars that may be of interest:
SONY Film Makers Seminar. Your chance to ask a panel of experts
any questions you may have on filmmaking. Topics covered will include
Equipment, Editing, Composition, Future advances and formats.
Saturday lunch time in the Brewery Arts Centre.
Art and Photography Seminar. Again a panel of experts : Julian
Heaton Cooper, Jim Curran, Andy Parkin, Trevor Avvery, Steve Razzetti
hosted by Terry Gifford will discuss techniques, equipment,
composition and other relevant topics on art and photography in the
mountains. Sunday lunch time in the Brewery Arts Centre.
It is your final chance to get those photographs into the Therm a
Rest and Eagle Creek Photo competition. See the web for entry
details.
SCARPA BOULDERING COMPETITION USE WORLD CUP BOULDERS
The Kendal Mountain Film Festival will be holding it's
prestigious annual open bouldering competition in conjunction with
Scarpa, the Lakeland Climbing Centre Ltd (Kendal Wall). Competition
will be keen with some of the countries top climbers entering. Past
winners have included Malcolm Smith, Andy Earl, Eve Prickett and Lucy
Creamer.
There will be four categories: Open, Women, Veterans (40 and
over) and Juniors (16 and under) with cash prizes totalling
£750.
All are welcome to enter for either fun or serious climbing with
the preliminary rounds starting on Friday 16th November at 5 pm and
carry through Saturday with the finals being held on Sunday morning
in Kendal Town Hall on a Special World Cup style boulder supplied by
Entre Prise.
A special entry price to the wall and competition for all Festival
ticket holders will be £4. None festival ticket holders will be
charged standard wall entry fees and will have to pay a £15 fee
to enter the competition.
Climbers can enter on the day but it helps organisation to
register and indicate their category with Kate Phillips on e mail
info@kendalwall.u-net.com or phone 01539 721766. More details and
location of the Kendal Wall can be found on www.kendalwall.u-net.com
FILMS
We have virtually finalised our pre-judging. This year we had
almost 200 entries - double last year! We have narrowed this down to
50 so expect some great films. We will release the film program in a
few days time so expect another e-mail soon.
Any questions or comments please e-mail us on info@mountainfilm.co.uk
