Mountain Film Festival Madness...

It's that grey time between summer and the great snows - ahem... Remember them?

Still, if you're bored, you can always drag out your diary and note down a few dates, cos the world's gone mountain film festival mad with events in Kendal, Dundee and Fort William coming up as well as an 'altitude' film season in Edinburgh.

Anyhow, here are the relevant dates and the links you need to work out what's going on:

• Edinburgh Film House Altitude Season - 1-7 November 2002

Series of 17 international mountain-orientated films from early 20th Century silent movies up to Hollywood epics like Seven Years In Tibet starring international boulder problem, Brad Pitt. You can see all 15 programmes in the series for £22.50.
Edinburgh Film House

• Kendal Mountain Film Festival - 14-17 November 2002

Mountain film madness in Kendal for the umpteenth tear running is almost upon us once more with a combination of mountain films, art, photography, lectures and more in the heart of the Lake District. A definite must see.
Kendal Mountain Film Festival

• Dundee Mountain Film Festival - 22-24 November 2002

Programme of mountain films and live presentations by top mountaineers including Doug Scott,, Simon Richardson, Mick Fowler, Hohhny Dawes and Catherine Destivelle, or at least we think so...
Dundee Mountain Film Festival

• Fort William Film Festival - 21 February - 2 March 2003

Scotland's west coast mountain capital gets its own mountain film festival for next year which promises to be alternative to the Nevisport caff when you're rained off the Ben... The programme is still being put together and the web site isn't up yet, but there's a mooted mountain art and photo exhibition, some of the winning films from Banff and films offering a 'Scottish mountaineering retrospective' as well as live speakers. Preliminary details at the page below:
Fort William Mountain Film Festival