November Is Mountain Film Festival Month
One for the diary with not one, but two major mountain film festivals rumbling into action this November with two great-looking programmes promised as well.
Posted: 2 August 2005
by Jon
November, remember that? Darkness, greyness, wetness... A bit like
August really. Except that in November, there's not one, but two
British mountain film festivals to pop in your diary.
 First
there's the Kendal Mountain Film Festival, which this year
runs from 12 - 20 November, with the main weekend being 18-20
November - apparently the Festival was cited by the Sunday Times as
being one of the reasons young people are attracted to Kendal as a
place to live...
Anyway, moving swiftly on, here's some early news on this year's
programme. Big names so far include Alan Hinkes, Kitty Calhoun, Leo
Houlding, Dave MacLeod and Simone Moro. Plus there will presentations
by photographer John Beattie and Leo Dickinson on the adventurous
life of his friend Eric Jones.
Films? Oh yes, there will around 250 of them entered in the
international competition. On top of that, the UK's only Mountain
Book Festival will feature Robert Macfarlane, Ed Douglas, Jim Perrin,
Andy Cave and Julie Summers.
Tickets should be available in mid-August if you're feeling keen.
You can buy them online at www.mountainfilm.co.uk
or through the box office on 01539 725133.
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