Twice Upon A Time In Kendal...
Award-winning film-makers Al Lee and David Halsted are back for this year's Kendal Film Festival with their new film, 'Storms the Movie', a climbing comedy that promises to be, well, very different :-)
Posted: 10 November 2005
by Jon
Alastair Lee's Andean climbing film 'Twice Upon A Time In Bolivia' deservedly won
the People's Choice award at last year's Kendal Mountain Film
Festival thanks to a combination of gritty realism, vaguely deranged
humour and some fast-moving, innovative editing, and now the man is
back for 2005.
 Scheduled
to debut at this year's Kendal Festival, 'Storms the Movie' is
- suspend disbelief now - a climbing comedy loosely based on
Alastair's successful lecture / stand-up show 'Storms of Laughter'
which he co-wrote with David Halsted.
It's taken the pair six months to develop, film and edit the film
in what Alastair descibes as 'a labour of love'.
'It is, 'he says, 'a first in climbing history. Finally, a
climbing film without any climbing or narrative in this hysterical
analysis of the modern climbing ethic ... [it] features a
battle scene, super-heroes, villains, insane caricatures, short
animations and film parodies. Visually stunning, very funny, and
slightly risqué..... an experimental climbing comedy falling
off the edge.'
We were fortunate enough to see a small part of the film during
the editing process and trust us, it's like no other climbing film
we've seen. Will it be a brilliant tour de force or simply fall
flat on its face? There's only one way to find out.
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