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Festival offers
eclectic lineup

Andrew McCredie

Editor
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WHEN Alan Formanek
was scouting locations
for the first ever
Vancouver
International Mountain
Film Festival iast year,
he didn’t even both
looking downtown.

“This is where the moun-
tains are and this is where
most of us live,” Pormanck
said earlier this week as he
and festival staff put the fin-
ishing touches on the second
annual film festival taking,

_ place in North Vancouver
this weekend. “It would not
be right to have it in down-
town Vancouver.”

Last year over 2,000 peo-
ple turned the Centennial
‘Theatre turnstiles to watch
the eclectic collection of films

- and slideshows the Czech

native and his small staff had

compiled for the inaugural
festival, and this year

Formanck expecis a larger

“ gurnout.

Judging from this year’s
lineup, festival goers won’t be
. disappointed. In particular,
tomorrow afternoon’s Polish

~ See Mountain page 39

NEWS photo Mike Wakefieid

FESTIVAL director Alan Formanek climbs the Centennial Theatre sign to pro-
mote this weekend’s 2nd annual Vancouver international Mountain Film Festival.

- Vancouver international Mountain Film Festival Schedule

 @ Friday, Feb. 26
-4:30-3 p.m.: Youth and
Senior Community Program
presented by North Shore
- Search and Rescue
-7 p.m. Show :
‘° 7-7:20 p.m.: Official —
Festival Inauguration
| 7320-8 p.m.: Exploring the
Waddington Range, .
slideshow presented by Don
* Serl .
8-8:40 p.m.: Rais of the
Great White North,
;_ slideshow presented by
Richard Wheater
8:40-9 p.m.: Break
:- 9-9:25 p.m.:. Camanchaca
(Austria, 1998), a high-alti-
tude windsurfing film by
'- Thomas Miklautsch
9:25-9:30 p.m.:
Skullduggery (Canada,
1998), an animated short by
Jeremy Blume!
2:30-9:35 p.m.: Pure ~
(Germany, 1998), a snow-
boarding short film by.
Joachim Hellinger
335-10:15 p.m.: Ice in

A Iceland (U.S.A., 1998), a

“climbing film by Cheric
Silvera, John Wilcox and
Dan Mannix

’ 1 Saturday, Feb. 27
p-m. Show
p.m.-5:20 p.m.: Polish
Mountain Film Perspective
presented by Zbigniew
Piotrowicz
2-2:15 p.m.: Introduction
2:15-2:40 p.m.:
Najtrudnicjsaa Seiana
(“The Hardest Wall,”
y ALT. Pietraszek
2:40-2:50 p.m.: Moj Maly
Everest (“My Little Everest,”
1990), by M. Dembinski
B 2:50-3:20 p.m.: Zuicwolone
mn Gory (“The Captive
@ Mountains,” 1991), by A.T.
B Pietraszck
3:20- :40 p.m.: Break
3:40-4:10 p.m.: Columbia,

slideshow presented by Peter
Chrzanowski

4:10-4:35 p.m.: Ganck
(1998) by M. Dembinski
4:35-4:50 p.m.: Spacer (“A
Walk,” 1991), by J.P. Pelech
4:50-5:20 p.m.: W Cienin
Everestu (“In The Shadow
Of Everest,” 1998), by A.T.
Pietraszek

7 p.m. Show

7-8 p.m.: Free Yeur Mind
and Your Ass Will Follow:
Reficetions of a Free-Solo
Climber, slideshow present-
ed by John Bachar

8-8:20 p.m.: Break
8:20-9:10 p.m.: Hard Grit
(Great Britain, 1998), by R.
Heap and M. Turnbull
9:19-9:25 p.m.: Diamonds
dn The Rough (U.S.A.,
1996), by,S. Milton and T.

Skinner

9:25-9:35 p.m.: Solo

(Czech Republic, 1998), by
L. Slavik and J. Zid .
9:35-10:25 p.m.: The Wall

. Crawler: The Vertical

Adventures of Alain Robert
(U.S.A., 1998), by J.
Cohen, G. Knight and B.
Leonard

& Sunday, Feb. 28

i p.m. Show

1-2 p.m.: Sportclimbing in
America: The Death of
Adventure, slideshow pre-
sented by Christian Griffith
2-2:20 p.m.: Break

2:20-3 p.m.: The Hand of
Fatima-Mali (U.S.A.,
1998), by T. Skinner and J.
Wilcox

3-3:40 p.m.: Bhutan - Land
of the Thunder Dragon
(U.S.A., 1998), by J. Wilcox
and M. Brown.
3:40-3:50 p.ra.: Break

3:50-4:10 p.m.: Martina
(Slovenia, 1996), by Marjeta
Kersic-Svetel

4:10-4:30 p.m.: Hitting the
Wall (U.S.A., 1999), by
David Hamlin

’ 6 p.m. Show

6-6:30 p.m.: Grande Finale
and Awards Ceremony
6:30-7:30 p.m.: The Art of
Climbing: The Path of Life,
slideshow presented by
Voytck Kurtyka

7:30-8 p.m.: Break

8 8:20 p.m.: Falling
(U.3.A., 1998), by Ch.
Youn

8:20-8:30 p.m.: Psyeles
(Canada, 1998), by Karen
Duthie

8:30-9:25 p.m.: 128 Days
in Captivity of Ice (Slovakia,
1998), by Pavol Barabas
9:25: Screening of festival
winners.

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