In reply to Dark-Cloud:
Just got back from a great couple of days at Kendal. "A fine line" was good, hope you enjoyed it. Couple of highlights for me were the "Petit Bus Rouge" and the one about the chap who cycled then soloed some big mountain in the old USSR.
The Sensei was a delight, both wide boyz films were fantastic, lots of quality around.
The short version of the film about the lady who was travelling round the world, but the film only featured her kayaking across to france, was dreadful, the narration would have been better suited to a kids programme and I really felt like they made a big deal of 3 6 hour shifts in a kayak.
Leo Holding climbing in antarctica was pretty, but not hugely exciting. Distilled was a well made, nice biography with some great scottish climbing shots.
Overall I think the standard of entries was better than last year, but having 3 films from the same french director, Petzl rock trip, Rocking Cuba, Silbergia all of a similar style was poor selection, especially as the rock trip and Silbergia were terrible films with hugely annoying editing, special effects which were rubbish, and some of the worst music I have ever heard.
Didn't get to see mountaineering, as it was in the Studio today and therefore filled up. What a shame they didn't put it on in the cinema, screen 2, which was half empty with the snow films.