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Kendal Mountain Festival: The Film Winners

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The Kendal Mountain Festivals ended this weekend and the winners of the film competition were announced.

The Grand Prize (sponsored by Berghaus) was won by producers Josh Lowell of Big UP Productions and Peter Mortimer of Sender Films and their film, King Lines, a film about Chris Sharma documenting some of his impressive first ascents and travels to climbing locations around the world.

You can watch a trailer of King Lines HERE.

The winner of the Best Climbing Film (sponsored by Climber magazine) went to Brad Lynch's film, Aerialist, about the free soloist Dean Potter and his three disciplines: Free Soloing, High-lining and BASE jumping.

You can watch a trailer of the Aerialist HERE.

Several homegrown UK filmmakers also won prizes. Alastair Lee's film PSYCHE won the People's Choice Award (sponsored by the Outdoor Show) and one segment of this Posing Productions film, Patagonia Winter, featuring Andy Kirkpatrick and Ian Parnell, won the best film in the Adventure category (sponsored by Cumbria Tourism).

You can watch a trailer of PSYCHE HERE

The Best Film Short (sponsored by KMFF) was won by Dave Brown and Paul Diffley of Hot Aches Productions for their portrait of the talented UK climber, James Pearson, entitled, Keen Youth. This short is part of their feature length film, Committed.

You can watch a trailer of Committed HERE The winner of the Best Mountaineering Film (sponsored by Asolo) was the big budget film, Beckoning Silence, about Joe Simpson's tale of his obsession with the Eiger North Face, and with Toni Kurtz 'who died within feet of being rescued in 1936. Beckoning Silence was directed by Louise Osmond produced by Darlow Smithson.

You can read more about Beckoning Silence at www.noordinaryjoe.co.uk

You can see the full list of winners at www.mountainfilm.co.uk


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19 Nov, 2007
No doubt some good moments in the film and its a pretty slick production. It doesn't really stick to the "looking for the best lines in the world" theme with the ego trip bouldering competition stuff, though !
19 Nov, 2007
I digress slightly from the topic as I didn't get to see king lines however, did anyone else think that the trad part of psyche was a bit of a let down? the sport and alpine films were top quality though and i got some nice free stuff.
19 Nov, 2007
Bit of a weird film I thought, kind of a 'Miami Vice' style version of a climbing film with all the speedboats and girls in bikinis. Quite well shot but can't say I was that impressed to be honest.
20 Nov, 2007
Didn't think too much of it to be honest...compared to Psyche it seemed very ego and sponsor based.
20 Nov, 2007
Well it was certainly a bigger budget production and much more main stream public appeal.
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