In reply to UKC/UKH Gear:
I went to the Bristol showing last night & found it ..... mixed (and VERY long - well over 3 hours). The first two films (Conrad Anker/David Lama in Nepal, & Margo Hayes doing 9a+ twice), were great, but then it seemed to descend into a series of over-long footage of basically, men getting as high as kites / off their nads on their own hyper-adrenaline & ego (and always then SHOUTING ABOUT IT whilst holding the iPhone in "selfie" mode) - and we're supposed to admire & respect this self-serving behaviour ? Don't get me wrong, the footage of the Torre del Paine at the end was cutting edge trad & extreme Alpine - would have been better without the shoutiness though (.... but they did do brilliantly).
This is what one of my female friends who also went wrote: "Last year, of the 5 films,there was one rather ridiculous film with a woman in it. She seconded several pitches of a mud tower in some jungle. Following a bloke. This time, the presenter of the films mentioned, in a bizarrely positive way, that they had only one film about a woman but that 50% of the audience were women. How is this a good thing for the women who have coughed up the money, only to sit through some utterly random tosh about men surfing on a high wire, men shitting in the wind on a big wall and men digging bits of quartz out of a hole in a mountain in Cham. You would think, in this year of change for women, this so-called film festival could have come up with a bit more balance."
What do others who saw it think? I *did* win a rucksack, so not all bad