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Tashi Tenzing and Films (print program)
Friday, November 7, 8 p.m.
Eric HarvieMargaret
GreenhamMax
Bell
ERIC HARVIE THEATRE - Live Performance
8:00 p.m.
It has been fifty years since Sir Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay stood on the summit of Everest.
No one has felt the impact of that historic climb more than the Sherpas, who have been directly involved
in nearly every successful Everest summit expedition. Tashi Tenzing — grandson of Tenzing Norgay,
Everest veteran, and author of "Tenzing Norgay and the Sherpas of Everest" — examined the contributions
of these unsung heroes of mountaineering.
9:45 p.m. Your Himalayas (Spain, 2003, 40’) Director/Producer: Alberto Iñurrategi (in person) This film is a passionate tribute to the filmmaker’s brother, Felix, and expresses a series of thoughts and questions, as well as interior self-examination and deep regret following the void left by Felix’s terrible accident on Gasherbrum II. The brothers were attempting to climb all of the 8000-metre peaks.
10:28 p.m.
Sahara – The English Patient’s Desert
(Austria, 2002, 50’)
Director/Producer: Michael Schlamberger
The Sahara — one of the world’s most extreme, hostile regions
— is the paragon of a desert. In 1933, Austrian adventurer
Ladislaus Almásy discovered rock paintings in the very heart of
the desert which revealed a paradise populated by Africa’s big
animals, with rivers, lakes and bathers. The world’s largest
desert must once have been a lush Garden of Eden.
MARGARET GREENHAM THEATRE
8:00 p.m.
Simulcast of Festival Opening and guest speaker Tashi Tenzing
9:40 p.m. National Geographic Television: Surviving Everest (USA, 2002, 94’) Producer: Liesl Clark Fifty years after the first successful ascent, and forty years after the first Americans stood on top of the world, viewers are taken on a remarkable journey back to the summit of Mount Everest in this feature-length documentary film. The sons of three celebrated Everest climbers lead the way, revealing the dangers and drama of the mountain and the untold stories of those who live in its shadow. Travel back in time to relive the stories of tragedy, triumph and rivalry on the mountain, including early Everest expeditions, the role of the legendary Sherpa people, and the dramatic events that have swept the region since the first ascent.
MAX BELL AUDITORIUM
8:00 p.m.
Simulcast of Festival Opening and guest speaker Tashi Tenzing
9:40 p.m. The Texas Paragliding Massacre – Killing the Record (Canada, 2003, 19’) CANADIAN PREMIERE Producers: Darryl Czuchra, Will Gadd (in person) This film documents Will Gadd and other pilots’ obsession with chasing the paragliding world distance record.
10:02 p.m. G4 – A Ridge between Past and War (Una cresta tra passato e guerra) (Switzerland, 2002, 69’) NORTH AMERICAN PREMIERE Director/Producer: Fulvio Mariani Gasherbrum 4, or G4 — a mountain of almost 8000 metres — is described by Kurt Diemberger as "the most difficult mountain on Earth". Seven Swiss-Italian alpinists attempt the first repeat of the same ridge first climbed by Italians Walter Bonatti and Carlo Mauri in 1958. This documentary masterfully interweaves the 1958 achievement with the 2003 expedition, which takes place at the very moment that India and Pakistan are on the verge of nuclear war.
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