September 2, 2003
Contact: George Yatchisin
(805) 893-3494
e-mail: yatchisin-g@ sa.ucsb.edu
Telluride MOUNTAINFILM on Tour, an evening of thrills and adventure, screens at UCSB Campbell Hal
Summary Facts:
- Telluride MOUNTAINFILM on Tour
- A three-hour program of films from the premier mountain and adventure film festival in the U.S.
- The films celebrate distinctive cultures and landscapes
- Monday, October 13
- 7:30 pm / UCSB Campbell Hall
- General public $12 / UCSB students & youth 18 & under $10
- Tickets/Information: UCSB Arts & Lectures at 893-3535
Always inspiring and captivating, Telluride MOUNTAINFILM on Tour will screen on Monday, October 13 at 7:30 pm in UCSB Campbell Hall. The show’s wide variety of film subjects—from extreme sports to mountain culture and the environment—will amaze and thrill audiences. MOUNTAINFILM is dedicated to educating, entertaining and inspiring local and global audiences with a breadth of ideas about issues that matter, worlds and cultures worth exploring, environments worth preserving and conversations worth sustaining. Documentary-maker Ken Burns (Jazz, Baseball) claims the festival’s films are “both dazzling to the eye and richly layered with ideas.” Tour highlights include Mzima: Haunt of the Riverhorse, the most decorated natural history film of 2001 and winner of three Panda Awards at the 2002 Wildlife Film Awards and Riversense—Dunbar Hardy’s Story, an award-winner at the 2003 Durango Film Festival and the winner in the action category at the Waterwalker Film Festival.
The MOUNTAINFILM Festival, now entering its 26th year in Telluride, Colorado, is founded on the power of geography to shape our view of the world. The festival sees mountains as a metaphor, a representation of wild and different places and people—and MOUNTAINFILM is an event that celebrates distinctive cultures and the landscapes they occupy. Each Memorial Day Weekend the festival gathers some of the most extraordinary films and special guests from around the world to share and celebrate their real, and metaphorical, mountains.
MOUNTAINFILM on Tour is a custom-tailored program of short and longer award-winning films from the MOUNTAINFILM Festival, presented by MOUNTAINFILM staff at an average of 120 shows yearly.
The program at UCSB will include:
- 1st Base: Angels of Gravity, the thrilling life of Norwegian base-jumper Andre Bach (7 minutes)
- The Accidental Mountaineer, humorous film about a honeymooning woman turned climber (8 minutes)
- Balance, California beach sculpture made from incredibly balanced rocks (7 minutes)
- Chronicle of Georgian Mountaineering, charming look at the proud people of the Caucasus (12 minutes)
- A Conversation with Haris, animated film about growing up in Bosnia (6 minutes)
- Dirt, an enlightening film essay on this primordial matter (4 minutes)
- The Flight of the Stone, a clever parable about a stone thrown in anger (15 minutes)
- Front Range Freaks, exciting scenes right from the mountainside (25 minutes)
- Mzima: Haunt of the Riverhorse, an Edenic landscape in Kenya is a haven for hippos (48 minutes)
- Pets, animated short in which pets express their inner feelings (3 minutes)
- Riversense—Dunbar Hardy’s Story, captures the grit and gumption of a whitewater master (30 minutes)
This event is presented by UCSB Arts & Lectures and sponsored by the Santa Barbara Independent, the Daily Nexus, KCSB 91.9 FM, and Blue Agave.
Tickets, $12 for the general public and $10 for UCSB students and youth 18 and under, are available now at the Arts & Lectures Ticket Office and will be sold at the door the night of the films, beginning at 6:30 pm, if available.
For tickets or more information,
call UCSB Arts & Lectures at (805) 893-3535.
Editor: For photos, please call
George Yatchisin at (805) 893-3494.