Upper clutha messenger 2nd july 2014

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Upper Clutha

Messenger Volume XXXV | No 26 | 2nd July 2014 The Messenger is published each Wednesday by Print It Wanaka Ltd

11 Brownston Street, Wanaka | Phone 443 7804 | Fax 443 7805 | messenger@printit.co.nz | www.mymessenger.co.nz

Biggest and best NZ Mountain Film Festival so far 4-8th July 2014

Footprints on the Ridge documents the strong will and despair, endurance and pain that challenged two friends on a winter alpine ridge traverse in Slovakia. Australian adventurer Tim Cope presents a live talk on his remarkable 6000 mile horseback journey retracing the trail of Genghis Khan. Mission Antarctic recounts a snowboarding and mountaineering adventure of the most extreme kind.

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Wanaka’s own filmmaking talent again features across the Festival with Hugh Barnard hosting part of the two day Adventure Film School; Tim Pierce directs an Alaskan snowboarding movie Mates in Alaska , a finalist in the NZ Made Film awards; and Mark Sedon’s Koura Ma (White Gold) details the first known attempt to climb and ski eighteen 2500m peaks in the Southern Lakes. The New Zealand Mountain Film Festival has always been a celebration of adventurous sports and lifestyles but this year it steps up a notch with the best quality and the largest number of films submitted in the Festival’s history - 74 films have been selected as official finalists for this year’s Festival in Wanaka. Epic journeys are a strong theme running through the Festival. Grand Prize winner

New this year is a free youth matinee programme on Monday presenting three action-packed movies - caving, big mountain snowsports and climbing - that are sure to appeal to our local adventurous youngsters. Check out the schedule at...

www.mountainfilm.net.nz/programme

and prepare yourself for many astounding and inspirational adventures.

Friday 4th July - Tuesday 8th July, Wanaka

n o w o p e n M o n d a y - F r i d a y 10 - 5 a n d S a t u r d a y s 1 0 - 4 · i n f o @ t u s s o c k s . c o . n z


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