Mountain film festival
Peru’s First International Mountain and Sports Adventure Film Festival opened successfully from August 31, to September 1-2, 2005 and provided a stage for further promoting mountaineering, creating a mountain and environmentally-friendly culture among Peruvians, and simultaneously showing them Peru’s breathtaking geography as an ideal location for mountain and adventure sports.
The festival was made possible thanks to the cooperation of PromPerú. The enthusiastic audience that filled the PromPerú auditorium showed there is a wide public for these sports and events in Peru. Martin Ondreas also encouraged and supported us in organizing Inkafest. His assistance and support proved an invaluable asset for which we are deeply grateful. In this second festival we expect to have him once again with us.
Two giant screens and state of the art multimedia equipment in the comfortable 150 seat PromPerú auditorium provided the ideal setting for the First Inkafest. In an adjacent room the mountain books festival took place simultaneously with exhibits and presentations featuring mountain gear, trekking, climbing, rafting, hang gliding, and lodging and catering businesses from Huaraz who enthusiastically supported and sponsored the First Mountain Film Festival where they made their service packages available to participants.
After the opening of the Festival by Peru’s Andean Mountaineering and Winter Sports Federation chairman Walter Lazo, a large crowd followed the scheduled activities during three days.
The members of the jury were:
- Jose Rios from CANCINO FILMS, a mountain film producer with ample experience in many film festivals around the world. One of his films was a winner in a film festival in Czechoslovakia.
- Jim Bartle, a renowned writer and photographer with many publications on the White and Huayhuash Mountain Ranges.
- Richard Hidalgo, a mountain sports enthusiast, mountain guide, and member of the Shishapagma Peru 8000 expedition in 2006.
The main speaker was Maximo Hinostroza, a mountain guide and the second Peruvian ever to reach the Mount Everest’s summit and the first Peruvian to climb the Shishapagma. Hidalgo talked about his ascent to the Everest and the Shishapagma in 2004.
Other festival participants included Pierre Soler from the French Institute for Development Research who showed the White Range: Rivers of Ice film; Giancarlo Sardina, from Italy and leader of the high mountain guides with Don Bosco, in Marcara; and Gustavo Mattos, organizer of the first South American Megavalanche in Cuzco.
Sponsors included Red Bull energy drinks who distributed complimentary drinks to the audience and guests. The show was broadcast by Channel 33, Channel 19, Radio 1160, CPN Radio, free tv channels 5 and 2, channel 51 USMP university’s Tourism channel, RPP, La Republica daily, Rumbos travel magazine, and SAE.
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