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Press Release 1 - March 2010 8th Tegernsee International Mountain Film Festival, 20 – 24 October 2010 Tegernsee Mountain Film Festival 2010 in vogue Overwhelmingly positive visitor reactions from 2009 demonstrate to what extent the Mountain Film Festival in Tegernsee is in tune with the times. The upcoming festival’s programme is an expression of zeitgeist in itself: the Extra Category ‘Trend Sports in the Mountains’ promises absolutely unique as well as spectacular images. At this very moment, the call for entries for the October Festival 2010 is being sent out to producers around the globe. Extreme climbers, BASE jumpers, spectacular whitewater rafters, mountain bikers and freeriders – they will play the leading roles in this October’s ‘extra division’. In this special category, the best films within a chosen thematic focus are rewarded, regardless of the production year. The 2010 motto is ‘Trend Sports in the Mountains’. ‘It is hard to grasp all the novelties that have sprung up around classic mountains sports over recent years. I am convinced that some of the footage in this Extra Category will take our breath away,’ states Michael Pause from Bayerischer Rundfunk (Bavarian Broadcasting), the festival’s artistic director. ‘These films will be major crowd pullers in 2010 and attract a particularly young audience to Tegernsee.’ The three main categories remain unchanged and provide quite different thematic angles whence film makers approach the mountains. ‘Mountain Experience’ is a category with Alpinism and sportive encounters with the mountains at its centre. This category’s best film is awarded the German Alpine Club’s award. Landscape features and environmental issues are at stake in the category ‘Mountain Nature’. The third category ‘Mountain Life’ deals with ethnological and cultural aspects of people on the mountain. Tegernsee’s fairly expert festival-goers have expressed their great appreciation of this type of mountain film in the past. The best film across all categories will receive ‘The Great Prize of the City of Tegernsee’ (including 3,000 Euros of prize money). Moreover, a special prize will go to the best junior film maker. The deadline for entries is the 31st of May 2010. The 8th Tegernsee Mountain Film Festival’s programme will be put together at the end of June and go into print in mid-August. Information and call for entries:
Sonderbuero Bergfilm-Festival Tegernsee, Rathausplatz 1,
83684 Tegernsee, Germany, Tel. +49(0)8022-18 01 53, www.bergfilm-festival-tegernsee.de
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