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Audio Post Production

Film Festival Jury Scholarship
San Francisco-based producer and film score editor Mark
One of the most difficult jobs at any competitive festival is choosing the winners. Willsher is known for his work on New Line Cinema’s Lord
This process starts with our pre-screening committee, who this year viewed 277 films of the Rings trilogy and such blockbusters as The Aviator
from 28 countries. From these, 62 finalists were selected. Our heartfelt appreciation and King Kong. He is back in Banff to adjudicate films with
goes to Colleen Campbell, Jamie Carpenter, Maria Cashin, Glen Crawford, this year’s film festival jury for The Banff Centre’s Audio Post
Joanna Croston, David Fullerton, Michael Kleklamp, Josée Larochelle, Aydin Odyakmaz, Production Scholarship.
Pat Morrow, Julia Szucs, Earl Takahashi, Alex Taylor, David Toole, Sarah Fuller, The Banff Centre’s audio program in the Music & Sound department presents
Scott Harrison, Pat McCloskey, Nathalie Gosselin, Kevin Eaton, Scott Vandermeer, the scholarship, the purpose of which is to help filmmakers produce surround DVD
Zak McGurk, Laura Newsome, Holly Vandermeer, Emilie Gibeau, Regan Kennedy, soundtracks for their projects while helping The Banff Centre further its goals in audio
and Mark Klassen. education and quality sound. Given to a filmmaker whose film has been chosen as a
During the festival, our international jury – selected to represent a range of finalist in this year’s Banff Mountain Film Festival, the scholarship is awarded in the form
knowledge and experience in mountaineering, film production, and film criticism – of time allotted for studio services and staff expertise in The Banff Centre’s facilities,
screens each finalist and determines the award winners. A sincere thank you goes to valued at approximately $10,000 CDN. The winner will be announced at the Best of the
each of them for helping us ensure that fine filmmaking is recognized and rewarded Festival awards night on Sunday, November 8.
and that our festival programming continues to be of the finest quality. Willsher has collaborated with artists such as Howard Shore, John Adams, the
St. Lawrence String Quartet, Annie Lennox, Lyle Lovett, and Renee Fleming on projects for
Pixar, Universal, Warner, EMI, Sony, and others. In addition to his production work, Willsher
is a consulting engineer with Silicon Valley software developer InfoEnable Corporation.
Don Bowie (Canada)
Don Bowie loves remoteness and adventure, and thrives on long approaches
and unclimbed routes in the higher ranges. This past summer marked his eighth
Himalayan/Karakoram expedition, with a new route attempt on the north face
of Gasherbrum III with Bruce Normand. In 2007, he and Normand summited K2
without supplementary oxygen, making Bowie the 4th Canadian to do so. In 2008,
Workshops
he endured 75 grueling days on a Broad Peak winter expedition before resigning to
high winds and extreme cold. Earlier this year, Don received the Alpine Club’s Spirit
of Mountaineering Commendation at the Piolets d’Or Awards ceremony for his part
in the 2008 rescue attempt of Inaki Ochoa on Annapurna.
With assistance from
Kristi Denton Cohen (USA)
American Kristi Denton Cohen’s feature documentary Vertical Frontier is a
character-driven history of Yosemite rock climbing narrated by Tom Brokaw. EXPEDITIONS COUNCIL
It won Best Film on Climbing at both the Banff Mountain Film Festival and the
Kendal Mountain Film Festival, was broadcast on PBS, and screened at numerous
international festivals including the Trento (the only American film accepted that
year), and Telluride Mountain Film Festival. Cohen also produced and directed
Funding Peace, featuring Michael Douglas, which screened at the Slamdunk Film
Banff Adventure Photography Workshop
Festival. The founder of Peloton Productions, she is currently working as producer September 24 – 27, 2010
of the feature film The River Why (2010). Work alongside a National Geographic photographer in an outdoor setting and
take your photography to a whole new level!
Visit www.banffmountainfestivals.ca/photo
Daniel du Lac (France)
Certified mountain guide Daniel du Lac has been a major figure in the world of
competitive climbing for over a decade. Excelling in several disciplines of the sport,
he became the ice-climbing World Cup champion in 2001 and the bouldering World
Cup champion in 2004. His film, Un Désert Vertical (Vertical Desert), screened at the
With support from
2007 Banff Mountain Film Festival and featured his attempt to ascend Harmattan Big Rock Brewery, Icebreaker,
Rodeo, a 13-pitch route in Mali graded between 5.12a and 5.13b. du Lac is also a Mammut, Redwood Creek
keen endurance competitor and has participated in many adventure races, including and The North Face
the Ardèche Marathon (kayaking) and the Pierra Menta (ski mountaineering).

Lindsay Griffin (UK)

If you were going to have an all-star pub climbing-quiz team – you’d want Lindsay
Griffin on it. As compiler and editor of Mountain Info – an authoritative journal of
record that documents mountaineering achievement – Griffin is arguably the world’s Banff Adventure Filmmakers’ Workshop
greatest mountaineering brainiac. He has often made the news himself, including November 2 – 8, 2010
first ascents and new routes in the Himalaya, Karakoram, Central Asia, Alaska, Take your next adventure film project to a new level. This workshop focuses on
Greenland, South America, Africa, Europe, and Antarctica. In between, he managed topics essential to every independent filmmaker. The speakers are successful,
to write four Alpine Club guidebooks and was once a mountaineering instructor entrepreneurial filmmakers and influential decision-makers. The venue is small,
and guide. and the format is lively, interactive, and friendly, with lots of opportunity for
one-on-one feedback.
Michael Pause (Germany) For details and easy on-line registration, visit www.banffcentre.ca/
Micki Pause has spent over 30 years immersed in the world of alpine sports, mountainculture/filmmakersworkshop
publishing guide books, serving as editor-in-chief of the high-end magazine BERGE,
and producing more than 200 films for the Bavarian Broadcasting Company’s
show “Bergauf - Bergab”, for which he holds the role of editor and host. An avid Banff Mountain Writing Program
rock climber and backcountry skier, Pause has been the artistic director of the October/November 2010
Tegernsee Mountain Film Festival since its inception in 2003 and is a member of the Visit www.banffmountainfestivals.ca for information on the 2010 program.
International Alliance for Mountain Film.
Scholarship support provided by
Photos, top to bottom:
Don Bowie, Kristi Denton Cohen, Daniel du Lac,
Lindsay Griffin, Michael Pause.