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A HISTORY OF PASSION 2000-2020 Sandra Tafner International Alliance for Mountain Film edited the text A history of passion based on the memories of Aldo Audisio, Antonio Cembran, Mireille Chiocca, Joan Salarich with testimonies by Javier Barayazarra, Daniel Burlac, Billy Choi, Roberto De Martin, Marcella Fratta, Toon Hezemans, Thijs Horbach, Gabriela Kühn, Bernadette McDonald, Angelica Natta-Soleri, Michael Pause, Marco Ribetti, Valeriana Rosso, Angelo Schena, Pierre Simoni, Basanta Thapa and the archive documentation of the International Alliance for Mountain Film Page 7

Aldo Audisio has compiled the tables in the section IAMF Portrait with data from the minutes from the assemblies, working meetings, discussions and charters of the International Alliance for Mountain Film A HISTORY OF PASSION Page 29 2000-2020

Editorial coordination by Aldo Audisio Translation from Italian to English Gabriela Kühn Editing for English version Bernadette McDonald © International Alliance for Mountain Film

Published by: The International Alliance for Mountain Film TURIN, 2020 The International Alliance for Mountain Film is over twenty years old. Many years have passed since it was founded in the Hall of Emblems at the Mountain Museum in Turin, . There is a photo of that meeting showing the nine representatives who first roped up together as a smiling team. Year after year, many others joined; now there are twenty-eight members. Though the number has tripled, the common goal remains the same as it was back then: to promote, enhance, and preserve mountain cinema. In twenty years, cinema has changed completely, passing from analog to digital systems. Television has also changed, with the growth of thematic channels accessible through smart TVs, computers, tablets, and smartphones, greatly increasing the audience of the works dedicated to the mountains. As a result, the management of the distribution rights, communication, and promotion channels have changed, with mountain films increasingly being protagonists of the market and the choice for mountaineers and top athletes. These are the implications of a continuously connected and online world, to which the Alliance and its members have adapted over time, in order to keep up with new trends, while at the same time always maintaining their unique edge. The objectives for the future remain those set at the beginning, namely to increase the spirit of friendship and collaboration that gave life to our association, and at the same time, offer a privileged point of view on the evolution of mountain cinema. We would like the International Alliance for Mountain Film to consolidate itself as a reference point for professionals and organizations that work in our sector and for audiences who love this film genre. Our twenty-year history and great restrictions suffered in 2020 due to the Covid-19 pandemic teach us that it will be essential to continue fueling the passion and magic that only live activities and the

5 big screen can offer to the public. The warmth and emotions that the A HISTORY OF PASSION viewers of a film or the visitors of an exhibition transmit are our sources Sandra Tafner of energy and inspiration, so we will strive to always favour “in person” events, while combining them, when necessary, with those online.

Javier Barayazarra, President Marco Ribetti, Coordinator

February 5, 2000 didn’t feel like wintertime with the thermometer above freezing, and fog and mist that, from the terrace of the National Mountain Museum in Turin, prevented us from admiring the splendid pa­ norama of the . It was a Saturday like this that welcomed the founders of the International Alliance for Mountain Film – a novelty in the mountain world, or rather, in the world of mountain cinema. It was a big news. “We could have written a history based on documents, re-read the minutes and correspondence,” says Aldo Audisio, the former director of the Mountain Museum in Turin. “Instead we have relied on our memory and recollections to keep the spirit of emotions alive”. Thus, came the history of an association told by the three directors of three respective festivals - Toni Cembran, Mireille Chiocca, Joan Salarich - who have succeeded over the years as presidents of the Alliance. Its coordinator - Aldo Audisio - was immediately considered to contribute, not because he was behind a festival, but a museum with a very rich historical film and video library. Many other protagonists of this fascinating adventure have also given their precious contributions. The prologue dates back to 1999. For a year, suggestions and barely sketched ideas were offered, gradually taking the shape of a proposal. On the eve of the 47th edition of the International Mountain and Exploration Film Festival, a meeting was organized to cement what was born as an intuition in . A necessary incubation period helped make it worth the wait. Something special would be born, such was the feeling. On March 26 1999, amidst preparations for the Trento Film Festival which was to begin at the end of April, festival president Claudio Visintainer and festival director Toni Cembran proposed a meeting with all the festivals’ directors, who had been regularly visiting the city on the occasion of the film screenings, to talk about their experiences and organizational challenges. It was a way to reflect broadly, prompted also

6 7 by the prospect of an important upcoming event – the International Year , the “green city” of Styria, in Austria. Alongside him was Pierre of Mountains proclaimed by the UN for 2002, which would also highlight Simoni, whose festival was dedicated to alpine films, exploits and the great themes of Alpine cinematography. The Trento Film Festival the environment. It began in 1969 in Les Diablerets, Switzerland, in and the Mountain Museum of Turin were the founding members of the Canton of Valais, and was the oldest mountain film festival after the Italian Committee for the Year of the Mountains that committed Trento. Simoni was the festival’s director from 1981 to 2001. He countries worldwide to reflect in-depth on the problems, survival, and remembers being approached in those years by the deputy mayor of the future of the highlands, as a vital theme to which the cinema was Valence (France), Rodophe Pesce, who proposed to him to set up an also called upon to make its own contribution. association for the protection and promotion of adventure cinema. At An invitation letter was sent out to hold an informal meeting that time there were few appointments dedicated to the mountain at the Hotel Trento scheduled at 1 pm on May 1, the final day of the cinema in that part of France and in French-speaking Switzerland. These festival dedicated to the awards ceremony. Some directors had already were thematic events, such as the one about the sea in La Rochelle, left the night before, as usual, but others remained. There was Mireille scuba diving in Toulon, the descent of rivers in Venissieux, speleology Chiocca, director of the Autrans Mountain Film Festival in Isère, a French in La Chapelle-en-Vercors and free flight in Saint-Hilaire-du-Touvet. department which, after hosting the 1968 Grenoble Winter Olympics, had Some initial attempts were made to build a connection between these become the ideal launching ground for a mountain film festival in 1984. individual events, but for unknown reasons, the tour didn’t materialise. Also in attendance was Joan Salarich, head of a mountain and adventure It is in remembering these events that Pierre Simoni enthusiastically festival that was born a year earlier in Torelló, Catalonia, the land which joined the Alliance, which he defined as “our family widespread all over in the eighties lived through an explosion of Himalayan . the world,” an association that today is proceeding at full speed and to Salarich recalls those times and explained: “That was the ideal place which he wishes long life and great success. to realise such an ambitious idea, because mountaineering was in full Marco Grandi, who had created the Festival of Festivals in Lugano in development there, expeditions were documented through excellent 1993, and Valeriana Rosso who had directed the Breuil-Cervinia Festival images, meetings were organized, and there were ongoing discussions”. since 1998 were also present at the meeting in Trento. “It was the youngest Many initiatives in Torelló had gradually matured into a bigger picture. festival, the last born,” she said. Valeriana was almost moved by a photo Back then, it was challenging because in San Sebastián, in the Basque taken on the day the Iamf was founded. “I had been working for only a few Country – a seaside resort in the Bay of Biscay – another festival had years in the mountain environment and in particular on mountain cinema. already been running since 1979. Also at that time in France, in Antibes – I didn’t have great experience in the world of mountaineering, but I had Juan-les-Pins (and in the last edition in Briançon), the Festival Mondial de great passion, knowledge of cinema in general and of films/documentaries l’Image de Montagne began – it was an experience that added a lot to the related to the environment”. As part of her work selecting titles for sector of mountain cinema, presided by Daniel Mercier. “In one of the first inclusion in a series of videos for the magazine “Alp” she attended various editions, I saw for the first time a bewitching danse escalade performance festivals and closely collaborated with many directors and protagonists, with Patrick Berhault on the facade of the Palais des Congrés,” recalls and these relationships over time turned into friendships. Audisio. “On that occasion I met Bernadette McDonald, who would In Lugano, Marco Grandi proposed a new and simple formula, a sort become a tireless promoter of our project”. Unfortunately, San Sebastián of “second degree” screening opportunity for the public who could see and Antibes – like Kranj in Slovenia, former Yugoslavia at the time, and the best films presented in other festivals, in Trento, Banff, Autrans and others disappeared before the Alliance’s adventure began. elsewhere. Here, there was no jury, because the judgment had already But let’s go back to the Hotel Trento. Also present at the meeting been made. was Robert Schauer, mountaineer, well-known photographer, high The group was completed by the delegation of the Mountain mountain cameraman, and director of a festival initiated in 1986 in Museum of Turin, with Aldo Audisio, Angelica Natta-Soleri, and a very

8 9 young Marco Ribetti, who now says, “I would never have imagined director, the exchange of information and experiences with main cultural embarking on such a long journey in the mountain cinema sector and sites worldwide, resulted in establishing contacts that lasted all year above all to become, the coordinator of the Alliance”. The Mountain round leading to the organization of exhibitions, to the development Museum closely followed the world of mountain cinema from the late of research and studies, and an overall growth. Audisio traveled from seventies, building a very solid network of relationships, thanks to which one festival to another: from Antibes to Trento, from Telluride to Graz, it would also become the operational soul of the Iamf. from Autrans to Les Diablerets, and at the same time was collaborating Therefore, at that meeting in Trento we talked about everything with the main European television broadcasters. The invitation to that could be done and what had to be done. In the end, no decisions Turin was therefore accepted by all, without hesitation. On February 4 were made, other than to keep in touch and not to drop the idea. Toni there was lengthy discussion; everyone was launching ideas and the Cembran comments: “We left with the feeling that each of us would debate was immediately constructive. There was a clear feeling that no longer remain isolated in our own festival and that teaming up with something important was taking shape. In the evening, the transfer others would build something destined to give new and great results. to the Museum’s restaurant inevitably resulted in the continuation of Something to be further defined, a platform to work together”. the meeting. It seemed that the project was getting bigger and bigger, Even if it was not yet on paper, everyone already had a program each adding something and everyone fueling the collective enthusiasm. in mind and everyone was thinking about a future common project. That was precisely the necessary spirit that would give the basis on The group met again in September on the 30th anniversary of the which to grow this new bond, this new alliance. And then came the Les Diablerets Festival. Pierre Simoni was celebrating the event with name. It was Bernadette McDonald who proposed it: “Why don’t we call an international jury of festival directors: Chiocca, Salarich, Cembran, it the International Alliance for Mountain Film?”. Simple and effective, and Bernadette McDonald, an alpinist and an excellent pianist who everyone liked it immediately and it was unanimously approved. since 1988 was at the helm of the Banff Festival in Canada. Today The first order of that day was the drafting of a document of she remembers her beginnings: “I felt very lonely that first year, but intent to clarify the objectives – a declaration that strengthened and I met a couple of festival directors in Trento, including Mireille, and it formalized the spontaneous cooperation already in place. The three key immediately seemed to me that I had found a good colleague, someone words are promotion, enhancement and the conservation of mountain who had goals and problems similar to mine. There began a desire to cinema alongside planning of common events and collaboration, which collaborate, even if she worked on the other side of the world”. in short means solidarity. The association was born as an impulse So that was the group of the founders. The time was ripe and Aldo to look beyond borders and embrace new horizons. The document Audisio announced that a meeting to define the project of a future collected the signatures of nine directors (Mireille Chiocca, Bernadette association, still unnamed at that time, would be held in Turin two days McDonald, Valeriana Rosso, Robert Schauer, Marco Grandi, Pierre Simoni, later, on February 4 and 5, 2000. The Mountain Museum offered the right Joan Salarich, Aldo Audisio, Antonio Cembran), two presidents – Claudio setting in the historic Hall of Coats of Arms at Monte dei Cappuccini, where Visintainer (Trento) and Jean-Pierre Jodon (Autrans) – and Angelica the foundations were laid for what is now a worldwide association with Natta-Soleri, Marco Ribetti, as well as the one of a mountaineer and 28 members: 26 festivals, a museum and a film library, all of which represent journalist Antonella Cicogna (Trento press office). 20 countries and five continents. And there is a sort of symbolic link with the coats of arms painted on the walls – the city where the first sections TIMES WERE CHANGING of the Italian Alpine Club were born, and now a modern association of At the beginning of the 2000s, the golden years of television countries that host mountain cinema events around the world. programs dedicated to the mountains were running out. France had The international recognition of the Mountain Museum was made great contributions. First with the Antenne 2 network, then with strengthened in the nineties and with the encouragement of its France 3 that in Grenoble produced innovative programs Montagne,

10 11 conceived under the careful direction of Pierre Ostian with a small team Center for Mountain Culture (1996), creating an international opening of passionate editors and experts in the sector. In Spain, the focus that was also very useful to the newly created Alliance. was more on mountaineering and adventure exploits with Al filo de In May 2000, just three months after the birth of the Alliance, the lo imposible by Sebastián Álvaro, a producer who participated directly first of a long series of meetings was organized in Trento. A logo was in the adventure and had formed a group of expert camera operators chosen from a shortlist of three proposed by Aldo Audisio, designed by who were “loaned” to expeditions. In Italy, there was a lot of activity the graphic designer Bruno Guglielmotto and offered by the Mountain in the regional offices ofR ai – Italian Radio-television, primarily in the Museum: it was a film reel that winds up to become an alpine ridge. Aosta Valley. And so too, in other countries, from Austria to Switzerland The Museum itself took on the role of the organisational secretariat. to Slovenia. But eventually, it became essential to keep track of all the Bernadette McDonald still remembers: “It looked more like a family work and find new ways of collaborating. than an association; we were friends, we shared knowledge, fears, The Mountain Museum had always dedicated a lot of attention frustrations, successes, climbs and many memorable lunches”. In 2009, to the cinema in this sector. In 1995 Audisio had curated together the Canadian province of Alberta awarded Bernadette the highest civil with Angelica Natta-Soleri the exhibition and the volume La cordata recognition, the Alberta Order of Excellence. For the official record, she delle immagini (The party of images) dedicated to the iconography was asked to name the three most important professional associations of mountain cinema, to which in 2008 the monumental Film delle of her career. McDonald listed The Banff Center, the National Geographic montagne. Manifesti (Mountain films. Posters) would be added. In 1997, Society and the International Alliance for Mountain Film. research began that led to the publication of the Dizionario del cinema At the assembly in Trento, at the invitation of the Alliance, other delle montagne (Dictionary of the mountain cinema) by Utet, featuring directors were also present: John Porter from the Kendal festival that 4000 subject film files, also available online. It was a significant cultural began in the UK in 1986; Rick Silverman from Telluride, Colorado where undertaking that lasted seven years, and which gave great visibility to the festival began in 1979; Mária Hámorová from Poprad in Slovakia, the entire Alliance. The volume was released in 2004. festival at the foot of the Tatras, founded in 1993, and Marie Jirmannová For Audisio and Natta-Soleri from the Mountain Museum, an from Teplice nad Metují in Czech Republic, where the festival started ongoing commitment was to purchase iconographic documentation in 1980. These were all established festivals of international prestige, on mountain cinema all over the world as well as, together with Marco whose contents and objectives were well known. They expressed a Ribetti, the video-cinematographic one. These materials were collected vision of the mountains shared by the founders of the Alliance, thus to accompany the primary nucleus of the Historical Film Archive and making their membership in the association automatic. “We decided,” Video Library of the Mountain Museum established in the early eighties, said Cembran, “to formalize their admission during the meeting that thanks to the acquisition of Mario Fantin’s films. In 2000, together with would follow in December in Autrans”. For the future, however, there Stephan König, the director who oversaw the project Luis Trenker. Il mito was a need to establish precise membership criteria and requirements della montagna in celluloide (Luis Trenker. The myth of the mountain in that directly related to the structure and the activities of the festivals. celluloid), a large traveling exhibition was launched with an important The complex reality of the mountain world and the increasingly difficult volume dedicated to the undisputed master of Bergfilm. This was the relationship between human beings and the environment, between first project branded with theI amf logo in the year 2000. urban society and mountain culture, demanded a world that needed The collaboration with the newborn Alliance was, therefore, a a clear narrative, far from the consumerist and commercial visions of natural outlet for the future. Relationships had intensified, in particular which festivals also had to consider. with McDonald and Craig Richards, a Canadian photographer from Banff, This was a theme that nourished the debate in the first months of with whom a partnership was established that would last many years. the Alliance’s life, useful for establishing its identity and giving a precise In the meantime, Audisio had become an adviser to the nascent Banff connotation to the future of the new association. Mireille Chiocca

12 13 proposed that the definition of the membership rules be addressed by the together: the film library of the Trento Festival, the Mountain Museum of founding members, who met again on March 9 and 10, 2001 at Monte dei Turin, Vivalda Editori and the Italian Association of Mountain Journalists Cappuccini, the headquarters of the Alliance. During that time the pillars who had Cembran among its founders. were further defined: the coordination of all joint activities was entrusted 2002 also marked the beginning of the Iamf Grand Prize. Marco to Aldo Audisio; a management team was established whose presidency Grandi’s idea was to give substance to the Alliance’s objectives: to rotates every two years and would be initially assigned to the oldest reward directors, producers, scholars and popularizers who have festival starting from Trento as a pioneer; and an annual membership fee promoted, disseminated or enhanced mountain cinema. The possibility of 300 euros. Then the activities: Marco Grandi proposed to establish an of rewarding works known worldwide, both of contemporary and annual award for filmmakers, directors and producers who contributed historical value, was emphasized. The first Grand Prize was awarded through their careers to the evolution of mountain film – it would go on to to Gerhard Baur. Since its foundation, the members of the Iamf had become the Alliance Grand Prize; Audisio focused attention on possible considered it important to remember those who, thanks to their talent, European projects; Valeriana Rosso solicited materials for a video about had promoted and changed the world of mountain cinema. It is a sign of the association; Toni Cembran committed the Trento Festival to prepare gratitude to directors, producers and promoters who have contributed the first brochure in four languages, a document that would remain valid to the evolution of mountain film. until 2015. Then, on the occasion of the fifteenth anniversary of its The spirit of collaboration without competition or rivalry was growing foundation, a new, elegant booklet was produced in Italian and English, stronger and there was a common interest in mountains and mountain with photos of all associates. films in all their aspects. The Alliance had managed to confront and bring In 2002, 14 members of the Alliance attended Trento to celebrate together different cultures and sensitivities, but this was not enough; the festival’s fiftieth anniversary, forming an international “super jury” it was necessary to formalize this connection. The first associates, to made up of all the members of the association, alongside the former whom Dundee festival had also joined in 2001, found themselves in directors of Trento (Piero Zanotto, Emanuele Cassarà, Francesco Biamonti, Autrans in front of a notary of Villard-de-Lans to file the documentation Gianluigi Bozza) and Toni Cembran who was the director at the time. Their and formally establish the International Alliance for Mountain Film, with job was to select the most significant work in the history of mountain the initials Iamf. It was decided that the registered office would be in cinema. The Alliance was represented by: Mireille Chiocca, Bernadette Autrans, at the Festival International du Film d’Autrans Montagne & McDonald, Valeriana Rosso, Terry Isles, Robert Schauer, John Porter, Pierre Aventure, in the Cinéma Street, and the organizational headquarters Simoni, Marco Grandi, Mária Hámorová, Rick Silverman, Marie Jirmannová, in Turin at the National Mountain Museum, in Gaetano Giardino 39 Joan Salarich and Aldo Audisio. Emanuele Cassarà was the president. The Street. From that moment, on December 7, 2001, the Iamf became an jury considered a century of Alpine cinematography and focused in the international organization with a structure that would last until July 24, end on three works: Étoile et tempêtes by Gaston Rébuffat, Mort d’un 2006. Toni Cembran was its first president: “More than excited,” said Toni, guide by Jacques Ertaud and Everest sea to summit by Michael Dillon. The “I felt satisfied, calm and alone in that moment. Signing the documents work of Rébuffat which, in 1955 won the Genziana d’oro in Trento, was before the notary in France, I realized the importance of what we had awarded the prize. The jury was unanimous in recognizing the merits of done. It was no longer an agreement between friends, but something French cinematography and mountaineering, which always documented that committed us to the very end by confirming the cultural solidarity, human ventures and the countless difficulties of life in the mountains as agreed in Turin with ideas and projects”. with joy, imagination and optimism. Certainly not the least of the problems was an economic one, so A year later, in Lugano, Grandi presented the ten films to be in 2005, an evaluation looking at the possibility of participating in remembered in the history of mountaineering as seen through the European projects and seeking support from banking foundations was cinema. Also, on that occasion, several institutions teamed up to work made. However, due to the nature of the association, this path had to be

14 15 abandoned in 2006. In the same period, a possibility emerged to equip all the other members. “It was a disaster, because the oldest and most the Alliance with a physical location at Monte dei Cappuccini, in a building important mountain film festival was fundamental to our credibility. We detached from the complex but used by the Museum. That location took a step back by losing this member, but we continued the dialogue was also supposed to host the Uiaa – The International and with persistence and trust, even if there were quite a few moments of Mountaineering Federation that wanted to move from Switzerland to tension”. “On the other hand, everyone’s interests could not be sacrificed Turin. Unfortunately, however, the Uiaa at a certain point changed its as a consequence of a choice made by one member,” added Mireille. mind on the choice of the location and thus the transfer was cancelled, What happened? Did Trento really pull back? Trento itself, which in which consequently also involved the Iamf. 1952 had given way to the birth of many festivals, pioneered an idea that embraced the mountains, becoming a meeting reference point for A NEW PATH directors, camera operators and climbers from all over the world. At a certain point, European thought became the leitmotif of the After many meetings and discussions, the president and the discussions at working meetings. The UN call for the celebration of the coordinator came to the conclusion that it was time to give the Iamf a International Year of the Mountains was received by the Trento festival, new legal form and to draw up a statute. The document was carefully which then established a special prize for its 2002 edition, a Silver evaluated with a Turin notary and discussed in the assembly. On July 24, Gentian for the best film on sustainable development. Other members 2006, Mireille Chiocca and Aldo Audisio, on behalf of all the members, also took action with similar initiatives. signed the Articles of Association. The operational structure was defined In the meantime, the presidency of the Alliance changed. In June and the legal and organizational headquarters were established in Turin. 2003 Toni Cembran, at the end of his mandate, handed over the It seemed impossible not to be able to find a solution, and in fact the responsibilities to Mireille Chiocca at the Lugano assembly. “When this absence of Trento did not last long. The return took place in October 2007 happened,” said Mireille, “I was very honored to have been chosen to at the Mountain Museum. Nobody objected. After all, this was not the succeed him, but also very worried, and I wondered if I would be up to the only obstacle to overcome. In the same year, 2007, the Society organizing task”. Everything went well. “The first years were those of constructing the Festival of the Breuil-Cervinia and the Municipality of Valtournenche and we were driven by great enthusiasm and the desire to definitively ended up in court. The coordinator Audisio, and the president Chiocca were consolidate what had been created in 2000. The goal was always the involved in that situation. The subject of the dispute was the ownership same: to preserve, promote, and enhance the mountain film”. of the logo and the name of the festival, as well as other administrative Unfortunately, not everything always works as in fairy tales where issues. Audisio was later called to testify in a court hearing and the Iamf eternal harmony reigns; the reality is different and the reality of the was forced to suspend its own member. This absence lasted until 2011. Alliance was no exception. After all, it was already practically a miracle Meanwhile, new candidates had come forward. In 2005, two to have been able to put together so many different experiences with countries from old Europe joined the Alliance: Bulgaria with Sliven and different needs to work with unity of purpose. Some first rumblings Germany with Tegernsee. come from Trento, which in 2004 questioned the legal status chosen Sliven had long been linked by important projects to the Mountain in 2001 and the value of the constitutive phase as it was signed “in Museum which had made the capital Sofia its new home with film a personal capacity”. Instead, a statute was deemed necessary to reviews, exhibitions and meetings. formalize the functioning of the association. “I still remember,” said The festival later moved to Bansko, a winter sports center in Mireille, “the meeting in Trento with the new president and the new southwestern Bulgaria, at the foot of the Pirin Mountains. Piotr director of the festival, who firmly contested that way of moving forward Atanasow, a moving spirit of the event, was from the beginning and there were many discussions that followed”. But in 2005, Trento the point of reference for all mountaineering and film contacts. He decided to leave the Alliance to the amazement and disappointment of presided over the festival with the help of his wife Natalie, organizing

16 17 an important assembly of the Alliance in 2010, among other things. on dates and locations”. The solicitation, however, was not accepted and Piotr was spokesperson for the Bulgarian Mountaineering Federation, Canada is no longer part of the association. “Yet from the very beginning author of numerous books on sport and a biography of Jerzy Kukuczka, there were specific objectives to be respected, objectives,” points out Joan co-author of an Encyclopedia of World Mountaineering, organizer of Salarich, “that go far beyond the simple fact of showing mountain films”. the Bulgarian Everest expedition in 2004 and of the Polish-Bulgarian “A great disappointment,” Audisio recalls, “also for all the decisive efforts expedition to K2 in 2005. Unfortunately, however, we need to put it in made by Bernadette McDonald and Banff in the creation of the Alliance”. the past for Piotr, who passed away on July 24, 2018. In this regard, it should be remembered the commitment of the Another member was that of Tegernsee, a picturesque Bavarian presidency in trying to resolve the situation: after years of mediation village alongside a lake. The festival was born recently, in 2003, but trying to solve the problems, at the end of October 2019 the president has its roots firmly planted in the environmental culture. At its helm is Jabi Barayazarra flew to Banff to meet the executives together with Billy Michael Pause, a man of television and production, a point of reference Choi, regional representative for Asia (Banff was for North America). At for the German-speaking area for many years. He organized the autumn the meeting a satisfactory agreement was reached for both the festival assembly of 2019 on the eve of the 20th anniversary of the Alliance. and the Iamf, but subsequent problems arose almost immediately and The entrance criteria for welcoming new members were now firmly at that point, Banff made the decision to withdraw from the Alliance. established: a functioning festival for at least three years, an actual film In the meantime, the projects had multiplied over the years, always competition with prizes and a structure that guarantees operational carefully evaluated and discussed in the assemblies. Some found fertile regularity. Each candidate’s festival was and is visited by at least one ground, others got bogged down by a series of difficulties, not least the member of the Alliance who must verify if the information received is economic ones. That is how it was for the Days of Mountain Cinema. correct and accurate. In this way, many were welcomed but some did not “When I was director in Trento,” Cembran recalled, “I frequented the city receive membership, either because they did not comply with established of L’Aquila, where I cultivated cinema relationships with the International standards or because they competed with other member festivals existing Academy for the Arts and Sciences of the Image, animated by Antonio in the same territory. “Already at the beginning of my presidency,” said Massena, a man from Trentino engaged in the world of theater. Every Mireille Chiocca, “some were finding it difficult due to the competition year, Massena organized the Cime e dintorni review with a local section from the Banff World Tour, for example”. And unfortunately, this would of the Italian Alpine Club. The Trento Festival was also invited to present also become recent history. In fact, in 2015, in Turin, during the assembly their most significant films. We would discuss with the public the qualities, that celebrated the 15 years of life of the Alliance, discontent began to the characteristics, the present and the future of mountain cinema”. spread which soon turned into real tensions due to the presence of the Massena gave a lot of attention to the Alliance because he Banff Tour in many countries whereI amf member festivals also operated. recognized it as an international observatory of the phenomena and Awkward situations also occurred in Argentina, leading Mariano de behaviors of Alpine society through the lens of cinema. From those Antueno to bring the reproaches from the Ushuaia Festival to the meetings, the idea of bringing young people closer to the Alliance’s meeting in Turin. Other festivals, including Lugano, also complained of objectives was born. “We talked about it internally with Mireille, then unpleasant misunderstandings and difficulties in discussion. president, and with Aldo,” recalls Cembran. “I was fond of the idea of The debate on this issue did not end there - it continued in subsequent directing lessons and came up with the proposal to organize a movie set years until it ended in January 2020 with the exit from the Alliance of for mountain films in the Gran Sasso Park, in the central Apennines. The the Banff Festival - which had been a founding member and had always teachers would be chosen from among the directors who had previously worked hard in full solidarity. “Certainly, the Alliance cannot prevent the won the Alliance Award and other classes would be offered on specific organisation of a festival or a promotional tour,” is Chiocca’s belief. “But topics: script, photography, soundtrack. The project was approved at the it can solicit an amicable agreement between the parties, an agreement Kendal meeting in November 2004”.

18 19 The first edition took place over two days, on May 17 and 18, 2006. network and a moment of promoting a common image and raising The film directing class was given by Kurt Diemberger, who spoke to the awareness. It was decided in Kathmandu, to establish the Iamf Central students about the use of the camera at Himalayan altitudes and in Archive in Turin with the collections owned by the Mountain Museum extreme conditions. Der heilige Berg / The Holy Mountain by and with additional documentation collected from the members. was screened, and the Mountain Museum presented Terre Magellaniche – Meanwhile, from 2008 to 2011, a new block of festivals entered a 1933 documentary on the exploration of Patagonia by Salesian father the scene: Kathmandu, Ushuaia, Zakopane, Domžale and Bilbao. Alberto Maria De Agostini – with live musical commentary, piano and cello, In 2008 Kathmandu, the capital of Nepal, a reference point for a project curated by Audisio and Natta-Soleri to promote this important the Himalayas, opened new avenues for international collaboration, documentary that saw thirty screenings all over the world. In short, it was immediately assuming a continental significance with Basanta Thapa a question of finding a new venue each year linked to an Alliance festival. as its president. The first to take up the idea was Marco Grandi, who decided to combine Ushuaia in Argentina, at the southern end of the country in Tierra del his festival with the second edition of the Days of Mountain Cinema. In 2010 Fuego, built largely on the slopes of the Martial Mountains, hosted “Al fin Lugano proposed itself as a point of reference, thanks to the presence of del Mundo”, an event that helped bring South American cinema closer to the Academy of Architecture of the University of Italian Switzerland and the Alliance. That festival had opened collaborative contacts with Trento the Laboratory of the History of the Alps. The film directing lessons were and Turin and, as Audisio recalls, “It was in Autrans, cloaked in snow, that entrusted to Fulvio Mariani, who explained the techniques of shooting the terms of a fruitful and lasting collaboration were defined”. films on the wall and the subsequent editing process. Again, there were In 2009 Zakopane, a well-known center for mountaineering, hiking film screenings and debates on 1901, Die Entscheidung / The and skiing located at the foot of the Tatra Mountains joined the Alliance. decision by Gerhard Baur and Cumbre directed by Mariani himself. It was a natural continuation of the relationships with the Trento Four years later, on October 21, 2014, Gabriela Kühn from Zakopane Festival, through the personal interest of Italo Zandonella, who was its festival succeeded among some difficulties, to organise the third edition president at the time. It also strengthened the many activities carried of the Days of Mountain Cinema at the University of Warsaw. “The out in the past in partnership with the Mountain Museum in Turin. The event was positive and in the spirit of the Alliance,” comments Gabriela. festival, represented by Gabriela Kühn, over the years has become a “It brought together over 400 people, and the collaboration with the fundamental member of the network. University continues to this day, transmitting the spirit of solidarity of In 2010 in Domžale, a town near Ljubljana, a mountain film festival the mountains to young people”. was launched by the well-known mountaineer Silvo Karo, who years earlier had organized an experimental festival in Bled with Catherine CHANGING SCENARIO Destivelle, among the big names in alpinism. Karo then relaunched the Salarich was elected president at the Iamf assembly in Trento on project and finally relocated the event to the Slovenian capital. May 4, 2012. On that occasion he presented two proposals. The first In 2011, the Vitoria-Gasteiz festival joined the Alliance, then moved concerned the film Terre Magellaniche, from the Historical Cineteca to Bilbao with Mendi Film Festival. The city is the largest of the Basque del Museo. Each Alliance festival could screen it during their event and Country, famous for its Museum of Contemporary Art, the Guggenheim, everyone expressed initial excitement, but in the end only a few took which houses important works in a titanium building of great architectural advantage of the opportunity. The second one concerned the exhibition value. Jabi Barayazarra presented his festival in Trento, after a first meeting Posters of the International Alliance for Mountain Film, a proposal in Turin, on the occasion of the annual assembly of the Alliance: “Trento,” he approved in Trento. Poprad exhibited the posters and in that same year, so remembers, “gave us one of the most stimulating evenings we have ever too did Kendal, Autrans, Trento, Chêne-Bourg, Ljubljana, Ushuaia, Torelló, experienced centered around a base set up in front of the auditorium and later on Turin. It was a beautiful demonstration of an international that gathered various characters who had spent the week at the festival.

20 21 Among them were Pierre Mazeaud, Reinhold Messner, and Walter Bonatti. world of mountain cinema. And here, at this particular point, we learned All those present, at the announcement of our entry into the Alliance, about the existence of the Alliance; we fell in love with the people we were stood up and applauded. For us, sharing that moment with these three gradually meeting who represented many important festivals, and we felt legends in the history of mountaineering was a great privilege”. adopted into a global family”. They were full of enthusiasm, fascinated by With more festivals joining, problems also increased, as not the idea that people so different and so distant can meet and discuss a everyone was able to express themselves in English or other more passion, a common love for the mountains and a thousand stories to tell. common languages, and understanding each other, to communicate It goes without saying that the Alliance has always had many everyone’s thoughts well is a fundamental condition to the conduct of more projects than financial resources to carry them out. At the spring the assemblies. This was an important issue that deeply involved the assembly in Domžale, it was approved to contribute significantly (and management role of Salarich. In 2013, during the Bilbao meeting, it perhaps excessively) towards the expenses of the meetings of the was decided to find a valid solution that included financial support for festival organizers. But this did not meet with the approval of all. The simultaneous translations. In fact, up to that moment, individual festivals theme was taken up again in the subsequent assembly in Ushuaia where, had been acting independently, with varying levels of professionalism. thanks to the commitment of Salarich, Audisio, De Martin and with the The initiatives during period included the restoration of the first support of the host festival, an equitable solution of economic support mountain film Cervino 1901, a film belonging to the Historical Film was found. This also shows that the problems within the Alliance have Archive of the Mountain Museum, that was made available to all always been discussed and never imposed, that is, no one has ever tried members. The screening of the new digital copy took place in Ljubljana, to usurp power. Mireille Chiocca emphasizes this, recalling the excellent followed by other screenings at other festivals. welcome always given to members by the various festivals, from Trento 2015 was a particularly important year with the 15th anniversary of to Dundee, from Poprad to Zakopane to Banff to all the others. There the Alliance celebrated in Turin. For the occasion, a pleasant surprise of a are always opportunities to discover a different atmosphere, to collect vintage tram, from 1911, was prepared to transfer the guests to the foot ideas, and to exchange experiences: “I learned a lot by going to various of Monte dei Cappuccini. It was a leap into the history of old Turin; along festivals, by participating in juries when invited, and this has always been with the charm of the broad avenues that led towards the river Po and the a great help to me when looking to further develop/improve my festival. distant scenery of the mountains, was the ideal spirit of a roped party made Also, meeting twice a year for assemblies is essential because it allows up of the members of the Alliance. That year, the Iamf was welcomed into you to communicate and get to know each other better, beyond what the Fao / UN Mountain Partnership, an important international organization. you can achieve by exchanging opinions and reporting news online. I Recognition received for 15 years of presenting film festivals that promote must also say that I have had many dreams during my nine years as the social and cultural values of the mountains to a world audience. president. Not everything has happened, but our roped party is strong, Unfortunately, the shadow of the devastating earthquake that and I am convinced that it will be able to climb the highest peaks”. hit Nepal a few days earlier hovered over the meeting. Basanta Thapa All political choices were always discussed and shared by described the situation in the country and together with the solidarity Cembran, Chiocca, and Salarich without any tension. Since the Board expressed by all, some grants were approved to help his festival which has been operational, the same followed with the vice president was to take place in December. and the councilors. Meetings were moments of engagement, always Meanwhile, Herleen (the Netherlands) joined in 2014. “When we open to the suggestions of everyone, including honorary members and started our festival in the Netherlands,” say Toon Hezemans and Thijs former presidents. The decisions made during these meetings went to Horbach, “we thought it was an expedition into the unknown. After all, we the assembly. But the times were changing towards more advanced are used to facing new adventures more for passion than for knowledge management and organizational relationships, which brought the theme of the subject, but we had sensed that there was a lot to discover in the of social media to the fore. Already by 2013, there was a need for a more

22 23 incisive presence on a modern website - from this discussion emerged the hurts, and the answer came from the coordinator Audisio: “Since when presentation of a newly renovated site in Trento 2017. Meanwhile, the are protected areas not also in the mountains?”. The request was signed ownership of the domain, registered in Canada and to that point managed by the councilor Marina Cotelli. All necessary checks were made, the by the Banff Festival, became the definitive property of the Iamf. Gabriela assembly met in Trento and the response was positive. Kühn, who has for a long time held managerial positions at the Zakopane The second festival of 2017 was that of Ulju, in South Korea, Ulsan festival has also developed the repertoire of the winners of the major County. Its headquarters are located on the slopes of the small mountain prizes of each festival, a working document of great value. Again in 2017, range of the Yeongam Alps and have a great international appeal. Billy the Iamf expanded by welcoming new members, increasing presence Choi from the Ulju Mountain Film Festival says: “I met a new world, the on five continents. Only Africa was missing, where Chiocca had been mountain film community, and in a short time I was able to learn a lot”. She in contact in Morocco with a festival in Rabat and where Audisio, in the recalls the emotions while waiting for the response on admission to the mid-2000s, had hoped for a possible presence in Kampala, Uganda. But Alliance and the joy she felt at the end amidst all the applause. Now Billy nothing came of these and the two possibilities disappeared. no longer works for the festival but keeps in touch with all her friends, In Banff in 2017, on the proposal of the Mountain Museum and the because, “they have become my most precious resource, my family”. Cinematographic Commission of the Italian Alpine Club (Cai), another And then Wanaka, with the director Mark Sedon, in the South project was approved of a volume entrusted to Roberto Mantovani on Island, Otago region of New Zealand, at the entrance to Mount Aspiring mountaineering cinema, which was titled Action, let’s climb! Not everyone National Park. “The theme of our festival,” the organizers declare, “is a agreed or showed great interest, but the project had the support and celebration of adventurous lifestyle and sports, intending to promote significant contribution of the Mountain Museum and theC ai, as well as the arts, cinema, culture, and the environment through film competitions, that of the Iamf. The work was completed, published and presented at screenings, and books”. Muse – Trento Science Museum in 2020. This was an important stage, In 2018, a festival from Krakow, Southern , a cultural center which Joan Salarich compares to the volume Cinema delle Montagne of international importance and a reference point for the Tatra Mountains (Mountain Film), from 1990, a fundamental Cahier Museomontagna area, joined the Iamf. The Festival has notable significance in the written by Piero Zanotto. “And this is because we have to know the past celebration of sports and cultural events, with a focus on mountain cinema. to face the future,” says Salarich. “We have to rediscover what happened Then Bras˛ov, in Transylvania, a city surrounded by the Carpathian before building on those pillars and moving forward”. chain that brought Romania to the international scene of mountain cinema. Daniel Burlac was convinced right from the start, when the A LOOK TO THE FUTURE Alpin Film Festival for which he is responsible started, that he should We’ve almost arrived at our present day. History becomes news. find alliances on an international level. The Alliance was therefore just 2017 is the year of Sondrio, Ulju and Wanaka. what he was looking for and it was the then president Salarich who The Municipality of Sondrio had just signed an agreement with the invited him in 2015 to the Torelló Festival, where during the Iamf Mountain Museum in view of setting up Cast, the “Castle of Mountain assembly he had the opportunity to illustrate his project and later to Stories” overlooking the city. And since the Municipality was also a founding collaborate with the Mountain Museum: “I realized that I had entered a member of assomidop (Association of the International Exhibition of large family that would help my efforts in Romania. I understood their Documentaries on Parks), president Marcella Fratta and organizer of passion and respect for the mountains and that they were all serious the Sondrio Festival, which is dedicated to the cinematography of people who know how important it is to team up during a climb. We are protected areas, thought that membership of the Iamf could perhaps honored,” concludes Burlac, “to be part of such a team”. be requested, knowing very well that that association only welcomed Also in 2018, the figure of regional representatives was created festivals focused on mountain cinematography. However, trying never in Domzale, to help the management and facilitate exchange between

24 25 festivals in different areas of the world: Europe, Asia and Oceania, North memories, for example, is a meeting with a Bavarian audience who were America, South America. And after an absence of several years, the interested in the mountain theme, and all its nuances, that the Trento Telluride festival was back in the Alliance. Festival embodied - this dialogue ended with an invitation to create a In 2019, a document on the guiding principles for the members of festival in Germany. “It is this memory that has pushed me several times the Iamf was approved in Tegernsee. Acting as a bridge between the to Tegernsee with particular joy, the same joy I felt when presenting the past and the future, it incorporated the basic concepts indicated by Alliance award to Ermanno Olmi in front of a broad audience in Milan. the founders while at the same time adapting them to the new reality Unaware of our reality, but urged to discover the cultural value of an and expanding them to include the needs of the ever-growing number alliance among the world’s festivals”. of partners. Also approved was a new Iamf registration form for new The story continues. The Alliance has celebrated over twenty years members, as part of the evolution of the set up developed over the since it took its first steps out of the Hall of Coats of Arms. There is a previous twenty years. And again, on that occasion, a project to create a photo of that meeting showing the nine representatives who first roped platform on the Iamf website was approved by a large majority to allow up together as a smiling team. Today, with 28 members, the number has film directors and producers to register their films to all the member tripled but the goal remains the same as it was then: to promote, enhance, festivals with a single submission, avoiding filling out different forms. and preserve mountain cinema. Three fellow travellers were lost along The aim of the platform is also to avoid, for those who register their the way – Moscow, in the Russian Federation, Taos in New Mexico in the work, having to choose from many possibilities that include the most Usa and Banff in Canada – who had to withdraw due to difficulties that famous, most privileged, and most important festivals. the Alliance’s solidarity failed to overcome, the way we would have liked. In the meantime, a change of presidency took place in the Alliance This is an important moment that deserves reflection for the in 2018. The handover took place in Ljubljana during an assembly that future. And this is the wish that Aldo Audisio launched online to all the recorded a very heated debate. It was March 1st and it was a very important members on February 5, 2020: “Happy birthday!”. meeting. All the founding members terminated their management There were some immediate responses, first of all that of Gabriela positions and only Marco Ribetti remained as a sign of continuity. Salarich Kühn who took the opportunity to thank the members of the Iamf and knew that it was time for fresh air and drew conclusions: “I have always all those “who had this great idea of coming together to collaborate in worked with my colleagues to grow festivals and their audience. I worked, team spirit”. Her greetings come from the Tatra Mountains, but actually as we all did, for an idea and for a purpose with nothing in return but the from Bangkok, Thailand, where she currently lives and works. It’s one satisfaction of seeing the Alliance grow and establish itself. Now new rope – as Basanta Thapa defines it – that binds everyone across the forces enter to give impetus and we, who started this adventure in 2000, continents: “Together we remain standing”. will continue to work because the Everest is there ahead”. Audisio also For Michael Pause, this is a special anniversary not only for the terminated his role as a coordinator. Shortly thereafter, in fact, he ended founders but for all members, because February 5, 2000 marks an his forty-year direction of the Mountain Museum. important date for mountain cinema in general: “It was a brilliant idea Now, at the head of the Alliance is Jabi Barayazarra, director of the to bring mountain film festivals closer together, because it not only Bilbao Festival; vice president Roberto De Martin, coordinator Marco strengthened them and stimulated the birth of new ones, but because Ribetti, directors Silvo Karo and Basanta Thapa. it promoted authors, film directors, producers and the whole mountain Roberto De Martin has been attending the Trento scene for many community and its culture”. Michael Pause recalls how in December years and he was also president of that festival before the current 2019 mountaineering obtained the status of Unesco cultural heritage. one, Mauro Leveghi. “It was still in the previous century,” points out De And if we want to evaluate it historically, it must be said that when Martin, “when I became the general president of the Italian Alpine Club”. the Trento Festival was founded in 1952 the idea that mountaineers His bond has always been one of affection and competence. One of his should contribute to overcoming the attitudes of hostility and hatred,

26 27 which lived inside the folds of war, had a really important role in IAMF PORTRAIT society: “Today”, says Pause, “associations like ours have a special value. Edited by Aldo Audisio Cooperation and diversity will best promote our cause”. It is precisely in the face of these reflections that Angelo Schena’s words, recently in the Iamf with the Sondrio Festival, referring to the ASSOCIATION news of Banff’s departure seem appropriate: “Why do you prefer to be alone instead of being in a group? Unity is strength, even if the rules 2000 05 FEB TORINO – DECLARATION OF INTENT COLLABORATION are necessary for proper coexistence and respect for others”. The rules, organizational address: THE INTERNATIONAL ALLIANCE FOR MOUNTAIN FILM collectively agreed upon at the time, must apply to everyone. “To achieve c/o Museo Nazionale della Montagna a common goal, it is necessary to act in the utmost harmony, because on via G. Giardino 39, I-10131 Torino, Italia the contrary, every goal is doomed to fail”. The pandemic canceled the Turin assembly scheduled for May 4, 2001 07 DEC AUTRANS – NOTARIAL ACT FORMALLY CONSTITUTING 2020, to celebrate twenty years of activity, therefore on September legal address: 2, the Alliance met in Trento in an assembly organized partly in person INTERNATIONAL ALLIANCE FOR MOUNTAIN FILM and partly online, with great difficulties also imposed by different c/o Festival International du Film d’Autrans Montagne & Aventure rue du Cinéma, F-38880 Autrans, France time zones. But that did not hinder the work. Among other things, the organizational address: entry of two new members was approved: the Skopje Festival, in the INTERNATIONAL ALLIANCE FOR MOUNTAIN FILM Republic of North Macedonia – an event that seeks to promote athletes, c/o Museo Nazionale della Montagna inspirational and educational stories about the mountains, highland via G. Giardino 39, I-10131 Torino, Italia communities around the world – and the Cinémathèque de Montagne in Gap, France that joined the Alliance, enriching it with its valuable 2006 24 JUL TORINO – NOTARIAL ACT CONSTITUTING / STATUTE contribution to the conservation of a significant heritage of film work. A legal/organizational address: novelty, because for the first time in twenty years an institution other [before December 11, 2007] INTERNATIONAL ALLIANCE FOR MOUNTAIN FILM than a festival, such as the Mountain Museum, joined the Alliance. c/o Museo Nazionale della Montagna The future will create other goals, we are sure. New perspectives, via G. Giardino 39, I-10131 Torino, Italia new ideas to be implemented, new energies. But the spirit of the origins, [after December 11, 2007] the one that gave life to the adventure of the Alliance right from the INTERNATIONAL ALLIANCE FOR MOUNTAIN FILM start, will always remain the same. c/o Museo Nazionale della Montagna – Area Documentazione People change, and technology has made great strides, so much so salita al CAI Torino 12, I-10131 Torino, Italia that it can get emotional to watch films and documentaries of the past, when film reel was the only tool to transmit images, and when public enthusiasm was expressed naively by clapping hands in front of sunsets that reddened the screen, as the chronicles of the Trentino newspapers reported every year. What cannot change, however, is the message that the festivals, and therefore the Alliance embody - we must continue to promote by communicating stories about the mountains and everything that goes around them.

28 29 BOARD MEMBERS updated December 31, 2020 2000 05 FEB ALDO AUDISIO Founder Directors ANTONIO CEMBRAN Autrans – FR MIREILLE CHIOCCA FESTIVAL INTERNATIONAL DU FILM DE MONTAGNE D’AUTRANS MARCO GRANDI Anne Farrer BERNADETTE McDONALD VALERIANA ROSSO Bansko / – BG JOAN SALARICH INTERNATIONAL BANSKO MOUNTAIN FILM FEST / ROBERT SCHAUER PIERRE SIMONI Natalie Petrova /

2001 04 MAY ANTONIO CEMBRAN President Bilbao – ES ALDO AUDISIO Coordinator MENDI FILM FESTIVAL 2003 14 JUN MIREILLE CHIOCCA President Javier Barayazarra ALDO AUDISIO Coordinator Bras˛ov – RO 2006 22 JUL MIREILLE CHIOCCA President ALPIN FILM FESTIVAL JOAN SALARICH Vice-president Daniel Burlac ALDO AUDISIO Coordinator YURI BAYKOVSKIY, Board Domžale – SI MARCO GRANDI FESTIVAL GORNIŠKEGA FILMA 2009 06 DEC MIREILLE CHIOCCA President Silvo Karo JOAN SALARICH Vice-president ALDO AUDISIO Coordinator Dundee – GB SHANNON O’DONOGHUE [before November 25, 2010] Board DUNDEE MOUNTAIN FILM FESTIVAL MICHAEL PAUSE [after November 25, 2010] Alfie Ingram ANTONIO CEMBRAN Gap – FR 2012 04 MAY JOAN SALARICH President CINÉMATHÈQUE DE MONTAGNE / RENCONTRES DE LA CINÉMATHÈQUE DE ROBIN ASHCROFT [before May 2, 2014] Vice-president MONTAGNE GABRIELA KÜHN [after May 2, 2014] Vice-president Gilles Charensol ALDO AUDISIO Coordinator SILVO KARO Board MICHAEL PAUSE Graz – AT INTERNATIONALES BERG UND ABENTEUER FILMFESTIVAL GRAZ 2015 11 MAY JOAN SALARICH President Robert Schauer GABRIELA KÜHN Vice-president ALDO AUDISIO Coordinator Heerlen / Klimmen – NL SILVO KARO Board DUTCH MOUNTAIN FILM FESTIVAL MICHAEL PAUSE Toon Hezemans, Thijs Horbach 2018 01 MAR JAVIER BARAYAZARRA President ROBERTO DE MARTIN Vice-president Kathmandu / – NP MARCO RIBETTI Coordinator KATHMANDU INTERNATIONAL MOUNTAIN FILM FESTIVAL / SILVO KARO Board BASANTA THAPA Ramyata Limbu /

30 31 Kendal – GB Trento – IT KENDAL MOUNTAIN FESTIVAL TRENTO FILM FESTIVAL Steve Scott, Clive Allen Luana Bisesti

Krakow – PL Ulju / – KR KRAKOWSKI FESTIVAL GÓRSKI ULJU MOUNTAIN FILM FESTIVAL / Wojciech Słowakiewicz Bae Chang-Ho /

Les Diablerets – CH Ushuaia – AR FESTIVAL INTERNATIONAL DU FILM ALPIN DES DIABLERETS FESTIVAL INTERNACIONAL DE CINE DE MONTAÑA USHUAIA SHH... Benoît Aymon María Ema de Antueno

Lugano – CH Valtournenche/Breuil-Cervinia – IT FESTIVAL DEI FESTIVAL CERVINO CINEMOUNTAIN FESTIVAL Marco Grandi Luca Bich, Luisa Montrosset

Poprad – SK Wanaka – NZ MEDZINÁRODNÝ FESTIVAL HORSKÝCH FILMOV POPRAD NZ MOUNTAIN FILM & BOOK FESTIVAL Mária Hámor Mark Sedon

Skopje / – MK Zakopane – PL ECHO MOUNTAIN FILM FESTIVAL / MOC GÓR FESTIWAL FILMÓW GÓRSKICH Igor Talevski, Aleksandar Zarapchiev / Magdalena Ziaja

Sondrio – IT SONDRIOFESTIVAL MOSTRA INTERNAZIONALE DEI DOCUMENTARI SUI PARCHI Simona Nava HONORARY MEMBERS Tegernsee – DE INTERNATIONALES BERGFILM-FESTIVAL TEGERNSEE Michael Pause Aldo Audisio Antonio Cembran Telluride – US Mireille Chiocca MOUNTAINFILM Bernadette McDonald Suzan Beraza Valeriana Rosso Pierre Simoni Teplice nad Metují – CZ MEZINÁRODNÍ HOROLEZECKÝ FILMOVÝ FESTIVAL Marie Jirmannova

Torelló – ES FESTIVAL DE CINEMA DE MUNTANYA DE TORELLÓ Joan Salarich

Torino – IT MUSEO NAZIONALE DELLA MONTAGNA “DUCA DEGLI ABRUZZI” Daniela Berta

32 33 MEMBERS MEETINGS historical list 2000 04-05 FEB TORINO FOUNDING MEETING Country founding membership to IAMF 06 MAY TRENTO ORDINARY MEETING

AUTRANS FR 1984 2000 founder member 09 DEC AUTRANS ORDINARY MEETING BANFF CA 1976 2000 founder member -2020 2001 09-10 MAR TORINO WORK MEETING BANSKO [before SLIVEN] BG 1998 2005 04 MAY TRENTO ORDINARY MEETING BILBAO [before VITORIA-GASTEIZ] ES 2008 2011 27 SEP LES DIABLERETS ORDINARY MEETING BRAS˛OV RO 2016 2019 07 DEC AUTRANS ORDINARY MEETING DOMŽALE SI 2007 2010 DUNDEE GB 1983 2001 2002 02 MAY TRENTO ORDINARY MEETING GAP FR 1996 2020 10 OCT POPRAD ORDINARY MEETING GRAZ AT 1986 2000 founder member 2003 07 FEB TORINO WORK MEETING HEERLEN / KLIMMEN NL 2010 2014 14 JUN LUGANO ORDINARY MEETING KATHMANDU NP 2000 2008 06 NOV BANFF ORDINARY MEETING KENDAL GB 1986 2000 KRAKOW PL 2003 2018 2004 07 MAY TRENTO ORDINARY MEETING LES DIABLERETS CH 1969 2000 founder member 20 NOV KENDAL ORDINARY MEETING LUGANO CH 1993 2000 founder member 2005 24 FEB TORINO WORK MEETING MOSCOW RU 1996 2003-2016 26 AUG TEPLICE NAD METUJÍ ORDINARY MEETING POPRAD SK 1993 2000 SKOPJE MK 2010 2020 2006 22 JUL BREUIL-CERVINIA ORDINARY MEETING SONDRIO IT 1987 2017 17 NOV TORELLÓ ORDINARY MEETING TAOS US 2001 2004-2011 2007 07 OCT TORINO ORDINARY MEETING TEGERNSEE DE 2003 2005 23 NOV DUNDEE ORDINARY MEETING TELLURIDE US 1979 2000-2008 2018 re-admission 2008 02 MAY TRENTO ORDINARY MEETING TEPLICE NAD METUJÍ CZ 1980 2000 15 NOV GRAZ ORDINARY MEETING TORELLÓ ES 1983 2000 founder member TORINO IT 1874 2000 founder member 2009 01 MAY TRENTO ORDINARY MEETING TRENTO IT 1952 2000 founder member -2005 06 DEC AUTRANS ORDINARY MEETING 2007 re-admission 2010 08 MAY TRENTO ORDINARY MEETING ULJU KR 2015 2017 25 NOV BANSKO ORDINARY MEETING USHUAIA AR 2007 2009 VALTOURNENCHE/BREUIL-CERVINIA IT 1998 2000 founder member -2007 2011 06 MAY TRENTO ORDINARY MEETING 2011 re-admission 09 SEP ZAKOPANE ORDINARY MEETING WANAKA NZ 2003 2017 ZAKOPANE PL 2005 2009 2012 04 MAY TRENTO ORDINARY MEETING 12 OCT POPRAD ORDINARY MEETING

2013 23 AUG TEPLICE NAD METUJÍ ORDINARY MEETING 20 DEC BILBAO ORDINARY MEETING

34 35 2014 02 MAY TRENTO ORDINARY MEETING IAMF GRAND PRIZE 12 DEC KATHMANDU ORDINARY MEETING 2002 GERHARD BAUR 2015 11 MAY TORINO ORDINARY MEETING 2003 LEO DICKINSON 20 NOV TORELLÓ ORDINARY MEETING 2004 FULVIO MARIANI 2005 JEAN-PIERRE BAILLY 2016 19 FEB DOMŽALE ORDINARY MEETING 2006 SWISS TELEVISION 06 MAY TRENTO WORK MEETING 2007 MICHAEL BROWN 27 AUG USHUAIA ORDINARY MEETING 2008 SEBASTIÁN ÁLVARO 2017 05 MAY TRENTO ORDINARY MEETING 2009 LOTHAR BRANDLER 30 OCT BANFF ORDINARY MEETING 2010 HANS-JÜRGEN PANITZ 2011 PAVOL BARABÁŠ 2018 01 MAR DOMŽALE ORDINARY MEETING 2012 ERMANNO OLMI 14 DEC BILBAO ORDINARY MEETING 2013 ALASTAIR LEE 2014 ERIC CROSLAND, DAVE MOSSOP 2019 03 MAY TRENTO ORDINARY MEETING 2015 ANNE, ERIK, VÉRONIQUE LAPIED 18 OCT TEGERNSEE ORDINARY MEETING 2016 SENDER FILMS 2017 GILLES CHAPPAZ 2020 02 SEP TRENTO ORDINARY MEETING 2018 KURT DIEMBERGER 2019 KEITH PARTRIDGE 2020 WERNER HERZOG

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