Awards and Festivals

Voted one of the "20 Best Adventure DVD's of All time" Men's Journal Magazine, USA

• 47th Annual CINE Awards (USA, Washington DC Dec 2005) - Winner of CINE Golden Eagle Award.
• San Francisco Documentary Film Festival (USA, May 2004) – Audience Award for Best Feature Documentary
• Trento International Mountain Film Festival (Italy, May 2004) – "Genziana d'Argento Miglior Film di Esplorazione" Silver Gentian Award for Best Film on Exploration
• Heartland Film Festival (USA, Oct 2004) – Winner of “Crystal Heart Award”
• 2004 ATOM Awards (Australia, July 2004) – Finalist, Best Documentary Category
• Rome International Film Festival (USA, Sept.2004) -- Best International Documentary Feature Nominee
• Taos Mountain Film Festival (USA, Oct 2004) – Winner of Jury’s Choice Award
• XII International Festival of Mountain Films, Poprad (Slovakia, Oct 2004) – Winner of Grand Jury Prize
• 52nd Columbus International Film & Video Festival (USA, Nov 2004) -- Winner of The Chris Awards "Chris Statuette"
• Banff Mountain Film Festival (Canada, Nov 2004) – Winner of Peoples Choice Award
• Banff Mountain Film Festival (Canada, Nov 2004) – Winner of Best Film on Mountain Environment
• Adv. Filmfestival, Graz (Austria, Nov 2004) – Winner of Kamera Alpin in Gold for the Best Adv Film
• 22nd Int. Festival of Mountain & Adventure Films Torello (Spain, Nov 2004) - Winner of Best Film on Mountain Environment
• Kendal Mountain Film Festival (UK, Nov. 2004) – Winner of Best Mountain Adventure Film
• Dundee Mountain Film Festival (Scotland, Nov 2004) - Winner of Peoples Choice Award
• Detroit Docs International Film Festival (USA, Nov 2004) – Second Place in the Audience Award
• Danish Adventure Film Festival (Denmark, Dec 2004) - Best Film of the Year Nomination
• International Festival of Outdoor Films (Czech Republic , Dec 2004) – Best Adventure and Extreme Film
• 16th Adventure Film Festival (India, Dec 2004) – Winner of Jury Award
• 20th Santa Barbara International Film Festival (USA Feb 2005) – Special Jury Award for Cinematic Originality
• The Explorers Club Documentary Film Festival 2005 (USA, Jan 2005) – Winner of Special Jury Award
• Flagstaff Mountain Film Festival Arizona (USA, Feb 2005) – Winner of Best Adventure Feature
• Flagstaff Mountain Film Festival Arizona (USA, Feb 2005) – Winner of People’s Choice Award
• 8th Moscow Intn’l Festival of Mountain & Adventure Films “VERTICAL” (Moscow, March 2005) – Winner of Best Adventure Film
• WildSouth International Film Festival (New Zealand, April 2005) – Finalist Best Adventure Film
• Down Under International Film Festival (Australia, May 2005) – Winner of Best Australian Feature Length Documentary
• Hory a Mesto, 6th Annual Festival of Mountain Films & Adventure (Slovakia, May 2005) – Winner of Grand Prix
• First Festival of Film of The Sporting Adventure (Vallauris, France May2005) - Winner of Grand Prix
• 12th Festival Internacional de Cinema del Medi Ambient (Spain, June 2005) – Winner of Documania Award;
• Cervino International Film Festival (Italy, July 2005) - Winner of Grand Prix
• 22nd International Mountaineering Film Festival (Teplice, Czech, Aug 2005) - Best Film , Outdoor Sports.
• Australian Climbing Festival 2007 (Australia, March 2007) – Winner of Best Homegrown Film
• Full Frame Documentary Film Festival (USA, April 2004)
• Telluride Mountain Film Festival (USA, May 2004)
• SILVERDOCS AFI/Discovery Channel Documentary Film Festival (USA, June 2004)
• Mountainfilm on Tour (Nth America, USA – Aug to Dec 2004)
• Jackson Hole Film Festival (USA, Sept 2004)
• Mountain Film Review, Ladek, Zdroj (Poland, Sept 2004)
• Calgary International Film Festival (Canada, Sept.2004)
• Northern Lights Film Festival (USA, Oct 2004)
• 6th Recontres International du Cinema des Antipodes, St Tropez (France, Oct 2004)
• International Mountain Film Festival, Tegernsee (Germany Oct 2004)
• Hot Springs Documentary Film Festival (USA, Oct 2004)
• The Banff Mountain Film Festival World Tour (2004-2007)
• Salzburg Mountainfilmfestival (Austria, Nov 2004)
• XV International Festival Cinema & Mountain, Trieste (Italy - Gorizia, Nov, Trieste, Jan 2005)
• International Film Festival of Autrans (France, Dec 2004)
• 2004 European Outdoor Filmtour (Europe, Sept-Dec 2004)
• Anchorage International Film Festival (USA, Dec 2004)
• Wild & Scenic Environmental Film Festival & Tour (USA, Jan & April 2005)
• Boulder International Film Festival (USA, Feb 2005)
• Detroit Docs International Film Festival, Adventure Film Showcase II (USA, Feb 2005)
• Human Rights Watch Documentary Film Festival (USA, March 2005)
• 11th London Australian Film Festival (UK, March 2005)
• Environmental Film Festival in the Nation’s Capital (USA, March 2005)
• Ecocinema Film Festival (Greece, June 2005);
• CHAOS Film Festival (USA, June 2005)
• Filmfest St Anton am Arlberg (Austria, Aug 2005)
• Sante Fe Film Festival (USA, Aug 2005)
• Orinda Film Festival (USA, Sept 2005)
• Planet In Focus, Toronto International Environmental Film & Video Festival (Canada, Sept 2005)
• 50th Asia Pacific Film Festival (Malaysia, Sept 2005)
• 5th Sliven International Mountain Film Festival (Bulgaria, Oct 2005)
• The Williamstown Mountain Film Festival (USA, Nov 2005)
• Montagne in Città, (Italy, Nov 2005).
• Portland International Nature and Environmental Film Festival (USA, Jan 2006)
• The Finger Lakes Environmental Film Festival (USA, March 2006)
• VIII Festival Internacional de Cinema e Video Ambiental - Festival dos Festivais (Brazil, June 2006)
• Mediterranean Environmental Award 2006 (Turkey, Sept 2006) 11th Explorimages Film Festival (France, Nov 2006)