2021 Best of the New Zealand Mountain Film Festival National Tour coming to Wellington – CANCELLED

Sadly, due to covid L2 restrictions this event has been cancelled

The best of the New Zealand Mountain Film Festival National Tour is once again coming back to Wellington with a double feature!

The festival started in 2002 and is internationally recognised as one of the world’s premier mountain film festival events. It’s NZ’s original mountain film festival with an international adventure film maker’s competition, as well as a highly regarded NZ made a division. Wellington will be screening both the best of the festival and award-winning NZ made films.

Wellington Tramping and Mountaineering Club and the Victoria University of Wellington Tramping Club have teamed up to bring the festival tour to Wellington.

Rock climbing on a cliff

The films will be screened at the Victoria University Memorial Theatre. The theatre seats just over 300 and our goal is a sell-out. All profits will be donated back to the clubs. Tickets are $20 general admission, $15 WTMC and VUWTC club members and $10 student with ID.

Follow the Facebook event pages for updates:

Award Winning Films of the NZ Mountain Film Festival: https://fb.me/e/KBJPB1GI

Kiwi Made: https://fb.me/e/KBJPB1GI

Tickets and the full list of films are available on the VUWTC website.
https://www.vuwtc.org.nz/mountain-film

Award Winning Films of the NZ Mountain Film Festival

Date: Thursday 9 September 2021
Time: Doors open at 6pm, films start at 6:30pm
Tickets: https://www.vuwtc.org.nz/Event/5473

The Award Winning Films from the Festival include Wingsuit BASE jumping; climbing Mount Logan in Canada followed by a ski, snowboard and monoski descent over 48 days and 700km; Swiss climber Katherine Choong’s ascent of 9A (NZ grade 35) rock climbing route Jungfrau Marathon; a 40-day adventure to Baffin Island of bigwall first ascents, whitewater paddle descents and wild Arctic flamingos; and the full movie of Andrzej Bargiel’s K2 ski descent.

Woman rock climbing

Kiwi Made

Date: Monday 13 September 2021
Time: Doors open at 6pm, films start at 6:30pm
Tickets: https://www.vuwtc.org.nz/Event/5474

Award winning films either made in NZ or films made by New Zealanders include a ski-traverse of the Southern Alps from Arthur’s Pass to the Godley Valley; the first ascent of the Airport Wall in Fiordland; a journey of the infamous ‘Garden of Eden’ ice plateau and the wild West Coast for a first ascent of Newton Peak; a contemplation of art and adventure in the southern wilds of New Zealand; a self-filmed free climb of Aoraki/Mt Cook’s East Ridge and a pilgrimage to the recently discovered route ‘Pilgrim’ – the last unclimbed route on Mt Cook; and Kehu Butler explores his favourite surf spots around NZ along with deep connections to family, friends and ocean.

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