The jury of Ninth International Film Festival for Mountains,
Extreme Sports and Adventures, Bansko 2009 after watching the movies, part of
competition programme, D E C I D E D:
The following awards are adjudging:
1) Grand prix – to: “Berhault”, France, 2008, Gilles Chappaz,
Raphael Lassabliere, 69’
2) Judge Special Award – to: “In Nansen footsteps. Through
Franc Josef Land”, Norway, 2009, Borge Ousland, Thomas Ulrich, 53’
3) Award for Bulgarian short film for Mountains, Extreme
sports and Adventures ( for Bulgarian filmmakers only ) – to: “Goleshovo”,
United Kingdom/ Bulgaria, 2008, Ilian Metev, 34’
4) Municipality of Bansko Award for the film of special
cultural values – to: “The wooden carpet”, Iran, 2008, Abdolrahman Mirani, 20’
5) Award for complete realization in extreme conditions –
to: “Oltre la parete”/ “Beyond the wall”, Italy, 2009, Elio Orlandi, 36’
6) Prize of the Bansko Tourist` s Busyness Union for the
film on alpine sport, exploration or adventure – to: “Carstensz – the seventh
summit”, Slovakia, 2008, Pavol Barabáš, 45’ and for cycle of four films
“Polskie Himalaje”/ “Polish Himalayas”, Polska, 2008, Anna-Maria Filipow,
Krzysztof Wielicki, Jen Szeroki.
Augusto Golin (president, Italy)
Mariana Evstatieva – Biolcheva ( Bulgaria )
John Porter (Great Britain)
Mihail Mihailov ( Bulgaria )
Radoslav Spasov ( Bulgaria )
Rumen Stoichkov ( Bulgaria )
Janusz Mayer ( Poland )
Official guest of the festival were Kurt Diemberger
(Austria), Michael Brown (USA), Veikka Gustafsson (Finland), Alessandro
Anderloni (Italy)
Bansko, Warm regards, Peter