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| Outdoor Programs: Banff Film Festival
on campus tonight |
Stephanie
Marshall
Entertainment Beat |
The Banff Mountain
Film Festival begins tonight and should be an inspirational journey
for its audience.
This is an opportunity to travel without ever leaving Boone, Outdoors
Programs Coordinator Rich H. Campbell said Monday.
Tonight’s encompassing films are “The Second Step-Warren
Macdonald’s Epic Journey to Federation Peak” and “Cannibals
and Crampons,” Campbell said.
“The Second Step” was the 2002 Grand Prize Winner of the
Banff Mountain Film Festival, and Outdoor Programs always tries
to show the winner, Campbell said.
It is an Australian documentary film directed by Gary Cagnoff and
produced by Suzanne Davies.
The film is a documentary on the double leg amputee of Warren Macdonald,
who did not want his loss to stop him from what he loves to do.
The core of the film is Macdonald’s accident and his 28-day
ascent of Federation Peak in southwest Tasmania.
“This film embraces the inspirational value of the festival
because of the obstacles that Warren Macdonald overcomes,”
Campbell said.
The second featured film of the night, “Cannibals and Crampons,”
won the 2002 People’s Choice Award and the Best Film on Mountain
Culture.
Directed by Bruce Parry and Mark Anstice and produced by Ed Stobart,
the film takes place on the un-scaled face of Mandela in New Guinea.
This film is about a journey through unexplored terrain still inhabited
with cannibals, and the contacts that are made in this off-beaten
trek, Campbell said.
Friday night’s films will be another two and half hours of
films to take the audience to places of beauty, Campbell said.
The two featured this night are “Escape over the Himalayas—Tibet’s
Children on their Journey into Exile” and “The Yenisey
River Expedition.”
Winning the 2002 Special Jury Award, “Escape over the Himalayas”
is a German documentary directed by Zazie Blumencron and produced
by Golli Marboe.
It captures the journey of Tibetan children sent by their parents
on a dangerous journey across the Himalayas to their goal, Dharamsala,
India, for a chance at education and the opportunity for religious
freedom.
“Escape over the Himalayas” is the most powerful and moving
film of the festival, showing the beauty and perseverance of the
Tibetan people, Campbell said.
The second featured film of the evening, “The Yenisey River
Expedition,” is a documentary that was a runner-up in the 2002
People’s Choice Award.
Directed and produced by Remy Quinter and Visual Planet, the film
depicts four young explorers, who in a five-month period become
the first to trace the full length of the Yenisey River. The film
is a fascinating story of the classic expedition and journey, Campbell
said.
“Each night will have films that are shorter than these four
films, but will be just as mesmerizing and exciting,” Campbell
said.
Tickets are still available for the festival and are being sold
in the Outdoor Programs office, W.H. Plemmons Student Union and
Footsloggers in downtown Boone.
One-night tickets are $5 for students and $6 for the general public.
The festival will start at 7:30 p.m. both nights. |
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| Hazard County Girls debut at Murphy’s |
Michael
Lee
Entertainment Beat |
The Hazard County
Girls are coming to Boone but don’t expect Daisy Duke.
The all-girl band from New Orleans will be rocking out at Murphy’s
Restaurant & Pub Monday, March 31.
Vocalist and guitarist Christy Kane, drummer Sharon Heather and
bassist Jennifer K. are touring the East Coast to help promote the
release of their debut album, ‘Never No More.’
The album, which was released in March 2003 by Wooden Wheel Records,
was described in a recent review as “a heavy rock adventure.”
With influences ranging from Black Sabbath and early Van Halen,
to PJ Harvey and ‘60s garage music, the Girls are rockin’
and rollin’ through the states.
They were awarded OffBeat Magazine’s Best Emerging Rock Band
Award in February.
“We’ve been told we sound like a mix of Sonic Youth, Black
Sabbath and Mazzy Star. Our music is pretty heavy,” Kane said.
John Rush, a large influence in bringing live music to Boone for
the last five years, said he is full of anticipation.
“It reminds me of a more upbeat Liz Phair, somewhat along the
lines of Hole. I can’t wait to see them,” Rush said.
Rush has teamed up with New Orleans-based Infectious Publicity’s
Scott Simoneaux to bring the girls to Boone.
Simoneaux is the man who brought the Widespread Panic documentary,
“The Earth Will Swallow You,” to Geno’s Sports Lounge
and other bands such as The Little Rascals to town.
Rush said there has been a good buzz going around town about the
girls.
“I think it’s awesome that girls have overcome the stereotypical
boundaries of organized music. Girls Rock,” Samantha A. Mathews,
a 24-year-old senior mathematics major, said. “I think it’s
cool because I don’t know many all-girl bands. Even bands like
No Doubt and Hole still have guys in the band,” senior applied
communications major Anna E. Smith said.
“This is their debut in town and we don’t get enough female
artists in Boone. I believe everyone should be looking for that,”
Rush said.
The show is scheduled to begin around 10:30 p.m.
Tickets are $3 before 10 p.m. and $5 after that.
Murphy’s has a 21 and over admittance policy. |
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