After premiering at Doc NYC, Kenji Tsukamoto debut documentary feature, “Ashima,” comes to the San Francisco Bay Area. Here, he follows legendary rock climber, Ashima Shiraishi, as she aims to master a V14 site – a bouldering grade accomplished by only 0.01% of climbers in the world. Over the course of the journey, we watch Shiraishi blossom into fame during her preteen years, cultivate her confidence under unconditional support of her father and coach, Poppo, and sport the colorful climbing shorts designed by her mother.
We caught documentarian Tsukamoto and producer Minji Chang in the advent of their San Francisco Bay Area premiere at CAAMFest 2024. We spoke about what it takes to make a solid documentary film: moving in with the subject, lots of generous editors, and of course, money.
What inspired the film?
Kenji Tsukamoto: In 2009, I moved back to the US from Japan. At the time, Japan had a really high suicide rate and hikkikomori,...
We caught documentarian Tsukamoto and producer Minji Chang in the advent of their San Francisco Bay Area premiere at CAAMFest 2024. We spoke about what it takes to make a solid documentary film: moving in with the subject, lots of generous editors, and of course, money.
What inspired the film?
Kenji Tsukamoto: In 2009, I moved back to the US from Japan. At the time, Japan had a really high suicide rate and hikkikomori,...
- 5/11/2024
- by Grace Han
- AsianMoviePulse
Netflix has just approved the new Sony CineAlta Burano. It was pretty fast approval since the camera started to ship out on February 27. Explore the Camera Production Guide below.
The Sony’s Burano Menu Simulator. Source: SonyCine Sony Burano: Netflix Approved
Designed for highly mobile, solo cine-style shooting, the Sony Burano 8K Digital Cinema Camera offers up to 8.6K video capture in a compact, full-frame form. Unique in-camera stabilization for both E- and Pl-mount lenses, Fast Hybrid Autofocus, and an easily adjustable Nd filter enhance single-user capture and seamless image matching, making the CineAlta Burano camera ideal for use as your Venice B or C camera.
Sony Burano. Credit: Y.M.Cinema
Sony Burano’s key features:
Compact, Highly Mobile Design Full-Frame Cmos 8.6K Sensor 16 Stops of Dynamic Range In-Body Image Stabilization|E & Pl Mount Dual-Base 800/3200 Iso Range Electronically Variable 0.6-21Nd Filter Phase Detection Af | Face/Eye Tracking Full-Frame...
The Sony’s Burano Menu Simulator. Source: SonyCine Sony Burano: Netflix Approved
Designed for highly mobile, solo cine-style shooting, the Sony Burano 8K Digital Cinema Camera offers up to 8.6K video capture in a compact, full-frame form. Unique in-camera stabilization for both E- and Pl-mount lenses, Fast Hybrid Autofocus, and an easily adjustable Nd filter enhance single-user capture and seamless image matching, making the CineAlta Burano camera ideal for use as your Venice B or C camera.
Sony Burano. Credit: Y.M.Cinema
Sony Burano’s key features:
Compact, Highly Mobile Design Full-Frame Cmos 8.6K Sensor 16 Stops of Dynamic Range In-Body Image Stabilization|E & Pl Mount Dual-Base 800/3200 Iso Range Electronically Variable 0.6-21Nd Filter Phase Detection Af | Face/Eye Tracking Full-Frame...
- 3/6/2024
- by Yossy Mendelovich
- YMCinema
SonyCine has released the Burano’s Recording Format and Recording Times posters along with some essential educational assets regarding the Burano. One of these cool materials is the simulator. Check them out.
Sony Burano. Credit: Y.M.Cinema Sony Burano
The new Burano is the latest addition to Sony’s prestigious CineAlta lineup. It combines exceptional image quality with high mobility. Compact, versatile, and flexible, the Burano is the world’s first digital cinema camera with a Pl-Mount to feature in-body image stabilization and autofocus. It’s the ultimate tool for single-camera operators and small crews. Read our articles about it:
Sony Burano Announced: Advanced Cinema Camera for Solo Shooters Shot on Burano: Watch These Videos Made on the New Sony CineAltaB Camera X-ocn: Sony Compressed Raw (Venice & Burano) Renan Ozturk Talks About The Advantages of the Sony Burano Emmanuel Lubezki Tries the Sony Burano The Sony Burano. Credit: Y.
Sony Burano. Credit: Y.M.Cinema Sony Burano
The new Burano is the latest addition to Sony’s prestigious CineAlta lineup. It combines exceptional image quality with high mobility. Compact, versatile, and flexible, the Burano is the world’s first digital cinema camera with a Pl-Mount to feature in-body image stabilization and autofocus. It’s the ultimate tool for single-camera operators and small crews. Read our articles about it:
Sony Burano Announced: Advanced Cinema Camera for Solo Shooters Shot on Burano: Watch These Videos Made on the New Sony CineAltaB Camera X-ocn: Sony Compressed Raw (Venice & Burano) Renan Ozturk Talks About The Advantages of the Sony Burano Emmanuel Lubezki Tries the Sony Burano The Sony Burano. Credit: Y.
- 2/2/2024
- by Yossy Mendelovich
- YMCinema
Extreme cinematographer, Renan Ozturk, has been testing the Sony Burano on the top of the Empire State Building. This is what he thinks about the Burano when it comes to sole camera operation in adventure exceptional environments.
Renan Ozturk with the Sony Burano at the top of the Empire State Building. Picture: Renan Ozturk Sony Burano: High-end cinema camera devoted to solo operators
The Sony Burano was designed as a top-notch cinema camera that solo operators can well utilize. It’s not a baby Venice, nor a FX9 Mark II. But a hybridization between them, or should we say that the Burano is located in a good spot in the middle of them. It allows almost all the privileges of Alpha cameras and FX6/FX9, and some of the advantages of the CineAlta Venice 2. You can think of it like an FX9 that can produce better imagery that can be...
Renan Ozturk with the Sony Burano at the top of the Empire State Building. Picture: Renan Ozturk Sony Burano: High-end cinema camera devoted to solo operators
The Sony Burano was designed as a top-notch cinema camera that solo operators can well utilize. It’s not a baby Venice, nor a FX9 Mark II. But a hybridization between them, or should we say that the Burano is located in a good spot in the middle of them. It allows almost all the privileges of Alpha cameras and FX6/FX9, and some of the advantages of the CineAlta Venice 2. You can think of it like an FX9 that can produce better imagery that can be...
- 12/10/2023
- by Yossy Mendelovich
- YMCinema
“What would you do? If your friend died and you were starving, would you eat him?” National Geographic Explorer Mark Synnott mulled the unthinkable while trying to solve one of history’s greatest seafaring mysteries in Explorer: Lost in the Arctic: what happened to the 129 men of Sir John Franklin’s 1845 expedition whose ships got trapped in the Arctic ice while the sailors were trying to be the first to navigate the Northwest Passage. “We know they all died,” Synnott says. “I’m curious what people do when it’s pure survival.” This need for answers has fueled multiple searchers from 1848 until the present day, and even inspired the horror novel The Terror, adapted in 2018 to launch an AMC anthology series. (Credit: National Geographic For Disney/Renan Ozturk) This suspenseful documentary chronicles the four-month quest of Synnott and a team of explorers who think answers will be found in Franklin’s tomb,...
- 8/23/2023
- TV Insider
World class climber Jimmy Chin met his future wife, filmmaker Chai Vasarhelyi, over a mountain – of footage.
He had been working for a number of years on the documentary that would become Meru, the story of an attempt by Chin and his fellow alpinists and friends Conrad Anker and Renan Ozturk to become the first to summit the perilous Shark’s Fin peak in the Himalayas. Perhaps because he was so close to the subject matter, the film wasn’t quite cohering.
“I had submitted it to a few film festivals and got turned down,” Chin explained during an Artists & Auteurs conversation at Cph:dox in Copenhagen. He told moderator Thom Powers, TIFF’s documentary programmer and host of the Pure Nonfiction podcast, that while struggling over the film he crossed paths with Vasarhelyi at a conference.
Directors Chai Vasarhelyi and Jimmy Chin appear at Cph:dox in Copenhagen on Tuesday, March...
He had been working for a number of years on the documentary that would become Meru, the story of an attempt by Chin and his fellow alpinists and friends Conrad Anker and Renan Ozturk to become the first to summit the perilous Shark’s Fin peak in the Himalayas. Perhaps because he was so close to the subject matter, the film wasn’t quite cohering.
“I had submitted it to a few film festivals and got turned down,” Chin explained during an Artists & Auteurs conversation at Cph:dox in Copenhagen. He told moderator Thom Powers, TIFF’s documentary programmer and host of the Pure Nonfiction podcast, that while struggling over the film he crossed paths with Vasarhelyi at a conference.
Directors Chai Vasarhelyi and Jimmy Chin appear at Cph:dox in Copenhagen on Tuesday, March...
- 3/24/2023
- by Matthew Carey
- Deadline Film + TV
Sales include re-release deal for ’Welcome To The Dollhouse’ in UK.
Visit Films, which is jetting in to Berlin to launch EFM sales on Berlinale section Dreams’ Gate among other titles, has announced a wave of deals on recent festival hits including a US deal and multiple territories on last year’s Berlin Silver Bear winner Robe Of Gems.
Natalia Lopez’s tale of redemption, family and violence in Mexico will open in the US this summer through Monument Releasing and has also gone to Madman Entertainment for Australia and New Zealand, as well as Mubi for Italy, Baltics, Africa,...
Visit Films, which is jetting in to Berlin to launch EFM sales on Berlinale section Dreams’ Gate among other titles, has announced a wave of deals on recent festival hits including a US deal and multiple territories on last year’s Berlin Silver Bear winner Robe Of Gems.
Natalia Lopez’s tale of redemption, family and violence in Mexico will open in the US this summer through Monument Releasing and has also gone to Madman Entertainment for Australia and New Zealand, as well as Mubi for Italy, Baltics, Africa,...
- 2/10/2023
- by Jeremy Kay
- ScreenDaily
Exclusive: The 44th annual Mountainfilm festival has announced its first wave of film titles and festival highlights. Festival-goers can look forward to more than 120 films as the festival takes over Telluride’s majestic box canyon Memorial Day weekend, May 26-30, 2022. The festival will include 31 features and nearly 100 shorts.
Mountainfilm 2022 will highlight 80+ North American, US, and Colorado premieres. Also celebrating world premieres are the highly-anticipated documentary, The Holly, based on the seven-year investigation into the high-profile shooting in Denver’s Holly neighborhood (film subject Terrance Roberts in attendance), and Chasing, a gripping tale of a 3,000-mile rowing race across the Atlantic Ocean (film subject Jason Caldwell in attendance).
The festival also boasts 18 world premiere short films traversing some of the most pertinent issues of the day — from the climate crisis to inclusion to border walls — while also providing film-goers with a dose of the adrenaline-packed, edge-of-your-seat excitement they crave from Mountainfilm.
Mountainfilm 2022 will highlight 80+ North American, US, and Colorado premieres. Also celebrating world premieres are the highly-anticipated documentary, The Holly, based on the seven-year investigation into the high-profile shooting in Denver’s Holly neighborhood (film subject Terrance Roberts in attendance), and Chasing, a gripping tale of a 3,000-mile rowing race across the Atlantic Ocean (film subject Jason Caldwell in attendance).
The festival also boasts 18 world premiere short films traversing some of the most pertinent issues of the day — from the climate crisis to inclusion to border walls — while also providing film-goers with a dose of the adrenaline-packed, edge-of-your-seat excitement they crave from Mountainfilm.
- 4/19/2022
- by Valerie Complex
- Deadline Film + TV
Breathtakingly shot documentary records long push to cross a series of Alaskan mountains, and the geographer who first charted them
Fifteen miles to the south-east of Denali, the highest peak in North America, lies a colossal mountain range that rears from the ground like a vertiginous jaw. Fittingly, the various summits of this natural wonder are called Moose’s Tooth, Eye Tooth, Sugar Tooth and Broken Tooth. While many explorers have conquered each of these peaks, none have attempted a lateral climb from summit to summit,akin to walking atop the skyline. But a black-and-white aerial photograph of the forbidding path, all snow-capped and wrapped in billowy clouds, beckons the adventurous spirit of mountaineers Renan Ozturk, Freddie Wilkinson and Zach Smith.
Directed by Ozturk and Wilkinson, this awe-inspiring documentary is as much about their years-long attempts to scale the Tooth traverse as it is about Brad Washburn, the man behind...
Fifteen miles to the south-east of Denali, the highest peak in North America, lies a colossal mountain range that rears from the ground like a vertiginous jaw. Fittingly, the various summits of this natural wonder are called Moose’s Tooth, Eye Tooth, Sugar Tooth and Broken Tooth. While many explorers have conquered each of these peaks, none have attempted a lateral climb from summit to summit,akin to walking atop the skyline. But a black-and-white aerial photograph of the forbidding path, all snow-capped and wrapped in billowy clouds, beckons the adventurous spirit of mountaineers Renan Ozturk, Freddie Wilkinson and Zach Smith.
Directed by Ozturk and Wilkinson, this awe-inspiring documentary is as much about their years-long attempts to scale the Tooth traverse as it is about Brad Washburn, the man behind...
- 2/28/2022
- by Phuong Le
- The Guardian - Film News
Acquisition follow recent deals for German-speaking Europe, France, Italy.
Visit Films has struck a US deal with Greenwich Entertainment on its EFM sales title and adventure documentary The Sanctity Of Space directed by Meru cinematographer Renan Ozturk and Freddie Wilkinson.
The film received its world premiere at Vancouver International Film Festival last year and follows climbers Ozturk and Wilkinson, a journalist and adventure writer, as they retrace the steps of legendary mountaineer and photographer Brad Washburn.
Inspired by Washburn’s photographs of Denali National Park in Alaska from 75 years ago, the group plan to scale the range’s forbidding Mooses Tooth massif sideways,...
Visit Films has struck a US deal with Greenwich Entertainment on its EFM sales title and adventure documentary The Sanctity Of Space directed by Meru cinematographer Renan Ozturk and Freddie Wilkinson.
The film received its world premiere at Vancouver International Film Festival last year and follows climbers Ozturk and Wilkinson, a journalist and adventure writer, as they retrace the steps of legendary mountaineer and photographer Brad Washburn.
Inspired by Washburn’s photographs of Denali National Park in Alaska from 75 years ago, the group plan to scale the range’s forbidding Mooses Tooth massif sideways,...
- 2/10/2022
- by Jeremy Kay
- ScreenDaily
Roster includes mountaineering documentary The Sanctity Of Space.
Ryan Kampe’s Visit Films has added acclaimed Sundance titles I Was a Simple Man, El Planeta and First Date to the sales roster for this week’s virtual EFM.
The slate includes previously announced Sundance thriller Superior, as well as mountaineering documentary The Sanctity Of Space, Tribeca 2020 selections Lorelei and My Heart Can’t Beat Unless You Tell It To, 2020 SXSW selection The Surrogate, and survival thriller Wildcat.
Visit holds international rights to Christopher Makoto Yogi’s I Was A Simple Man, which takes place in the countryside of the north shore of O‘ahu,...
Ryan Kampe’s Visit Films has added acclaimed Sundance titles I Was a Simple Man, El Planeta and First Date to the sales roster for this week’s virtual EFM.
The slate includes previously announced Sundance thriller Superior, as well as mountaineering documentary The Sanctity Of Space, Tribeca 2020 selections Lorelei and My Heart Can’t Beat Unless You Tell It To, 2020 SXSW selection The Surrogate, and survival thriller Wildcat.
Visit holds international rights to Christopher Makoto Yogi’s I Was A Simple Man, which takes place in the countryside of the north shore of O‘ahu,...
- 3/1/2021
- by Jeremy Kay
- ScreenDaily
“Into the Storm,” directed by Adam Brown, won the Grand Prize at the 2020 Kendal Mountain Film Festival on Sunday. Filmed over a six-year period, the film follows the story of a teenage surfer as he escapes the poverty of a barrio in Lima with the intention of becoming one of the top surfers in the world.
With no family support, no money and a constant fear of the local gangsters, who at one point shoot him, the film ends up at the (pre-covid-19) world finals for surfing where his talent and self belief speak for themselves. The jury were unanimous in their decision, describing Into the Storm” as a “nail-biting film with great depth.”
The Festival returned to its roots with the award of best mountain film going to “The Ghosts Above,” from Taylor Rees and Renan Ozturk. Filmed on Everest in an attempt to discover the fate of a...
With no family support, no money and a constant fear of the local gangsters, who at one point shoot him, the film ends up at the (pre-covid-19) world finals for surfing where his talent and self belief speak for themselves. The jury were unanimous in their decision, describing Into the Storm” as a “nail-biting film with great depth.”
The Festival returned to its roots with the award of best mountain film going to “The Ghosts Above,” from Taylor Rees and Renan Ozturk. Filmed on Everest in an attempt to discover the fate of a...
- 11/30/2020
- by George Bird
- Variety Film + TV
In 2017, mountaineer Chris Bombardier became the first person with hemophilia to scale Mount Everest. “Bombardier Blood,” bowing on demand Aug. 17, captures the remarkable journey in which he attempts to complete his goal of climbing the Seven Summits — the highest mountain on each continent — while raising awareness of the blood disorder.
The film’s shoestring budget of $200,000 meant the production couldn’t bankroll an entire team to make the climb to the top, so Rob Bradford and Joshua Sterling Bragg, the DPs for writer-director Patrick James Lynch’s documentary, knew they would need to entrust Bombardier, a novice with a lens, to handle the camera for the toughest part of the shoot.
Bragg compiled a “cinematography bible” that considered what kind of shots to use on which part of the mountain. He turned to the matter-of-fact style of Renan Ozturk, a climber and Dp on mountaineering films “Valley Uprising,” “Meru” and “Sherpa” for inspiration.
The film’s shoestring budget of $200,000 meant the production couldn’t bankroll an entire team to make the climb to the top, so Rob Bradford and Joshua Sterling Bragg, the DPs for writer-director Patrick James Lynch’s documentary, knew they would need to entrust Bombardier, a novice with a lens, to handle the camera for the toughest part of the shoot.
Bragg compiled a “cinematography bible” that considered what kind of shots to use on which part of the mountain. He turned to the matter-of-fact style of Renan Ozturk, a climber and Dp on mountaineering films “Valley Uprising,” “Meru” and “Sherpa” for inspiration.
- 8/12/2020
- by Jazz Tangcay
- Variety Film + TV
In today’s TV News Roundup, Apple TV Plus announced the premiere date of its upcoming series “Ted Lasso,” and HBO Max announced it would accelerate the release schedule of “Love Life.”
Dates
Apple TV Plus has announced that is upcoming comedy series “Ted Lasso” will premiere on the streamer on August 14. The series follows a college football coach from Kansas (Jason Sudeikis) who is hired to coach a professional soccer team in England. “Ted Lasso” comes from Doozer Productions, in association with Warner Bros. Television and Universal Television. Sudeikis serves as executive producer, along with Bill Lawrence and Jeff Ingold. Liza Katzer serves as co-executive producer.
HBO Max has announced it will be accelerating the release schedule for its original series “Love Life”: Episodes 4, 5 and 6 will be available to binge on the streamer on June 4, followed by the final four episodes of the first season on June 11. Originally,...
Dates
Apple TV Plus has announced that is upcoming comedy series “Ted Lasso” will premiere on the streamer on August 14. The series follows a college football coach from Kansas (Jason Sudeikis) who is hired to coach a professional soccer team in England. “Ted Lasso” comes from Doozer Productions, in association with Warner Bros. Television and Universal Television. Sudeikis serves as executive producer, along with Bill Lawrence and Jeff Ingold. Liza Katzer serves as co-executive producer.
HBO Max has announced it will be accelerating the release schedule for its original series “Love Life”: Episodes 4, 5 and 6 will be available to binge on the streamer on June 4, followed by the final four episodes of the first season on June 11. Originally,...
- 5/29/2020
- by J. Kim Murphy
- Variety Film + TV
Slate sales on SXSW winners Alice, Saint Frances, Tito.
Visit Films has concluded a raft of deals on its Afm slate that includes documentaries White Riot and The Sanctity Of Space, and Toronto drama Hearts And Bones starring Hugo Weaving.
Company president Ryan Kampe and director of sales Lydia Rodman have licensed White Riot in the UK (Modern Films), Australia and New Zealand (Icon Film Distribution), Films We Like (Canada) and Benelux (Periscoop). Rubika Shah’s punk rock documentary won the Grierson Award for best documentary at BFI London Film Festival and an international premiere is being lined up for a major festival.
Visit Films has concluded a raft of deals on its Afm slate that includes documentaries White Riot and The Sanctity Of Space, and Toronto drama Hearts And Bones starring Hugo Weaving.
Company president Ryan Kampe and director of sales Lydia Rodman have licensed White Riot in the UK (Modern Films), Australia and New Zealand (Icon Film Distribution), Films We Like (Canada) and Benelux (Periscoop). Rubika Shah’s punk rock documentary won the Grierson Award for best documentary at BFI London Film Festival and an international premiere is being lined up for a major festival.
- 11/19/2019
- ScreenDaily
Diane, State Like Sleep, A Family Submerged among other hot sellers.
Heading into Cannes, Visit Films has reported a strong response to its line-up and has licensed mountain climbing documentary The Sanctity Of Space to Dogwoof in the UK, and Madman Entertainment in Australia and New Zealand.
Currently in post-production, the film is directed by Renan Ozturk, who co-directed the critically acclaimed Sherpa and was the cinematographer and one of the main subjects of Sundance award winner Meru, and Freddie Wilkinson, a renowned Alpinist and adventure writer.
The Sanctity Of Space is in the vein of Oscar winner Free Solo and Dawn Wall,...
Heading into Cannes, Visit Films has reported a strong response to its line-up and has licensed mountain climbing documentary The Sanctity Of Space to Dogwoof in the UK, and Madman Entertainment in Australia and New Zealand.
Currently in post-production, the film is directed by Renan Ozturk, who co-directed the critically acclaimed Sherpa and was the cinematographer and one of the main subjects of Sundance award winner Meru, and Freddie Wilkinson, a renowned Alpinist and adventure writer.
The Sanctity Of Space is in the vein of Oscar winner Free Solo and Dawn Wall,...
- 5/7/2019
- by Jeremy Kay
- ScreenDaily
New York-based Visit Films has acquired international sales rights to doc “The Sanctity of Space,” co-directed by Renan Ozturk.
Ozturk was one of the cinematographers and climbers on “Meru,” the breakthrough film of “Free Solo” directors Jimmy Chin and E. Chai Vasarhely.
Also a Dp and and director of high-altitude scenes on “Sherpa,” which Variety acclaimed as packing a “visual and emotional punch,” Ozturk co-directs “The Sanctity of Space” with climber-writer Freddie Wilkinson.
Visit Films will be presenting a private promo of the film, currently in post-production, to key partners at the Efm.
“The Sanctity of Space” follows climbing buddies Ozturk, Wilkinson and Zack Smith as they retrace the steps of legendary mountaineer, explorer and photographer Bradford Washburn, who put up many of the first ascents in Alaska.
Inspired by Washburn’s photographs of Alaska’s Denali National Park in Alaska from 75 years ago, “The Sanctity of Space” weaves Washburn...
Ozturk was one of the cinematographers and climbers on “Meru,” the breakthrough film of “Free Solo” directors Jimmy Chin and E. Chai Vasarhely.
Also a Dp and and director of high-altitude scenes on “Sherpa,” which Variety acclaimed as packing a “visual and emotional punch,” Ozturk co-directs “The Sanctity of Space” with climber-writer Freddie Wilkinson.
Visit Films will be presenting a private promo of the film, currently in post-production, to key partners at the Efm.
“The Sanctity of Space” follows climbing buddies Ozturk, Wilkinson and Zack Smith as they retrace the steps of legendary mountaineer, explorer and photographer Bradford Washburn, who put up many of the first ascents in Alaska.
Inspired by Washburn’s photographs of Alaska’s Denali National Park in Alaska from 75 years ago, “The Sanctity of Space” weaves Washburn...
- 2/8/2019
- by John Hopewell
- Variety Film + TV
‘Jirga’ won the Aacta for Best Indie Film.
Director Benjamin Gilmour’s Jirga took home the inaugural Aacta Award for Best Indie Film – designed to honour films made under $2 million – at the Aacta Industry Luncheon in Sydney yesterday.
The film, produced by John Maynard, beat out Strange Colours, Brothers’ Nest, West of Sunshine and The Second. Starring Sam Smith as a former Australian soldier who returns to Afghanistan seeking forgiveness, Jirga is also Australia’s submission for Best Foreign Language Film at the upcoming Academy Awards.
Some 35 awards were given away at yesterday’s Aacta event, hosted by actress Kat Stewart and comedian Nazeem Hussain. Other key feature film winners were Sweet Country and Ladies in Black, which each took home three gongs.
David Tranter and Steven McGregor won Best Original Screenplay for Sweet Country, while film’s director and Dop Warwick Thornton was honoured with the award for Best...
Director Benjamin Gilmour’s Jirga took home the inaugural Aacta Award for Best Indie Film – designed to honour films made under $2 million – at the Aacta Industry Luncheon in Sydney yesterday.
The film, produced by John Maynard, beat out Strange Colours, Brothers’ Nest, West of Sunshine and The Second. Starring Sam Smith as a former Australian soldier who returns to Afghanistan seeking forgiveness, Jirga is also Australia’s submission for Best Foreign Language Film at the upcoming Academy Awards.
Some 35 awards were given away at yesterday’s Aacta event, hosted by actress Kat Stewart and comedian Nazeem Hussain. Other key feature film winners were Sweet Country and Ladies in Black, which each took home three gongs.
David Tranter and Steven McGregor won Best Original Screenplay for Sweet Country, while film’s director and Dop Warwick Thornton was honoured with the award for Best...
- 12/3/2018
- by jkeast
- IF.com.au
Get ready for your heart to skip a few beats if you plan to see the current film “Mountain,” featuring goosebumps-inducing footage of wingsuiters, tightrope walkers, Base jumpers, skiers, mountain bikers and rock climbers pursuing passions that take them to the world’s highest peaks, from Alaska to Tibet.
To make the movie, director Jennifer Peedom relied on the skills of Renan Ozturk, a cinematographer who’s also a mountaineer. While Ozturk shot some fresh footage for “Mountain,” the film is mostly assembled from existing clips he lensed, as well as other images from mountaineers culled from multiple suppliers, as evidenced by the film’s lengthy credits list. Peedom, who also worked with Ozturk on her 2015 documentary “Sherpa,” was impressed by the process.
“When I couldn’t find something, Renan would know where to find it,” she says. “It would just take an email from him to say, ‘Hey, my...
To make the movie, director Jennifer Peedom relied on the skills of Renan Ozturk, a cinematographer who’s also a mountaineer. While Ozturk shot some fresh footage for “Mountain,” the film is mostly assembled from existing clips he lensed, as well as other images from mountaineers culled from multiple suppliers, as evidenced by the film’s lengthy credits list. Peedom, who also worked with Ozturk on her 2015 documentary “Sherpa,” was impressed by the process.
“When I couldn’t find something, Renan would know where to find it,” she says. “It would just take an email from him to say, ‘Hey, my...
- 5/17/2018
- by Christine Champagne
- Variety Film + TV
Greenwich Entertainment has picked up U.S. distribution rights to Mountain, the documentary from Sherpa director Jennifer Peedom and narrated by current Oscar nominee Willem Dafoe.
Reteaming Peedom with her Sherpa cinematographer Renan Ozturk, Mountain explores the powerful force that mountains have over our imagination and travels from Tibet to Australia, Alaska to Norway, using drones, Go-Pros and helicopters to capture mountaineers, climbers, heli skiers, wing suiters, snowboarders and parachuting mountain bikers.
The film – which had its world premiere at the Sydney Opera House, with accompaniment by the Australian Chamber Orchestra – was released in Australia and the U.K. last year,...
Reteaming Peedom with her Sherpa cinematographer Renan Ozturk, Mountain explores the powerful force that mountains have over our imagination and travels from Tibet to Australia, Alaska to Norway, using drones, Go-Pros and helicopters to capture mountaineers, climbers, heli skiers, wing suiters, snowboarders and parachuting mountain bikers.
The film – which had its world premiere at the Sydney Opera House, with accompaniment by the Australian Chamber Orchestra – was released in Australia and the U.K. last year,...
- 2/16/2018
- by Alex Ritman
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Dogwoof handles international sales at Efm.
Greenwich Entertainment has picked up Us rights to Mountain, documentarian Jennifer Peedom’s follow-up to Sherpa, which Dogwoof is touting to international buyers in Berlin.
Oscar-nominated Willem Dafoe narrates the montage of imagery and music that spans some of the world’s highest peaks from Tibet to Alaska.
Mountain focuses on the mountaineers, ice climbers, free soloists, heliskiers, wingsuiters snowboarders and parachuting mountain bikers who make the peaks their playground.
The project reunites Peedom with her Sherpa cinematographer Renan Ozturk (Meru), and features a collaboration with Richard Tognetti, artistic director of the Australian Chamber Orchestra, and British author Robert McFarlane.
Mountain received its world premiere at the Sydney Opera House with accompaniment by the Australian Chamber Orchestra, prior to the 2017 theatrical launches in Australia and the UK.
“In Mountain, filmmaker Jennifer Peedom has created a soaring, enthralling achievement that melds the visual/aural experiential approach of a movie like Baraka with the grand...
Greenwich Entertainment has picked up Us rights to Mountain, documentarian Jennifer Peedom’s follow-up to Sherpa, which Dogwoof is touting to international buyers in Berlin.
Oscar-nominated Willem Dafoe narrates the montage of imagery and music that spans some of the world’s highest peaks from Tibet to Alaska.
Mountain focuses on the mountaineers, ice climbers, free soloists, heliskiers, wingsuiters snowboarders and parachuting mountain bikers who make the peaks their playground.
The project reunites Peedom with her Sherpa cinematographer Renan Ozturk (Meru), and features a collaboration with Richard Tognetti, artistic director of the Australian Chamber Orchestra, and British author Robert McFarlane.
Mountain received its world premiere at the Sydney Opera House with accompaniment by the Australian Chamber Orchestra, prior to the 2017 theatrical launches in Australia and the UK.
“In Mountain, filmmaker Jennifer Peedom has created a soaring, enthralling achievement that melds the visual/aural experiential approach of a movie like Baraka with the grand...
- 2/16/2018
- by Jeremy Kay
- ScreenDaily
MaryAnn’s quick take… Dizzying and dazzling, this is a stirring meditation on the allure, the mystery, and the danger of the world’s highest summits, as places but also as ideas. I’m “biast” (pro): nothing
I’m “biast” (con): nothing
(what is this about? see my critic’s minifesto)
Documentarian Jennifer Peedom follows up her marvelous 2015 film Sherpa with another, and very different, perspective on the most soaring elements of our planet’s geography. Mountain is a meditative contemplation on the allure and the mystery, the provocation and the danger of the world’s highest peaks, as places but also as ideas. The perceptive and poetic narration, written by Peedom and Robert Macfarlane and voiced by Willem Dafoe (Murder on the Orient Express), is full of beauty — the “siren song of the summit”; “the mountains we climb are the mountains of the mind” — and snark: show-offy...
I’m “biast” (con): nothing
(what is this about? see my critic’s minifesto)
Documentarian Jennifer Peedom follows up her marvelous 2015 film Sherpa with another, and very different, perspective on the most soaring elements of our planet’s geography. Mountain is a meditative contemplation on the allure and the mystery, the provocation and the danger of the world’s highest peaks, as places but also as ideas. The perceptive and poetic narration, written by Peedom and Robert Macfarlane and voiced by Willem Dafoe (Murder on the Orient Express), is full of beauty — the “siren song of the summit”; “the mountains we climb are the mountains of the mind” — and snark: show-offy...
- 12/16/2017
- by MaryAnn Johanson
- www.flickfilosopher.com
Jen Peedom's Mountain.
Mountain, the latest documentary from Sherpa director Jen Peedom, will screen at this year.s Sydney Film Festival..
The festival, now in its 64th year, today announced 28 films ahead of the full program launch in May..
Mountain, which features a score by Richard Tognetti.performed by the Australian Chamber Orchestra, explores the history of people's fascination with mountains and why they risk their lives for them. The film is written by Robert MacFarlane, author of.Mountains of the Mind,.and saw Peedom reunite with Renan Ozturk, Sherpa's main altitude cinematographer.
Other local fare includes.That.s Not Me, from Melbourne husband and wife duo Gregory Erdstein (director-writer) and Alice Foulcher (star and writer-producer). The indie comedy has already screened in the States, with Sff marking its Australian premiere..
Hollie Fifer.s controversial docoThe Opposition.will also screen after being suppressed by a court order last year.
Mountain, the latest documentary from Sherpa director Jen Peedom, will screen at this year.s Sydney Film Festival..
The festival, now in its 64th year, today announced 28 films ahead of the full program launch in May..
Mountain, which features a score by Richard Tognetti.performed by the Australian Chamber Orchestra, explores the history of people's fascination with mountains and why they risk their lives for them. The film is written by Robert MacFarlane, author of.Mountains of the Mind,.and saw Peedom reunite with Renan Ozturk, Sherpa's main altitude cinematographer.
Other local fare includes.That.s Not Me, from Melbourne husband and wife duo Gregory Erdstein (director-writer) and Alice Foulcher (star and writer-producer). The indie comedy has already screened in the States, with Sff marking its Australian premiere..
Hollie Fifer.s controversial docoThe Opposition.will also screen after being suppressed by a court order last year.
- 4/4/2017
- by Jackie Keast
- IF.com.au
Jen Peedom.
Sherpa director Jen Peedom is hard at work on her next feature, Mountain, which she describes as "something I've been discussing with Richard Tognetti from the Australian Chamber Orchestra for a long time".
The film was "primarily conceived as a visual work", said Peedom, "to explore the history of our fascination with mountains, why we're so drawn to them and why some people risk their lives for them"..
Mountain sees Peedom again collaborating with Renan Ozturk, Sherpa's main altitude cinematographer and a North-Face sponsored climber.
"He's got an incredible library, and has hooked us up with all these other cinematographers"..
Peedom also brought in a writer, Robert Macfarlane, who wrote the multi-award winning book Mountains of the Mind, to provide narration.
"He's writing this really sparse narration script, almost poetry"..
Alongside Tognetti (providing the film's score), Ozturk and McFarland, Peedom's other key collaborator on the film is her Sherpa editor Christian Gazal,...
Sherpa director Jen Peedom is hard at work on her next feature, Mountain, which she describes as "something I've been discussing with Richard Tognetti from the Australian Chamber Orchestra for a long time".
The film was "primarily conceived as a visual work", said Peedom, "to explore the history of our fascination with mountains, why we're so drawn to them and why some people risk their lives for them"..
Mountain sees Peedom again collaborating with Renan Ozturk, Sherpa's main altitude cinematographer and a North-Face sponsored climber.
"He's got an incredible library, and has hooked us up with all these other cinematographers"..
Peedom also brought in a writer, Robert Macfarlane, who wrote the multi-award winning book Mountains of the Mind, to provide narration.
"He's writing this really sparse narration script, almost poetry"..
Alongside Tognetti (providing the film's score), Ozturk and McFarland, Peedom's other key collaborator on the film is her Sherpa editor Christian Gazal,...
- 4/11/2016
- by Harry Windsor
- IF.com.au
★★★☆☆ Anyone with a fear of heights should look away now. Jimmy Chin and Elisabeth Chai Vasarhelyi's Meru is at its dizzying best when the filmmaking duo allow the facts and images of an astonishing feat to speak for themselves. Described by Buddhists as "the centre of the universe," the knife-edge summit atop the Shark's Fin of Mount Meru sits over 20,000 feet up in the northernmost reaches of India. The precarious sliver of snowy ground is the pinnacle, both literal and figurative, of the climbing world. Chin, veteran mountaineering partner Conrad Anker and new recruit Renan Ozturk spent years planning, and a number of weeks in the attempted execution, of the impossible.
- 3/7/2016
- by CineVue UK
- CineVue
Prior to today’s Oscar nomination announcements, Joshua Oppenheimer‘s follow up/ companion film to the haunting The Act of Killing won the top prizes at the 2015 Cinema Eye Honors. The Look of Silence claimed the Outstanding Achievement in Nonfiction Feature, Outstanding Achievement in Direction for Joshua Oppenheimer and Outstanding Achievement in Production for the film’s producer Signe Byrge Sorensen. Jimmy Chin and Chai Vasarhelyi’s Sundance preemed docu landed a pair of wins. Here is the list of worthy winners per category.
Winners:
Outstanding Achievement in Nonfiction Feature Filmmaking: “The Look of Silence,” directed by Joshua Oppenheimer, produced by Signe Byrge Sorensen
Outstanding Achievement in Direction: Joshua Oppenheimer, “The Look of Silence”
Outstanding Achievement in Editing: Chris King, “Amy”
Outstanding Achievement in Production: Signe Byrge Sorensen, “The Look of Silence”
Outstanding Achievement in Cinematography: (tie) Matthew Heineman and Matt Porwoll, “Cartel Land,” and Jimmy Chin and Renan Ozturk,...
Winners:
Outstanding Achievement in Nonfiction Feature Filmmaking: “The Look of Silence,” directed by Joshua Oppenheimer, produced by Signe Byrge Sorensen
Outstanding Achievement in Direction: Joshua Oppenheimer, “The Look of Silence”
Outstanding Achievement in Editing: Chris King, “Amy”
Outstanding Achievement in Production: Signe Byrge Sorensen, “The Look of Silence”
Outstanding Achievement in Cinematography: (tie) Matthew Heineman and Matt Porwoll, “Cartel Land,” and Jimmy Chin and Renan Ozturk,...
- 1/14/2016
- by Eric Lavallee
- IONCINEMA.com
Joshua Oppenheimer's The Look of Silence has won three awards at the ninth annual Cinema Eye Honors for Nonfiction Filmmaking: Outstanding Achievement, Direction and, for Signe Byrge Sørensen, Production. Cinematography's a tie: Matthew Heineman and Matt Porwoll for Cartel Land and Jimmy Chin and Renan Ozturk for Meru, which has won the Audience Award. Chris King takes the Editing award for Amy. Laurie Anderson's won the Original Music Score award for Heart of a Dog. We've got the complete list of winners. » - David Hudson...
- 1/14/2016
- Keyframe
Joshua Oppenheimer's The Look of Silence has won three awards at the ninth annual Cinema Eye Honors for Nonfiction Filmmaking: Outstanding Achievement, Direction and, for Signe Byrge Sørensen, Production. Cinematography's a tie: Matthew Heineman and Matt Porwoll for Cartel Land and Jimmy Chin and Renan Ozturk for Meru, which has won the Audience Award. Chris King takes the Editing award for Amy. Laurie Anderson's won the Original Music Score award for Heart of a Dog. We've got the complete list of winners. » - David Hudson...
- 1/14/2016
- Fandor: Keyframe
This is definitely the time of year when film critic types (I’m sure you know who I mean) spend an inordinate amount of time leading up to awards season—and it all leads up to awards season, don’t it?—compiling lists and trying to convince anyone who will listen that it was a shitty year at the movies for anyone who liked something other than what they saw and liked. And ‘tis the season, or at least ‘thas (?) been in the recent past, for that most beloved of academic parlor games, bemoaning the death of cinema, which, if the sackcloth-and-ashes-clad among us are to be believed, is an increasingly detached and irrelevant art form in the process of being smothered under the wet, steaming blanket of American blockbuster-it is. And it’s going all malnourished from the siphoning off of all the talent back to TV, which, as everyone knows,...
- 1/9/2016
- by Dennis Cozzalio
- Trailers from Hell
Jimmy Chin on Mount Meru Photo: Renan Ozturk
In Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi and Jimmy Chin's Oscar shortlisted Best Documentary Film nominee Meru, three of the world’s most accomplished mountain climbers, Conrad Anker, Renan Ozturk and Chin himself, attempt to conquer nature, outward and inward, to reach the Shark’s Fin on Mount Meru, the heretofore impossible peak in the Himalayas. The footage is breathtaking, the obstacles seem insurmountable, the trust and friendship between them has to be complete and you will find yourself cheering them on.
Jimmy Chin: "I owe so much to Conrad …" Photo: Anne-Katrin Titze
The Arnold Fanck films with Luis Trenker and Leni Riefenstahl The Holy Mountain (Der Heilige Berg) and The Great Leap (Der Grosse Sprung) and Storm Over Mont Blanc (Stürme Über Dem Mont Blanc) with Riefenstahl and Sepp Rist came to mind as I spoke with Jimmy Chin. He expressed his love of the ocean,...
In Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi and Jimmy Chin's Oscar shortlisted Best Documentary Film nominee Meru, three of the world’s most accomplished mountain climbers, Conrad Anker, Renan Ozturk and Chin himself, attempt to conquer nature, outward and inward, to reach the Shark’s Fin on Mount Meru, the heretofore impossible peak in the Himalayas. The footage is breathtaking, the obstacles seem insurmountable, the trust and friendship between them has to be complete and you will find yourself cheering them on.
Jimmy Chin: "I owe so much to Conrad …" Photo: Anne-Katrin Titze
The Arnold Fanck films with Luis Trenker and Leni Riefenstahl The Holy Mountain (Der Heilige Berg) and The Great Leap (Der Grosse Sprung) and Storm Over Mont Blanc (Stürme Über Dem Mont Blanc) with Riefenstahl and Sepp Rist came to mind as I spoke with Jimmy Chin. He expressed his love of the ocean,...
- 1/6/2016
- by Anne-Katrin Titze
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
Submarine and Dogwoof have acquired all rights—minus Australia/New Zealand and German-speaking territories—to "Sherpa" director Jennifer Peedom’s "Mountain," an examination of humankind's troubled and triumphant relationship with mountains in the vein of "Baraka" (Ron Fricke, 1992) and "Koyaanisqatsi" (Godfrey Reggio, 1982). Read More: "Review: A Decade After Qatsi Trilogy, Avant-Garde Cine-Poem 'Visitors' Marks Godfrey Reggio's Triumphant Return" "Mountain," currently in production, is a collaboration between Peedom and the Australian Chamber Orchestra, and features cinematography by Renan Ozturk, the Dp behind the gorgeous images of "Sherpa" and Producers Guild nominee "Meru." Renowned author Robert Macfarlane, whose best-selling book "Mountains of the Mind" explores similar themes contained in this work, will write the narration. Watch: "How Star Climber Jimmy...
- 11/24/2015
- by Matt Brennan
- Thompson on Hollywood
Meru
Directed byJimmy Chin and Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi
USA, 2015
There’s a fine line between determination and obsession, and it’s often ambiguous as to where the subjects of Meru, a new documentary about three men’s ambition to climb one of the world’s most treacherous mountains, find themselves. In fact, it often seems as if the men themselves don’t know, nor do their families, and it barely seems to matter: they have their fixations, and they will remain as such regardless of how they’re classified.
The three men are Conrad Anker, Renan Ozturk, and Jimmy Chin (who also co-directed the film with Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi), professional climbers for whom one goal appears to subsume all others: reaching the top of the titular mountain. As they explain in the film’s opening moments, with the aid of writer Jon Krakauer (author of Into Thin Air, a gripping...
Directed byJimmy Chin and Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi
USA, 2015
There’s a fine line between determination and obsession, and it’s often ambiguous as to where the subjects of Meru, a new documentary about three men’s ambition to climb one of the world’s most treacherous mountains, find themselves. In fact, it often seems as if the men themselves don’t know, nor do their families, and it barely seems to matter: they have their fixations, and they will remain as such regardless of how they’re classified.
The three men are Conrad Anker, Renan Ozturk, and Jimmy Chin (who also co-directed the film with Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi), professional climbers for whom one goal appears to subsume all others: reaching the top of the titular mountain. As they explain in the film’s opening moments, with the aid of writer Jon Krakauer (author of Into Thin Air, a gripping...
- 8/30/2015
- by Max Bledstein
- SoundOnSight
The documentary about the struggle to conquer the Shark’s Fin on the northern India peak was long in the making – but offers a rare glimpse of the psychological torment of climbers insistent on pushing themselves to their physical limit
In 2008, Conrad Anker and Jimmy Chin, two of the world’s strongest climbers, partnered up with relative newcomer Renan Ozturk to tackle the Shark’s Fin on Meru, a 21,000-foot knife edge balanced on a mix of technical rock slabs, snow and rotten ice in northern India.
It had never been summited before, and their attempt went about as badly as it could: they ran out of food, suffered frostbite, and were forced to turn back just 100 meters from the summit. Despite the damage, Anker, now 52, spent the following three years “possessed” by the Shark’s Fin. Not even a traumatic brain injury Ozturk sustained backcountry skiing or an avalanche...
In 2008, Conrad Anker and Jimmy Chin, two of the world’s strongest climbers, partnered up with relative newcomer Renan Ozturk to tackle the Shark’s Fin on Meru, a 21,000-foot knife edge balanced on a mix of technical rock slabs, snow and rotten ice in northern India.
It had never been summited before, and their attempt went about as badly as it could: they ran out of food, suffered frostbite, and were forced to turn back just 100 meters from the summit. Despite the damage, Anker, now 52, spent the following three years “possessed” by the Shark’s Fin. Not even a traumatic brain injury Ozturk sustained backcountry skiing or an avalanche...
- 8/26/2015
- by Caty Enders
- The Guardian - Film News
Stakes are high when climbing one of the most inhospitable peaks in the world, and deciding whether a shot at glory warrants the tremendous risks is not a painless task. Located above the Ganges River in a remote location in Northern India, Mount Meru represented the ultimate test for a group of renowned American climbers. This mountain had defeated some of the best teams in the sport and remained unconquered for many years until the relentless reached the summit. Jimmy Chin, Conrad Anker, and Renan Ozturk persevere through hardships and near-death experiences to stand where no human had before. Their quest for this historic first ascent and their unbreakable high-altitude friendships are documented in a film simply titled “Meru.”
Chin was not only part of the action at 21, 000 feet, but he is the co-director of the film and the one in charge of shooting the breathtaking and often frightening footage under strenuous circumstances. Documentarian Chai Vasarhelyi served as the other half of this filmmaking team to create a narrative that could enthrall audiences beyond those already interested in mountain climbing or extreme sports. By centering their story on Chin’s relationships with his teammates and the utmost respect they feel for one another, the co-directors captured the human drama heightened by this astonishing natural setting.
"Meru" had it’s World Premiere at this year’s Sundance Film Festival and has now been released by Music Box Films in L.A, NYC, and other cities around the country.
Aguilar: It seems like you two were on completely different paths career wise, how did you connect and began working on this project together?
Chai Vasarhelyi: Jimmy and I met at a conference. He knew I was a documentary filmmaker and he was in the process of making this film. He shared a cut with me, and I don’t know if you know this but Jimmy and I are now married, so in the process of getting to know him I became involved with the film.
Aguilar: Jimmy, what are some of the reasons you are so passionate about climbing despite the risks? It is the rush or the feeling of accomplishment that come with each incredible feat?
Jimmy Chin: It’s kind of why a musician makes music or why an artist makes art. It’s what they do. It’s what they love. It’s what they are passionate about. It’s gratifying on a lot of levels. It just happens that mountain climbing has these risks. Whether or not you consider me lucky or unlucky as somebody who’s found their passion, because I don’t think everybody necessarily finds his or hers, that’s one thing, but mine happens to be climbing. It’s an incredible way to interact with the landscape, to be outside, to spend time with friends, to travel, and I love physical movement of it. It’s also very cerebral, it requires a lot of difficult decision-making all the time. You are constantly making decisions and some minds like that. Mathematicians have a certain type of mind, and climbers have a certain type of mind, because climbing poses these incredibly interesting problems for them. Those are some of the reasons why I love it. It’s also very beautiful and an incredible experience.
Aguilar: Shooting footage while climbing must add another layer of complexity to the already physically demanding environment. How do you manage these two different aspects simultaneously?
Jimmy Chin: The thing is that climbing and my filming have really grown together. They didn’t just paralleled each other but they grew together. When I go on a big climb or an expedition, it’s just part of the process to shoot. Of course, Meru was an extremely challenging climb and the filming of it was extremely challenging as well. It was kind of like the ultimate test for me and what I do on a lot of different levels. But definitely, the shooting was extraordinarily challenging. Managing the physical duress that you are under, like staying warm and other things, while dealing with is this other narrative in your head as you think about filming.
Aguilar: Chai, do you feel like you bring a different point of view given that you are not a climber? Was that part of the reason why you wanted to work on this film?
Chai Vasarhelyi: Yes, I think that was the strength of the collaboration. My role was to really be objective as a non-climber and to focus on the human story and the emotional journey of the characters. That’s how Jimmy and I worked. I was supposed to be an outside voice
Aguilar: Obviously, you were not present during the shooting and saw the footage after the fact. Does that change the dynamic for you as a filmmaker when trying to assemble the story?
Chai Vasarhelyi: I think in all of the films I’ve made is the human story that’s really important to me. This is the first time I wasn’t present in the action, I wasn’t in the mountain. Every other film I’ve made I was immersed in the action, so it’s a different type of challenge but I think the approach is very similar as with my other work.
Aguilar: One of the most remarkable things about the film was witnessing this special kind of friendship that climbers share. They are not just friends, their bond is much more profound because their lives depend on each other.
Jimmy Chin: One of the motivations for me in making the film was to make a film that really spoke to what I found to be the most profound aspect of climbing, which was the friendships that it created and mentorship. My whole career exists because I had really incredible mentors. The power of that mentorship, the power of the friendship and what you can achieve when you put those things together, that was really the focus and very essential to the film for sure. It makes me very happy that you found the story about our friendships very powerful because that was something I felt was really important and special about climbing.
Aguilar: Climbing is a collective sport, just like filmmaking is a collective art form. Neither of them can be done without the help of some like-minded people.
Jimmy Chin: We talked a lot about the parallels between filmmaking and climbing mountains just in terms of the commitment it requires, absolute devotion, and the belief that you are going to make a film and that the film is going to be Ok, as well as the risks you have to take. You are never going to climb anything great if you don’t take risks, and I don’t feel like you can ever make a really great film without taking risks either.
Aguilar: There is a point in the film when we don't know if you are going to continue or not. Was that a turning point for you or did you ever consider retiring from the sport?
Jimmy Chin: After the avalanche it wasn’t like I didn’t think I was gonna do any more expeditions, but it shook me pretty deeply. I didn’t really know how to manage it very well. I certainly wasn’t thinking that I was going back to Meru at that point. I was so far from even considering it. It wasn’t like I didn’t think I could do Meru, I just wasn’t even thinking about it. What really came to me was that climbing as sport and as practice is really important to me, but it’s also my community and how I interact with my peers. To take that away was too much to think about. I still love it. I live to climb. It gives me a lot of joy and purpose.
Aguilar: Conquering Meru and making a film while doing it must be a surreal, gratifying and emotional triumph.
Jimmy Chin: I would say, of course, as a climber first ascends are your legacy. We kept really pushing and I’m proud and happy to have done it. I really appreciate that the film says what I wanted to say and it’s going to outlive me. For me the film has been something I’ m incredibly happy about.
Aguilar: Chai, while watching the footage were you shocked at the lengths these men will go to achieve their dream?
Chai Vasarhelyi: It was actually a little different because I only got involved after they had finished the climb, so I knew the outcome. But I definitely found the lengths to which they went to achieve this very moving. What I also found very moving was the act of friendship that allows them to bring Ranan back on the second climb and how it shows that the objective was not necessarily the summit, it was more important for them to remain a team and to honor that friendship and teamwork. I though that with the right structural work and emotional work this could really fulfill Jimmy’s vision of what he wanted the film to say and could help this film reach a wider audience beyond the core audience.
Aguilar: Jimmy, tell me about Conrad and how important has his mentoring been for you and for the film. From what we see in "Meru," he seems like an amazing character.
Jimmy Chin: Conrad is an incredibly humble and generous soul. He also happens to be one of the great climbers of our time and one of the most prolific climbers of our time. I really do owe my career to Conrad. He took me under his wing and believed in me. I've always wanted to share this. Part of what I wanted to show is what an incredible person Conrad is. I’ve spent ten years worth of expeditions with him. When you spend that much time with somebody in those kind of circumstances and you come out of it thinking that person is more incredible than when you first met them, that says a lot because during that time you see every side of that person. Hopefully the film shows what kind of character Conrad is. I didn’t make him out to be more than he is. It’s incredibly meaningful to me that Conrad likes the film [Laughs].
Aguilar: Are there any mountains out there you still hope to climb someday?
Jimmy Chin: There are a few out there, but we also have a daughter. My world isn’t just consumed by climbing. Making films and the creative aspects of life are very gratifying for me as well. There are some film projects in development that we are thinking about right now.
Chin was not only part of the action at 21, 000 feet, but he is the co-director of the film and the one in charge of shooting the breathtaking and often frightening footage under strenuous circumstances. Documentarian Chai Vasarhelyi served as the other half of this filmmaking team to create a narrative that could enthrall audiences beyond those already interested in mountain climbing or extreme sports. By centering their story on Chin’s relationships with his teammates and the utmost respect they feel for one another, the co-directors captured the human drama heightened by this astonishing natural setting.
"Meru" had it’s World Premiere at this year’s Sundance Film Festival and has now been released by Music Box Films in L.A, NYC, and other cities around the country.
Aguilar: It seems like you two were on completely different paths career wise, how did you connect and began working on this project together?
Chai Vasarhelyi: Jimmy and I met at a conference. He knew I was a documentary filmmaker and he was in the process of making this film. He shared a cut with me, and I don’t know if you know this but Jimmy and I are now married, so in the process of getting to know him I became involved with the film.
Aguilar: Jimmy, what are some of the reasons you are so passionate about climbing despite the risks? It is the rush or the feeling of accomplishment that come with each incredible feat?
Jimmy Chin: It’s kind of why a musician makes music or why an artist makes art. It’s what they do. It’s what they love. It’s what they are passionate about. It’s gratifying on a lot of levels. It just happens that mountain climbing has these risks. Whether or not you consider me lucky or unlucky as somebody who’s found their passion, because I don’t think everybody necessarily finds his or hers, that’s one thing, but mine happens to be climbing. It’s an incredible way to interact with the landscape, to be outside, to spend time with friends, to travel, and I love physical movement of it. It’s also very cerebral, it requires a lot of difficult decision-making all the time. You are constantly making decisions and some minds like that. Mathematicians have a certain type of mind, and climbers have a certain type of mind, because climbing poses these incredibly interesting problems for them. Those are some of the reasons why I love it. It’s also very beautiful and an incredible experience.
Aguilar: Shooting footage while climbing must add another layer of complexity to the already physically demanding environment. How do you manage these two different aspects simultaneously?
Jimmy Chin: The thing is that climbing and my filming have really grown together. They didn’t just paralleled each other but they grew together. When I go on a big climb or an expedition, it’s just part of the process to shoot. Of course, Meru was an extremely challenging climb and the filming of it was extremely challenging as well. It was kind of like the ultimate test for me and what I do on a lot of different levels. But definitely, the shooting was extraordinarily challenging. Managing the physical duress that you are under, like staying warm and other things, while dealing with is this other narrative in your head as you think about filming.
Aguilar: Chai, do you feel like you bring a different point of view given that you are not a climber? Was that part of the reason why you wanted to work on this film?
Chai Vasarhelyi: Yes, I think that was the strength of the collaboration. My role was to really be objective as a non-climber and to focus on the human story and the emotional journey of the characters. That’s how Jimmy and I worked. I was supposed to be an outside voice
Aguilar: Obviously, you were not present during the shooting and saw the footage after the fact. Does that change the dynamic for you as a filmmaker when trying to assemble the story?
Chai Vasarhelyi: I think in all of the films I’ve made is the human story that’s really important to me. This is the first time I wasn’t present in the action, I wasn’t in the mountain. Every other film I’ve made I was immersed in the action, so it’s a different type of challenge but I think the approach is very similar as with my other work.
Aguilar: One of the most remarkable things about the film was witnessing this special kind of friendship that climbers share. They are not just friends, their bond is much more profound because their lives depend on each other.
Jimmy Chin: One of the motivations for me in making the film was to make a film that really spoke to what I found to be the most profound aspect of climbing, which was the friendships that it created and mentorship. My whole career exists because I had really incredible mentors. The power of that mentorship, the power of the friendship and what you can achieve when you put those things together, that was really the focus and very essential to the film for sure. It makes me very happy that you found the story about our friendships very powerful because that was something I felt was really important and special about climbing.
Aguilar: Climbing is a collective sport, just like filmmaking is a collective art form. Neither of them can be done without the help of some like-minded people.
Jimmy Chin: We talked a lot about the parallels between filmmaking and climbing mountains just in terms of the commitment it requires, absolute devotion, and the belief that you are going to make a film and that the film is going to be Ok, as well as the risks you have to take. You are never going to climb anything great if you don’t take risks, and I don’t feel like you can ever make a really great film without taking risks either.
Aguilar: There is a point in the film when we don't know if you are going to continue or not. Was that a turning point for you or did you ever consider retiring from the sport?
Jimmy Chin: After the avalanche it wasn’t like I didn’t think I was gonna do any more expeditions, but it shook me pretty deeply. I didn’t really know how to manage it very well. I certainly wasn’t thinking that I was going back to Meru at that point. I was so far from even considering it. It wasn’t like I didn’t think I could do Meru, I just wasn’t even thinking about it. What really came to me was that climbing as sport and as practice is really important to me, but it’s also my community and how I interact with my peers. To take that away was too much to think about. I still love it. I live to climb. It gives me a lot of joy and purpose.
Aguilar: Conquering Meru and making a film while doing it must be a surreal, gratifying and emotional triumph.
Jimmy Chin: I would say, of course, as a climber first ascends are your legacy. We kept really pushing and I’m proud and happy to have done it. I really appreciate that the film says what I wanted to say and it’s going to outlive me. For me the film has been something I’ m incredibly happy about.
Aguilar: Chai, while watching the footage were you shocked at the lengths these men will go to achieve their dream?
Chai Vasarhelyi: It was actually a little different because I only got involved after they had finished the climb, so I knew the outcome. But I definitely found the lengths to which they went to achieve this very moving. What I also found very moving was the act of friendship that allows them to bring Ranan back on the second climb and how it shows that the objective was not necessarily the summit, it was more important for them to remain a team and to honor that friendship and teamwork. I though that with the right structural work and emotional work this could really fulfill Jimmy’s vision of what he wanted the film to say and could help this film reach a wider audience beyond the core audience.
Aguilar: Jimmy, tell me about Conrad and how important has his mentoring been for you and for the film. From what we see in "Meru," he seems like an amazing character.
Jimmy Chin: Conrad is an incredibly humble and generous soul. He also happens to be one of the great climbers of our time and one of the most prolific climbers of our time. I really do owe my career to Conrad. He took me under his wing and believed in me. I've always wanted to share this. Part of what I wanted to show is what an incredible person Conrad is. I’ve spent ten years worth of expeditions with him. When you spend that much time with somebody in those kind of circumstances and you come out of it thinking that person is more incredible than when you first met them, that says a lot because during that time you see every side of that person. Hopefully the film shows what kind of character Conrad is. I didn’t make him out to be more than he is. It’s incredibly meaningful to me that Conrad likes the film [Laughs].
Aguilar: Are there any mountains out there you still hope to climb someday?
Jimmy Chin: There are a few out there, but we also have a daughter. My world isn’t just consumed by climbing. Making films and the creative aspects of life are very gratifying for me as well. There are some film projects in development that we are thinking about right now.
- 8/21/2015
- by Carlos Aguilar
- Sydney's Buzz
“Pulse-pounding” is an adjective that’s too often used in cases where it is less than just. Any action film with a pace above what would otherwise be called “jaunty” will see this descriptor attached via some less than verbose critics and every thriller under the sun has seen the “heart racing” moniker on its home video release back cover. However, every so often, a film comes along that gets hearts racing like a bat out of hell.
One such film hits theaters this Friday, and comes to us from Music Box Films and directors Jimmy Chin and E. Chai Vasarhelyi. Entitled Meru, this new documentary brings us to one of the most dangerous places in the world. The Shark’s Fin on Mount Meru, in Northern India, is one of the big prizes in the dangerous world of big-wall climbing. Seemingly laughing in the faces of all who attempt to climb her majestic peaks,...
One such film hits theaters this Friday, and comes to us from Music Box Films and directors Jimmy Chin and E. Chai Vasarhelyi. Entitled Meru, this new documentary brings us to one of the most dangerous places in the world. The Shark’s Fin on Mount Meru, in Northern India, is one of the big prizes in the dangerous world of big-wall climbing. Seemingly laughing in the faces of all who attempt to climb her majestic peaks,...
- 8/14/2015
- by Joshua Brunsting
- CriterionCast
"Meru" follows three climbers: Conrad Anker and Renan Ozturk and me on our two attempts of the one of the most notorious high altitude big wall climbs in the world. Having beaten back some of the world's best Himalayan big wall climbers, The Shark's Fin on Meru has seen more attempts and failures than any climb in the Himalaya. Read More: 'Cartel Land' Director on How to Insert Yourself into Dangerous and Impossible Situations What makes Meru such a difficult climb is the fact that it requires climbing at a high level in all the disciplines of climbing - ice climbing, mixed climbing, rock climbing, aid climbing and being strong at altitude. The mountain is also stacked in a perverse manner. There is 4000 feet of alpine climbing on steep snow, ice and rock which normally requires going light and fast. The great challenge is that there is a...
- 8/13/2015
- by Jimmy Chin
- Indiewire
Elite mountain climber Jimmy Chin and Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi collaborated on a movie, "Meru" (Music Box, August 14) unlike any you've ever seen before. The difference between this survival doc and others like "Touching the Void" is that professional mountaineer Jimmy Chin, 41, one of a team of three Alpinists who first ascended the Shark's fin route up the central peak of the Himalayan mountain (20,700ft) in October, 2011, is that he juggles three careers as climber, filmmaker and National Geographic photographer. (He's so busy that when Hollywood came calling to get his help on "Everest" he was unavailable.) For "Meru" he and fellow climber Renan Ozturk documented two difficult ascents led by climber legend Conrad Anker. On the first one in 2008, which Chin shot with a little Panasonic, the trio encountered blizzards which delayed their climb, reduced their rations, and forced them to turn back 100 yards from the summit. "It's...
- 8/12/2015
- by Anne Thompson
- Thompson on Hollywood
Treacherous Journey to The Top Shows Unmeasured Determination
At over 20,000 feet, the highest peak of the Meru Mountain, also known as the Shark’s Fin, exists as a monument of nature’s boundless capacity and power. For a group of mountain climbers who aspires to be the first to conquer it, the peak exists solely to taunt as a mammoth mark of the unattainable. Following Conrad Anker, Jimmy Chin (the director/producer/cinematographer), and Renan Ozturk, Meru serves as perennial struggle between man and nature and self.
The long-standing partnership between climbers Anker and Chin was cultivated through many years and perilous excursions. The trust required in their life and death situations is rooted in their understanding of each other and the path that they have ultimately chosen for themselves. Their families and loved ones can certainly attest to the fact that the life of a climber is not the...
At over 20,000 feet, the highest peak of the Meru Mountain, also known as the Shark’s Fin, exists as a monument of nature’s boundless capacity and power. For a group of mountain climbers who aspires to be the first to conquer it, the peak exists solely to taunt as a mammoth mark of the unattainable. Following Conrad Anker, Jimmy Chin (the director/producer/cinematographer), and Renan Ozturk, Meru serves as perennial struggle between man and nature and self.
The long-standing partnership between climbers Anker and Chin was cultivated through many years and perilous excursions. The trust required in their life and death situations is rooted in their understanding of each other and the path that they have ultimately chosen for themselves. Their families and loved ones can certainly attest to the fact that the life of a climber is not the...
- 8/10/2015
- by Amanda Yam
- IONCINEMA.com
Meru Music Box Films Reviewed by: Harvey Karten for Shockya. Databased on Rotten Tomatoes. Grade: B+ Director: Jimmy Chin, E. Chai Vaserhelyi Cast: Conrad Anker, Jimmy Chin, Renan Ozturk, Jon Krakauer, Jenni Lowe-Anker, Amee Hinkley, Grace Chin, Jeremy Jones Screened at: Review 2, NYC, 6/23/15 Opens: August 14, 2015 You say you like the beach—except for the water, the sand, the sun, the sharks, the human pee in the water. And you think snorkeling’s a bore and deep-sea diving is too dangerous? Then the mountains may be for you. You like to ski but you’re willing to raise the ante and do some climbing. Then you have something in common [ Read More ]
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- 8/10/2015
- by Harvey Karten
- ShockYa
Read More: Music Box Films Acquires Sundance Audience Award Winner 'Meru'Jimmy Chin and Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi's documentary "Meru" shocked Sundance audiences with its first-person account of three mountain climbers who set out to conquer the most treacherous and dangerous mountain peak in the world. Aptly named the "Shark's Fin," the peak of Mount Meru has served as an obsession and unattainable goal for renowned alpinists Conrad Anker, Jimmy Chin and Renan Ozturk. After their failed attempt to reach the top of Meru in 2008, the three climbers returned to their respective homes, defeated and still tempted to return to the Shark's Fin. In 2011, Anker convinced his two fellow climbers to attempt the deathly journey once more. "Meru" thus serves as the culmination and documentation of their death-defying and extraordinary second attempt. The documentary opens on August 14 in New York City and Los Angeles, with a national expansion to.
- 7/21/2015
- by Sarah Choi
- Indiewire
Music Box Films will release the Sundance Audience Award-winning documentary Meru in New York and Los Angeles on Aug. 14. The film tells of alpinists Conrad Anker, Jimmy Chin and Renan Ozturk who, in 2008, arrived in India to tackle the Shark's Fin on Mount Meru, which sits 21,000 feet above the sacred Ganges River. Their planned seven-day trip devolved into a 20-day odyssey and ultimately ended within 100 meters of the summit. Three years later the trio returned to once again attempt to reach the peak, this new documentary tells that story. Watch the trailer below. yt id="YvS6O9lVkkg" width="640"...
- 7/21/2015
- by Brad Brevet
- Rope of Silicon
Read More: Music Box Films Acquires Sundance Audience Award Winner 'Meru' After winning the Us Documentary Audience Award at this year's Sundance, the heart-pounding mountain climbing documentary "Meru" is soon set to hit theaters. To celebrate the release of Jimmy Chin and E. Chai Vasarhelyi's film, we're pleased to debut a brand new poster for the project. The official synopsis reads: "In the high-stakes pursuit of big-wall climbing, the Shark's Fin on Mount Meru may be the ultimate prize. Sitting 21,000 feet above the sacred Ganges River in Northern India, the mountain's perversely stacked obstacles make it both a nightmare and an irresistible calling for some of the world's toughest climbers. In October 2008, renowned alpinists Conrad Anker, Jimmy Chin and Renan Ozturk arrived in India to tackle Meru. Their planned seven-day trip quickly declined into a 20-day odyssey in sub-zero temperatures with depleting food rations. Despite making it to...
- 7/16/2015
- by Ethan Sapienza
- Indiewire
Courtesy of the San Francisco Film Society.
Meru may be a meaningless name to those who aren’t a part of the climbing community, but for three American alpinists, veteran Conrad Anker, photographer Jimmy Chin and freestyle extraordinaire Renan Ozturk, making the first successful ascent of the treacherous peak in the Gharwal Himalayas was a goal bordering on obsession. The documentary of their journey weaves together footage from the team’s two attempts, in 2008 and 2011, with interviews with the climbers as well as their loved ones.
Co-directed by Chin and documentary filmmaker E. Chai Vasarhelyi, Meru is a compelling narrative of friendship, teamwork and the triumph of man’s will in the most unforgiving of circumstances. Having won over Sundance earlier this year and taking the Audience Award, the two directors (also husband and wife since 2013) spent a few days promoting the film at the San Francisco International Film Festival,...
Meru may be a meaningless name to those who aren’t a part of the climbing community, but for three American alpinists, veteran Conrad Anker, photographer Jimmy Chin and freestyle extraordinaire Renan Ozturk, making the first successful ascent of the treacherous peak in the Gharwal Himalayas was a goal bordering on obsession. The documentary of their journey weaves together footage from the team’s two attempts, in 2008 and 2011, with interviews with the climbers as well as their loved ones.
Co-directed by Chin and documentary filmmaker E. Chai Vasarhelyi, Meru is a compelling narrative of friendship, teamwork and the triumph of man’s will in the most unforgiving of circumstances. Having won over Sundance earlier this year and taking the Audience Award, the two directors (also husband and wife since 2013) spent a few days promoting the film at the San Francisco International Film Festival,...
- 5/11/2015
- by Misa Shikuma
- SoundOnSight
Courtesy of the San Francisco Film Society.
T-Rex
Directed by Drea Cooper and Zackary Canepari
USA, 2015
T-Rex follows the harrowing journey of seventeen year old Claressa “T-Rex” Shields from her small hometown of Flint, Michigan, to London in the summer of 2012, where she is in contention for a gold medal in the newly added women’s boxing event. Although training at the elite level in any discipline is a remarkable feat on its own, Shields’ background, including an alcoholic mother and a father who was in prison for much of her childhood, makes her accomplishments all the more inspirational. And due to USA Boxing rules, her coach and surrogate father is forced to watch her biggest matches from the stands rather than be by her side at the ring. As much as Drea Cooper and Zackary Canepari’s film deals with overcoming adversity, Shields’ story is also a telling example...
T-Rex
Directed by Drea Cooper and Zackary Canepari
USA, 2015
T-Rex follows the harrowing journey of seventeen year old Claressa “T-Rex” Shields from her small hometown of Flint, Michigan, to London in the summer of 2012, where she is in contention for a gold medal in the newly added women’s boxing event. Although training at the elite level in any discipline is a remarkable feat on its own, Shields’ background, including an alcoholic mother and a father who was in prison for much of her childhood, makes her accomplishments all the more inspirational. And due to USA Boxing rules, her coach and surrogate father is forced to watch her biggest matches from the stands rather than be by her side at the ring. As much as Drea Cooper and Zackary Canepari’s film deals with overcoming adversity, Shields’ story is also a telling example...
- 5/5/2015
- by Misa Shikuma
- SoundOnSight
Over a period of years, three climbers — Conrad Anker, Jimmy Chin, and Renan Ozturk — make repeated efforts to scale a 21,000 foot peak in Northern India, Mount Meru. Jimmy Chin and Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi’s Meru is the chronicle of that quest, a story of not just mountain-climbing athleticism but also friendship and camaraderie. The winner of the U.S. Documentary Audience Award at the Sundance Film Festival, Meru, strikingly, was lensed by two of the film’s three climbers, with one of them suffering severe injuries on the climb — an accident that is part of the film’s story. Below, […]...
- 2/13/2015
- by Scott Macaulay
- Filmmaker Magazine - Blog
Over a period of years, three climbers — Conrad Anker, Jimmy Chin, and Renan Ozturk — make repeated efforts to scale a 21,000 foot peak in Northern India, Mount Meru. Jimmy Chin and Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi’s Meru is the chronicle of that quest, a story of not just mountain-climbing athleticism but also friendship and camaraderie. The winner of the U.S. Documentary Audience Award at the Sundance Film Festival, Meru, strikingly, was lensed by two of the film’s three climbers, with one of them suffering severe injuries on the climb — an accident that is part of the film’s story. Below, […]...
- 2/13/2015
- by Scott Macaulay
- Filmmaker Magazine-Director Interviews
Writer-director Jennifer Peedom was in her tent at the base camp at Mount Everest when the avalanche struck last month, killing 16 Nepali guides. An experienced climber, she was about 2km from the devastation but heard the noise. The Sherpas who had been hired for the Everest expedition she had planned to film were in the ice fall when the avalanche happened above the base camp. Fortunately none was killed or injured, but Peedom quickly realised the subject and tone of the feature documentary she was shooting had changed dramatically. With the working title Sherpa: In the Shadow of the Mountain, the film had intended to follow an Everest expedition from the viewpoints of the Sherpas and their sometimes uneasy relationships with foreign climbers. Subsequently the climbing season was cancelled as the Sherpas made demands on the government for compensation and insurance. .We knew this was the story we had to cover,...
- 5/13/2014
- by Don Groves
- IF.com.au
Producer Bridget Ikin sets off for Nepal next week to shoot a feature documentary knowing she has already scaled one mountain: a Us studio has bought worldwide rights to Sherpa: In the Shadow of the Mountain.
Co-produced by Ikin and John Maynard.s Felix Media and John Smithson of London-based Arrow Media, the film will follow an Everest expedition from the viewpoints of the Sherpas and their sometimes uneasy relationships with foreign climbers.
Writer/director Jennifer Peedom approached Smithson, who produced Touching the Void and 127 Hours. He agreed to serve as co-producer and introduced Ikin and Peedom to the Us studio.
That studio has yet to announce the deal but it guarantees worldwide cinema release excluding Australia and New Zealand, where Maynard and Rob Connolly.s Footprint Films retains the rights.
Peedom had been thinking about a docu on the Sherpas given the unrest among their ranks and the idea...
Co-produced by Ikin and John Maynard.s Felix Media and John Smithson of London-based Arrow Media, the film will follow an Everest expedition from the viewpoints of the Sherpas and their sometimes uneasy relationships with foreign climbers.
Writer/director Jennifer Peedom approached Smithson, who produced Touching the Void and 127 Hours. He agreed to serve as co-producer and introduced Ikin and Peedom to the Us studio.
That studio has yet to announce the deal but it guarantees worldwide cinema release excluding Australia and New Zealand, where Maynard and Rob Connolly.s Footprint Films retains the rights.
Peedom had been thinking about a docu on the Sherpas given the unrest among their ranks and the idea...
- 3/19/2014
- by Don Groves
- IF.com.au
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