Captures a burgeoning revolutionary spirit among a people who have been ignored, when they aren’t being taken advantage of, for too long. I’m “biast” (pro): nothing
I’m “biast” (con): nothing
(what is this about? see my critic’s minifesto)
The tension on Mount Everest had been building for years. Rich Westerners pay a fortune to climb the world’s highest peak, but the Sherpas — a Nepalese ethnic minority who live in the shadow of the mountain — do most of the hardest and most dangerous work paving the path for the adventure climbers, and are paid little and get next to no recognition for achieving the same high-altitude feats. There have been literal traffic jams — of foot traffic, that is — on the mountain in recent years as the experience has drawn more and more outsiders. In 2013 it all came to actual fisticuffs between the Sherpas and Westerners on Everest.
I’m “biast” (con): nothing
(what is this about? see my critic’s minifesto)
The tension on Mount Everest had been building for years. Rich Westerners pay a fortune to climb the world’s highest peak, but the Sherpas — a Nepalese ethnic minority who live in the shadow of the mountain — do most of the hardest and most dangerous work paving the path for the adventure climbers, and are paid little and get next to no recognition for achieving the same high-altitude feats. There have been literal traffic jams — of foot traffic, that is — on the mountain in recent years as the experience has drawn more and more outsiders. In 2013 it all came to actual fisticuffs between the Sherpas and Westerners on Everest.
- 12/2/2015
- by MaryAnn Johanson
- www.flickfilosopher.com
Exclusive: Jennifer Peedom, whose stirring documentary Sherpa receives its international premiere at Telluride on Friday night, has revealed her upcoming plans.
The Australian high-altitude director has earned plaudits for her chronicle of the ethnic Nepali mountain guides and their politicisation following dramatic and fatal events on Everest in the past few years.
And now Peedom plans to continue to convey her love for the sherpas with a biopic about arguably the most famous of them all, Tenzing Norgay.
The Indian and Nepali sherpa earned worldwide renown when he accompanied Edmund Hillary on the world’s first successful ascent of Everest in May 1953.
Peedom, who has travelled to the Himalayas on various projects for close to a decade and climbed most of the way to the summit as a high-altitude camera operator, also directed the documentary Miracle On Everest, among others.
She is currently producing Mountain with the Australian Chamber Orchestra prior to tacking the Norgay biopic.
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The Australian high-altitude director has earned plaudits for her chronicle of the ethnic Nepali mountain guides and their politicisation following dramatic and fatal events on Everest in the past few years.
And now Peedom plans to continue to convey her love for the sherpas with a biopic about arguably the most famous of them all, Tenzing Norgay.
The Indian and Nepali sherpa earned worldwide renown when he accompanied Edmund Hillary on the world’s first successful ascent of Everest in May 1953.
Peedom, who has travelled to the Himalayas on various projects for close to a decade and climbed most of the way to the summit as a high-altitude camera operator, also directed the documentary Miracle On Everest, among others.
She is currently producing Mountain with the Australian Chamber Orchestra prior to tacking the Norgay biopic.
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- 9/4/2015
- by [email protected] (Jeremy Kay)
- ScreenDaily
Neil Armfield.s Holding the Man, Simon Stone.s The Daughter, Jeremy Sims. Last Cab to Darwin and Jen Peedom.s feature doc Sherpa will have their world premieres at the Sydney Film Festival.
The festival program unveiled today includes 33 world premieres (including 22 shorts) and 135 Australian premieres (with 18 shorts) among 251 titles from 68 countries.
Among the other premieres will be Daina Reid.s The Secret River, Ruby Entertainment's. ABC-tv miniseries starring Oliver Jackson Cohen and Sarah Snook, and three Oz docs, Marc Eberle.s The Cambodian Space Project — Not Easy Rock .n. Roll, Steve Thomas. Freedom Stories and Lisa Nicol.s Wide Open Sky.
Festival director Nashen Moodley boasted. this year.s event will be far larger than 2014's when 183 films from 47 countries were screened, including 15 world premieres. The expansion is possible in part due to the addition of two new screening venues in Newtown and Liverpool.
As previously announced, Brendan Cowell...
The festival program unveiled today includes 33 world premieres (including 22 shorts) and 135 Australian premieres (with 18 shorts) among 251 titles from 68 countries.
Among the other premieres will be Daina Reid.s The Secret River, Ruby Entertainment's. ABC-tv miniseries starring Oliver Jackson Cohen and Sarah Snook, and three Oz docs, Marc Eberle.s The Cambodian Space Project — Not Easy Rock .n. Roll, Steve Thomas. Freedom Stories and Lisa Nicol.s Wide Open Sky.
Festival director Nashen Moodley boasted. this year.s event will be far larger than 2014's when 183 films from 47 countries were screened, including 15 world premieres. The expansion is possible in part due to the addition of two new screening venues in Newtown and Liverpool.
As previously announced, Brendan Cowell...
- 5/6/2015
- by Don Groves
- IF.com.au
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