[2] MountainZone.com Adds to Multimedia Offerings; Banff Mountain Film Festival Gets Top Billing.SEATTLE--(ENTERTAIMENT WIRE)--Nov. 2, 1999-- MountainZone.com, the premier mountain sports web site, featuring content, community and commerce is a sponsor of this week's Banff Mountain Film Festival. The 24-year film festival features the world's best mountain films and videos. This year's finalists were selected from 138 entries representing 22 countries. MountainZone.com is the title sponsor of the "Best Film on Mountain Sports." Once the winner is chosen, a clip and a behind the scenes look at the movie will be available on MountainZone.com's Banff Mountain Film Festival site. Visitors can also watch clips from the Festivals other winning films. MountainZone.com Film Page MountainZone.com now offers a web page showcasing newly released ski and snowboard videos. The page, titled Film Guide 2k, features stories and clips of films made by up and coming filmmakers, such as Teton Gravity Research and ski movie icons, such as Warren Miller There are several people of note named Warren Miller, including
Ski Legends LIVE Ski pioneers Scot Scmidt and Rob DesLauriers Rob DesLauriers (born January 25, 1965 in Vermont) is one of the originators of extreme skiing. Biography DesLauriers began skiing at the age of two. His parents owned Bolton Valley Ski Resort in Vermont, which gave the young man and his brother Eric the opportunity to enter MountainZone.com's virtual auditorium Thursday, November 4th at 7pm (PST PST Paroxysmal supraventricular tachycardia, see there ) to discuss Rob's new film, in which Scot appears "Higher on the Mountain." Participants will see behind the scenes footage and slides from the movie and can also interact with the guests via an integrated text messaging Sending short messages to a smartphone, pager, PDA or other handheld device. Text messaging implies sending short messages generally no more than a couple of hundred characters in length. feature. The following evening (Friday, November 5th) Scot and Rob will make an appearance at a screening of the film at Seattle's King Kat Theater. Sponsored by outdoor clothing manufacturer KAVU KAVU Klear Above Visibility Unlimited (Seattle, Washington) and MountainZone.com, the screening is open to the public and starts with a party at 7:30pm with the film starting at 8:30pm. About MountainZone.com Launched in March of 1996, MountainZone.com is the leading mountain sports web site offering community, commerce and content. In January of 1999, USA Today USA Today National U.S. daily general-interest newspaper, the first of its kind. Launched in 1982 by Allen Neuharth, head of the Gannett newspaper chain, it reached a circulation of one million within a year and surpassed two million in the 1990s. rated the webby-award winning MountainZone.com one of the top two winter sports winter sports: see bobsledding; curling; hockey, ice; ice dancing; ice skating; skiing; snowshoes; tobogganing. sites. From first-hand interviews with Olympic gold medalist Picabo Street and IMAX IMAX Noun a film projection process that produces an image ten times larger than standard Everest star Ed Viesturs to multimedia cybercasts of the '97, '98 and '99 Mount Everest climbs, MountainZone.com offers visitors more than 9,000 outdoor retail products and more than 40,000 pages of award-winning mountain sports news, interviews, and photos. MountainZone.com, and its sister web site SkiResorts.com, are produced and owned by ZoneNetwork.com, a privately held Web publishing company based in Seattle, Washington. |
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