„DECLARATION OF IMMORTALITY” PROVES THE BEST ROCK CLIMBING FILM OF VIMFF

This doc­u­men­tary shot and di­rected by Marcin Koszałka was awarded ‘Best Rock Climb­ing Film’ by the fes­ti­val’s Jury on Sat­ur­day night. The main pro­tag­o­nist of the “De­c­la­ra­tion of im­mor­tal­ity” is Piotr “Mad” Ko­r­czak. The di­rec­tor fo­cuses on the de­cline of the ca­reer of this great mas­ter, pro­vok­ing his re­flec­tion on his fu­ture life, when he will no longer be able to climb. It’s a mov­ing story about in­abil­ity to come to terms with get­ting older and about a de­sire of im­mor­tal­ity. 

The first edi­tion of the VIMFF was held in 1998 and a year after that apart from the film  pro­grammes the fes­ti­val started to host a num­ber of ad­di­tional events  such as meet­ings, work­shops or rock climb­ing com­pe­ti­tion to name just a few. After 2001 the di­ver­sity of the pro­gram­ming was also en­hanced, pro­vid­ing more films and pre­sen­ters with top­ics on en­vi­ron­men­tal is­sues, moun­tain cul­ture and ad­ven­ture travel. VIMFF is cur­rently the sec­ond after Banff biggest and most im­por­tant moun­tain film fes­ti­val in Canada.

More in­for­ma­tion on fes­ti­val can be found at the of­fi­cial VIMFF web­site