NZ Mountain Film Festival - TE PURU SCHOOL fundraiser

t's that time of year again - experience daring and adventure from the comfort of the cinema, and all for a good cause as a Te Puru School Fundraiser. The 24th Mountain Film festival is coming to Thames, to the Left Bank Theatre. 126 minutes of adventure, grit, laughter, daring and just a touch of madness. FILMS: PURE NZ NIGHT: total time 126 minutes JERRY ON THE JERRY (10 mins) Huw Miles, NZ. World Premiere. A team of packrafters make a second attempt at a first descent of the Jerry River deep in Fiordland. RACE BE RUN (15 mins) Richard Carey & Prabhjit Sabharwal, Canada/NZ. Dressed as Superman, a man runs solo along Canada's highways to raise funds for cancer charities, transforming the grief of losing both parents into a quiet, inspiring mission of hope. PROJECT RedLine (30 mins) Matheson Brown, NZ. A blue-collar nobody from New Zealand goes up against a mountaineering elite in an attempt to strip him of what is widely believed to be an illegitimate world record. (FESTIVAL SPIRIT AWARD) ALONE ON MAKALU (22 mins) Nick Kowalski, NZ. Matthew Scholes attempts to summit the world’s fifth-highest mountain without supplementary oxygen. THE POLE OF INACCESSIBILITY (25 mins) Danny Warley & Ned Brannigan, NZ. A paraglider embarks on a multi-day bivouac flight across New Zealand's Southern Alps, navigating glaciers and vast wilderness to reach the country's most remote point, the Pole of Inaccessibility. He then faces the challenge of getting back out. (SPIRIT OF ADVENTURE AWARD) 100 DAYS IN FIORDLAND (24 mins) Dan Sutherland, NZ. Three kayakers spend 100 winter days deep in Fiordland National Park, sea kayaking, hunting, fishing and searching for unexplored whitewater in one of New Zealand's most demanding wilderness expeditions. (BEST NZ MADE FILM)