Michal Sulima follows piano tuner Desmond O’Keeffe’s expedition to transport a piano to a village school high in the Himalayas
The lesson to be learned from Michal Sulima’s documentary is that if you’re planning to transport a piano to a village school in the Himalayas by yak, it’s advisable to first meet a yak – or at least Google one beforehand. Not having done due diligence, when 65-year-old piano tuner Desmond O’Keeffe turns up in India he discovers that yaks are a bit too titchy to carry his 100-year-old Broadwood & Sons up and down mountains.
There is a lot of charm to this film about O’Keeffe’s quixotic (bonkers would be another way of putting it) expedition to deliver a piano to a village in Zanskar, northern India – making it the highest in the world. He’s an endearing eccentric who says he can’t...
The lesson to be learned from Michal Sulima’s documentary is that if you’re planning to transport a piano to a village school in the Himalayas by yak, it’s advisable to first meet a yak – or at least Google one beforehand. Not having done due diligence, when 65-year-old piano tuner Desmond O’Keeffe turns up in India he discovers that yaks are a bit too titchy to carry his 100-year-old Broadwood & Sons up and down mountains.
There is a lot of charm to this film about O’Keeffe’s quixotic (bonkers would be another way of putting it) expedition to deliver a piano to a village in Zanskar, northern India – making it the highest in the world. He’s an endearing eccentric who says he can’t...
- 11/15/2021
- by Cath Clarke
- The Guardian - Film News
“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
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