The Last Nomads, a film that tracks Canadian linguist Ian Mackenzie deep into the endangered Borneo rain forest in search of one of the world’s last remaining hunter-gatherer cultures, has won the Grand Prize at the 2008 Banff Mountain Film Festival. Produced and directed by Andrew Gregg, the film follows Mackenzie, who has spent years trying to finish a dictionary of the vanishing language of the Penan people. It was the scientist’s passion and single-minded devotion to this unique project that swung the Film Festival jury in its favour, and was one of many films awarded this year that bring audiences into little-seen cultures and environments.
â€This is beautifully and sensitively crafted film that delivers a strong message without being evangelical, weaving Mackenzie’s views with a look at a disappearing world on the edge of an insatiably encroaching world,†says jury member Brian Hall. …
The Festival has posted a list of the other Award-winning Films.
I’m looking forward to the world tour highlights videos.
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The trailer of the festival is really great.
And a highlight vid would be awesome!
Borneo is such an amazing place. Too bad it is under such stress. I hope it can be saved.