“Everest: A Climb For Peace” Wins Mt. Shasta Film Festival and Obtains Television and Distribution Deal

October 22, 2008

Everest: A Climb For Peace has won another film festival and has picked up a television and distribution deal in the process. Lance Trumbull’s award wining film took home the gold at the recent Mt. Shasta Film Festival. The award doesn’t surprise me. I still feel that this is an amazing film and one that everyone should have the opportunity to see. And now you might get that opportunity.

Along with the news of the Mt. Shasta Film Festival Award, comes news that Everest: A Climb For Peace has been picked up by APT (American Public Television). APT will be representing and distributing this film to a worldwide television audience through television and DVD distribution. The first public broadcast of this film will take place in November when Canadian television will be showing this in it’s entirety across the country.

This is some very big news for my friend Lance Trumbull, who has been busy the past two years promoting and pushing this work to a larger audience through film showings, festivals, and the lecture circuit. Lance is the producer and directer of this film, and also the founder of the Everest Peace Project, a non-profit organization used to support peace and peace projects worldwide.

To paraphrase an early film review that I posted back on April 22nd:

Everest: A Climb for Peace takes a look at some of these issues through the eyes of fellow climbers that are at odds politically, but through social interaction have the chance to come away with a bigger, better, and more profound knowledge about the world they live in. The message is not about the climbers, it is not about political issues and condemnation, It’s not even about Everest. It is about something much bigger that encompasses everything we have seen, heard, or felt about some of the cruelest places in the world. It is about surviving. It is about thriving. It is about Peace..

To read more about this film, be sure to check out the Everest: A Climb for Peace website. You may also find the link to the Everest Peace Project in my right-hand sidebar on this site. To get the ultimate “pre-show” trailer of this fantastic film, you have to do nothing more than click the video found just to the right of this post.

The Everest Peace Project is having international, multi-cultural Peace Climbs on mountains across the world. In harmony with the United Nation’s fundamental goals - our vision, through the example of international cooperation is to promote a Global Community that strives for peace and compassion.

To learn more about the Everest Peace Project, or to get involved, I highly recomend you swinging by the website. The EPP has also teamed up with Room To Read to help in the building of local and school libraries in Nepal.

Did I mention that Orlando Bloom narrates this film and that it has garnered the support of the Dalai Lama? Yes, it is THAT good..check it out.

By the way, be sure to leave some congratulatory remarks for Lance. I know he visits the site quite regularly. I am sure he would love to hear your support.