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    TWENTY YEARS OF MOUNTAIN FILMS

    Apr 21, 2022 2 minutes
    BY AARON VAN DELDEN

    What led to the first festival in 2002?

    I went to a film festival in Australia’s Blue Mountains and felt like Wānaka needed an event like that to celebrate the outdoors and the mountains. We had about 12 speakers for the first festival and they were all giving slideshows, but one speaker’s flight got cancelled so he couldn’t

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