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SUMMARY:Facing the Mountains - documentary film screening - Ross Harrison 
 and Vaibhav Kaul
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DESCRIPTION:Facing the Mountains (20:36) (Director/Camera/Editor: Ross Har
 rison\; Director/Producer: Vaibhav Kaul\; Score: Juliet Aaltonen)\n\nCopin
 g with extremes is part of life for people across the Himalayas. But in Ju
 ne 2013\, at Kedarnath\, a sacred Hindu temple dedicated to Lord Shiva in 
 northern India\, conditions fatefully aligned to produce an unprecedented 
 disaster. Thousands of pilgrims and locals were faced with a once-in-a-gen
 eration catastrophe and thousands of lives were lost. Through the words of
  survivors\, local elders and new visitors\, we are shown a portrait of a 
 place where the events of 2013 have become part of a larger story\; one of
  resilience\, of faith\, and of eternal change. More details at http://www
 .facingthemountain.com/\n\nRoss Harrison is a graduate of the Department o
 f Geography\, University of Cambridge. He is a filmmaker whose passion for
  documentaries began with filming wildlife in his grandfather's woodland w
 hen he was 14. Since then\, filmmaking has led him to explore diverse subj
 ects ranging from rainforest conservation to education inequality and trib
 al land rights. The process continues to excite him with its possibilities
  for storytelling and as a catalyst for social change.\n\nVaibhav Kaul is 
 an emotionally driven\, socially committed mountain geographer from India.
  His academic interests range from glaciology to ethnology. He wants to us
 e visual and audiovisual media to communicate his research to non-academic
  audiences\, especially those whose work can have a direct positive impact
  on the ground. Vaibhav is doing a PhD at the University of Sheffield. The
  idea for this film was developed as part of Vaibhav's research into disas
 ter risk and community resilience in changing high-mountain environments\,
  which is supported by the University of Sheffield and the Dudley Stamp Me
 morial Award (administered by the Royal Geographical Society with IBG).\n\
 nhttp://www.geog.cam.ac.uk/news/previous.html#facingthemountain
LOCATION:Small Lecture Theatre\, Department of Geography
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