World premiere for ski film

Press, 3 February 1984, Page 32

World premiere for ski film

.“Across the Main Divide,” the latest New Zealand ski film produced and directed by Howard Moses, will have its world premiere during the fourteenth Winter Olympics at Sarajevo, Yugoslavia, next week. The 30-minute documentary, filmed in September and October last year during the spectacular spring snow of the Southern Alps, has just been completed.

Mr Moses said in Christchurch yesterday before he left for Sarajevo, that 30 copies of the film had been sold to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs for their overseas posts.

The film follows the tracks of two skiers, Whitney Thurlow (United States)

and Babette Bodenstein (West Germany), as they make the high alpine crossing of the Main Divide.

Both “Across the Main Divide” and Mr Moses’s previous New' Zealand ski film, “Incredible Mountains” (the second version), have been accepted at the MIPTV festival at Cannes, France, this Easter. The first New Zealand release of “Across the Main Divide” will be in July.

Mr Moses said that he and his film crew from the Lucy Film Company would be making a documentary, “Inside the Winter Olympics,” at Sarajevo and this would be ready in time for the Banff Festival of Mountain Films in November.