Winners of the XIII FILM FESTIVAL "Vertical"

INTERNATIONAL COMPETITION

GRAND PRIX
"Mountain of Saint Elias" (Austria)
Director and cameraman: Gerald Zalmina

Category Mountaineering Films
«BEYOND THE WALL» Italia.
Director:  Elio Orlandi
Cameramеn: Elio Orlandi, Fabio Leoni, Rolando Larcher

Category Sport-Extreme
«REAL STORY» Russia, Moscow.
Director, Cameraman: Oleg Krasniansky

Category Adventure Films
«ACOPAN TEPUI – MOUNTAIN OF GODS»  Germania.
Director, сameramаn: Jochan Schmoll

Category Mountain and Wild Nature
«RIFT VALLEY – EPISODE 3: FROM HELL TO THE HOLY LAND» Austria.
Directors: Harald Pokieser, Raul Reddish
Cameramen: Richard Jones, Peter Kasperak, Harald Mittermueller, Erich Proell, Marc Szeglat

Category Fictions and animation films
No Winner

Special prizes of the festival

"Best Camera"
Operator - Ivo Norenberg
Film "URAL" (Germany)

"Best Director"
Director - Pavol Barabash
Film «CARSTENSZ – THE SEVENTH SUMMIT» (Slovakia)

"Best Russian film of International Competition"
"REAL STORY" (Russia)
Director and cameraman - Oleg Krasniansky

Special prize for "Best Montage"
Lika Borzov, Andrey Boldyrev, Sergey Firsov
Film «GRAVITY WORKSHOP»  Russia

Special prize for "Original look of extreme cinema"
Director Roman Dubinin and producer Alexei Shevchenko (Ukraine)
For a series of films "Parachute Dawn", "Fish and sky", etc.

Special Diploma "For faithful of own theme"
Yuri Kilichenko (Ukraine) - author and producer of the film "7893"

Category "TV Programs"

The special prizes of the festival
"For contributions to the development of extreme sports"

TV Channel "Russia-2"
"Exit Point" - author Vsevolod Kuschinsky

TV Saint Petersburg
"Teleputeshestviya" -  Nikolai Orlov
 
TV Channel Stream - TV
transfer "Drive" producer Andrew Tsilenko

TV Channel «Ren-TV»
 "Underwater" Extreme "-  Valery Skvortsov

TV Channel "SGU-TV"
"Expedition Continues "- Vladimir Zaitsev