"K2: Siren of the Himalayas" announces film festival run in U.S. and Europe

SEATTLE - Sept. 24, 2013 - PRLog -- The producers of the breathtaking documentary "K2: Siren of the Himalayas" today announced screening dates for an upcoming festival run that will take the film to audiences in Seattle, New York, Flagstaff and multiple cities across Europe. For the full list of festival screenings and ticket links, please visit http://k2siren.com/screenings/

The upcoming U.S. festival dates for "K2: Siren of the Himalayas" are as follows:

Sunday, Sept. 29 | Seattle, WA
7:00 P.M. at Northwest Film Forum (1515 12th Ave.)
Local Sightings Film Festival

Friday, Oct. 11 | Flagstaff, AZ
7:00 P.M. at Flagstaff Bicycle Revolution (3 Mikes Pike)
Flagstaff Mountain Film Festival

Saturday, Nov. 16 | New York City, NY
TBD at Elinor Bunin Munroe Film Center - Film Society of Lincoln Center (144 W. 65th St)
Mountainfilm in New York

The film will also screen at the following European film festivals with exact times TBD:

Oct. 9 - 13 | Poprad, Slovakia
International Mountain Film Festival

Nov. 12 - 16 | Graz, Austria
International Mountainfilm & Adventure Film Festival

Nov. 23 - 27 | Bansko, Bulgaria
Bansko Mountain Film Festival

Nov. 29 - Dec. 2 | Copenhagen, Denmark
Danish Adventure Film Festival

Dec. 11 - 14 | Kathmandu, Nepal
Kathmandu Mountain Film Fest

"K2: Siren of the Himalayas" made its World Premiere as a competition finalist at the 2012 Banff Mountain Film Festival in Canada, followed by its U.S. Premiere at the 2013 Mountainfilm in Telluride. The film has also screened at the New Zealand Mountain Film Festival in Wanaka and the International Mountain Film Competition in Zakopane, Poland. It will be available to distributors at MIPCOM represented by Principal Media on Oct. 7 - 10 in Cannes, France.

Shot in Pakistan in the summer of 2009, "K2: Siren of the Himalayas" features elite alpinists Gerlinde Kaltenbrunner, Fabrizio Zangrilli, Jake Meyer and Chris Szymiec in a breathtaking high-altitude mountaineering experience. Director Dave Ohlson follows this group's attempt to summit the world's second-highest peak on the 100-year anniversary of the Duke of Abruzzi and Vittorio Sella's landmark 1909 expedition on K2. The film contains rare archival film footage and photos from this historic 1909 K2 expedition.

Gerlinde Kaltenbrunner is the National Geographic 2012 Explorer of the Year and the first woman to summit all 14 of the world's 8,000-meter peaks without supplemental oxygen or high altitude porters.

Press screeners and digital links of the film are available for review by accredited media members. The filmmakers are available for interviews upon request.

Watch the official trailer on YouTube: http://youtu.be/uYYY1-knFDU



For more info on "K2: Siren of the Himalayas," please visit http://k2siren.com.