After many hours of multi-lingual discussion, a number of initiatives were articulated for the group to focus on. Site of the oldest mountain film festival in the world, the momentum is building as a slightly extended group gathers for the second meeting of the Alliance and of course to attend the Trento festival. Apart from the unveiling of a spiffy new logo, the Alliance determines that one of its first priorities is to inform audiences and filmmakers about the global film festival opportunities. As well, information is shared on films, programming and technology, ideas are tossed out on promotion and ticketing, there is a certain amount of collective wailing on the ever-present funding challenges and, finally, tall tales of festival closing nights are exchanged. Multilinguality reaches new levels of absurdity.
Sign language takes over.
From the babble of voices, an agreement emerges to take every opportunity to cross-promote mountain film festivals around the world and to meet again at the Autrans festival in December 2000.