Exclusive: ‘Tenzing’ First Look Clip & How Director Jennifer Peedom, Genden Phuntsok and Tom Hiddleston Tackled Everest – Telluride Film Festival

'Tenzing' Review: A Mount Everest Legend Gets His Due In A Moving But Predictable Biopic

TELLURIDE: A painter may excel in oils, but struggle in watercolors. A guitar player may thrive with rock music, but stumble in the country realm. For a documentary filmmaker, one of the most difficult creative transitions is transitioning into fictional waters. Even the most visionary documentarians can find themselves at odds with such narratives, and for every director who succeeds, there are often 10 more whose aspirations come up short. Jen…

Exclusive: ‘Tenzing’ First Look Clip & How Director Jennifer Peedom, Genden Phuntsok and Tom Hiddleston Tackled Everest – Telluride Film Festival

EXCLUSIVE: Genden Phuntsok gazes down at Tibet, the place of his birth, with tears in his eyes. Beside him, Tom Hiddleston grins almost in disbelief. They squint into the sun, gasping for breath, as they stand on what is effectively the roof of the world: the summit of Everest, or Chomolungma, as it is known in Tibet. In reality, the two men are on Mount Aoraki in New Zealand, shooting Tenzing, Jennifer Peedom’s film, which was also shot in Nep…

‘Tenzing’ Review: Shift of Perspective Elevates Mt. Everest Film to New Heights [B+] Telluride

The Tibetans call it “Chomolungma.” We know it as Mt. Everest. Whatever the name, its long-attempted ascent in 1953 by a group of determined mountaineers is widely considered one of the 20th Century’s greatest human achievements. And while many films have focused on this and other excursions to the untamable highest-point on Earth, the new…

Review: 'Tenzing' is So Much More Than a Mountain Climbing Movie

"I needed to go... the pull of Everest was stronger for me than any force on Earth." 🏔️ I must admit I have been waiting to see this film for many years. I first encountered wonderful Australian filmmaker Jennifer Peedom as the 2015 Telluride Film Festival, where she premiered her documentary titled Sherpa. In the 11 years since then, I've never seen any doc or feature which properly captures Nepal, Sherpas, or the actual experience being on th…