Unfinished Business (2009 film)

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Unfinished Business
Release date
2009
CountrySouth Africa

Unfinished Business is a 2009 South African mockumentary about constructing a peak on a table top mountain.

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Production

A mobile film crew was able to film mockumentary-style interviews with residents and tourists discussing the possibility of a peak and their views. The film also documents how a peak on a table top mountain would affect extreme sports.

CGI software rendered 8 million points of data to give the mountain multiple characteristics required for skydiving and other extreme sports.

Screenings and Reception

Unfinished Business has been screened at a number of festivals in the UK, Canada, South Africa and Poland including the Tampere festival, Rossland Mountain Film Festival, Llanberis Mountain Film Festival, Valentines Film Festival and Vancouver Film Festival.

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