Our next film
One does not just become a mountaineering village, one has to earn it. The Alpine Association awards those communities that meet their strict guidelines. "Holidaymakers come to us as guests and leave as friends," says hotel operator Renate Melmer from the Sellraintal mountaineering village region.
A statement that sounds like something from an advertising brochure, but is a lived tradition of hospitality for the Melmers in their family business at 1,700 meters altitude.
In this new production for the "Land der Berge" series on ORF III, director Stefan Sternad explores the question of how successfully the Mountaineering Villages project launched by the Austrian Alpine Association is being implemented by the participating communities. Is soft tourism and sustainable management a working strategy in tourism?
In this episode, the residents of Steinberg am Rofan, Sellrain, Gries im Sellrain and St. Sigmund in Tirol talk about their lifes in a mountaineering village and provide interesting views on life in an Alpine region.
For example, 24-year-old Anna Moser from Steinberg says: "I can't imagine living anywhere else or moving to a city!" She loves her work as a part-time farmer. Even if everyday life can be somewhat exhausting between farming and three other part-time jobs.
Production: ORF III & ipFILM
Director: Stefan Sternad
Editor and responsible for the program: Manuela Strihavka
Length: 45 minutes
First broadcast: 11.4.2024, ORF III, 8:15 pm
Picture credits: ORF/ipFILM
Our last film
Alpine Legends - Extrem Mountaineer Peter Habeler
In our latest production with our co-production partner, ORF, the probably most famous Austrian mountaineer, Peter Habeler, shows his most personal side.
In our 45-minute TV documentary, get to know the unknown side of the man who, together with Reinhold Messner, was the first person ever to conquer Mount Everest without artificial oxygen.
Our film productions
ipFILM produces documentaries and image films . We start with the development of material for the film, develop film projects and produce our own films.
The company founder and producer, Stefan Sternad, has been a cameraman since the mid-1990s. His later professional path (cinema commercials and cinema marketing, Vienna) led him to producing films. In 2015, Sternad founded the film production company ipFILM based in Salzburg.
Stefan Sternad is still an active cameraman himself and has been producing numerous TV documentaries with ipFILM for the broadcasters ORF and 3sat since 2015.
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