Cold Mountain (North Carolina) settlement on the real-life mountain. The peak is accessible only by hiking a spur of the strenuous Art Loeb Trail. A major motion picture based on the novel was distributed by Miramax Films in 2003. The movie was actually filmed in the Carpathian Mountains of Romania. A Miramax Films spokesperson cited higher production costs however director Anthony Minghella had said that the lack of old-growth forests and period buildings as well as the lack of dependable snowfall were the primary reasons he chose not to film in Western North Carolina. A 2015 opera production followed. "Cold Mountain Hunter" a 2004
Mark Levinson (film director) David Kaplan, who had been toying with the idea for a science documentary on the Large Hadron Collider. He served in various sound production roles, including ADR supervisor in various films and television shows, with 39 credits from 1988 to 2013, including "Se7en", "The English Patient", "The Talented Mr. Ripley", "Cold Mountain" and "House of Cards". He is the writer/producer/director of the documentary film "Prisoner of Time", which examined the lives of former Russian dissident artists after the collapse of the Soviet Union. The film was acclaimed during its premiere at the Moscow International Film Festival. He is working on