'The Birdman of the Karakoram' wins Best Film on Human Adventure at
St Hilaire
This is the world's no 1 flying film festival, held on the 19th of September 09. see http://www.coupe-icare.org. Bob Drury was on hand to pick up the trophy and cheque on our behalf. Ten years ago From Nowhere to the Middle of Nowhere won the peoples prize at StHilaire.
MORE AWARDS
More film festivals awards for ' Dringo i'r Eitha' - and UpsideDown Wales also wins a prize.
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AWARD WINNER
'Dringo ir Eitha' (a Cwmni Da production for S4C) wins a prize at Graz International film Festival on the 16 November 2008 and 'UpsideDown Wales' was runner up in the same category. An amazing one two in a strong field.
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Recent productions
UpsideDown Wales.
George Smith - upsidedown guru and arch obsessive leads us on a remarkable journey into his wonderful world - a journey with attitude and character. 'Like salad after a diet of chips' .
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Interview with
Joe Brown.
A rare interview with the greatest rock climber of all time, Joe Brown, 'The Human Fly'. A relaxed Joe tells George Smith the story of his sixty year love affair with Welsh rock, from his first ascents on Cloggy in the fifties - putting up routes that redefined the sport of rock climbing in Britain - to his more recent Welsh explorations at Tremadog, Gogarth and Dinorwic quarry. Using first ascent photos that have never been published before Joe chats candidly with George about his motivation and his spirit of adventure.
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Dringo I’r Eitha’ 2007. S4C ( Climbing To The Limits )
A portrait of a very talented young Welsh climber, Ioan Doyle, age 16, as he races through the grades to reach E5 in his first summer of rock climbing. His obsession gives his mother Catrin nightmares, but despite her inability to ‘let him go’, he climbs his first 8a sports climb in Kalymnos Greece, and then continues on to the big walls of Yosemite with his partner Mills, a climber who has a fear of heights.
‘Dringo I’r Eitha 2’. an S4C commission.
STONE MONKEY
"The first one of it's kind and still one of the best - truly inspiring"
Jerry Moffat
"Creative, fun and way ahead of it's time"
Lynn Hill
"Had my palms sweating, a powerful film, perhaps the best pure rock climbing film I've seen (1988) - and perhaps still is (2005)
- Leo Dickinson
".. it describes the education of a bright and high-spirited but totally misguided and troublemaking young man into a man of knowledge and responsible action...."
20 years after Stone Monkey was made, it is still widely regarded as possibly the best climbing film ever made.
Johnny Dawes is one of the most exciting climbers ever to emerge on to the British scene - a Nureyev of the rock, dynamic and balletic. In the 1980s when climbing standards were leaping forward, Johnny stood out for his understanding of the rock and his unique approach. This award-winning video traces Johnny's boyhood influences and films him on his gritstone masterpieces and on the spectacular Quarryman groove in North Wales. Winner of 5 international film festival awards. (25 mins)
Photo: Jim Perrin
ALSO ON THE DVD
is a compelling 30 minute documentary about of Britain's hardest adventure climb, the Indian Face (E9, 6c). This spectacular line on Clogwyn Du'r Arddu is as controversial as it is deadly. The best climbers of the 80s attempted it, but it was Johnny Dawes who finally topped out in 1986. We unfold the story using never-before-released footage of Johnny Dawes repeating the crux section of Indian Face during the first ascent of West Indian Face in 1988. The saga of the original climb is narrated by Jim Perrin, with 
contributions from Joe Brown, John Redhead, Nick Dixon and Johnny himself.
"The Great Wall saga and the unfinished story of the Indian Face is one of the most hallowed tales in British climbing. The line between genius and insanity has never been so blurred" LEO HOULDING
OTHER CHAPTERS INCLUDE
Johnny's rants, Johnny's "directors commentary" on "Stone Monkey", and Johnny and director Alun Hughes talking about the making of Stone Monkey.
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THE MAN WHO LOVED FACE-DANCING (A REVIEW OF 'STONE MONKEY' DVD)