'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.
'DRINGO IR EITHA' WINS A PRIZE
'Dringo I'r Eitha', a portrait of young Welsh climber Ioan Doyle wins the 'Camera Alpine in Gold' in the 'Climbing on Rock and Ice' category. This programme was an S4C commission, filmed and directed by Alun Hughes and produced by Cwmni Da Productions, Caernarfon, Wales.
Ioan Doyle on Warpath E5 Rhoscolyn. Photo Alun Hughes.
GRAZ 2008
Juryprotokoll 2008, Prize Winning Films 2008, List of winners
This was the 20th anniversary of the Graz Mountain Film Festival, which happened to coincide with the 30th anniversary of the first ascent of Everest without oxygen, and both Reinold Messner and Peter Habeler present at the festival celebrations. It was also 30 years since festival organiser Robert Schauer first climbed Everest.
My background at Graz..
I have a fairly good track record at Graz, this is my fourth 'Camera Alpine in Gold' trophy, ( Stone Monkey in 1988. Waterfall Kayak a year later, and then 'From Nowhere to the Middle of Nowhere' - won the Grand Prix in 1999, - and now another category prize for Dringo i'r Eitha' plus an Honourable Mention for UpsideDown Wales.
Alun reports, " on hearing the 'honourable mention' award announcement through my translation headphones I must say I was disappointed and thought 'damn it ! there goes another one, I've missed the main prize,,' but then after receiving the framed certificate on stage and shaken hands with Robert Schauer and the judges, as I made my way back down to my seat in the middle of the theatre I was just about to sit down again when I caught my name being mentioned from the stage in the middle of all the german that I could not understand, and my friends sat next to me said ' don't sit down get back up there!!' I could not believe it, so I ran back down the isles to receive another 'Alpine Camera in Gold'".
20. Internationales Berg & Abenteuer Filmfestival Graz
20th International Mountain & Adventure Filmfestival Graz
12 to 15 November 2008, Grazer Congress
Robert Schauer Filmproduktion GmbH
Am Klammbach 1A
8044 Graz
AUSTRIA / EUROPE
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