'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.
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BIRDMAN OF THE KARAKORAM (65mins)
EXTRA FEATURES
1. Bob Dury talks to John Silvester at length about his groundbreaking Chogolugma flight in 2009, flying in Hunza and his motivation for these flights. Also about the early days in Wales. (65mins)
2. John's original footage of the tour of Nanga Parbat in 2005 - the first ever circumnavigation of an 8000m giant. (15mins)
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1. UPSIDEDOWN WALES 2. AN INTERVIEW WITH JOE BROWN (Double A Side)
UpsideDown Wales - A 50-minute film that is not so much an off-the-wall as an under-the-roof look at one man's obsession with climbing overhanging rock in North Wales. George Smith - upsidedown guru and arch obsessive leads us on a remarkable journey into his wonderful world - a journey with attitude and character.
A lifelong epic of the most trivial proportions - humour finally triumphant over gravity...
"Like salad after a diet of chips" Ed Douglas
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Interview with Joe Brown - "Joe's love of the fun and adventure of climbing is as fresh as ever in this fascinating interview. His description of the techniques of placing chockstones for critical runner protection and the film of sliding down the mountain railway track are valuable additions to the history of climbing technologies." Ken Wilson.
"Fantastic, incredibly funny I thought." George Smith
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THE 80'S - BIRTH OF EXTREME
The Al Hughes archive - Double DVD with 3hrs of the best 80's adventure films. A definitive collection of a decade of British climbing - the era that gave birth to 'XTREME
"It's nice to see someone 200 feet up in the air without a rope; it's a liberating thing." Stevie Haston
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FROM NOWHERE TO THE MIDDLE OF NOWHERE
The first paraglider crossing of Western Nepa
by John Silvester and Alun Hughes.
"An adventurous quest to far-off inaccessible lands, giving a beautiful glimpse into the lives of the people who live there. Original, inspiring, exciting. A truly remarkable achievement"
Leo Houlding
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STONE MONKEY
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.
"Possibly the greatest climbing film of all time? Original, funny, breathtakingly exciting – Stone Monkey inspired a generation and defined a lifestyle"
Leo Houlding
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