Hard Grit

Hard Grit
Directed by	Richard Heap
Produced by	Mark Turnbull
Starring	Ben Moon, Jerry Moffatt, Seb Grieve (see Featured Climbers)
Release dates	1998 (UK)
Running time	53 min.
Language	English

Hard Grit (1998) is a climbing film produced by Slackjaw Film, featuring climbing on gritstone in the North of England.^[1] It has won ten international film festival awards^[2] .

Featured climbers

• Neil Bentley
• John Dunne
• Johnny Dawes
• Richard Ekehed
• Seb Grieve
• Leo Houlding
• Jerry Moffatt
• Ben Moon
• Jean-Minh Trin-Thieu
• Sam Whittaker

Featured routes

• End of the Affair (E8 6c), Curbar
• Fat Slapper (E7 6c), Eastwood Rocks
• Gaia (E8 6c), Black Rocks
• Kaluza Klein (E7 6c), Robin Hood's Stride
• Marbellous (E8 7a), Stanage
• Master’s Edge (E7 6c), Millstone
• Meshuga (E9 6c), Black Rocks
• Paralogism (E7 6c), Roches upper tier
• Parthian Shot (E9 7a), Burbage
• Piece of Mind (E6 6b), Roches lower tier
• Renegade Master (E8 7a), Froggatt
• Samson (E9 7b), Burbage
• The New Statesman (E8 7a), Ilkley

Awards

• IOC Award Poprad Int. Mountain Film Festival, Slovakia 1998
• Kamera Alpin in Gold Int. Mountain & Adventure Film Festival Graz, Austria 1998
• Katherine A. Rae Award 1999 ^[3]
• Italian Olympic Committee Award 47th Trento Int. Film Festival, Italy 1999
• Best Film in 'Vertical' category, G-Fest, Colorado, USA 1999
• Best 'Mountain Sport Film' Teplice International Film Fest, Czech Republic 1999
• Best 'Rock Climbing' film Kendal Mountain Film Fest, UK 1999 ^[4]
• 'Silver Conch'at 3rd International Sport Film Festival, Santander, Spain 2000
• Special mention of Jury, Torello Festival, Spain 2000
• Special mention of Jury, Premio Alp Cervino festival, Italy 2000

External links

• Slackjaw Film page for Hard Grit
• PlanetFear Series: Hard Grit - Where are they now? (Part 1) ft. climbers Sam Whittaker, Jerry Moffatt, and Neil Bentley
• PlanetFear Series: Hard Grit - Where are they now? (Part 2) ft. producer Mark Turnbull
• PlanetFear Series: Hard Grit - Where are they now? (Part 3) ft. director Rich Heap and presenter / researcher of the film's history of gritstone climbing Niall Grimes
• PlanetFear Series: Hard Grit - Where are they now? (Part 4) ft. climbers Ben Moon and Dave Jones
• PlanetFear Series: Hard Grit - Where are they now? (Part 5) ft. climber John Dunne
• PlanetFear Series: Hard Grit - Where are they now? (Part 6) ft. climber Seb Grieve

References

1. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2151649/
2. http://aspenvalleyfilm.com/mntlink+/wwlist1/slackjaw.html
3. http://www.vimff.org/archive/www.vimff.org/99site/vimff.htm
4. http://www.mountainfest.co.uk/