Choice Brits - Script Factory

TOUCHING THE VOID (cert 15)

Deeply affecting and cinematically stunning, this dramatic documentary, from the Oscar-winning director of One Day in September, recounts the story of a remarkable endurance that has become mountaineering legend, based on Joe Simpson’s account of his own near-death experience on the slopes of the Peruvian Andes.
 
Dir. Kevin MacDonald, adapted from the novel by Joe Simpson
UK 2003, 106 mins

Screening at The Other Cinema

Tue, 11 November 2003 6:30 PM

For Choice Brits, Touching The Void is introduced by Danny Boyle
 
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Touching the Void
 
Directed by
Kevin Macdonald
 
Written by
Joe Simpson from his own novel
 
Produced by
Charles Furneaux Executive producer
Robin Gutch Executive producer
John Smithson Producer
Paul Trijbits Executive producer
 
Original Music by
Alex Heffes
 
Cinematography by
Mike Eley
 
Film Editing by
Justine Wright
 
Production Design by
Patrick Bill
 
Sound Department
Andy Richards Score mixer
Joakim Sundström Supervising sound editor
 
Production Companies
 
* Darlow Smithson Productions
 
Cast
Nicholas Aaron - Simon Yates
Brendan Mackey - Joe Simpson
Simon Yates - As himself
Joe Simpson - As himself
 
106 minutes
UK 2003
 
Certificate 15
 

Touching the Void will be released by Pathe across the UK