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The Western Lands: Hoy
UK, 2007, 9 min
Directed & produced by Grant Gee
Screening:
Sunday September 21, 4:30 - 7pm
Peery’s Egyptian Theatre
“The Western Lands: Hoy” features acclaimed writer and climber Jim Perrin’s attempted 60th birthday climb of the Old Man of Hoy in Orkney, off the shores of Scotland.
Director Grant Gee
Grant Gee is a filmmaker and documentary cameraman resident in Brighton, England.
He is best known for directing films about high profile rock bands and has been twice Grammy-nominated for these (for ‘Meeting People is Easy’ – about Radiohead - in 2000 and for ‘Demon Days’ – about Gorillas - in 2006.) His latest music film “Joy Division” premiered at the 2007 Toronto International Film Festival in 2007 and won the Sound and Vision award for ‘Best Music Film 2007’ at the CPH:DOX festival in Copenhagen. His short, more or less experimental documentaries including “City Symphony”, “400 Anarchists” and “Mr. Fred Zentner’s…” have been shown internationally by the British Council, onedotzero and others.