BAFTA award for best director

A few weeks ago I mentioned that BAFTA Scotland had nominated me for best director in their new talent awards. On Friday Dave and I (and our families) were in Glasgow in a packed grand theatre for the BAFTA ceremony. I had totally convinced myself that much as it was absolutely amazing to have been nominated here, we could never win this award.

Well, it turned out I was wrong about that. The host opened the Best Director award envelope and read out that the winner was me. 

After lifting my jaw from the floor I headed for the stage wishing I had made a ‘just in case’ speech after all. Winslet would have been proud.

We heard that BAFTA’s jury had liked how personal Echo Wall was as well as the scenic beauty of the places we filmed. I am still feeling a touch bowled over by all this. But it’s brilliant for sure to get this recognition. 

This week Echo Wall also won best Scottish film at the Fort William Mountain Festival and best film at the Glasgow Mountain Film Festival.

Fort William Mountain Festival showreel

For the past wee while, I've been doing a lot of work for the Fort William Mountain Festival - managing the content on their website and cutting their showreel, which I've just finished recently.  It's made up from all the best bits of the films submitted to this years International Adventure Film Competition, taking place on March 10th.  Hope you like it!

Bridge Swinging in the snow

After a spot of filming for the Fort William Mountain Festival programme launch, I partook of a spot of light bridge swinging myself today. I thought I looked quite casual in the photo above but Dave reckons they are the eyes of psyche. The truth is somewhere in the middle.

Thanks for the photos, Bill.

Calling all filmmakers

So, you've got this idea for an amazing film and you think to yourself, "But what do I do with it? It's a film about crazy heli-skiers that chase people through the skies and down slopes zapping people with equally crazy special effects."  Well, answer is you send it into the 2009 International Adventure Film Festival, held as part of the Fort William Mountain Festival next March.  The deadline is 12th December 2008 so get your skates on and start story-boarding.

And incase you were thinking about it, you can't steal the above plot line as it's already been done.  I've seen it and it was crayzee.