4 April - Meet extreme adventure film-makers

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ROYAL TELEVISION SOCIETY EVENT
MONDAY 4th APRIL
ROOM 031 LIPMAN BUILDING, NORTHUMBRIA UNIVERSITY
19:00 FREE ENTRY


MEET THE EXTREME: FILM-MAKING AT THE LIMIT

On Monday 4th April a Royal Television Society event – free and open to all – will feature a master-class with three of the country’s foremost extreme adventure film-makers.

All three have a connection with the north-east…

KEITH PARTRIDGE has established himself as one of the leading adventure cameramen in the country, if not the world. His hugely impressive cv includes being climbing-cameraman on award-winning film Touching the Void, and most recently he was working on the BBC’s Human Planet with David Attenborough, including working on technically challenging sequences in the trees of the Borneo jungle. Keith’s career began at BBC Newcastle before he moved to Scotland and established an international reputation.

RICHARD ELSE is one of the UK's most experienced adventure film-makers. He produces The Adventure Show for BBC Scotland and in 2010 orchestrated what the BBC described as a 'once in a generation event' - the world's first climbing outside broadcast in High Definition. On Britain's biggest overhanging face on Sron Uladail in Harris, climbers Dave MacLeod and Tim Emmett, together with the most experienced television team in Europe, threw caution to the wind and attempted a fearsome new route in the most difficult conditions. The result? Over five hours of nail biting television, a new E9 7a and a top out just seconds before the programme ended. Many people have called it the best climbing film ever made. Richard used to work as a producer at BBC Newcastle and was responsible for the original Wainwright programmes for BBC2.

GRAHAM RATCLIFFE has twice summited Everest – he was the first Briton to successfully ascend Mount Everest twice, from both the north and south routes, and will talk about the difficulties of filming when it's just you and the mountain. Graham was also on Everest during the infamous 1996 disaster, in which eight climbers lost their lives. His new book, ‘A Day To Die For’, is about that tragedy and sheds astonishing new light on one of the most written-about incidents in Everest's history -- yet one that, until now, has never been told in full. Graham lives in the north-east.

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Mark Murray
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