---
title: 'Hard Grit (1997)'
type: 'film'
director: 'Richard Heap'
released: '1997-01-01'
runtime_minutes: 53
genres:
  - 'Documentary'
countries:
  - 'United Kingdom'
canonical: 'https://cinepixo.com/movies/hard-grit-1997'
review_count: 0
imdb: 'https://www.imdb.com/title/tt2151649/'
publisher: 'CinePixo'
---

# Hard Grit (1997)

1997 · 53 min · Documentary · United Kingdom


## Synopsis

Hard Grit is a 1998 British rock climbing film directed by Richard Heap and produced by Slackjaw Film, featuring traditional climbing, free soloing, and bouldering on gritstone routes in the Peak District in Northern England. It is considered an important film in the genre and regarded as a historic and iconic film. The film starts with a dramatic fall by French climber Jean–Minh Trinh-Thieu on Gaia at Black Rocks. Hard Grit won ten international film festival awards.

## Credits

- **Director:** [Richard Heap](https://cinepixo.com/people/richard-heap)
- **Producer:** [Mark Turnbull](https://cinepixo.com/people/mark-turnbull)

## Cast

- [Jerry Moffatt](https://cinepixo.com/people/jerry-moffatt)
- [Ben Moon](https://cinepixo.com/people/ben-moon)
- [Leo Houlding](https://cinepixo.com/people/leo-houlding)
- [Johnny Dawes](https://cinepixo.com/people/johnny-dawes)

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