Touching the Void (film) reminiscence of a Boney M song he hated thoroughly, "Brown Girl in the Ring"; at one point thinking "Bloody hell, I'm going to die to Boney M". Touching the Void (film) Touching the Void is a 2003 docudrama survival film directed by Kevin MacDonald and starring Brendan Mackey, Nicholas Aaron, and Ollie Ryall. The plot concerns Joe Simpson's and Simon Yates's disastrous and near-fatal climb of Siula Grande in the Cordillera Huayhuash in the Peruvian Andes in 1985. It is based on Simpson's 1988 book of the same name. Critically acclaimed, "Touching the Void" was listed in PBS's "100 'Greatest'
Kevin Macdonald (director) Kevin Macdonald (director) Kevin Macdonald (born 28 October 1967) is a Scottish director. His films include a documentary about the 1972 murder of 11 Israeli athletes, "One Day in September" (1999), the climbing documentary "Touching the Void" (2003), the drama "The Last King of Scotland" (2006), the political thriller "State of Play" (2009), the Bob Marley documentary "Marley" (2012), the post-apocalyptic drama "How I Live Now" (2013), the thriller "Black Sea" (2014), and the Whitney Houston documentary "Whitney" (2018). Macdonald was born in Glasgow, Scotland. His maternal grandparents were the Hungarian-born British filmmaker Emeric Pressburger and English screenwriter and actress