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26th Dec 2011 test - pls ignore
The next Alastair Lee? Interview with Outcrop Film's Nick Brown. Lissa Cook talks to Outcrop Film’s Nick Brown ahead of the premiere of Life on Hold at the Sheffield Adventure Film Festival Sheffield...
14th Dec 2011 Record breaking number of films, Rare Breed Sports
Over sixty of the best adventure, travel and extreme sports films hand-picked for you from around the world. To be screened over one weekend – March 4 / 6th at the art deco Showroom Cinema in Sheffield. Check out the...
7th Dec 2011 Record breaking number of films, My Outdoors
Sheffield Adventure Film Festival Director & film programmer Matt Heason has been downloading a massive 10GB of film a day in the run-up to the film submission deadline on 1st December. He now has a record breaking...
23rd Nov 2011 Best of ShAFF 2011, Climb Magazine
Details of Best of ShAFF 2011 showing on 8th December at 20.15 at Showroom cinema, Sheffield in Climb Magazine... read more
20th Nov 2011 ShaFF presents Like A Lion, Climb Magazine
Like A Lion – 90mins the true story of legendary skier Tanner Hall an Eric Iberg film A documentary feature film about the winningest and most controversial skier of the last decade, LIKE A LION tells a tremendous...
16th Nov 2011 Descent magazine
Thanks to caving magazine Descent for giving ShAFF a shout on their website and in the December issue. Keep an eye out for details of caving showings.
28th Mar 2011 Music Round Up
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- simonjacquesfiles.blogspot.com
Here's a review of the live music line-up at ShAFF by Simon Jacques: For the second year running, we had organised live music throughout the weekend and I had volunteered, yet again to organise this. By luck or design,...
15th Mar 2011 ShAFF Mention in Outdoors Magic LlAMFF Piece
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- www.outdoorsmagic.com
As you'd expect, there's a choice of film on show including this year's Best of Banff – see the video above for a taster – but it includes The Swiss Machine, the film about Swiss climber Uli Steck that carried off the...
15th Mar 2011 ShAFF Mention in LlAMFF Write Up
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- www.snowdonia-active.com
The International Film Competition includes UK Premiere showings of several films such as The Path of the Condor set in Patagonia, the coming-of-age movie 2 Frogs in the West, and the ‘video poem’ Centipede Sun....
28th Feb 2011 The Swiss Machine, FunSporting
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- www.funsporting.de
As part of the ShAFF Film Festival, this is the trailer for The Swiss Machine. Showing on the 5th MAR 2011 @ 21:00, the Swiss Machine features stunning aerial footage of Ueli Steck's record-breaking speed ascents in the...
21st Feb 2011 ShAFF, Wozzon
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- wozzon.com
The Sheffield Adventure Film Festival returns for another year of mountain biking, climbing, snow-sports, wild-water and free-flight on film. From the endurance extremes of cross-continental cycling to the awe-inspiring...
1st Mar 2011 ShAFF, Welcome to Sheffield
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- www.welcometosheffield.co.uk
If you're coming to ShAFF then you really should consider staying in Sheffield and exploring what a fabulous destination the film festival is based in. Whether you are looking for family run B&B accommodation, luxurious...
21st Jan 2011 UK Holiday Guide, ShAFF, Travellers Club
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- www.travellers-club.co.uk
Anyone who enjoys adrenalin-pumping action may want to book UK weekend breaks in Sheffield at the beginning of March. The city will be hosting its annual Sheffield Adventure Film Festival from March 4th to 6th and the...
28th Feb 2011 ShAFF, Adventure Dolphin
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- www.adventuredolphin.co.uk
Visitors to the Sheffield adventure film festivasl have a chance to chat and meet the people behind some of the top films around at the moment.
11th Jan 2011 Exclusive Film Event with Alex Rankin and Steve Peat, Bike News
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- www.bikenews.org.uk
I got super excited when I saw the names Alex Rankin and Steve Peat together. Is the Rankster making a new mountainbike film with the King I wondered? The answer is no he’s not, but he is editing an exclusive 80min...
21st Feb 2011 Steel City Downhill & Shaff, Wild Sheffield
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- www.wildsheffield.com
Sheffield’s own multiple world cup downhill champion, Steve Peat, is helping to organise the city’s first official Mini Downhill Race, in aid of the Sheffield Wildlife Trust’s appeal to save Greno Woods....Alongside...
3rd Mar 2011 Baffin Babes, Daily Motion, Freecaster TV
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- www.dailymotion.com
As part of the ShAFF Film Festival, this is the trailer for Baffin Babes. Showing on the 6th MAR 2011 @ 17:30, BAFFIN BABES is the epic adventure of four young Scandinavian women pushing themselves to the limit...
10th Feb 2011 Hope Valley Adventure Film Festival, Peak Mountaineering
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- www.peakmountaineering.com
If you’ve got time this weekend consider heading along to the annual Hope Valley Film Festival at Hope Valley College in, not surprisingly, Hope! It’s a great event showing a wide range of adventure films for both...
10th Jan 2011 Alex Rankin / ShAFF Festival is going to be big, ThisISheffield
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- thisisheffield.co.uk
This is going to be big! Alex Rankin is putting together an exclusive Sprung/Earthed montage titled ‘progression’, for SHAFF film festival right here in Sheffield on March 5th. Not only this, but during the day we...
31st Jan 2011 Alastair Lee produces ShAFF trailer, Berghaus
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- www.berghaus.com
Berghaus athlete and adventure film maker Alastair Lee has produced the trailer for the Sheffield Adventure Film Festival You can also catch Al’s latest film ‘The Prophet’ all about Leo Houlding’s epic first...
24th Feb 2011 Dean Potter at ShAFF, RareBreedSports
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- www.rarebreedsports.com
Cutting-edge climber Dean Potter is creating a new climbing frontier: the Base Free Solo. By combining free-solo climbing and base jumping, Dean is on a quest to master disciplines that will lead to a bold evolution of...
1st Mar 2011 ShAFF on this weekend, BMC
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- www.thebmc.co.uk
The Sheffield Adventure Film Festival takes place this weekend (4-6 March) and has launched a new website in celebration. Get ready for a weekend of adventure films, talks, live music and competitions at the Showroom...
24th Feb 2011 Spyke Scales Scotland's Summits, Running Bug
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- www.therunningbug.co.uk
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- www.showroomworkstation.org.uk
Ultra-runner Stephen Pyke (aka Spyke) lives in Hathersage in the Peak District and works at Sheffield University. Starting on April 25th last year with Ben More on Mull, Stephen set himself the challenge of climbing all...
