Sheffield Adventure Film Festival 2014 Trailer Launch

11th Feb 2014


BMCTVlogo The Sheffield Adventure Film Festival has launched the ShAFF 2014 trailer exclusively on BMC TV today ahead of its cinematic screening at the Best of ShAFF 2013 at the Showroom Cinema on Thursday and YouTube release on Tuesday 18th February.



The ShAFF trailer’s proved a hit in recent years with more than 200,000 views of the 2012 and 2013 trailers.  This year’s video has been produced by Peak District adventure and outdoor photographer and filmmaker Lukasz Warzecha (LW Images) and his Polished Project colleague Wojtek Kozakiewicz.  The soundtrack is ‘Life in Glorious Stereo’ by Sheffield band Screaming Maldini.

DanArkleShAFF_Bike We're also releasing a short 30 second film produced especially for ShAFF by Sheffield landscape photographer Dan Arkle, filmed on location in the Peak District using long exposure photography, to spell out 'Climb, Run, Bike, Party, ShAFF' to an instrumental soundtrack by Peak District violinist Matt Howden, whose music was recently used in the BBC's 'Dambusters Declassified' documentary.  (Click here to view).  Dan is also exhibiting at ShAFF's Lowepro Photography Exhibition.

Tickets will be on sale from this week from the Showroom Cinema.  The 9th ShAFF will be the biggest yet with more than 100 films thanks to the additional venue space at Sheffield Hallam University’s Pennine Lecture Theatre and more screenings at Red Bull’s outdoor Cityscape Cinema at the amphitheatre.

The expanded programme includes more family-friendly Young Adventurer sessions and a dozen feature-length films as well as ShAFF’s popular Adrenaline, Spirit of Adventure and specialist sports film sessions, plus more cycling films as part of our ‘Tour de Cinema’ partnership with DocFest as part of the Yorkshire Festival in the run up to the Tour De France.

Sheffield Hospitals Charity A suggested donation of £1 from every ticket sold will go towards supporting Sheffield Hospitals Charity raising the £5,000 that is needed to provide a satellite blood fridge in the resuscitation room of the Emergency Department at the Northern General Hospital’s Major Trauma Centre.

Alex Messenger, Digital Communications Manager at the BMC said: “The BMC team is excited to be exclusively hosting this year’s ShAFF Trailer on the new BMC TV site.  Watch it on www.thebmc.tv."

Festival Director Matt Heason said:  “Lukasz and Wojtek have done a cracking job taking over the reins of producing the ShAFF trailer from Alastair Lee and it’s fitting that it opens with Leo Houlding in Al’s new film ‘The Last Great Climb’.

“We’re particularly proud to be supporting Sheffield Hospitals Charity, especially as ‘Risk and Reward’ is a theme that reoccurs in so many of this year’s films.  We’re also grateful to Screaming Maldini for letting us use another of their tracks.  Their energetic, soaring orchestral sound is a perfect backdrop for the incredible footage that we’re privileged to screen”.
 

ScreamingMaldini_video8Nick Cox from Screaming Maldini said:  “We’re delighted and honoured to be involved with this amazing film festival for the second year running.  Seeing our music set to such incredible feats of human endurance, strength and death-defying bravery makes us feel immensely proud while at the same time immensely physically inadequate!”

Sheffield Hospitals Charity Director, David Reynolds said: “ShAFF is a hugely successful event so I’m delighted that the festival is supporting Sheffield Hospitals Charity this year and the delivery of emergency care. I’d like to urge everyone attending the event to please support our fundraising efforts to supply a satellite blood fridge.  Having immediate access to this facility is vitally important for severely injured patients, who are losing blood. No time will be lost collecting blood from elsewhere within the hospital which means you can be sure that every penny donated will have a direct impact on the care of patients at a time when they need it the most.”

ENDS

PRESS RELEASE: Tuesday 11 February 2014
 

Notes to Editors

  • Trailer embed codes: <iframe width="650" height="366" src="http://tv.thebmc.co.uk/video/shaff-2014-trailer/embed" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe> or <iframe width="480" height="270" src="http://tv.thebmc.co.uk/video/shaff-2014-trailer/embed" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>
  • Anyone who wishes to support the fundraising to provide a blood fridge can visit sheffieldhospitalscharity.org.uk or text EMER14 with their donation amount eg EMER14 £10 to 70070 or donate via Paypal http://www.shaff.co.uk/about-shaff/our-charity-partner/
  • There are two more Best of ShAFF 2013 screenings are at 8.15pm on Thursday 13th Feb and Thursday 13th March – details http://www.heason.net/events/2014/02/13/Best_Of_ShAFF_2013__2nd_of_3/

TRAILER CREDITS:

The 9th Sheffield Adventure Film Festival will take place from Friday 4th to Sunday 6th April at the Showroom Cinema and Workstation.  The programme will be announced and tickets will go on sale around the end of January.  www.shaff.co.uk
Sheffield Hospitals Charity (registered charity number: 1059043) helps to improve the care and treatment of thousands of local people by investing over £2 million a year in vital equipment, pioneering research, patient support, buildings and people.  The charity funds projects that make life better for patients being treated for almost every type of condition in the five hospitals that make up the Sheffield Teaching Hospitals (STH), these are the Northern General, Royal Hallamshire, Weston Park, Jessop Wing and Charles Clifford Dental hospitals. http://www.sheffieldhospitalscharity.org.uk and https://www.facebook.com/SheffieldHospitalsCharitableTrust
Sheffield’s Northern General Hospital is one of a network of nationwide Major Trauma Centres with consultant-led specialist teams, providing round-the-clock, life-saving treatment with state of the art diagnostic and treatment facilities for seriously injured patients for example with head or spinal injuries.  

Edited by Wojtek Kozakiewicz ( Polished Project ) for Sheffield Adventure Film Festival.
Produced by LWimages Studio
 

Music courtesy of Screaming Maldini (Life in Glorious Stereo).

Thanks to all the filmmakers whose films are featured in the trailer (in order of appearance):