Record number of Bike Films at ShAFF
13th Feb 2014
29* isn't just a bike wheel size. It's also the number of cycling films we're screening at this year's ShAFF including two special Bike Film Sessions and four feature length cycling films. [Note - We're up to 31 now with our free screenings at Cityscape Cinema & Tour De Cinema]
We reckon it's a record and it's pretty fitting as Sheffield Adventure Film Festival and Cycle to the Cinema are proud to be part of the Tour De Cinema presented by Sheffield Doc/Fest as part of the Yorkshire Festival to celebrate the 100 days preceding the Grand Départ in Leeds on 5th July 2014.
ShAFF judge, Nik Cook, a cyclist who firmly believes that the magic bike formula is N+1 (where N is his current number of bikes) says: "From local riders on local trails to big air freeride and big downhill hitters plus trials tricks, vintage velo and city couriers, there's something for every cycling tribe at this year's Sheffield Adventure Film Festival."
ShAFF PR, Lissa Cook, a cyclist who firmly believes the magic bike formula should be N-1 (where N is the current number of Nik's bikes) says: "It's great to have such a huge line up of bike films at this year's ShAFF. My personal highlight is the premiere of Kathryn Bertine's documentary on why women cyclists aren't receiving Half the Road. We're constantly striving to show more films by female athletes and filmmakers and I look forward to a day when women in adventure films will fill half the film sessions at ShAFF."
PS Check out Sheffield landscape photographer Dan Arkle's long exposure video tribute to biking, running & climbing in the Peak District, 'Lights, Camera, Action'. The BIKE image above is taken from the film and used cumulative light painting timelapse (and apparently Quality Street wrappers to tint the light!)
FULL LIST OF BIKE FILMS SHOWING AT SHAFF (starred films feature in ShAFF 2014 Trailer)
10 Things Every Mountain Bike Should Have Done
Swiss filmmaker Tom Malecha's video bucket list of his personal experiences in this beautifully filmed short that will motivate mountain bikers to get out and try new experiences. We're particularly proud to show 10 Things Every Mountain Biker Should Have Done as two years ago he won our Petzl ShAFF Shorts video competition with his innovative split screen film ‘BI.KE – A Symmetric Vehicle’ and last year we screened 'Ride Positive: A Mountainbike Manifesto'. We think '10 Things' is his best film to date.
Duration: 3 minutes
7 Cogs of Sheffield*
In his big screen debut Sheffield Hallam photography student Edward Birch takes a closer look at the mountain biking community within Sheffield, focusing on local riders including 19 year old GB rider Freddie Oxley who competes for fellow Sheffield legend Steve Pete and 15 year old up and coming rider Hannah Saville as well and a well-known local enduro team. Ed hopes riders who watch his film at ShAFF will get a kick from seeing the trails they themselves ride. Listen our for the dulcet tones of Sheffield mountain bike shop owner and film sponsor Martin Rescorle from Over-Ride Bikes doing a cracking job on the narration.
Duration: 15 minutes (exact time tbc)
Arrival
Described by pinkbike as "a no-holds-barred action heavy mountain bike film" with "bikes and dirt flying sideways at all times", 'Arrival' builds on the worldwide success of SecondBase Film's hit 'From the Inside Out' which went down a treat at ShAFF last year. Starring Steve Smith, Logan Peat, Ryan Howard, Mitch Ropelato, Matt Miles, and the Coastal Crew—Kyle Norbraten, Dylan Dunkerton, and Curtis Robinson—alongside the talents of a new breed of mountain bike filmmakers and photographers, including Nic Genovese, Matt Miles, Matt Dennison and Haruki “Harookz” Noguchi.
Duration: 35 minutes
Baisikeli
'Baisikeli' tells the story of the potential of African cycling. If Kenya is home to so many top class distance runners, could it also provide the future stars of the Tour De France? A fascinating look at the potential of African cycling and the future of the Kenyan National Cycling team.
Can Africa be the next cycling powerhouse? What challenges stand in the way? Who are the characters? (PS In case you're wondering, Baisikeli means bicycle in Swahili).
Duration: 26 minutes
Bike 2 Boat Norway*
Olaf Obsommer, Philip Baues, Lukas Wielatt and Jens Klatt are touring Norway's rivers by kayak. Rather than strapping their kayaks to the top of the car to get from river to river, they're cycling!
Duration: 5 minutes
Experiments in Speed*
Inspired by those great men of the salt flats, those men that in the 60s pushed the Land Speed Record from the 300s up towards the 600mph mark in jet-propelled cars built in their sheds, Tom Donhou (Donhou Bikes) decided to do what they do best: build a bicycle. But this time, in the spirit of those pioneers of speed, they built to see how fast they could go…
Duration: 9 minutes
Five
Five ways to have fun on your bike from Yorkshire, tea-drinking pro rider Chris Akrigg. Like this? Check out Chris & friends in Road Bike Party 2.
Duration: 8 minutes
Flow - The Elements of Freeride
Follow Geophysicist Rex Flake on a high-adrenaline mountain bike ride through the Cascade Mountains in Washington State. Witty use of graphics highlights the bike's technology, the rider's physiology and the flora, fauna and geology of this stunning region. Plus a foot-tapping remix of Country Roads. What more could you ask for?
Duration: 3 minutes
Half the Road
The passion, pitfalls & power of women’s professional cycling. US pro cyclist Kathryn Bertine poses a simple question: When it comes to equality in the world of professional cycling, why aren't the women receiving half the road?
Last year, Kathryn joined forces with Olympic & World Champion cyclists Emma Pooley and Marianne Vos, and Ironman World Champion Chrissie Wellington, to form Le Tour Entier campaign to petition Tour de France organisers to allow women’s professional cycling teams to compete in the Tour.
Duration: 102 minutes
How To Be A Mountain Biker
29(er) easy steps to becoming a mountain biker including trannies, trees, flannel shirts and coffee. Watch it and 'go ride your damn bike'.
Duration: 4 minutes
Imaginate
Danny Macaskill is back from injury. The Scottish stunt biker and cameraman Stu Thomson have now teamed up with RedBull Media House to produce this childhood fantasy trials bike short. All the usual incredible tricks you'd expect if you loved his 2009 viral phenomenon ' Inspired Bicycles ' (34 million view on YouTube), ' Way Back Home ' (29 million) and our 2012 ShAFF Best Bike Film winner ' Industrial Revolutions ' (8 million views), plus more. So much better on the big screen.
Duration: 7 minutes
Jake Atkinson - Old Bike, New Tricks
Jake dragged out the old bike for a couple of days to see if it could still be put to good use. (10 year old Jake is the son of HellRider Adventure Duathlon mountain bike course designer, Ian Atkinson, and Josh is his 19 year old brother).
Duration: 4 minutes
Murder of Couriers*
Murder of Couriers documents the lives of a group of bike messengers over a nearly three-year span. This film was made by couriers, about couriers, for a wide general audience and offers the chance to experience a lifestyle that not many get the privilege to enjoy.
Duration: 74 minutes
The world’s finest mountain bikers gather together in Livigno form the Nine Knights, a most illustrious round table. A perfect set of jumps with the best backdrop you can imagine.
Duration: 5 minutes
An artistic mountain bike film exploring the diverse range of riding around Sheffield and the surrounding Peak District featuring riders: Alex McNeil, Dave Camus, Oscar Monk, Jake Monk, Marco Wood-Bonelli.
Duration: 16 minutes
30 days of bicycle tomfoolery in New Zealand. Seven of the world's best off-road mountain bikers - Brandon Semenuk, Brook MacDonald, Brett Rheeder, Cam McCaul, Andrew Shandro, René Wildhaber and Ryan Howard - come together in a town at the end of the earth and have a lot of fun.
Duration: 28 minutes
UK rider and downhill racer Tom Wheeler lost the use of his right arm whilst racing in Rheola, Wales back in 2011. Peaks of Life charts Tom's lengthy recovery and rehabilitation process and his determination to ride again.
Duration: 6 minutes
British BMX rider Bas Keep has built and ridden the biggest dirt quarter pipe ever made. At 26 feet high it's twice the height of a double decker bus and took 4 months to build. His jumps, reaching heights of 45 foot, have to be seen to be believed,
Duration: 4 minutes
Red Bull Rampage From Start to Finish*
The annual 'Red Bull Rampage' competition in Utah is the pinnacle of freeride mountain biking. 25 daring mountain bikers blew the doors off what is possible on two wheels, unleashing some of the biggest moments the sport has ever seen.
Hold your breath as Cameron Zink attempts 60 foot tip-to-tip back flip jump called 'The Big Girl' - while his pregnant girlfriend's watching.
Duration: 5 minutes
Road Bike Party 2*
Incredible stunts and amazing tricks all completed on a £15,000 Colnago C59 Disc. Mountain bike trials legend Martyn Ashton had been working on a sequel to his YouTube hit Road Bike Party - screened at last year's ShAFF - when he was left paralysed from the waist down after an accident during demo at Silverston last year. Friends Danny MacAskiill and Chris Akrigg stepped in to help complete the film and fulfil Martyn's creative vision. Grab the chance to see three legends on the big screen.
Duration: 6 minutes
Sam Reynolds - Freestyle MTB in Slow Motion*
A stunning short with an amazing soundtrack, filmed in one day at Woburn with high speed, 600 frame per second cameras. Described by International Mountain Bike magazine as "like watching poetic ballet on a mountain bike, minus the tutu."
Duration: 4 minutes
Guillaume Blanchet who directs and stars in this amusing short says: "I love being on a bike, it helps me feel free. I get it from my dad. After days and days of cycling the streets of Montreal, come cold or sun, or even a little frightened, I dedicate this film to him."
Duration: 3 minutes
The Road from Karakol
In the summer of 2011, alpinist Kyle Dempster set out across Kyrgyzstan’s back roads on his bike. His goal – ride across the country via old Soviet roads while climbing as many of the region’s impressive peaks as possible. He was alone. He’d purchased his bike just weeks before and had never bike toured. He carried only a minimalist’s ration of climbing gear and knew ten words of Kyrgyz vocabulary.
Duration: 35 minutes
Trials Biking Greenland
During a recent trip to Greenland, Czech pro trials biker Petr Kraus visited the town of Sisimiut for some urban trial riding and got to know the young local riders.
Duration: 2 minutes
Velorama
A new film created from stunning British Film Institute archive film about a Century of the Bicycle. From the invention of the bicycle to the gruelling pursuit of Le Tour – a historical journey through a century of cycling are honoured in this specially-made new film comprised of fascinating archive materials and music. Yorkshire audiences will have the first opportunity to see this new documentary.
Duration: 60 minutes
What Were You Doing at 10?
What were YOU doing at 10? Seth Sherlock is shredding trails on his mountain bike in British Colombia.
Duration: 4 minutes
Wheelin*
A brief story about a retired commander of an antique bicycle preservation group and his mission to pass on bicycling heritage, both that of the golden age of cycling as well as the nostalgic days of childhood yore.
Duration: 6 minutes
Won’t Back Down
From his humble beginnings in his hometown of Sheffield, England, Steve Peat has established himself as the one of world's most iconic cyclists. Peaty has been competing at the top level in his chosen sport of downhill mountain bike racing for the past 23 years, longer than the lifetime of many of his current competitors. Through 20 years of archival footage and photos and intimate interviews with Steve, his family, close friends and competitors, Won’t Back Down takes viewers on a captivating tour of the history of the sport of downhill mountain bike racing and offers a never-before-seen view into the life and legacy of this enduring icon.
Duration: 110 minutes
