News and Press

17th Mar 2014 BackSeat Mafia previews ShAFF

Thanks to Sheffield Arts, Music, Apparel & Film blogger Backseat Mafia for casting his eye over the forthcoming Sheffield Adventure Film Festival programme and picking our his highlights including Maidentrip and Tour...

12th Mar 2014 ShAFF Lowepro Photo Exhibition, Outdoor Photography

Thanks to Outdoor Photography magazine for previewing our ShAFF Lowepro Photography Exhibition starting on March 31st at the Showroom Workstation ahead of the Sheffield Adventure Film Festival (4-6 April) and running...

7th Mar 2014 The Limbless Mountaineer, Outdoor Enthusiast magazine

Thanks to Outdoor Enthusiast for previewing our special charity film premiere, lecture and expert panel on Saturday 5 April to raise money for Sheffield Hospitals Charity. Read more...

4th Mar 2014 ShAFF Trailer, Singletrack mini-movies

Flattered to have the Sheffield Adventure Film Festival trailer included in Singletrack mag's round-up of mid-week mini-movies. Time for a tea break? Watch here...

3rd Mar 2014 Cycle to the Cinema Programme Announced, Outside Times

Thanks to Outside Times for previewing our Cycle to the Cinema 2014 programme... "The first film is ‘Chasing Ice’ on Thursday 6th March at Longshaw. Acclaimed photographer and former climate change sceptic James...

31st Mar 2014 Lack of women in adventure sports, SportSister

Further to the debate kicked off by Sheffield bloggers LaDIYFest about the lack of women featured in our ShAFF 2014 trailer, here's my response published on Sportsister which is a follow up to an article I wrote for them...

25th Mar 2014 Win tickets to Half the Road with Breeze

Thanks to Breeze for featuring a ShAFF competition in their newsletter Win tickets to see Half the Road at Sheffield Adventure Film Festival We've got a free pair of tickets to give away for the premiere of women’s...

27th Mar 2014 Adventure's on the Menu at ShAFF

Thanks to the team at the Showroom Cinema who have come up with a special Sheffield Adventure Film Festival Menu Inspirational Ices Cream?? Help the Showroom chefs top it off by coming up with a ShAFF Ice Cream...

27th Mar 2014 Won't Back Down - More Tickets Now Available

After selling out its screening room, we're moving the film about the story of Sheffield mountain bike legend Steve Peat Won't Back Down to our largest screen over the road at the Pennine Lecture Theatre Sheffield...

27th Mar 2014 And The Winner Is...

Congratulations to the winners of the 9th Sheffield Adventure Film Festival, 4-6 April 2014 Best Film: Grand Prize: Road From Karakol Silver: Valhalla Bronze: Heaven’s Gate read full list of winning films ...

24th Mar 2014 ShAFF Programme

Check out this year's ShAFF programme, designed by the lovely folk at Reflow Studio.

20th Mar 2014 The Outdoor Times SHAFF Film Previews

If it's possible to have a coffee table blog, then Tony O'Donnell at The Outdoor Times has achieved it. His outdoors & adventure website has a weighty, satisfying feel with gorgeous images and great content. Here...

20th Mar 2014 Vote for & buy your favourite Lowepro Adventure Photo

ShAFF Lowepro competition finalists in public vote LIKE ONE? VOTE ON FACEBOOK With just a fortnight left before the winner is decided in the 2014 ShAFF Lowepro Adventure Photograph Competition, the shortlisted six...

20th Mar 2014 Debut Sheffield Filmmaker's MTB Trailer Proves a Hit

It's always brilliant when you can support up and coming filmmakers and even better still when they are local talent like Tom Richards (Furnival Media) who only graduated from Sheffield Hallam University's photography...

14th Mar 2014 Awesome Walls ShAFF 'Selfie' Competition

Snap a "selfie" by the ShAFF logo Awesome Walls Sheffield & you could win tickets to Climb 1 films at the Showroom Cinema including the new Wide Boyz II - Slender Gentlemen from Hot Aches Productions + Outcrop Films...

17th Mar 2014 Red Bull's Free Open Air Cityscape Cinema is Back

WITH EXTREME SKATE, SURF & BIKE FILMS AND Q&A WITH BIG WAVE LEGEND ANDREW COTTON Red Bull’s FREE, open air, big screen cinema is back as part of this year’s Sheffield Adventure Film Festival at 6.30pm on...

6th Mar 2014 Outdoors Adventure Comes Indoors, Sheffield Telegraph

Thanks to our official media partner The Sheffield Telegraph for their preview feature on all the amazing local talent at this year's Sheffield Adventure Film Festival. Read more in this week's issue. And click here...

7th Mar 2014 Jamie Andrew Charity Evening with Andy Kirkpatrick, Saturday 5 April

FILM PREMIERE + LECTURE + EXPERT PANEL FOR SHEFFIELD HOSPITALS CHARITY Sheffield Adventure Film Festival is proud to announce we’ll be holding a very special fundraising evening with mountaineer and quadruple...

6th Mar 2014 Run Wild at ShAFF

There are seven inspiring running films and three great talks/workshops on off-road running at this year’s Sheffield Adventure Film Festival. A suggested donation of £1 from every ticket sold will go to...

18th Mar 2014 Won't Back Down, John Horscroft Review

Thanks to Sheffield writer and mountain biker John Horscroft for previewing 'Won’t Back Down – The Steve Peat Story'. John writes: "I love a bit of mountain biking porn as much as the next man, but there comes a...

18th Mar 2014 ShAFF 2014 Top 5

ShAFF is only just over a couple of weeks away (so get your tickets!) so Lissa asked me to write a few words about my top five films of this year's festival. As always it's a tough choice - at the end of the day I chose...

7th Mar 2014 Restless film review, Dan Habershon Butcher

Freelance Filmmaker, Photographer and Adventure Enthusiast Dan Habershon Butcher reviews our ski films including Restless, screening at Sheffield Adventure Film Festival. Dan writes: "If you’re thinking about...

8th Mar 2014 Deeper Than Snow Film Review, Dan Habershon Butcher

Freelance Filmmaker, Photographer and Adventure Enthusiast Dan Habershon Butcher reviews our ski films, starting with Deeper Than Snow by Sheffield director Ismar Badzic, premiering at the Sheffield Adventure Film...

10th Mar 2014 Young Adventurers 2 Review, DoTryThisAtHome.com

Read Tim Meek's review of our Young Adventurers 2 film programme on his Do Try This At Home blog. Tim and his wife Kerry and their daughters Amy and Ella are a normal everyday family. Neither Tim nor Kerry come from...

8th Mar 2014 Young Adventurers 1 Review, DoTryThisAtHome.com

Read Tim Meek's review of our Young Adventurers 1 film programme on his Do Try This At Home blog. Tim and his wife Kerry and their daughters Amy and Ella are a normal everyday family. Neither Tim nor Kerry come from...