Media coverage
We're grateful to everyone for spreading the word about the Sheffield Adventure Film Festival. (For press and media enquiries please call Jenny Brown on 07779 281114 or email jenny@bandofbirds.co.uk).
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...
17th Dec 2011 2011 Best Year Yet for ShAFF, Sheffield Telegraph
SHEFFIELD’S Showroom Cinema is reporting a record-breaking year at the box office with attendance figures at their highest yet. It is reflecting a national trend with overall box office receipts for 2011 expected to...
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...
8th Dec 2011 TONIGHT - Best of Shaff 2011, 8th Dec, Sheffield Telegraph
Best of Sheffield Adventure Film Festival 2011, line-up includes ShAFF 2011 Best Film winner The Swiss Machine, bouldering and climbing film Tuzgle, beautifully shot landscapes in Salt, and a five-month canoeing odyssey...
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...
28th Nov 2011 Next Year's Deadline Looms, Grough Magazine
Rerun for best of film festival as next year's deadline looms, Grough magazine (The Inside View of the Outdoor World) Organisers of one of the country’s biggest adrenaline film festivals issued a last-minute reminder...
25th Nov 2011 ShAFF Film Submission Deadline Only A Week Away
ShAFF judge and Outdoors Magic guest editor Nik Cook talks to festival director Matt Heason for Outdoors Magic The submission deadline for the 2012 Sheffield Adventure Film Festival is only a week away. December 1st...
25th Nov 2011 Best of ShAFF 2011 on 8 Dec, RockClimbingUK
A look back at some of the best films from 2011. If you didn’t catch them here’s your chance to do so. If you did, well, come and watch them again! Check out details on RockClimbingUK
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...
24th Nov 2011 Like a Lion 'goes beyond skiing', Outdoors Magic
Sheffield Adventure Film Festival judge and Outdoors Magic guest editor Nik Cook reviews the extraordinary ski doc, Like a Lion, showing at the Sheffield Showroom cinema at 20.15 on 29th November. Nik writes: ...
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 Oct 2011 ShAFF to get Winter Showings, My Outdoors
Heason Events, the people behind Cliffhanger and the Sheffield Adventure Film Festival, have announced a series of "Best of 2011 & Classics" filmings over the next couple of months. The full program is listed below with...
11th Oct 2011 ShAFF goes viral for 2012, Outdoors Magic
Outdoors Magic Editor Jon Doran says: "The Sheffield Adventure Film Festival is back for 2012 complete with a new category for viral videos... Read more on Outdoors Magic
21st Oct 2011 ShAFF 'Celluloid Satisfaction Guaranteed', Cycling Weekly
GO WATCH, Cycling Weekly news...Next year's ShAFF promises to be bigger than ever...
10th Oct 2011 ShAFF goes viral, Singletrack
After the success of last year’s Sheffield Adventure Film Festival, which featured a restrospective look at the legendary Sprung mountain biking video series with filmmaker Alex Rankin and racer Steve Peat, the event...
12th Jul 2011 Screen Yorkshire Grant for ShAFF 2012
We're very pleased to have been awarded a grant from Screen Yorkshire to help with local marketing and audience development. Details of the £84,600 worth of grants awarded by Screen Yorkshire are available here. The news...
23rd May 2011 Hammer Design
Hammer Design designed this website, the posters, programmer and adverts for ShAFF 2010 and 2011. We're very happy with the work. Very happy indeed. They have just written up the brief on their website here.
4th May 2011 How ShAFF helped me face my fear of heights, Trek & Mountain
How working for the Sheffield Adventure Film Festival helped me overcome my fear of heights, by PR Lissa Cook for Trek & Mountain magazine (May 2011).
21st Apr 2011 Bonita Norris Blogs about ShAFF & CWIF
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- bonitanorris.blogspot.com
For me, one of the most important things about climbing is the community that has spawned from such a complex and varied sport. From the highest mountains to the smoothest boulder, climbing takes us to environments that...
21st Apr 2011 ShAFF Gets The Ridearound
ShAFF volunteer James Hirst has just embarked on a mammoth trip around the world on his bike, raising money for Macmillan Cancer Support along the way. He's written a review of his experiences at the festival. Read more.
21st Apr 2011 ShAFF Mention on Posing Productions
From Vancouver, through Kendal to Sheffield, Leo Houlding's epic tale has got all the judges throwing their gongs at his incredible effort. Read More.
28th Mar 2011 ShAFF Entrant Gets UKC Treatment
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- www.ukclimbing.com
Alex Messenger, editor of SUmmit Magazine and professional photographer was a finalist in the Arcteryx Adventure Shot at ShAFF this year. His audiovisual presentation wowed the audience on the night, and has now been...
28th Mar 2011 Best Of ShAFF Hits Ireland
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- www.irishtimes.com
From The Irish Times: "A form of armchair adrenaline, this event comprises a 90-minute medley of the best of adventure films from ShAFF (the Sheffield Adventure Film Festival) which promises to leave viewers on a virtual...
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,...
