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).
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...
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.
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...
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...
21st Feb 2011 RCUK's ShAFF preview, part one
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- rockclimbinguk.co.uk
The Sheffield Adventure Film Festival provides a fantastic opportunity to watch some of the most exciting footage of outdoor adventures, as well as to hear from the athletes themselves, and the writers, photographers and...
26th Feb 2011 This week's new film events, Guardian Guide
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- www.guardian.co.uk
Recent movies like 127 Hours and Sanctum showed how exhilarating and terrifying extreme outdoor pursuits are to watch on the big screen – but they were just pretending. The real deal needs no dressing up, as this...
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...
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...
16th Feb 2011 News - ShAFF, Ride Sheffield
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- www.ridesheffield.com
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- www.showroomworkstation.org.uk
Hope everyone is dragging bikes out of the shed now that we are snow free – just a couple of weeks and the mud will be gone too; just in time for Peaty’s Steel City DH News If you didn’t get an entry you should...
24th Feb 2011 Stephen Pyke at ShAFF, Buxton Advertiser
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- www.buxtonadvertiser.co.uk
Hathersage ultra-runner Stephen Pyke will lecture at ShAFF
3rd Feb 2011 Leo's ascent gets Sheffield Showing, Sheffield Telegraph
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- www.sheffieldtelegraph.co.uk
"Daredevil Leo Houlding is one of the big names in the UK climbing world participating in the Sheffield Adventure Film Festival next month...His film about this climb, The Prophet, will be shown at the festival taking...
7th Feb 2011 £500 up for grabs in Jagged Globe Video Contest at Shaff
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- freecaster.tv
Have you filmed a 3 minute (max) short film on adventure or adventure sport? Is it original, and not already something posted online? If the answer is YES, then check this out... A short video competition - open to...
7th Feb 2011 Freecaster TV partners with ShAFF
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- freecaster.tv
"Freecaster.tv announces a media partnership with ShAFF, the Sheffield Adventure Film Festival, which runs from March 4th -6th 2011. ShAFF manages to pull together the best line up of adventure films over a single...
17th Feb 2011 Is Barefoot Best? Little Britain
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- www.runbritain.com
Accelerate in Sheffield...are hosting an Expert Running Night as part of the Sheffield Adventure Film Festival. They have a panel of running experts including leading Bio Mechanist Colin Papworth, Saucony’s Paul Heywood...
1st Feb 2011 UK film festival celebrates it's 6th year, Trek & Mountain
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- www.trekandmountain.com
"As one of the UK's biggest festivals celebrating climbing and outdoor adventure, The Sheffield Adventure Film Festival had a record-breaking number of film entries this year."
8th Feb 2011 Hope Valley Adventure Film Festival, RCUK
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- rockclimbinguk.co.uk
Check out the Hope Valley Adventure Film Festival, at Hope Valley College, 12th February 2011. There’s loads on during the day including Best of ShAFF films, Youth adventure films, Bouldering, caving and slack-lining...
1st Feb 2011 One of strongest collections of adventure films, Climb
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- www.climbmagazine.com
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- www.showroomworkstation.org.uk
This year ShAFF’s had a record-breaking number of film entries (200+). Event organiser Matt Heason has hand-picked one of the strongest collections of the best adventure films from around the world. Read more on Climb...
17th Feb 2011 Fight Science video, RareBreedSports
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- www.rarebreedsports.com
Ever wondered what it takes to be a Freerunner or Parkour Traceur? What impact it has on your body? What muscles do what? National Geographic Fight Science; tests the skills of parkour free-runners under laboratory...
15th Feb 2011 Film Festivals in the YouTube Age, RareBreedSports
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- www.rarebreedsports.com
Sheffield Adventure Film Festival organiser Matt Heason argues the case for film festivals in the YouTube age. Read more on RareBreedSports...
16th Feb 2011 Watch Brighter trailer on RareBreedSports
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- www.rarebreedsports.com
"From the co-visionary of the underground cult classic Stripped, the online web series Stund, and a past editor for Freeride Entertainment, Tamas Forde/New Wave Cinema brings us Brighter, featuring some of the world's...
1st Feb 2011 Shaff line-up, Walk Magazine
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- www.walkmag.co.uk
"For adventurous spirits and minds, ShAFF's line-up of films has something for everyone: coping with solitude in the Australian desert; dealing with the fallout from a fatal Rocky Mountain avalanche; or the jaw-dropping...
12th Feb 2011 Rock Climbing UK preview of ShAFF
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- rockclimbinguk.co.uk
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- www.showroomworkstation.org.uk
"The Sheffield Adventure Film Festival provides a fantastic opportunity to watch some of the most exciting footage of outdoor adventures, as well as to hear from the athletes themselves, and the writers, photographers and...
8th Feb 2011 Congo Canoeist Phil Harwood on High Peak Radio
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- www.heason.net
Lissa Cook talks to Phil Harwood about his amazing 3000 mile solo canoe trip down the Congo. Click here to listen to the interview also broadcast on Heason Events podcasts.
16th Feb 2011 Hayfield cyclist on High Peak Radio
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- www.heason.net
Nik Cook interviews cycling champ & former Olympian Nick Craig on High Peak Performance. Click here to listen to the Heason Events podcast version of the interview.
