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21st Feb 2011 RCUK's ShAFF preview, part one
- Website
- 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...
28th Feb 2011 NEW adventure sports podcast on iTunes
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- www.heason.net
Sheffield Adventure Film Festival organiser, Matt Heason's launched a new free adventure sports podcast series. Interviews by ex Radio 4 producer Lissa Cook and adventure sports writer, Nik Cook, can be downloaded from...
17th Feb 2011 Big Screen Still Thrills, Sheffield Telegraph
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- www.sheffieldtelegraph.co.uk
Matt Heason defends film festivals in the age of You Tube: "IT’S a fast-changing world we’re living in; so fast that I quite often question the need for such speed. It’s easy to sit back and reminisce about the...
25th Feb 2011 Watch trailer for brilliant outdoors festival
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- www.livefortheoutdoors.com
This March the Sheffield Adventure Film Festival will feature 44 action and adventure packed award-winning films featuring adventure sports and travel from around the globe. From sea kayaking and free running in the UK to...
28th Feb 2011 Sheffield - UK Capital of Running?
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- www.runbritain.com
- Tickets
- www.showroomworkstation.org.uk
Run Britain's Jackie Newton writes: "Sheffield has been buzzing with running activity recently and it seems there is more to come! It is the home of Accelerate, a 2000 square foot running specialist store, with a wide...
28th Feb 2011 Queen of Pain podcast on Race Across the Sky
The latest in the Heason Events podcast series is an interview with US mountain-bike champion Rebecca Rusch - who won in the Leadville 100 mountain bike race 2009 and again in 2010, setting a new women's course record. ...
23rd Feb 2011 Steve Peat / Alex Rankin Night Sold Out
We're sorry to announce to anybody who hasn't got a ticket that the Steve Peat and Alex Rankin night has sold out. There are, however, other bike-related film screenings at ShAFF: Bike Films 1 9:30pm - Fri 4th Mar -...
2nd Feb 2011 Amazing New Caving Gallery Online Ahead Of This Friday's Caving Expert Night
Check out the amazing new gallery from Robbie Shone. Robbie is giving a lecture on cave-photography this Friday as the second in the series of ShAFF Expert Nights.
3rd Feb 2011 Arc'Teryx Adventure Shot Competitors Announced
We're excited to announce the 5 competitors in this year's Arc'Teryx Adventure Shot Photo Comptition are: Alex Messenger - climbing Henry Iddon - biking Rob Eavis - caving Sam Davies - winner of the open category. ...
3rd Feb 2011 Kayak films, trailers & interviews
Event organiser, Matt Heason says: "There's a fabulous line-up of films for kayakers and canoeists at ShAFF this year. There's a dedicated screening of kayak films on the Sunday. But sprinkled across the whole weekend...
3rd Feb 2011 Leo's ascent gets Sheffield showing
Sheffield Telegraph (3 Feb 2011): "Daredevil Leo Houlding is one of the big names in the UK climbing world participating in the Sheffield Adventure Film Festival next month. The rock climber who used to live in...
4th Feb 2011 Freecaster On Board
We're very excited that Freecaster are on board this year's ShAFF.
4th Feb 2011 ShAFF Daily Competition - Smartwool Socks & Mammut Harness
Every weekday between now and ShAFF (4-6 March) we will be giving away 2 pairs of Smartwool socks: 1 to a lucky NEW @HeasonEvents Twitter follower and 1 to a lucky NEW http://www.facebook.com/heason.events member (just...
7th Feb 2011 Programme & Posters Available for Download
The ShAFF 2011 Posters and Programme, designed by Hammer Design, are now available for download. If you would like a high resolution print version please let us know. Download them here. View them here (bottom of page)
7th Feb 2011 Best Of ShAFF 2010 Tonight
A last reminder that the Best Of ShAFF 2010 is screening tonight at The Showroom.
8th Feb 2011 HURRY - £500 up for grabs in ShAFF video shorts comp
£500 Up For Grabs in Jagged Globe Short Video Contest at ShAFF, 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...
8th Feb 2011 ShAFF partners with 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 weekend,...
10th Feb 2011 Running Expert Night SOLD OUT
Tomorrow night's ShAFF Running Expert Night with Accelerate has sold out. Thanks to those who have booked. Sorry for those who have not. Looks like demand is high for running events so we'll look at organising others.
10th Feb 2011 17 yr old mountain biker thru to Arc'Teryx photo comp final
A 17 year old student and amateur photographer has won through to the finals of the Arc'teryx Adventure Shot Photography Competition. Sam Davies who studies at Gorseinon College in Swansea will now go up against four...
14th Feb 2011 Extra Rankin Peat Tickets Available
We're pleased to announce that we've managed to move the Alex Rankin / Steve Peat screening at 6pm on Sat 5th March into a bigger venue. More tickets are now available via the Showroom website and box office. Details here.
17th Feb 2011 Singletrack mag: "See the 'nicest man in MTB' at ShAFF tomorrow"...
Mountain biking & cyclo-cross great Nick Craig is giving a lecture at the Sheffield Adventure Film Festival on Friday 18th February (at 8pm). Scott bikes tech rep Nick Craig is a multiple national champion in both...
17th Feb 2011 Biking Expert Night This Friday - Loads Of Prizes
Reminder for this Friday: Nick Craig interviewed by Nik Cook at the ShAFF Expert Biking Night. Supported by @SilvaUK who are providing 3 prizes; 1st prize Silva Alpha (rrp £325), 2nd prize Silva X-Trail Plus (rrp...
17th Feb 2011 Facebook / Twitter Comp Running
If you hadn't already spotted, we are running a daily competition for a couple of pairs of Smartwool socks, one for a randomly drawn new Facebook follower and one for a randomly drawn new Twitter follower. So far: ...
18th Feb 2011 ShAFF sticks up for film festivals in the YouTube age
ShaFF organiser, Matt Heason, argues the case for film festivals in the age of You Tube. Read more in his article for the Sheffield Telegraph.
