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LowProLogo 17th Dec 2014 Entries Open For Lowepro Photo Competition

The ShAFF Lowepro Single Shot photo competition returns for a third year in 2015 with sponsorship from Lowepro. Open to all, amateur or pro, entrants may each submit just a single image on the theme of Adventure.  This...

new Helipad Logo with web address 17th Dec 2014 ShAFF Supports Sheffield Helipad Appeal

Organisers of the 10th Sheffield Adventure Film Festival (20-22 March, Showroom Cinema) are today announcing their support for the campaign to raise funds for a new helipad at Sheffield’s Northern General Hospital....

TeamShAFF 10th Dec 2014 We Need You - Volunteer for ShAFF2015

  Join the team - Judges Nik Cook (far left) and Claire Carter (far right); Lissa Cook (PR) & Matt Heason (Festival Director)   There would be no ShAFF without our team of volunteers and our wonderful volunteer...

ZenaToscaniProMovieMaker landscape 16th Dec 2014 Meet the new ShAFF2015 judges

Welcome to our new judges.   Zena Toscani, Deputy Editor of Pro MovieMaker magazine will judge the technical merit of our films; DJ & Music Producer, Paul Hodgson will be listening to the soundtracks and creating a...

MyOutdoorsShAFFFringe 1st Nov 2014 ShAFF launches Fringe

  Outdoor adventure professionals are set to gather in Sheffield again next year as Sheffield Adventure Film Festival's Industry Hangout returns for a second year. After the overwhelming success of last year's event,...

ShAFF2015WomenAdventure 5th Nov 2014 Raising the Profile of Women In Adventure Sport

By Lissa Cook, ShAFF PR & co-organiser. Over the past couple of years ShAFF has been criticised for the lack of women on the big screen and in our trailer.  On the one hand, our response is ‘Don’t shoot the...

ShAFF2015WomenAdventure 5th Nov 2014 Women In Adventure Take Centre Stage At SHAFF 2015

  Women in adventure sports will take centre stage at the Sheffield Adventure Film Festival (March 20-22) with organisers encouraging more women filmmakers and athletes to submit films to this year's festival as well...

britrock art 00 23rd May 2014 Brit Rock Film Tour Announced

BRIT ROCK PRESS RELEASE MAY 2014 Lead sponsor - Berghaus Supporting sponsors – BMC TV, Canon, Lowepro, ShAFF Leading film maker Alastair Lee presents the Brit Rock film tour – homegrown adventure comes to the big...

ShAFF-logo-strap 7th Apr 2014 Thank you

A huge thank you from Matt and myself to everyone for making the #ShAFF2014 such a success.  We're hugely grateful to all our sponsors and partners and we'll be putting an event report with photos and video & stats...

WideBoyz2Tom1stRedPoint.Still018creditHotAches3 2 4th Apr 2014 More tickets for Wide Boyz II premiere 9pm Fri

MORE WIDE BOYZ TICKETS FOR TONIGHT"S WORLD PREMIERE They may be Slender Gentlemen but the Wide Boyz are certainly packing in the audience. We've just sold out the screening room for tonight's but never fear - the...

AlexEkinsSherpas credit AdamBailes3 2nd Apr 2014 ShAFF Sherpa Selfie Competition

Sheffield artist and photo journalist Alex Ekins is bringing Sherpas home from Everest for this weekend's Sheffield Adventure Film Festival in a unique street art installation highlighting the work of the Nepalese...

Halley Antarctica 2014 1st Apr 2014 ShAFF Films Brighten Up Antarctic Winter

During British Summer Time, life for the scientists at the British Antarctic Survey base starts to get colder and darker heading into winter with temperatures as low as –50°C, blizzards that reduce the visibility...

TheLastGreatClimbAl Lee3 2b 2nd Apr 2014 Andy Kirkpatrick stands in for Alastair Lee at ShAFF

Sheffield Adventure Film Festival patron Andy Kirkpatrick will take the place of film director Alastair Lee (Posing Productions) in our opening session of this year's Sheffield Adventure Film Festival at 19.00 on Friday...

sportsisterlogo 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...

Breezelogo 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...

Showroom IceCream 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...

WontBackDownScreenshot3 2 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...

Best Of ShAFF 200 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   ...

ShAFF A3 Poster 2014 PRINT landscape webres 24th Mar 2014 ShAFF Programme

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

OT 630 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...

Lowepro 650.fw 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...

NorthScreenshot3 2 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...

WontBackDownScreenshot3 2 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...

Awesome Walls 650 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...

Cityscape Cinema 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...