The Sheffield Adventure Film Festival is one the UK’s biggest and best, and in this programme we show award winning films from the world of caving, speed mountaineering, surfing and wild white water kayaking, all taken from the ‘Best of ShAFF 2011’. This is at the true heart of adventure film festivals and not to be missed!
Into Darkness
15 mins
Into Darkness goes beneath the surface to reveal the fantastic underworld universe of caves. Follow a group of cavers, who push through impossibly small passages to access some of the final frontiers on earth.
Awards
Merit Award and Tom Zanes Award - NSS Video Salon
The Swiss Machine
19 mins
Stunning aerial footage of Ueli Steck's record-breaking speed ascents in the Alps. THE SWISS MACHINE charts the amazing feats of perhaps the greatest speed alpinist the world has ever seen. Ueli literally races up 8,000 foot mountains doing in hours what other mountaineers take days to achieve. He even pushes renowned climber Alex Honnold to his limits on the big rock faces of Yosemite.
Awards
Best Mountaineering Film – Kendal
Dark Side Of The Lens
6 mins
Mickey Smith worked with Allan Wilson (director of photography) from the Astray Collective to present a side to surfing that few of us, as observers or surfers, will glimpse: the life of the photographer. What drives him to spend countless hours in cold and hostile waters in search of a single shot?
Dream Result
45 mins
DREAM RESULT is the story of a group of friends who have undertaken a journey to explore the limits of kayking possibility. The film includes the World Record Waterfall Descent of 186 ft Palouse Falls, expeditions into the wilderness of Northern Canada, big air freestyle on the flooded rivers of Quebec, and a quest for waterfalls throughout Chile and Scandinavia. Driven through the passions of nine of the sports top athletes and lifelong colleagues, they experience a year in the life of chasing their Dream Result.
Awards
PEOPLE’S CHOICE AWARD FOR RADICAL REELS - Banff