UK Readers: Check Out the Adventure Travel Film Festival

The festival’s 5-point manifesto clearly states their mission:

• To showcase the best independent adventure travel films ever made
• To guarantee a platform for future adventure filmmakers
• To bring together the adventure travel community
• We know that making a good film isn’t difficult — we will show you how
• To have loads of fun while doing all the above!

Some highlights from the programme include Alone Across Australia, a self-shot doc by adventurer Jon Muir, who crossed the Australian desert on his own over a four-month period, living off rainwater and the animals he encountered; White Silk Road, which follows a group of Aussie surfers who take their snowboards to “the axis of evil” to ride some snow in Afghanistan, finding a lot fewer jihadis and a lot more warm welcomes than we might be led to believe; and World Traveller Adventures – Mission to India, which looks at a group of underground sound engineers, travellers, and new-age ravers who transport their sprawling community to India in a bid to start a new culture of techno on the subcontinent.

Other highlights include the UK premier of a rare collection of Iranian travel documentaries by the Omidvar Brothers between 1954-64, a filmmaking workshop on “How to Film Your Adventure,” alongside specialist sessions on shooting with Super 8, sound, narrative and editing, and the Vintage Cinema Bus, which will feature a programme of documentary shorts from the BFI film archives.

Running from 16 – 18 August, this weekend of docs and camping looks set to be a fun few days.

* This post was originally published on the author’s blog, Stranger Than Paradise, and reprinted here with permission.