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21st Feb 2011 RCUK's ShAFF preview, part one

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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...

BAF-logo 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
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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. ...