Now entering its 15th year, BMC Sheffield Adventure Film Festival is the largest urban adventure film festival in the UK, and the only one in a city with a national park within its limits. This amazing setting has inspired an event that brings people together to celebrate outdoor life and the adventures it offers. ShAFF will invigorate and inspire you with the best new adventure films from around the world, showing off everything the outdoors has to offer.
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The Big Bang
Saturday 21st March 19:30-21:00
As part of her Welsh and English tour with BMC and Patagonia, Emma Twyford will be presenting her award-winning film The Big Bang alongside director David Petts with an exclusive Q&A session after the screening. The session also features Niall Grimes and prizes!
Emma Twyford is on an ambitious journey to becoming one of the most respected climbers in the UK. In 2017, Emma visited the iconic crag of ‘Lower Pen Twyrn’ to ‘’see what a 9a feels like’’. Follow Emma’s story as she overcomes her own physical and mental limits, has way too much fun, and pushes to climb 9a – ‘’The Big Bang.’’
BMC Women in Adventure Screening: Presented by Montane
Saturday 21st March 14:15-15:30
Come and watch the shortlisted BMC Women in Adventure film competition entries and be the first to see who are crowned the 2020 winners. 30 fantastic female-led adventure films were entered into the sixth annual BMC TV and Womenclimb competition.
From caving to cleaning up the Arctic, exploring human spirit to addressing anxiety in adventure, leaving your comfort zone and seeing what you can really achieve if you put your mind to it, this year's films showcase a vast variety of adventures undertaken by women across the board. GET TICKETS
Women in Adventure Panel and Workshop
Saturday 17:30-19:00
Back with a new structure for this year, this FREE Women in Adventure 2020 Panel and Workshop is bringing you a rotating interactive session where those interested in finding out more about the outdoor industry will be able to move through the tables with our special guests from the industry: These rotating sessions will be a mixture of presentations, talks, informal Q&As and advice giving with sessions about:
🌳 How to develop skills for the Outdoors Industry with Womenclimb Founder Emily Pitts
📽️ How to make a great film: from passion project to commercial work with award-winning film makers Emma Brennand, Anna Paxton and Emma Crome
🎞️ The Outdoor Film Industry: Who chooses? with ShAFF Head Judge Claire Carter and European Outdoor Film Tour Programmer Paula Flach
🧗 How to get into Mountain Rescue: Ask the experts with Mountain Rescue candidates
🚵 Volunteer to President: volunteer skills in the outdoors with BMC President Lynn Robinson
🔬 Research into women in the outdoors and adventure with Senior Lecturer Adele Doran
This will be a valuable event to attend whether for networking, looking for the next step to get you involved in your own Women in Adventure project or if you're looking for new opportunities and ideas to improve on your own film making.
Planning a wild hillwalking adventure with Alex Roddie: presented by BMC
Friday 20th March 20:00-21:00
Long-distance hiker Alex Roddie's free talk will kick off the ShAFF weekend and should be on the calendar of any avid hikers! Joined by BMC President Lynn Robinson, lifelong hillwalker Alex will discuss lightweight backpacking, gear, tips and tricks, getting the experience necessary for those ambitious routes, and how his appreciation for wildness has changed as he's become more aware of its fragility.
The Climate Project Launch
Friday 20th March 7pm
Did you know that there’s a way to capture more carbon per square metre than a tropical rainforest? Out on the wilds of our peat bog moorlands grows an amazing little plant called sphagnum. When sphagnum is growing healthily, this plant powerhouse takes excess carbon out of the atmosphere.
We’re going full green and launching our new campaign “The Climate Project” at ShAFF – a new way for people to fight climate change on a local level. We will be supporting the work of Moors for the Future in our sphagnum campaigns. You’ll be able to support The Climate Project through our travel insurance, membership, the BMC shop and individual donations.
We hope that other organisations in the UK outdoor industry and those interested in getting involved will join us for its launch. If so, please email emma@thebmc.co.uk for an invite.
Full details on how everyone can join this worthy project, and how you can get updates before the launch, can be found on The Climate Project website.
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