Adventure Travel Film Festival 2017 brochure

The
Adventure
Travel
Film
Festival

11 – 13 August 2017 Mill Hill  London

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Welcome Adventure Travel
Film Festival…
2017 to the 

A weekend of films, camping and outdoor action,
hosted by Austin Vince and Lois Pryce

Wow – we’re seven years old and yesiree Bob, seven is our lucky Come one, come all, from Scotland to England, let us celebrate
number! The festival has really taken root at Mill Hill and is bedding in our phenomenal community out there making adventure travel
nicely at Inverewe Gardens up in Scotland. For an event that has grown documentaries. This is the only collection like it in the world so
organically, it is fitting that it is now being held in two venues that are thanks for making it happen. Without you, it simply doesn’t exist.
internationally famous on the botany scene!
This year sees more films than ever on display and the submissions
folder has been bulging. Without any strategy on our part there is a
real boom in films about long distance water expeditions. No better
example being the epic Losing Sight Of Shore about the recent record-
setting trans-Pacific row by The Coxless Crew.
We’re bursting with new workshops and a particularly stunning field-
cooking display from Ireland’s amazing Kieran Creevy. The mountain
of talent is capped with national treasure Benedict Allen who we are
super fortunate to have secured as our keynote speaker.

Front cover image from the film
Solidream – Aspirations of the Pamirs

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Austin Vince made his first solo overland journey from London to Delhi, aged 18. He Travel writer Lois Pryce flew the coop aged 13 when she and three school-
started hitch-hiking, aged 12, as a means of avoiding the tedious hikes meted out to him friends spent their summer holidays cycling and camping around Cornwall – with
at Scout Camp. Formerly a trainspotting maths teacher, he’s made his name as the man no grown-ups! The seed was sown. She has since motorcycled solo from Alaska
who created the cult travel show Mondo Enduro and the recreational hitch-hiking TV to Argentina, from London to Cape Town and around Iran. She was listed by The
series Roadside USA. As well as curating this festival he masterminds Europe’s leading Telegraph as one of their ‘Top 10 Female Travellers’, and her best-selling books
dirtbike map-reading events in the Catalan Pyrenees. His latest film, Mondo Sahara, is an have been published throughout the world, inspiring thousands to hit the road.
all-action, Anglo-American desert adventure which has received worldwide acclaim. He Her latest book, Revolutionary Ride, about her solo travels in Iran, was published
was voted ‘Adventurer of the Year’ in 2012 by the USA’s prestigious Expedition Portal. in January 2017 to great critical acclaim.

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FDiulmgOTuitle Two mates go out to the Amazon, fell a
massive trDeees,cmriapkteioandugout canoe and
FIinlmthTiesxta…ge of obfuscating politicians and set off downstream
alternative facts, it’s great to have a film
title that leaves little to the imagination!
Ben Sadd and James Trundle have been
dropping in at the ATFF for the last five
years. Either as film-makers (2014’s
masterful Trail to Anywhere), winners of the
camp-fire cooking competition or simply
as master spoon whittlers! These guys
are what this festival lives and breathes;
free spirits with a true thirst for adventure;
original, inventive and creative in equal
measure. Compliments? You bet. Ben and
James are the future: kind, interested,
grass roots and genuinely funny.
They should have their own series on BBC2
and when they do, we shall raise a glass
and toast them!

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Film TitlLOeofsSinhgorSeight A four-woman team spends eight months
Descriptioronwing the Pacific from San Francisco

to Australia, and smashes it

FilmRTaetxhte…r unusually, this ‘best in show’ is
not going to be unique to this festival.
Why? Because this project, film and epic
achievement will resonate down through
history for decades to come, totally
eclipsing this festival. Rarely do we get
a submission to the festival that is so
resolutely DIY yet so colossal in scale. We
have two balls in the air here and we must
keep our eyes on both. Firstly, this is a truly
astonishing venture and its execution will
be the stuff of adventure lore years from
now. Secondly, and totally separate from
that, this is a staggeringly perfect film.
Not just a great adventure travel doc, but
an exceptional work of art and storytelling
that can hold its own in any film festival or
TV channel. Blessed are we that can enjoy
this mind-blowing movie and then have
the privilege of hanging out with these oar-
some women around the camp-fire.
Verily, I say unto thee, the Coxless Crew
cometh.

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FOSoifllmTidhrTeeiaPtmlaem–iArsspirations Three French buddies pedal their revolutionary
Dweosocrdiepntipohnat bikes across the peaks and
FTilwmoTyeexat…rs ago this festival shuddered and plains of Central Asia
quaked with the ripples that emanated
from the film Solidream. That was the
stupefyingly perfect doco that told of four
voyageurs who cycled around the world
and made what may be called, in years
to come, the best long-distance cycling
film of all time. We thought they would by
now, be spent, but no! These indefatigable
Frenchmen have proved that they have
plenty more p.s.i. in their chambres à air
and they bring us a new adventure from
the nexus of the Silk Road.
This film is one of several titles this year
(DugOut, Paddle To The North) that have an
adventure skin underlain by an eco-heart.
Les aventuriers pedal furiously and give us
an example of a type of adventure travel
film that ten years ago simply did not exist.
A masterpiece of art, compassion and en-
vironmental awaren­ ess.
Madames et Messieurs – Solidream in the
Pamir Mountains.

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FRiolmweTditTlerip aDAneCdsaccrnyiapcdtliiinoangn couple spend seven months rowing
from John O’Groats to Syria

FilmCToelixnt…and Julie Angus are adventure travel
royalty. They are dedicated to promoting
education through exploration and are
possibly two of the most impressive
Canadians alive today. Colin’s heritage is
Scottish, and Julie’s is Syrian, hence the
start and ends points of their journey.
On Rowed Trip Colin and Julie cannot
paddle their entire route because of land
interruptions. No support vehicle for them!
Instead, their home-made canoes include
a secret compartment, each of which
contains a folding bicycle and trailer.
When the water runs out, these heroes
perform a quick ‘switcheroo’ and pedal
away, towing their craft behind them.
This is a sight to behold and any fans of
the Brompton bicycle will simply pass out
during this screening! More presciently,
the couple reach a peaceful Syria, as yet
unravaged by violence.
This film is incredibly special in these
troubled times. Don’t miss it!

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Surviving The A city-slicker from Ontario gets hopelessly out
Fundy Footpath of his depth as he tackles one of Canada’s most
testing hiking routes
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moccasins, he has never slept outdoors
and is more likely to go to the moon than
go camping. He is challenged to take on the
Fundy footpath and is quickly surrounded
by a helpful team of guides, outdoorsmen
and forest rangers.
This trail is relatively new and not heavily
hiked so many sections are incredibly
wild and barely an inch of it is actually
horizontal. Getting Bruce through to the
other end of the path is the trailsmen’s
sole objective in a shepherding exercise
that becomes a New Brunswick version of
mercenary rescue flick The Wild Geese.
Spoiler legislation means we simply cannot
tell you how this works out but this film is
a joy!

2016  |  Craig Norris  |  Video  |  41 mins

FKIaLyMakTTIhTeLKEwanza Two buddies tackle the longest river in Angola
in fold-up 1960s vintage kit canoes
Alfy and Oscar should get a prize just for
speed of turnaround! They canoed the
length of a not oft-paddled African river in
June 2016 and by December had submitted
an hour long doco to this festival. Rushed
and crappy? No way amigos. This film
is understated and charming in equal
measure. It oozes DIY zeal and is exactly
what we love at the ATFF. Not only that, the
section where they are arrested by police
who cannot cope with the fact that there is
no such thing as a ‘canoeing permit’, was
impossible to film. However, instead of just
leaving it out, they re-imagined it as an
animated sequence and kept the narrative
afloat. Rock on Daddy-O!
Angola is in no way an easy place to
adventure but these guys relish that all
the more.
Add to that, they raised £18,000 for H.A.L.O,
the landmine clearing charity. Bravo!

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Trabants To The Careering through the jungles of South America
End Of The World come three joke cars and an equally useless
communist-era motorbike…

Dan Priban is The Czech Republic’s leading
adventure goon, and we love him. He is an
old friend to this festival as the man behind
the epic Trabants To Cape Town film of a
few years ago.
This time, the team posts their 600cc
fibreglass cars to Georgetown in Guyana
and is rewarded with a two-week wrestle
with customs officials. The port authorities
make no secret of the fact that they have
no procedure for dealing with Europeans
who want to bring in their own vehicles for
holiday fun, rather than formal import.
Eventually they break out of the bonded
warehouse and the feeble-engined convoy
is on its way south. They hit all the sights
and sounds that South America has to
offer and naturally, seem to be only ever
in between breakdowns. In a world where
bling and gadgetry spiral out of control
there was bound to be a reaction. These
Trabanteers are the feisty punk rock kick in
the groin to the traction control sanitation
of the modern 4x4 stadium-rock bloatfest.

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Paddle For The North A canoe film with a strong environmental message:
Protect the wilderness!

This film has been four years in the making.
A truly substantial project that sees a
bunch of kayak-mad buddies on a 1000-
mile paddle far up in the north of Alaska
and the Yukon. You know you’re in for a
treat when the project’s website sports a
tab proudly labelled: Join The Fight!
The team is lead by Quebecois eco-warrior
Gabriel Rivest. He loves the great outdoors
but is far-sighted enough to realise that
if industry and oil-drilling are allowed to
prevail, the earth’s few remaining truly
pristine wildernesses simply won’t make
it. These guys aren’t just canoeing, they’re
campaigning.
This film is staggeringly good and has
rightly won a host of plaudits and awards.
Oh yeah, they take their dogs with them
too!

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FLilemmbTaitle Life aboard an old steamer that still ferries
Dpeeospcrleipatniodngoods up and down the shores
of Lake Tanganyika

FilmItTeisxt…a great pleasure to showcase Julie
Clavier’s multi award-winning docu­
mentary. The star of the film is an old
boat called the Liemba. It is now over
100 years old but still chugs up and down
Tanzania’s western coast. In 1913 it was
built in Papenburg just west of Bremen
and was then disassembled and shipped,
in kit form, to Dar Es Salaam, in what
was then German East Africa. The pieces
made their way by rail to the lake and the
boat was reassembled.
This film is in the same class as Fred
Wiseman’s early work (Google him) as it
takes us on board this creaking ferry which
becomes a metaphor for Africa itself.
The long-distance traveller is sometimes
criticised for ‘just passing through’ but this
film will have you on board the Liemba
full time, and you’ll be there for the whole
voyage!

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Man With A Pram A Swedish explorer pushes his daughter the THE
length of England in an attempt to understand
this green and pleasant land WILD

We thrive on the lo-fi goonery of gifted SCARD
amateurs but Strandberg is A-list, the
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documentaries and expeditioned to some
of the wildest places on earth, including
Yemen, Siberia, Patagonia and the Darien
Gap. However, nothing could have prepared
him for the total immersion required for this
experience. He had been keen to get ‘under
the skin’ of the English but his project was
hobbled by not being able to afford the
childcare for two year-old Dana. So, he took
her with him…
Strandberg resolutely shoots unprepared
and spontaneously. If a celeb did this trip a
young intern would be feverishly setting up
local ‘characters’ for our hero to ‘encounter’.
Not so for this man.
A stunning document that is like secretly
reading a school report about yourself,
before it gets mailed to your parents, but
you didn’t score very well.

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Film Title Description

only Film Text…

£5.60
Part No.
181-101

Also check out Slinky Glide’s giant
range of motorcycle control cables

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Alhoa Wanderwell Real life Tarzan and Jane style
– River Of Death anthropology in deepest South America

Alhoa Wanderwell was born in Canada
in 1906, and at an early age became
an American internationalist, explorer,
author, filmmaker and aviatrix. While still a
teenager, she joined an expedition to travel
across the world by 1918 Ford Model T. In
1922 she met Walter “Cap” Wanderwell.
They married in 1925 and had two children
as they continued to travel the world,
recording their journeys on 35mm nitrate
and 16mm film. While stranded in Brazil,
she lived among the Bororo people and
recorded the earliest film documentation of
them for six weeks. This was a bonus since
the Wanderwells were searching for lost
explorer Captain Percy Fawcett. It is this
film that we proudly showcase here.
This is the perfect supporting feature to the
recent Hollywood biopic The Lost City Of Z
which tells the story of the original Fawcett
expedition.

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Film Titl–Iet’Hs aAlfS-Smafaell WorldDescriptioAinnroauWndWt2haemwpohrilbdiobuyslajenedpand sea

IFnilmtheTelaxtte…’40s Ben Carlin modified his standard
amphibious jeep so that despite being designed
for calm water, he could take it onto the open
sea. In July 1950 and newly wed, he and his
wife Elinore set off from Halifax, Canada and 31
days later arrived in the Azores. They crossed
the Atlantic completely alone, navigating by the
stars, towing a specially designed bowser that
floated, even with 7000 gallons of petrol in it!
Onwards to North Africa and then overland
across Europe, Turkey, The Middle East and
India. Eventually, via South East Asia the jeep
made it to Japan. Back into the northern Pacific
and a sequence of island hopping (including
an unplanned landfall on the USSR’s Siberian
coastline) along the Aleutians they eventually
made it to Alaska. Back down the Alcan
highway and after trundling into Halifax they
had completed what the Guinness Book of
Records agrees was the first circumnavigation
of the globe by amphibious vehicle.
If they hadn’t filmed it no-one would believe
that this actually happened!

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! ! !Have a go on a honda

Adventure and, more importantly, fun have always Fancy trying off-road?
been at the heart of the honda ethos so what You met him last time, and this year, three-time world
better event for honda to be a part of than the motocross champion, Dave Thorpe has brought some
Adventure Travel Film Festival. bikes with him!
Welcomedwithsuchenthusiasmin2016, honda Again, festival-goers 14 and over are welcome to try out a
is back for 2017 and has listened to what you said last honda dirt bike, ably guided by Dave and his
year… “I’d love to try out an Africa Twin”, “I’d love to learn team of instructors.
to ride”. Well, if you can find time between films, why not On-road test rides
come and ride with us? Already have a bike licence? Got it with you?
Great! We’ll have a selection of honda’s latest
First-timers range on display. Come and see us, pick up the keys, have
Anybody over the age of 14 is welcome to sign up to learn fun, come back and tell us what you thought.
the basics. Either on a twist-and-go scooter or geared
125cc bike, our expert instructors will get you rolling and MWiosataordrndciyicctnliivgneg!
give you your first taste of two-wheeled freedom…
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Speakers

Benedict Allen Dylan Wickrama Danny Bent Nick Jubber Natalia
Cohen
is one of Britain’s foremost explorers. is this year’s motorcycle speaker. is best known as the UK’s smiliest and is an award-winning travel-writer and & Meg
He’s particularly known for his solo The Darien Gap looms large on the radar jolliest man. His improv fitness workout author. His books have taken him across Dyos of
expeditions through the jungle, desert of any traveller who tackles the Pan collective, known as Project Awesome the Middle East, Central Asia and North The Coxless Crew
and Arctic – journeys famously achieved American Highway. Normally a passage is the stuff of viral grassroots legend. Africa. in conversation
devoid of satellite phone, GPS or any is booked but not so for Dylan. He took Even a few minutes in Danny’s company Discussing his latest book The Timbuktu with Lois Pryce
of the usual gadgets. These and other the thrill of the challenge and built a raft is enough to intoxicate the dreariest of School For Nomads, he will show what
ventures are depicted in his ten books which he then powered with the drive souls but at this Summer’s event he’ll be the 21st century traveller can expect to The stunning film of this project,
– including two best sellers – and shaft of his motorbike. Thirty days at sea talking to us about his 9000-mile cycle find in the Sahara. Digging behind the Losing Sight Of Shore, will have blown
numerous television series for the BBC later and he’d beaten the gap and gone ride to India. The essential reason to see news headlines, Nick gives us the real everyone’s mind on the Saturday night
and elsewhere, usually filmed without into adventure travel history! this presentation is that you will leave desert, a world of nomads and agro- of the festival. Come Sunday morning,
a camera crew. Few people alive have euphoric, motivated and ready for action. pastoralists playing phone clips around festival founder Lois will be joined by
spent so long isolated and alone in This presentation is brought to you by: If anyone wants some motivational the camp fire, gossiping at the wells, several members of the team. The film
so many different potentially hostile ‘extras’ then Danny may have to ask you celebrating festivals and fighting for will be the most excellent basis of your
environments. We are privileged to to report to the next Project Awesome survival. This is the real thing! questions as this fabulous Q&A gets
have him! meet-up! us below decks with these exceptional
adventure legends.

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Ask The Experts

The Paddling Panel The Film-Making
Panel

Moderator Ben Sadd Chris Scott Natalia Cohen With the 2017 Film-Makers
Tomass Marnics Hot from the screening of his A fanatical paddler, pack- This Coxless Crew legend is Brand new last year this panel was a smash hit. Audience
A real-life action man! We are legendary DugOut film this rafting zealot and author. It our saltwater specialist with members can get real-world info from the experts whose
incredibly lucky to get him to is the guy who has the latest was Chris’ knowledge of The a crossing of the Pacific under movies they have just watched. No question too obscure.
chair this panel since he lives from the jungle paddling scene. Yenisey River Expedition doc her belt. This experts panel is, in its way, the essence of the festival,
in Latvia not Middlesex. This is the chap who can that helped kick-start this Her expertise on life the democratisation of film-making being at the heart of our
advise you on a low-tech, low- festival. incarcerated afloat is second core values.
Watch his film The Eyes Of impact paddling expedition. Always knowledgea­ ble and to none. We are lucky to have The mixture is leavened and moderated by festival curator
God (featured in the Triple Totally tropical and totally funny, any panel that he sits her aboard! Austin Vince.
Bill, see page 17) then meet topical! on is worth attending!
the man and listen to the
wisdom!

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SIDESHOWS lpilmaitceeds
NSign up at H.Q.

for those with

Campfire Cookery Class Bushcraft with Woodland First Aid On The Tarp Is King!
Ways The Road
Kieran Creevy is an expedition chef, private chef and Whatever your means of getting around,
international mountain leader. He’s worked on the mountains Kev Palmer has been inspiring ATFF attendees for six years Shane Pierce, an American physician the army surplus tarp is well respected
and as a chef for over 20 years. On many occasions, in both now and this summer he has new material for us to enjoy – assistant medical practitioner and as the traveller’s friend. Curator Austin
capacities at the same time. Over the last number of years nets, medicinal plants and fire-lighting activities abound. motorcycle enthusiast will take you is in thrall to these sheets of nylon and
he’s worked with The North Face, Adidas Terrex, Marmot UK, Nets have been used for a variety uses by humans across on a journey from London to Capetown. hasn’t slept in a tent for millennia. He’ll
Lowe Alpine, Rab, The Royal Geographical Society London the planet for millennia. Learn this ancient craft and have a Along the way, we will encounter be showing you not only how to erect
and the Kendal Mountain Festival to teach athletes, explorers go yourself and master the basic principles that will enable unexpected accidents with injuries, these simple accessories but also a
and outdoor enthusiasts how to eat better in the outdoors and you to make a variety of different nets. Discover the natural acquire unique tropical diseases and few secrets that he’s acquired after an
while on expedition. He will be taking groups of us on a wild medicine chest that can be found in an English hedgerow and develop strange rashes. Shane will estimated 20,000 nights under tarps.
culinary journey, cooking with fire and proving that living wild how to process wild plants into simple everyday preparations. identify homemade first aid kits that Lovers of tents can come and mock but
doesn’t mean eating dehydrated globules from a packet. He’s we might pack on our journey and expect to be ‘sucked in’.
teaching on Saturday afternoon and Sunday brunch. Kev will take you through the history of humans using fire, as discuss improvising with items Soon you too will be ‘insane in the
This will be a smash hit – sign up early at the HQ tent and he demonstrates fire lighting techniques from the stone age travelers have on hand. membrane’.
expect to get cookin’. right up to modern day methods with a few emergency ways
of lighting a fire thrown in for good measure! This session will be hands on and will N6
Photo :  Liz Seabrook include practice of first places
aid in addition
N18 to lecture and
places discussion. N10
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SIDESHOWS lpilmaitceeds
NSign up at H.Q.

for those with

Exped Motorcycle Big Trees Walk Aerial Runway Spoon Whittling Yoga for Travellers
Prep Workshop
If you have a hankering for nature Adam Thompson and Austin Vince Stretch out your road-weary limbs
This is all about getting a machine then this is it. The ground’s of Mill Hill launch us into a brand new activity that Ben Sadd and James Trundle are two and learn how to get all Zen for those
ready for that big trip. Hosted by Chris School boast some of the rarest trees in taps into the nation’s newest craze – of the craftiest men at the festival. No, stressful border crossings. Seasoned
Scott and festival creator Lois Pryce the UK. Why? Because just up near the zip wires! They’ll teach you how to lace they aren’t wily and dishonest! On the adventure traveller, Charlotte Bolton of
the air will be crackling with 12 volt marquee, where you registered, used to up a block & tackle and create a high contrary, they are bubbling buckets of Zen Overland, became a yoga teacher
expertise. Your hosts will talk you stand the house of one Peter Collinson. tension ropeway that can be used for artisanal integrity. They LOVE making after a year-long motorcycle trip around
through every bit of nut’n’bolt prep Back in the 1760s he was one of ferrying treasure across a mighty gorge things and they are two of the most the Americas.
including the hot potato of hard vs soft Europe’s foremost botanists and a or simply old-school 1970s goonery. delightful chaps you will ever meet! Yoga has now become an indispensable
luggage! Even if you have no intention co-founder of Kew gardens. The original Whizz bang (guaranteed NOT safe)! Sign up, check in and 45 minutes later part of her travel tool kit.
of biking around the world, the floor Mill Hill School was in his old house and you’ll be holding a spoon that you Suitable for beginners and more
underfoot will be crunching with the he’d planted a multitude of non-native N10 whittled yourself! Next project, a experienced yogis.
sound of footfall on a bed of pearls of saplings in his garden and beyond in places dug-out canoe!
wisdom. what are now, the school grounds. Photo :  Paul Blezard N20
places
Miss at your peril! Local arbrophile and former head of N5
Biology at the school, Trevor Chilton, is places
our guide for this delightful tour of Mill
Hill’s legendary ancient trees.

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TALK MUSIC

HOW TO MAKE A FILM The Jolenes Junco Shakers
OF YOUR ADVENTURE
with Austin Vince Festival favourites, and London’s only all-girl bluegrass Taking influences from rock ’n’ roll, skiffle, reggae, blues and
Festival curator Austin Vince has made band, The Jolenes are back! These ladies have been a jazz artists such as Big Joe Turner, Leadbelly, Lonnie Donegan,
the Saturday morning slot his own with smash hit at both Glastonbury and a recent tour of Belgian Muddy Waters and Louis Prima.
this legendary presentation. Austin prisons. With Mitch Ratcliffe on double bass, Ben Gunn beating the
believes that all the skills required to You will find them pickin’ and grinnin’ around the campfire washboard and driving blues harmonica, Sam La’penn and Gaz
make a viable and enjoyable documentary on Friday night. Listen out for the glorious harmonies, fiery playing acoustic guitars, topped off with gospel vocal harmonies
can be described with a 200-slide fiddle and twangy banjo wafting through Mill Hill’s legendary are making Junco Shakers create their own style of authentic
PowerPoint presentation overlain with trees... Fingerpickin’ good! music dubbed “Skiffllebilly Swing”.
high speed talking. Making a film is a skill,
so like all skills, it CAN be learned.

Unlike many skills, it is straightf­orward,
once you know the code. Black art, it is
not. Austin uses the analogy of cooking a
meal alongside making a documentary.
Do you have to be a professional full-time
chef to make an tasty dish? No, of course
not. So you guessed it, you don’t have to
be a film-maker to make a watchable film.
Come along and get enfranchised!

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Workshops £25  each
Buy online

Generation GoPro Writing Taking Better Photos
with Greg Villalobos Your with Toby Savage
Hands up if you’ve got a GoPro? That’s a lot Adventures
of hands in the air. Hands up if you’ve used with Lois Pryce Toby Savage has a wealth of experience as
it to make a film that isn’t just one long head and Ants a professional photographer and has had
shot of you running/walking/riding/sailing Bolingbroke- adventure based articles published in many
for twenty minutes. Hmmm, not so many Kent specialist titles. He also enjoys helping others
hands. Greg Villalobos will be putting on a Join festival curator and to improve their own skills with the camera,
fun workshop that helps you figure out what author, Lois Pryce and either on his well-established photography
your neat little camera is good at, how to fellow travel writer and themed trips to Morocco, or recently as a
rig it up, when to shoot and when to leave author, Ants Bolingbroke- guest lecturer at Huanghaui University, China.
it in the rucksack. PLUS how to make your own selfie stick! Kent for this in-depth session on travel This 90 minute workshop will start with an
This guy is the master – sign up and learn from the wizard himself! writing. Ants and Lois have six books out inspiring 15 minute talk, then participants
between them and are at the top of their will be offered an option of two light-hearted
Filming With A Drone game. Learn how to make your writing stand and fun photographic projects to shoot in 30 mins. Weather permitting,
with Keith Brown out from the crowd, how to craft a strong students will be roaming the stunning parkland site looking for ‘subjects’,
This workshop is strictly for novices and narrative, weave research into your travel with live feedback on framing, composition etc from Toby himself. Back in
drone newbies. Drones, like so many new writing and how to prepare a book proposal. the classroom, the resulting shots will then be discussed whilst projected
innovations come in all sizes for all budgets. Bring a pen! on a screen. No previous experience required and participants can use
We thought there was little point in getting anything from a smartphone to the latest and most sophisticated digital
tuition and advice from a fully pro drone Editing — Beginners SLR. It’s all about the picture!
pilot with a £20K ‘bird’ when none of us are with Raph Goldberg
going to work in that field. Instead, we had Even learning basic editing skills will help Stop!
a better idea: Keith Brown is a full time IT inform your directing and shooting decisions. Don’t Shoot…
and audio visual teacher. He bought a cheap Vital hands-on session! with Rob Warner
drone a year ago and has been learning the ropes. He has carefully As a freelance editor for BBC, ITV and C4,
collected all his lessons and will save you tons of stress by you Editing — Rob knows the crucial list of things to check
learning from his experience. His workshop is perfectly tailored to the Intermediate before you switch on your camera.
first-time buyer who’s on a budget and has just bought with Raph Goldberg He has spent a lifetime working in film and
(or is about to buy) a humble rig in Maplins. Prepare for take-off! Taking your editing skills to the next level. TV and he’ll get you thoroughly prepared.
Become a master of this black art! The most important workshop of them all!

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On The Grapevine… “Wow what an amazing, inspirational
and fun weekend spent with
“W e travelled ten miles from home and got wonderful people”
to see the world” – David Willis
– Mark Cowan
“Now totally re-inspired and itching
“It’s a highlight of our year now. Watching to get out there”
the films has given me a new lease of life.” – Ben Gill
– Simon & Ranjeeta Johnson
“Met some amazing people alongside
“All the films were fantastic, really enjoyed amazing movies”
myself at the festival” – K. Ahmed
– Douglas Ruff
“It’s the only UK event this year I came back “If I disappear on a wild expedition, you can
for and was completely worth the trip” blame the Adventure Travel Film Festival.
– Tom Allen Dangerously inspiring weekend!”
“Excellent and inspiring weekend” – Timandra Harkness
– Trailblazer guides
“A day of moving and inspiring films”
– @Jubberwacky

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The Starlight Screening is always the The Adventure Travel Film Festival
highlight of the festival – the shared could not survive without the enthusiasm
experience of watching a fabulous and hard work of our team of volunteers who are
film under a (hopefully) clear night sky buzzing away behind the scenes making
is our favourite moment of the weekend it all happen. Thank you guys and gals,
and the memory that keeps us going you know who you are. You rock our world.
during the long grey winter. And as always, a HUGE thank you for this year’s
This year’s starlight screenings are advertisers. They are all great friends of the
DugOut on the Friday night and festival and without them this beautiful brochure
Losing Sight Of Shore on the Saturday. could not exist. Please support them so they can
Please don’t forget to bring your camp keep supporting us.
chairs, cushions and blankets. It’s a love merry-go-round, baby!
If the weather is bad we will decamp
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WHERE…WHEN…WHAT… HOW? Friday 11 – Sunday 13
August 2017

Mill Hill School
The Ridgeway
London
NW7 1QS

Mill Hill is within the LEZ (Low Emission Zone).
This applies to vans and trucks of a certain age, so check before you travel.

ARRIVE :
2pm on Friday 11 August

When you arrive you will be directed to the camping fields to set up your camp.
Then make your way to the registration tent to check in and receive your wristband.

DEPART :
by 4pm on Sunday 13 August

Happy trails!

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TICKETS

Full Weekend  SLEEPING… EATING…
DRINKING… WATCHING…
tickets :  £89.00
Camping is within the grounds and is included in the ticket price (except day tickets).
Your ticket includes entry to all the films, talks, presentations, sideshows and two All facilities and venue locations are within walking distance of the camping fields. You
nights camping.  Free entry for children under 12. can camp next to your vehicle. Camper vans, living vehicles and caravans are most
welcome but there is no hook-up.
Full Weekend  The school has a superb range of auditoria fitted out with bespoke audio systems,
projectors, screens and comfortable seating. On Friday and Saturday evenings, the
  + Meals :  £128.50 main feature will be projected outside, under the stars. In poor weather this screening
will relocate to the mighty sports hall – the whole gang under one roof! Please
This includes all of the above plus evening meals on Friday and Saturday and breakfast remember to bring your own chair for these screenings.
on Saturday and Sunday.  (Meals can be bought separately for children.) The venue has plenty of sparkling shower and toilet facilities. Festival goers will also
have access to the swimming pool.
Day Tickets  The venue provides cooked breakfasts and two-course evening meals. The quality of
the food is excellent and we thoroughly encourage you to join us for food, as the meal
  Fri/Sun :  £29.00 times are a great social part of the weekend too. Vegetarians are catered for.
Sat :  £39.00 Meals MUST be booked in advance by purchasing the appropriate ticket. They cannot
be purchased on spec during the festival.
Day tickets do not include overnight camping or meals. There is also a café serving light lunches, snacks, tea and coffee during the day.
You do not need to book these in advance.
WORKSHOPS And most importantly, there is a bar open from lunchtime until late!
Sorry, the venue does not allow dogs.
All workshops cost £25 each. Places are limited.
TICKETS AND WORKSHOPS ARE AVAILABLE THROUGH THE WEBSITE :

www.adventuretravelfilmfestival.com

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