Weekly Watchlist - Week 3 - ShAFF

Over the coming weeks the ShAFF team will revisit past festivals and choose the best adventure films from around the world to create a weekly watchlist of free online adventure films for your indoor entertainment and inspiration. We’ll be posting a new film, free to view online, at 7pm every day. Watch them one by one, or save them up and screen your own virtual ShAFF session at home.

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Incredibly beautiful slacklining short

Paul Hodgson Music Judge

Sheffield slackliner breaks world highlinging record.

Matt Heason Festival Director

Sheffield girl Serah take the High Line over beautiful sunset.

Ed Birch Director of Salt-Street productions

Space and more space.

Claire Carter Writer, Film Officer for Kendal Mountain Festival, 'Creative Consultant'.

Sheffield highliner Sarah Rixham and Quirin Hertrich enjoy the sunrise on a slackline at the top of the Moleson mountain in Switzerland suspended above an incredible sea of clouds. During the Highline Extreme Festival Sarah managed to walk a 122m-Highline which is now the female highline record. She talks about why women should be on an equal footing in the sport.

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A genuinely extraordinary adventure story with images that you almost certainly have never seen before.

Paul Hodgson Music Judge

Fascinating exploration of derelict radar base and a world record kite flying attempt.

Matt Heason Festival Director

2300 km on skis with a kite that will they break the world record.

Ed Birch Director of Salt-Street productions

In 2010, explorer Sebastian Copeland and partner Eric McNair-Landry crossed 2,300 km of the Greenland ice sheet towing 240 lb sleds on skis and kites. Braving crevasses, blizzards and exhaustion, they set fresh tracks in the heart of the ice and a new world record: the longest distance traveled in 24 hours by natural means - a remarkable 595km.

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Wonderful. Love it. A story from a place I don't know that makes me want to go there.

David Hanney

Ultra running meets burning man - how a 100 mile race in the desert turned into an annual festival. These are some of the maddest people you'll ever see in an adventure film. "Run steep, get high" indeed.

Paul Hodgson Music Judge

There is a race for everyone, this race is for me. Dolly racers, cowboys, skeletons, Day of the Dead dogs. Everyone try to get 100 in.

Claire Carter Writer, Film Officer for Kendal Mountain Festival, 'Creative Consultant'.

Super watchable film about a hugely fun-looking 100mile race with a difference in the US, where runners turn up in fancy dress and check points are more like a party, fun fun fun!

Claire Maxted Claire Maxted

The 100 mile long Javelina Jundred, a race run in six loops out in the desert in Arizona is the last chance qualifying race for the Western States endurance run. Watch the 2014 participants try and complete their Western States 100 quest. 

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Climing in the Antarctic batterling the face and the wether.

Ed Birch Director of Salt-Street productions

When explorers Mike Libecki, Freddie Wilkinson, Cory Richards and Keith Ladzinski set out for the Wohlthat Mountain Range of Antarctica to climb and explore this nearly uncharted part of the world, they had no idea what they were getting themselves into. Almost impossible to prepare for or to be rescued from, inland Antarctica is hailed as the largest desert in the world, a nearly lifeless landscape ravished by katabatic winds that scour the landscape at over 100 mph. 

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Pete Mortimer, josh Lovell showing why they are who they are. Great adventure films - total pros.

David Hanney

A new approach to mountaineering!

Matt Heason Festival Director

Fantastic and innovative editing from Sender, inspiring 'naive-exploration' from Honnald, a reminder of quite how proficient a climber Caldwell is. Generation leaders.

Claire Carter Writer, Film Officer for Kendal Mountain Festival, 'Creative Consultant'.

Patagonia is one of the most exciting, beautiful, weatherbeaten and dangerous climbing destinations in the world and this film shows its peaks in all their glory. Bonus footage of cool-dude climbers dealing with screaming babies too :)

Paul Hodgson Music Judge

One of the big climbing films this year a huge watch.

Ed Birch Director of Salt-Street productions

The Fitz Roy Traverse is one of the most sought after achievements in modern alpinism: a gnarly journey across seven jagged summits and 13,000 vertical feet of climbing. Who knew it could be so much fun? Join Tommy Caldwell and Alex Honnold on the inspiring -- and at times hilarious -- quest that earned the Piolet d’Or award.

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