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Women in Adventure

All of our films that are classified as featuring leading women

Our Women in Adventure category at ShAFF is highlighting all films that feature women in leading roles. 

Browse our film's that are categorised as Women in Adventure below.

A white woman, wearing matching red snow trousers and jacket, with black segments on the elbows and knees, and a harness, stands in the snow, holding an ice axe with one hand and a snow white helmet on top of her head. The hood of her snow jacket is up, and her firey hair pokes out, caught in the wind. Snow swirls up around her, and behind her looms a bright snowy mountain face. The sky is light grey and snowy.
Ascension Series: Morag Skelton
Morag believes that nothing should come between anyone and getting out there in nature; as a deaf climber constantly pushing the limits of possible.
A front-on mid-close up of a white non-binary person called Ali, wearing a bright white tee, khaki dungarees, a multicoloured cycling cap, and a dark helmet. They have a navy bandana tied around their neck, dark rimmed glasses, and a huge grin across their face. The black strap of their bassoon rucksack case is spattered with mud. Only half of them can be seen - the other half off screen. Behind them is a green blur of overlapping hillsides. On top of this backdrop are the words "Conduits for Joy" in beige, with a white block shadow.
Conduits for Joy
This film focusses on joy through the exploration of creativity; how we use our creativity to make things that bring us joy and allow us to share joy with others.
A climber, on a finger crack, in Zion National Park
Dare to Jam
Fay Manners and Freja Shannon, embark on a trip to Zion National Park to try some big wall sandstone cracks.
In the dark, a headtorch trail bounces across the frame, lighting up part of a rocky peak clifftop, and creating a white streak in the dark.
Dark Peak Fell Runners
As one of the biggest pure fell running clubs in the UK, the ‘Dark Peak Fell Runners’ captures the personality, quirks and successes of the club and its members.
Flip The Switch
If you don’t have role models to look up to, it’s harder to progress as a rider. Georgia Astle grew up chasing her older brother. But that could only take her so far.
Freya, A 9 year old girl climbs a huge granite gliff ahead of her father, leo houlding. They are silhouetted by the low summer evening sun.
Freya
Leo Houlding's daughter, Freya, uses climbing as a practice to lean into discomfort and fear to help navigate her neurodiversity and harness its strengths.
Kelly & Atlas bikepacking in the woods
KELLY
The reality of motherhood when you can't give up cycling
Helena Bourdillon freediving next to a light beam
Light Beams For Helena
Helena Bourdillon has pushed her limits in the freediving world, using a single breath to dive to seemingly impossible depths.
Overgrown plants and trees by a blue building.
Meer
A slow journey through the human and natural history of Meersbrook in Sheffield with soundtrack by Liz Hanks.
Nikki laying in the lake of the Lake District in the UK
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Open Water
Through open water swimming, middle-aged mom Nikki Pope has uncovered her long-hidden inner strength and now seeks to inspire children with various disabilities
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Red Rock Revolution
The genesis of climbing in Las Vegas
Fergus Lamb and Joe Barnes descending a trail in the Scottish Highlands.
Shires
A British bicycle film encompassing everything that is best about riding in the UK - the riders, locations, landscapes, iconic brands and shite weather of the British Isles
Solo
Jenny’s mission was to run across some of the world’s most remote mountain ranges, by foot, by herself, unsupported, and solo.
Bird's eye aerial view of numerous people swimming in a Peak District reservoir, with many more standing at the water's edge.
SOuP
Wild swimming, cold water dipping, dunking, winter swimming…Whatever your preference for swimming might be?
Lois, the shepherd, shown on a mountain top vista with her sheep.
Tether
A film about UK professional skateboarder Lois Pendlebury and her unplanned transition to shepherding
Dimitri Poffé rides his bicyle near El Chaltén in Patagonia, Argentina
The Present
A 18.000-kilometer journey for Huntington's disease