Cotswolds 2022 Archives - The Adventure Travel Film Festival

4th August 2022

The Longer Way Down

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By PatrickB

3rd August 2022

Soviet Film Package

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]We are proud to announce the UK premiere of two fascinating short films from the Soviet Union. The first, made in 1978, charts a promo tour across Central Asia of a group of colleagues on 'electron' scooters. They are all colleagues at the factory where they are made! A joy to behold! The...

By PatrickB

3rd August 2022

Austin Vince: The Best Film Title Sequences of the 1960s

[vc_row][vc_column width="2/3"][vc_single_image image="7981" img_size="large"][vc_empty_space][/vc_column][vc_column width="1/3"][vc_column_text]Mondofest curator Austin, takes us on a whistle-stop tour of some of the greatest movie title sequences of the 1960s. He holds firmly to the idea that the title sequence should tell you what the film is about and what it's going to feel like. Almost like a trailer....

By PatrickB

13th July 2022

Valentina

[vc_row][vc_column width="2/3"][vc_single_image image="7975" img_size="large"][vc_empty_space][/vc_column][vc_column width="1/3"][vc_column_text] Friday Night Band [/vc_column_text][vc_empty_space height="16px"][vc_column_text] Valentia, a musical duo nurtured in Cotswolds, is a project combining the beautiful, traditional european jazz style known as gypsy jazz with the world of folk, blues and pop music. Blending seamlessly between engaging and atmospheric, switching between the two as and when needed. Virtuosity and...

By PatrickB

28th June 2022

Suffocating the Cat: Land Cruising with Chris Scott

[vc_row][vc_column width="2/3"][vc_single_image image="7964" img_size="large"][vc_empty_space][vc_single_image image="7965" img_size="large"][vc_empty_space][/vc_column][vc_column width="1/3"][vc_column_text]When Chris Scott branched out from motorcycles to 4x4 exploration in the Sahara, there was only one vehicle on his list: Toyota’s legendary Land Cruiser. It was while regularly travelling the Australian Outback for Rough Guides years earlier that he grew to admire these rugged workhorses with...

By PatrickB

11th June 2022

Atlantic Escapade

[vc_row][vc_column width="2/3"][vc_single_image image="7940" img_size="large"][vc_empty_space][vc_single_image image="7941" img_size="large"][vc_empty_space][/vc_column][vc_column width="1/3"][vc_column_text] Get a feel for life aboard an ocean-going rowing boat [/vc_column_text][vc_empty_space height="16px"][vc_column_text] In 2018, Andy became the first person to row solo around Great Britain – a trip that was inspired by the Adventure Travel Film Festival. Having never rowed a boat before and never been to sea, he...

By PatrickB

10th June 2022

John Manning’s Tree Tour

[vc_row][vc_column width="2/3"][vc_single_image image="7935" img_size="large"][vc_empty_space][vc_single_image image="7936" img_size="large"][vc_empty_space][/vc_column][vc_column width="1/3"][vc_column_text] An arboreal adventure around the festival site! [/vc_column_text][vc_empty_space height="16px"][vc_column_text] Join John Manning for a wander amongst the trees in the Hatherop Castle grounds where you'll will learn skills in tree identification, discover their ecology and history and the pressures they face. Gaining just a minute understanding of the trees and...

By PatrickB

24th May 2022

Short Films Compilation

[vc_row][vc_column width="2/3"][vc_single_image image="7927" img_size="large"][vc_empty_space][vc_single_image image="7919" img_size="large"][vc_empty_space][vc_single_image image="7930" img_size="large"][vc_empty_space][vc_single_image image="7928" img_size="large"][vc_empty_space][vc_single_image image="7926" img_size="large"][vc_empty_space][vc_single_image image="7917" img_size="large"][vc_empty_space][/vc_column][vc_column width="1/3"][vc_column_text] We've got a brilliant selection of short films lined up which will be playing on a loop throughout the festival. Just drop in to the screening room and absorb as much as you fancy! [/vc_column_text][vc_empty_space height="16px"][vc_column_text]Broghil Valley - Umaima Soomro,...

By PatrickB

20th May 2022

Rebecca Lowe: London to Tehran by Bicycle

[vc_row][vc_column width="2/3"][vc_single_image image="7856" img_size="large"][vc_empty_space][vc_single_image image="7858" img_size="large"][vc_empty_space][/vc_column][vc_column width="1/3"][vc_column_text] In 2015, as the Syrian War raged and the refugee crisis reached its peak, Rebecca Lowe, a journalist specialising in human rights, set off on her bicycle from London to Tehran. Driven by a desire to learn more about this troubled region, to challenge Western myths and misconceptions...

By PatrickB

20th May 2022

Max Leonard: The Rough Stuff Fellowship

[vc_row][vc_column width="2/3"][vc_single_image image="7859" img_size="large"][vc_empty_space][vc_single_image image="7862" img_size="large"][vc_empty_space][vc_single_image image="7860" img_size="large"][vc_empty_space][/vc_column][vc_column width="1/3"][vc_column_text]The Rough Stuff Fellowship was founded on 29 May 1955, by ‘forty members who, in pursuit of their pastime, traverse the rougher and less beaten ways’. Members of the RSF undertook the first ever bicycle crossing of Iceland’s mountainous interior, in 1958, and have travelled...

By PatrickB