[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Australia-based Danish adventurer Thor F. Jensen heads to the Pacific with the aim of circumnavigating the island of New Guinea in a traditional sailing canoe - a Sailau. Never before attempted, he sets out on the mission with the help of three master sailors from Papua New Guinea. It’s a gritty, salt-stained odyssey...
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Brit newlyweds Mike and Alanna Clear decided to do things in reverse. So they spend their first three years together, testing their marriage to destruction! They bought a 1930s styled URAL motorcycle and sidecar, shipped it to Alaska and then set their sights on Ushuaia, 20,000 miles away in Argentina. Rather brilliantly, the...
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Long distance walking legend Leon McCarron strides into the Sinai on a 200 mile journey into one of the most dramatic desert landscapes in the world. His guide is the extraordinary Musallem Faraj who teaches Leon that the desert is bursting with natural treasure in abundance. Filmed and edited by festival curator, Austin...
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Two school teachers from England spend their summer hols trying to discover real America. They hitch-hike 10,000 miles around the USA and film an interview with everyone that gives them a lift. They learn very quickly that only a fool generalises about America. The diversity of those that pick them up means that...
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Two friends spend 80 days canoeing the 1300 miles from Alaska to Seattle. Rough camping and self-catering on remote islands they see this rugged world up-close and personal. In the case of being ‘buzzed’ by whales, a little too close! If you are interested in long-distance shoreline paddling, then this is pure gold.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_empty_space...
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Phil Harwood canoes the entire 3000 mile length of the Congo River from Zambian source to Atlantic mouth. This is not a route that has seen many European visitors as it traverses the dark heart of Africa that has fascinated so many from Joseph Conrad to Tim Butcher. An uplifting tale and a...
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]This 16mm film is so bursting with colour and life it almost hurts to know this magical age of innocence is gone forever. In 1955 six students from Oxford and Cambridge set out in two Land-Rovers to drive from London to Singapore. And why not? After all, no-one had ever done it before. Several...
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Fascinating footage of one of the world’s first and greatest motorcycle adventures American Robert Fulton's legendary journey began in 1932 when he set out on his Douglas motorcycle for an eighteen-month odyssey that took him through Turkey, Syria, Iraq, Afghanistan, India, Sumatra, Malaysia, Siam, Indonesia, China, and Japan. Illustrated with beautiful maps and narrated...
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Olivier Aubert and Mike Blyth used their trike-type microlights to fly around the world way back in 1999. Yup, Ushuaia to New York and across Greenland to Britain. Then downhill to France, Spain, Morocco and down the west coast of Africa to Cape Town. Quite how this film isn’t internationally famous as possibly...
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]A 1950s married couple take an extreme canoeing trip into the Northwest Territories with not a scrap of Goretex in sight… In 1957 Melvin and Ethel Ross of Calgary, Canada, travelled alone by canoe through one of the roughest and remote areas of the world to reach their destination of the Headless Valley in...