The Adventure Travel Film Festival

The Adventure Travel Film Festival is the brainchild of film-maker Austin Vince and travel author Lois Pryce.

Running from the 12th to the 14th of August it showcases some of the greatest real life adventures caught on film.

This year’s crop of adventurers travel in boats, buses and of course bikes of the human and petrol powered variety to a dizzying array of locations including Mongolia, Alaska and the secret source of the Amazon to name just a few.

For its sixth year, the ATFF will feature the first film inspired by the festival itself. The Great Game chronicles Jon Beardmore’s escape from nine to five drudgery as he and his mates drive a 4x4 from London to Kuala Lumpur.


Other highlights include:

• Mondo Enduro – Festival founder Austin’s round-the-world motorcycle adventure will be screened twenty years to the day after he and his seven friends originally set off. The film went on to inspire Ewan McGregor and Charlie Borman’s Long Way Round with Ewan calling Austin for advice when he ran into trouble in Mongolia.

• Pillock Conquers The World – Described as the original Summer Holiday and ‘Monty Python meets The Monkees with bears and banjos’ the film records a folk group’s travels to India, Australia and the US in an old RT Bus. The Bus itself will also be making an appearance at the festival!

• Power of Dreams – The inspirational story of Belgian teen, Arthur Fievet an active and outdoorsy young man who was left partially paralysed after a horrible accident. Whilst still only able to walk on crutches Arthur sets out on adventure in North Alaska.

• This year will see the return of the immensely popular Travel Filmmaking workshops, the Travel Writing & Publishing workshops taught by editor of Wanderlust Magazine, Phoebe Smith, as well as sessions on bush craft, foraging, rope skills and campfire cooking competitions.