Preview The 2012 Adventure Travel Film Festival To The Tune of a Bluegrass Band . . . Wait, Wha?

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by Mark Stephens on Wed Dec 14, 2011 - Add comment


Adventure Travel Film Festival UK 2012 from austin vince on Vimeo.

I know, right? That's a lot of red.

The most likely main attraction to adventure travel is that is has so few boundaries, only the ones you put in place. Notwithstanding the joyous red tape of border crossings. Rise as early as you please, or don't. Ride a bike to see the Louvre if you want. Drive nothing but dirt roads from Montana to Mexico. Pub crawl. Piggyback ride to the park. And so on. While creating memories along the path of your own adventures is the ultimate point, hearing the stories, seeing the pictures, and watching the videos of the wild or mild adventures undertaken by others fuels inspiration, laughter, and connectivity. This here is a hat tip to folks of the Adventure Travel Film Festival because they bring all three of those things together in this presentation of short films.

The festival lands on three of Earth's seven continents throughout 2012, which ain't too bad. Spearheaded by Austin Vince and Lois Price,  the festival promises to bring 17 short films on a wide variety of subjects, themes, and points of view and covers all types of travel, human powered and otherwise. Anyway, even if you're not interested in, say, paddling the inside passage yourself, it sure is fun to get the lively story from one who has in the form of a short film. Especially an independent one. That's the other neat part of the selection: they're mostly independent efforts.

Since the dawn of motion pictures, travelers have tugged cameras along. Because of this, the Adventure Travel Film Festival also features incredible vintage stories from as early as the 1920s. Fantastic stuff of all flavors.

Before watching the preview above, be patient. I'll set the stage a bit: you have a chipper Englishman in a red motorcycle riding suit surrounded by a lovely set of ladies singing a bluegrass number. Like a buddy of mine tells me, "Sounds like a dream I once had, but with a totally different ending." It's kind of hilarious. And somehow it comes back around to sharing a sneak peak of the films you can expect to see at the festival. Remember, no boundaries.

The festival will be in the U.S. as part of the Overland Expo, May 18-20, 2012. www.overlandexpo.com

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