Adventure Travel Film Festival

This entry is part 16 of 19 in the series Adventure Rider Issue #14

Last February we packed our berets and dark glasses and grew funny little moustaches before riding down to Bright in Victoria to attend the Adventure Travel Film Festival.

Geez, we had a great time.Christophe Barriere-Varju presented his multi-award winning flick Dream Racer, and then spent a heap of time with Adventure Rider Magazine readers answering questions and just generally being a top bloke.

The publisher led a group on a ride from Sydney…sort of…and a heap of adventure riders rocked in from all over the place.

It was frigging awesome.

So we’re heading down to Bright again for February 12 to 14, 2016, and we’re going to snuggle on down into one of those theatre seats and lose ourselves in a whole swag of awesome new adventure movies.

Maybe we’ll get all romantic in the back row on Valentine’s Day!

With ourselves…ew.

We haven’t organised a special screening or anything this year, but there’s some great bike movies on the list, and the organisers are offering Adventure Rider Magazine readers a 20 per cent discount on tickets. So what we’re hoping you folks will all do is organise yourselves into groups to ride from your home areas and meet us in Bright. Then we’ll all grab a bag of Jaffas and a cold drink and roll into to the theatre to see fillums like

• 14 Horsepower Through Africa – an over-land expedition from Cape Town to Cairo. Six Austrians embarked in 1935 on a 14,000 km journey through Africa with three 14hp two-stroke motorcycles, each bearing a sidecar and passenger
• Going The Distance – Brit newlyweds Mike and Alanna bought a 1930s-styled Ural and sidecar, shipped it to Alaska and then set their sights on Ushuaia, 20,000 miles away in Argentina
• Somewhere Else Tomorrow – Daniel Rintz made his way around the world on his BMW and every now and then was able to earn a few euros with some dongle-based computer wizardry. His route started in Germany, careered over to the UK, took in North Africa and Asia on his way to Nepal before sliding down to Australia There’s heaps more movies of course, and a few more bike ones especially, but those three had us sitting on the edge of our ergonomically sculptured office chairs.

You can watch trailers for these blockbusters by logging on to www.adventuretravelfilmfestival.com/category/film /australia/. Just click on the film of your choice and it’ll take you to the vid.

So don’t miss out. Get your trip planned, then log on to www.advridermag.com.au/forum and let us know where you’re leaving from and when. Let’s see how many riders we can get together in 2016, and how many films we can see. Hit the website to book your tickets, and don’t forget the code to get your discount.

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