Entries Open for the Third Annual Cairns Adventure Film Festival.

Press Release / 24.02.2012

The call for entries is open for the third annual Cairns Adventure Film Festival. CAFF launches an interactive new website and film voting system and for the first time has an Adventure Stills Photo category.

The third annual Cairns Adventure Film Festival is Australasia’s only dedicated adventure and extreme sports film festival and competition. Over two nights the festival will showcase the best adventure films that have been sourced from Australasian and local North Queensland film makers and sports people. This year CAFF will also include the Adventurous by Nature Stills Photography category. This is an exciting opportunity for avid action and adventure sports photographers to also showcase their work.

2011 CAFF entrant, Jack McGowan from Victoria said he was very excited about having an Australian adventure film festival to enter his film “Three Two One”. When he attended the Banff Film Festival as a scholarship winner, he was a little disappointed that there wasn't a similar forum in Australia to bring together adventurers, filmmakers and adventure lovers in one event. After 8 International screenings, CAFF was the first Australian screening.

CAFF 2011 had entries featuring a variety of sports and locations including white water kayaking, BASE jumping, downhill Mountain Biking and travel adventures based in India, Laos and China. There were entrants from most Australian states and several from New Zealand. CAFF organizer Rebecca Scott says, “the event welcomes out of the ordinary past times as long as they are respectful to the natural world and to the participants. Tests of human endurance, stamina, skill and courage shone through in the 2011 films and we are excited about what the adventure sport community will produce for 2012”.

Prolific Cairns whitewater kayaker Josh Bond entered the first two years of CAFF and took out the top honours and cash prize in 2011 with his film Summer Rain.  He said about that entering CAFF was “an amazing opportunity for myself and many others like me to get our chosen sport and past time documented and exposed for others to see”. Judges were impressed with the increase in quality of Josh’s 2011 films when compared with his 2010 efforts.CAFF provides a great opportunity for both film makers developmentally as well as for adventure community groups to showcase their sports. CAFF is inviting Australasian film makers and adventure sports lovers to enter a variety of categories: