A journey of discovery

Sep 12 2008 by Rebecca Edwards, Chester Chronicle

Roam across the world – without leaving your cinema chair.

The third Nissan Adventure Film Festival will be taking place between September 15 and 23 at the Vue Cinema Cheshire Oaks.

Showcasing the very best short-form and feature-length films over five themed evenings, the festival will take arm-chair adventurers on a journey from the heights of Mount Everest to the shark-infested waters off the coast of South Africa.

The festival – the largest adventure film festival in the world – will feature five themed evenings at the Vue digital cinema as follows:

Monday, September 15 – Environmental Adventure

Tuesday, September 16 – Ocean Adventure

Wednesday, September 17 - Survival Adventure

Monday, September 22 – High Altitude Adventure

Tuesday, September 23 – Winter Adventure

Featured films include Red Gold, a David and Goliath story of one man’s battle against a mining corporation in Alaska; ‘Oil + Water’, an epic 21,000 mile journey from Alaska to Argentina by a truck run on natural vegetable oil; and ‘Beyond the Horizon’ documenting 2006 National Geographic Adventurer of the Year Colin Angus’ record breaking round-the-world trip – the first ever made entirely under human power.

Other highlights include the world premiere of an episode of Discovery Channel’s ‘Deadliest Catch’ (Tuesday, Ocean Adventure); ‘Stranded – the Andes Plane Crash Survivors’, a haunting movie telling the story of the 1972 plane crash through the words of the survivors themselves, as made famous by the film ‘Alive’ (Wednesday, Survival Adventure). ‘Sharkman’ follows South African Mike Rutzen’s quest to overcome the negative perception of great white sharks by putting them into a state of ‘tonic immobility’, or hypnotic trance (Tuesday, Ocean Adventure).

Films start at 6.30pm each evening and tickets can be purchased online via www.adventurefest.co.uk or 08712 240 240.