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NISSAN ADVENTURE FILM FESTIVAL 2008

The third Nissan Adventure Film Festival will be taking place between 15 and 23 September at Vue Cinemas around the country. 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.

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

• Monday, 15 September – Environmental Adventure
• Tuesday, 16 September – Ocean Adventure
• Wednesday, 17 September - Survival Adventure
• Monday, 22 September – High Altitude Adventure
• Tuesday, 23 September – Winter Adventure

 This year sees the introduction of a night dedicated to Environmental Adventure, demonstrating that adventurers can achieve the big thrill with a conscience.

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 16^th, 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  (Wednesday 17^th, Survival Adventure) and ‘Sharkman’, following 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 16^th, Ocean Adventure). 

Films start at 6.30pm each evening and tickets can be purchased online via www.adventurefest.co.uk, where there is also the chance to win a Nissan 4x4, a Canon freecorder, an adventure holiday to Alberta ‘home of the Canadian Rockies’, and Helly Hansen apparel.

 Further sponsors of the festival include Canon, the Discovery Channel, Helly Hansen, The Independent, Travel Alberta and Vue Cinemas – brands who come together in the spirit of adventure. 

Tickets are available from 22^nd August and can also be purchased by calling 08712 240 240, or at participating Vue Cinema box offices. Tickets are priced at standard cinema rates.

For more info check out - www.adventurefest.co.uk