Thrills at Cairns Adrenaline Film Festival
IS Cairns the adrenalin capital of Australia?
Thousands of thrill-seeking residents say yes – and they are taking it one step further by showcasing homegrown edge-of-your-seat footage in the city’s inaugural adrenalin film festival.
Organiser Rebecca Scott said more than 5000 Far Northerners were involved in adrenalin sports and that number was steadily growing, topped up by thousands of tourists who made a beeline for the region each year to skydive,
whitewater raft and bungy jump.
"We love it here and these kind of activities are one of the big selling points for the Far North so we want to do more to put ourselves on the map nationally for it," the Cairns accountant cum skydiver said.
The Cairns Adrenaline Film Festival will be held on May 29. Thrill seekers are being urged to create short films on heart-pumping pursuits from skydiving, base jumping and kiteboarding to whitewater rafting, wake boarding,
motocross riding and skateboarding.
A section will showcase tropical North Queensland, while another is a People’s Choice Mad Minute that could feature out-of-town pursuits, including snowboarding and surfing. There is also an under-18 category.
The festival has industry backing with prizes ranging from tandem skydives and rafting trips to bungy jumps, cable skiing passes and kite surfing lessons.
Cairns mountain biker and IT consultant Landon Stroud is preparing snowboarding and biking footage for the event after years chasing "food for the soul" in the Far North and throughout Australia.
Mr Stroud said Cairns offered adventure on tap.
"For mountain biking there’s no other place in Australia I can think of that has access to 10 different downhill runs within 20 minutes of the city," he said.
"We hosted the Mountain Biking World Championships in 1996 and we’re back building more tracks."
For more details about the Cairns Adrenaline Festival, which will be held at Calypso Backpackers’ Zanzibar, and how to enter, email steelesessions@gmail.com. Or log on to soon-to-be-launched website, www.caff.net.au.
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Get into it anyway you can: Cairns’ first adrenalin film festival will feature footage of mountain biking, white water-rafting, skating and skydiving. Picture: MICK HARDY
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