How are we different?
Our 2024 edition empowered local communities to raise £10,000 in support of their sports or youth clubs, charities such as mountain rescue, and local groups including community cinemas. Your film could reach parts of the world that would never otherwise be able to host an adventure film festival. We are connecting your work with the people who will most appreciate it.
LMFF Festival Fortnight includes:
IN-PERSON FESTIVAL: We have a theatre event across the opening weekend of our festival fortnight, held at a beautiful independent cinema in Covent Garden, Central London. Here we screen a mixture of documentaries of all lengths curated from the official selection, intermixed with Q&As and filmmaker appearances.
LMFF VIRTUAL: The official selection in its entirety is available to watch online and anywhere in the world. The online event immediately follows the in-person weekend event and runs for two weeks. We categorise by content and enable viewers to interact with us and vote for their favourites.
COMMUNITY EVENTS: This is what truly sets us apart from other festivals. By plugging into our live online platform during festival fortnight, communities everywhere can deliver their own adventure film events and raise funds, and in 2025 we will be sharing revenues from Community Event passes with 'most watched' filmmakers.
What kind of films?
We select films that celebrate all the wonderful ways that humans interact with our beautiful planet - in particular through sports such as climbing, running, cycling, skiing swimming, kayaking and so on. Adventure, resilience, empowerment, diversity, inclusion, conservation, creativity, heritage .. these are all themes which inspire great stories in the theatre of the outdoors. Awesome people doing incredible things in spectacular places.
Where are these events taking place?
In 2024 there were over 50 events held, including our own London Screenings. The majority were in the UK, mostly popping up in small towns and villages in Scotland, England, Wales and Northern Ireland. There were a handful of events in far flung places such as Finland, Kentucky, Melbourne and Nairobi.
What is our mission?
To leverage our London brand to connect communities around the world through adventure filmmaking. To bring inspiration to places we may never have heard of where there are people passionate about adventure. To provide content to people which they can share, bringing people together to support and further their adventurous communities.
For 2025 we have allocated £1000 prize money for filmmakers. We will award £200 each to the five filmmakers who are most selected by our Community Events.
Laurels for all Category Winners.