VCA 2010
Venue: Screen 2
Chile / 2010 / 5mins
Cyclist's eye-view of Chile's annual urban downhill stunt race through Valparaiso. Mind out for the dog!
Wall
Britain / 2011 / 2mins
Sheffield Hallam University Animation student Ian Anderson produced this excellent animated short for his 3rd year project. Soon to graduate and currently looking for a work placement, who knows, maybe he'll be Sheffield's next Nick Park?
13 year old surfer
America / 2011 / 5mins
Leo was surfing when most other kids were playing in the sandbox. He surfed his first wave aged just four. In just 3 years he was living the life of a real surfer traveling the world to chase the waves and is now training with the world's best, coming top in some of the biggest teen competitions.
A skate generation
Director: Brett Novak
America / 2010 / 3mins
Professional skateboarder Kilian Martin mixes freestyle with street skating in Barcelona. His unique dancer-like movements put him in a class of his own.
Cooler than Mike
Director: Conor Toumarkiune
America / 2010 / 4mins
Pro-skier, base-jumper Mike Wilson does a quadruple backflip off a 99 foot rope swing. Enough said.
Industrial revolutions
Britain / 2011 / 5mins
Danny MacAskill is the definitive adventure sports viral overnight success story. 3 years ago the Scottish street trials riders uploaded a video of his bike stunts filmed by his flatmate Dave Sowerby - it's now been watched over 28 million times. 'Industrial Revolutions' has already clocked up more than 3 million hits. Turn off the iPad, sit back and enjoy MacAskill in cinematic style.
Jackson to School
Director: Ron Goldstone
Canada / 2010 / 3mins
5 year old Jackson Goldstone goes to kindergarten - doing huge drops and tricks through forest trails, skateboard parks and a brilliant mini-boardwalk run, all on his balance bike.
Professor Longhair, Big Chief
Director:Scott Bass, Phil Doyle & Kie Willis
Britain / 2010 / 2mins
This wildly successful viral features parkour practitioners Kie Willis and Phil Doyle. Filmed in twenty second bursts over two hot weeks in June 2010 Doyle wanted to make a parkour film that was truly raw and the result it a cheeky little short with a cliffhanger ending.
Razor Scooter tricks
America / 2007 / 5mins
This amateur video of 10 and 11 year olds doing seriously impressive tricks on micro-scooters was for a shot for a school talent show, which had to include a magic trick. No wonder it's had more than 3 million hits on You Tube.
seasons - Winter
Director: Skip Arnstrong
America / 2011 / 4mins
Brian Ward discovers an unexpected and new-found love for water in its frozen and expanded form. Last chapter of whitewater loving filmmaker Skip Armstrong's seasonal trilogy.
The Man and the mammoth
Director:Callum Paterson and Nathan Gilliss
Canada / 2011 / 7mins
A charming, witty animated short in which a caveman discovers skiing thanks to his friendship with a wooly mammoth.
The rollerman
Director: Danny Strasser
Germany / 2011 / 7mins
Full-frontal, downhill, on-road, in-line skating dressed as a Transformer - it's as nuts as it sounds. French thrill-seeker Jean Yves Blondeau manages to top trump his bobtrack downhill skate-boarding.