 Welcome to Film My Run. I'm in High Peak in New Mills, where I've stayed tonight because I am off to Sheffield today because today my film about the backyard ultra in Suffolk last year is being shown at the Sheffield Adventure Film Festival where it has won best-running film. So I'm going to go and watch the film with whoever else turns up at the cinema and then we'll see what happens for the rest of the weekend. So here we are in Sheffield outside the showroom cinema where the Sheffield Adventure Film Festival is hosting all its films and so we're going to go in and watch a film I made. There are actually two versions of the film. One is called 81 Yards, which is a longer version and a shorter version is called Going the Extra Yard and that's the one that's won the best-running film here at the Sheffield Adventure Film Festival. So the film festival runs from Friday through to Sunday and there's loads of different films on and loads of different winners of different categories. So best overall film, best activism film, best bike film, climbing film, best film made in Sheffield, best running film. I wonder who won that one. Best short film, skiing, best sound, best spirit of adventure, best women in adventure and then judges special mention. So we're just going to go in to this cinema here. Tell me tell me a little bit about the history of Sheffield Adventure Film Festival. Gosh yeah, 17 years. Yeah, I started out just doing some film nights. I think I went up to Kendall Mountain Festival, which was the Kendall Mountain Film Festival back then. And I kind of liked the films and spoke to them and said how can I show some of those films to people where I live. So we got in a little relationship there and we're renting films from them and then they were going really well. We're here in the showroom. So showroom is the biggest independent cinema outside of London. It still is. It was back then. It's a four screen independent cinema right in the heart of Sheffield. So yeah, the manager and I sat down and said we've been doing these film nights and they've been selling out their kind of capacity crowds here in Sheffield. Let's take it up a step and have a weekend of it and call it a festival. How has the festival coped with the rise of social media? So one of the arguments that we kind of that we that we push is that you're coming down here to watch these films on a big screen, not on a cracked phone screen. That's why I'm here because I wanted to see it on the large screen because I've never seen it on a big screen. It's not just about the screen though, but you've also never seen it in a room full of people. How many films do you get submitted each year? It varies, but anything between two and four hundred. Yeah. But submitted, I actually go out and source a lot of them as well. So literally you get staff picks on Vimeo turns up some great ones. And I've got a little army of over the years, built up an army of followers and friends and helpers who just kind of sent me to see this one. And as a curator, you're really pleased when you find one that's basically that it's not that's not been seen particularly widely. You know, it's very, it's really easy to go on to the Red Bull channel and think, right, let's look at the films from the past year that have had the most views. That's kind of anyone can do that. But yeah, they're really good ones when you find a little gem that's maybe only had like one hundred and fifty views on YouTube because the great filmmaker, but haven't necessarily got the following. What are the films that attract them, the biggest audiences? What are the most popular types of films that you get here? It kind of, it changes over the years. I don't really understand it. Traditionally adrenaline films is always really popular. We put it on on a Friday night and a Saturday night. And it's basically it's an opportunity to sit in a big screen with a big sound system and watch a dozen or more short, punchy, eye candy films and people love it. And that's always popular. Climb films in Sheffield is, you know, you'd have thought it used to be really popular, less popular now. And, you know, much more popular now is Cold War swimming, you know, wild swimming and bikepacking. You know, they're the kind of current on trend sports. Well, listen, Matt, thank you so much for accepting my film. I'm really pleased that this year, you know, we had this conversation and then you did, you put, you know, you made some of those changes. And then the judges agreed. It's kind of nice that actually they actually then gave it an award. Yeah, that is bizarre. I hadn't expected that at all. Matt, thank you very much for your time and thank you very much for having me. OK, I've just come out of the cinema having watched Going the Extra Yard, the backyard ultra story for the first time on a big screen and with an audience as well. Yeah, it was weird. It was weird. It was nice, but weird. So I felt I felt a little bit uncomfortable when it first came on. And I was desperate for the quality of the film on screen to be to be good. Having watched a couple of films before that, you know, the pristine quality. And I was just worried that mine would look all for some reason. I just thought mine would look all amateurish and stuff. I don't think it did. I think it looked fine. But there's all those, you know, there's all those kind of paranoia feelings kind of creep in. But then when when the film started, I settled in a bit and and once people started to laugh at the right moments in the film, I thought, OK, this is all right. And I also was worried about people getting up and going out, getting up and leaving during it for some reason. But no, but I think one person got out to the go to the loo and came back. People seemed engaged with it. So, you know, and I shouldn't, you know, I don't know why I was so kind of worried about it. Because, you know, it won first prize. It was the judges watched it and deemed it to be the best running film at the festival. So I don't know why I was particularly worried. But it was it was odd watching it and being the director and the filmmaker with the audience there. But I'm glad I did. I'm glad I came up and I'm glad I've met Matt for the first time, having submitted films to Matt at the Sheffield Adventure Film Festival for quite some years. So there we are. That's it. Right. I'm back here tomorrow to take part in a workshop about filmmaking and to just discuss the film. So we'll come back here tomorrow to do that. Okay, so if we're in Derbyshire or South Yorkshire, we can't come here on such a beautiful day without going for a run. So we're going to go up to one of the highest points in the area of Kinderscout. And Mam Tour is what we're going to go up. Kinderscout and Mam Tour, it's about 18 kilometers of running and about 600 meters of elevation. We're going to try and get that done before it gets dark because it's actually quite late now. It's about four o'clock in the afternoon that I'm starting this. But you know what the heck, let's go and have a little run and enjoy it because it's such a beautiful, a beautiful place and a beautiful day. Kinderscouts are going to make our way back down to the parks are in the distance there. So we're going to carry on to the rocks over there and make our way back around to Mam Tour. And that's Mam Tour just up ahead. Kinderscout for that direction and Mam Tour. So we've been in a big arc, lots of people up here, loads of people. Golden hour, the sun's just going down, absolutely beautiful. Up that's been absolutely superb, really, really enjoyed that. 19 kilometers all the way from Edale up to Kinderscout, round the ridge all the way over the moors, over to Mam Tour, to Hollins Cross and finishing look here back where we started by the car just on the road, just out of Edale. Absolutely perfect, really enjoyed that. And so it's Sunday morning and I've been for my 8K run so I've now done my 100 kilometers for the week. I'm heading back to the Sheffield Adventure Film Festival at the showroom cinema here in Sheffield. I'm just to take part in a workshop about filmmaking, believe you or not. What ended up happening is two of the runners carry on and they eventually broke the world record 81 hours, which was 313 miles, something like that, something ridiculous. So we were looking for three nights and having to film all this, which is why we're here today, because I think if it had just been a 48-hour event it wouldn't have been quite as exciting, no records would have been broken, it wouldn't have been quite as monumental an event. So a lot of it was pure luck that that happened. So that's it, we're all done here. The Sheffield Adventure Film Festival is over for me. It carries on for the rest of the day here, but I've got to get driving back down to Worthing. Good old six-hour drive so I better get on my way. Thanks very much for watching, I hope you enjoyed it. A little bit different and we'll see you for the next film I run. Take care, bye-bye.