This is easily my absolute favourite film of the festival. The cinematography is incredible, the location is utterly beautiful and the actual activity itself just exudes a sense of such freedom. This is the kind of emotion I want my work to create.

An interesting exploration of life after tragedy and the catharsis that comes from a creative outlet. The introduction can be a little bit long, but it sets the tone for the amazing payoff at the end.

One of the most energetic films I saw, its pure bike action and just looks like an awful lot of fun.

Alex had shown me this before, but it’s just so very good. Reinventing what can be done on Ski’s and where it can be done.

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We’ll be at the festival on the 2nd March to present the film at ‘Adrenaline Films’ showing from 9.15pm – 11pm, so if you plan on visiting the festival send us a message at the contact form and we’ll do our best to say hi!

We’ve just complied a list of our recommendations on kit for a new Parkour filmmaker. Click here to see the list!

Our good friend Ryan Doyle will also be present on the Saturday, premiering his ‘Travel Story’ film at the free Cityscape event on saturday night from 6pm until 8pm, and then doing a live Q&A afterwards. Check out the trailer!

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Owen and Jin were two Traceurs from Cambridge, UK. When Parkour was still in its fledgling state in the UK, these practitoners paved the way for the modern parkour video. The earliest of their films, you had visit the cambridge traceurs web forum and actually download to watch on your computer. YouTube didn’t exist back then. Considering this video is over six years old at the time of writing, its amazing to see how far the community has come, but also how high the skill level was even back in 2006. Were this video to be released today on a modern HD camera, it would easily stand up to current offerings.

On Avance Toujours was another of the videos you actually had to download to watch. Arguably its the best of David Belle’s montage style videos, and shows that his technique was unparalleled in his day. The most important thing to note here is how unique this video still feels. While the movements have since been filmed and refilmed, there is still a lot of stuff in here that is either huge, or stuff that people seem to train less and less these days. My favourite thing to see is how David exhibits an atypical  ’original french’ style of movement that a lot of the earliest traceurs show and has also since become less common.

Though David is widely credited as the founder of Parkour, when I give someone an example of it, I use my good friend Sebastien Foucan’s chase sequence in Casino Royale. This set-piece trumps the one from B13 in every way, combining the over the top notion of a 007 movie with some completely original and fun ideas for a chase sequence. While it doesnt stay quite so grounded in reality as B13, the visual spectacle is undeniable. The choreography is tight and actually allows for some moments of humour, which has a nice Jackie Chan vibe to it.

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