EWS Madeira Film Festival, Viewer's Choice Winner Announced
Voting is now closed, the Viewer's choice Award goes to 'Lonely Island' by Etienne Van Rensburg featuring Matt Hunter. Congratulations!
The Enduro World Series Madeira Film Festival saw four production teams assigned the mission of filming one of the four sides of the Island each. Their films showcased the diversity of terrain, landscapes, and forests Madeira is famous for.
The whole Enduro World Series industry had the opportunity to watch the premier of these short edits live in Machico and voted for their favorite. Now the world wide mountain bike community has the opportunity to choose their favorite as well! Even though Madeira is a small island, we still find that there's so much more to discover and so much more to ride.
Cast your vote! The winning team will be announced on Sunday night on Pinkbike, there's 1000€ up for grabs!
'Four Corners' by Jacob Gibbins
'Real Riders' by Aaron Bartlett
'Vink and Anderson Shredding Madeira' by Bart Cautaerts
'Lonely Island' by Etienne Van Rensburg
EWS Madeira Film Festival - Viewers Choice
This poll is closed
The world wide mountain bike community now has the opportunity to choose their favorite film from the festival. Answer the poll and have your say!
Thanks for your vote and we hope to see you in Madeira someday!
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The video is a love song to riding and Madeira. Freeride Madeira guys couldn't have asked for a better promo video.
Lonely Island definitely makes you want to ride Madeira.
The edits capture its incredible beauty, but they are so fast.
And @ 2:08ish, why's he paddling away from his bike? I'm for creative license, but that has me stumped.
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Of the four, I suppose "Real Riders" would influence me to visit Madeira the most.
2. Real Riders - mellowed out, least "shredding" but nice story building without much fuss and nice photography. "Normal" people with "normal" jobs can also shred. Awesome concept.
3. Vink & Anderson - alt rock in the background + no talking + pure shred. I've seen it before. Boring as hell.
4. Lonely Island - beautiful photography with great tones and great mixed POV. No talking, but movie is short so it's about the shred. I like it.
Everybody - great skill.
For me, winner is Real Riders.
Hey, btw, my synopsis is 100% sarcasm, and 0% hate. I have big respect to all the filmmakers and riders, because I know how much work is required to make even such short movies. Just wanted to stir it up in the comments, turned out to be too sour after all.
On the other hand, film festivals shouldn't be about how hard you shred, rather about telling a story. So my criticism was harsh and perhaps didn't make a strong point. Mistakes happen.
Apologies to anyone who felt offended