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VAHNA Motorcycle Film Festival – Submissions Now Open

VAHNA motorcycle film festival

VAHNA, a lushly illustrated and beautifully written print magazine that features motorcycle stories from all over the globe, has announced that submissions are open for the 2023 VAHNA Motorcycle Film Festival and competition presented by Triumph Motorcycles. The festival tour “[celebrates] the art of motorcycle cinematography [and] offers filmmakers a platform to showcase their unique storytelling abilities and creative vision to the world.”

Open to anyone “who is passionate about motorcycles and has a talent for capturing the essence of riding on film,” the VAHNA team will select ten films to go on tour around the country later this year, including dates in Atlanta, Austin, Denver, Los Angeles, Phoenix, and Portland, Oregon. At each venue, a local panel of guest judges will choose the best three films from that screening. The top three overall winners will earn a range of prizes, and the number one film will win a 2023 Triumph Bonneville T120 Black for its creator. Not local to one of those cities? VAHNA will also be streaming the ten selected films on its website for anyone to watch and enjoy.

Filmmakers can upload a link to their creations via VAHNA’s website, and films should be between 5-15 minutes long and not include any copyrighted footage or music. The deadline for submission to the 2023 VAHNA Motorcycle Film Festival is September 30, 2023.

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Stephan Edwards is the Associate Editor of Expedition Portal and Overland Journal. He and his wife, Julie, once bought an old Land Rover sight unseen from strangers on the internet in a country they'd never been to and drove it through half of Africa. After living in Botswana for two years, Stephan now makes camp at the foot of a round mountain in Missoula, Montana. He still drives that Land Rover every day. An anthropologist in his former life and a lover of all things automotive, Stephan is a staunch advocate for public lands and his writing and photography have appeared in Road & Track, The Drive, and Adventure Journal. Contact him at edwards@overlandinternational.com and @venturesomeoverland on Instagram.