Beau Miles
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Biography: On a recent crossing of Bass Strait in a sea kayak, Beau Miles was voted 5th worst dressed in a party of 5. Being offbeat and NQR speaks volumes about how Beau goes about life and represents himself to the world, believing wholeheartedly that we’re all weird. With a PhD in Outdoor Education, a string of successful short films under his belt, Beau’s exploits are funny, authentic, insightful and being copied all over the world.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Australia
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A Tree A Minute
Overview: As there are 1440 minutes in a day, and Beau Miles love planting trees, he decided to plant a tree a minute for 24 hours. It was (swear meaningfully) hard.
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 2021-12-07
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A Mile an Hour... Again
Overview: Beau Miles renovates a canoe, while running a marathon.
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 2023-07-16
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Bad River
Overview: Beau Miles rafts the Queen river, which is after 100 years of runoff from a mine, the most polluted river in Australia.
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 2023-09-12
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Run The Rock
Overview: Beau Miles runs a half marathon with a rock and a wheelbarrow
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 2022-01-29
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I Hate Haircuts
Overview: Haircut hater gets a makeover by wife
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 2022-01-20
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The Lost Wallet
Overview: Beau Miles searches the bush for his cameraman's wallet
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 2022-06-27
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The Backyard Adventurer
Overview: When signing 1812 pre-sold copies of his book The Backyard Adventurer, Beau Miles decided to have a backyard adventure while doing it
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 2021-06-10
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Junk Cabin
Overview: When COVID-19 locked Beau Miles and his family down on the small farm, he decided to build his wife a cabin-office in the paddock without her knowing. Using whatever materials were on the property, which were gathered up piles of other people’s junk over time, and with their 6 month old daughter as accomplice, Junk Cabin emerged. What started out as a stunt to see how much secretive, ad-hoc building he could get away with, turned into the most satisfying building project he's ever made.
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 2020-12-12
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The Commute: Walking to Work
Overview: Setting off with no food, water or shelter, Beau Miles walked 90km to work a bunch of years ago to see if a stripped back adventure could give him the kind of buzz that far away, exotic, heavily planned expeditions have given him over the years. It did. Different, but familiar feelings of challenge and insight came through. When he was asked to give a lecture about adventuring at a new building at his university, he said ‘no worries, why don’t I walk to work and deliver the lecture as soon as I get there’? So he walked to work, again.
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 2021-06-03
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Marathon My Age
Overview: Beau Miles' decimal age on March 2nd, 2022 was 42.195, which by no coincidence is also the length of a marathon in kilometres. To celebrate being alive, based on the actions of two people almost 43 years ago, he decided to run the famous distance around his district, retracing his history via schools, homes, memories and odd experiences that have shaped him, his mum and his dad over this marathon-chunk of time.
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 2022-04-20
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Junk Paddle
Overview: You can buy a paddle, or buy wood to make a paddle, but what about making one from junk? Collecting junk wood found between the train station and the office, this is the story of a junk-made-paddle.
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 2018-10-17
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Junk Office
Overview: The Monash Outdoor Education shed is awesome, aside from one feature - the office. The department asked for it to be outfitted with basic shelving and a long desk. When a contractor quote came back at $12,900, Beau choked on his banana, spilt his coffee and swore at the computer. Using old desks and a bucket full of second hand screws, Beau decided to make the office himself.
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 2019-06-13
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Homewrecker
Overview: Beau Miles loves wood. When the old farmhouse at Outward Bound Australia was set for demolition Beau couldn’t shut his trap and said ‘give me three days before the excavator arrives’. In the baking heat of summer, he and his old schoolmate salvaged 3 ton and 15k worth of bug-free timber before the giant arm of an excavator had its way with the building.
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 2022-06-08
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Bad River
Overview: The Cooks River: Australia's sickest urban river is located in the glamorous and famously pretty city of Sydney. This makes sense, given it’s also Australia's largest, hard-surfaced, drainified, leaky-sewered, city. In my little red kayak I decided to trace all 23km of the Cooks River, inspired to do so after paddling my boyhood river over 4 days in the name of Backyard Adventuring. Finding it not only challenging, but shocking in terms of its ill health, I’ve since shifted from wanting to see the wildest and most pristine places on earth, to the most degraded and sick. This is a journey of ill-health, sadness and hope; putting a test to the local saying, ‘if you fall in, you’ll dissolve’.
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 2022-07-28
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Proving Kramer Right
Overview: Beau Miles, taking inspiration from a double episode of Seinfeld, decides to hit the roadside and collect a truck load of redeemables to drive interstate to New South Wales to redeem them.
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 2023-09-26
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The Inconvenient Podcast
Overview: Beau Miles and Hamish Blake travel with their kids to record a podcast on an island.
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 2023-10-05
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The Day My Hat Died
Overview: Beau Miles' magnificent hat has lost the will to live. After fifteen years of sun and body fluids, with a heavy heart and a head full of memories Beau takes his favourite, thread-bare, stinking, beyond-repair hat for one last run.
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 2022-09-15
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A Bloody Long Run
Overview: In 1864 the mass murdering pastoralist Angus McMillan cut an ambitious 220km path through the mountains between two remote gold mining towns in the heart of Victoria, Australia. 120 years later a group of bushwalkers stitched the trail back together. When Beau Miles found out about the track he decided to run it, thinking ‘gee, this track has a story to tell’! Running 73 km a day for three days over steep, often unmarked terrain, and having grown up thinking McMillan was a colonial hero, there was a lot of terrain, and thinking, to be absorbed. He’d finally embarked on a running adventure that wasn’t just about running.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2024-01-16
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Junk Gifts
Overview: Beau Miles was asked to come in and talk on breaky TV about Backyard Adventuring. Beau said sure, "but why don’t I have a Backyard Adventure instead? I’ll run around Sydney with my wheelbarrow and collect up junk wood, make stuff, and present it to the TV presenters on air the following morning, 24 hours later". So that’s what he did.
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 2022-10-20
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Man vs. Vegetable
Overview: Beau's neighbours have given him a huge pumpkin for a project he's been meaning to do properly for years; go on a three day running and riding adventure while eating a single item of food.
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 2023-11-28
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The 12 Days of Newness
Overview: Each day Beau Miles does something he's never done before.
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 2022-12-14
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Africa by Kayak
Overview: In 2007, Beau attempted to paddle 4000kms from one side of Africa to the other. Starting in Mozambique, he continued along the Southern African coast, allowing five months to complete the voyage. Battling surf, deep sea swell, and too many days waiting for the wind, Beau only completed 2000kms of the original plan.
Genres: Documentary Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2016-11-09
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Trials of Miles
Overview: Beau Miles laces up for a different kind of world first, running 650+km of the Australian Alpine Walking Track. Traversing through the highest peaks in Australia, Beau battles injury, fatigue and ultimately himself in his own personal Trial of Miles. Running long distance walking trails is a relatively new era of adventure to existential seekers today- no longer in search of new landscapes, but a new version of themselves, pitting themselves against distance and time. Beau comes to question how and why we drag ourselves and our families into such endeavours, and in the same breath knows that such experiences are the best place to conjure why we do anything.
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 2016-12-13
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Run the Line: Retracing 43km of hidden railway
Overview: Overgrown, farmed, pushed out, sold off and only half there, Beau sets off with shovel in hand, dressed like a 50's train driver, to re-trace an old train-line. To run the line end to end would be the first human passing in over 60 years. Police, fences, blackberries, runner musings and leftover pasta, map Beau against a warm autumn day as he makes his way across a landscape he's lived in his whole life.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2019-11-08
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The Commute: Paddling to Work
Overview: Following two rivers, one drain, one sea and one creek, it turns out that paddling to work, which ends up being mostly a drag, over four full days, is bloody hard work.
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 2021-06-20
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A Mile with May: Adventuring with my daughter
Overview: May and Beau head off on a slow, tooled-up, distracted lap of the block - which happens to be a perfect mile.
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 2021-01-27
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Bass by Kayak
Overview: Bass by Kayak follows a small expedition party crossing from the Australian mainland to Tasmania in sea kayaks.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2017-03-08
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The Human Bean
Overview: Eating only the contents of 191 tins of beans over 40 days transforms Beau into The Human Bean, and in doing so gives him a front row seat into how one food, totally and utterly, dictates how he feels. Beau uses his intimate knowledge of running to compare his former self to his bean-self, logging lacklustre training for an ultramarathon that he plans on running during the final day of the experiment. Epiphanies are had, saddles are blazed, and genuine insight emerges from what is strangely appealing day-to-day of mediocrity.
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 2020-05-02
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The Green Paddle
Overview: Over two months in the summer of 2003, a 23-year-old Beau Miles paddled his kayak, solo, around three major island chains off Australia’s southern coast. Originally released in 2005, this film was re-edited in 2018 for YouTube. Relatively inexperienced in open water, moments of near capsizing, being washed off rocks, sleeping in abandoned homesteads and traveling up to 40km a day becomes just as much about personal discovery as the destination. With homemade camera mount, homemade roof-racks, yellow kayak and industrial supply of sunscreen, the film alludes to Beau’s underdone sea kayaking skills as he leaves mainland Australia under his own power for the first time. In the final days of the journey, Beau comes to realise that sea kayaking, and ad-hoc travel with only the bare essentials, is the most potent combination of living he’s ever experienced.
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 2004-02-28
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A Mile an Hour
Overview: Packing on the pounds after writing a PhD, Beau's running again. He's also back in the shed; fixing stuff, making things, tinkering. For most of us, running was once a form of survival, hunting- or being hunted. Now, it can be as meaningful, or meaningless, than any other aspect of life. Running for Beau is practical- it gets him places, yet like a lot of runners, deeply embodied.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2018-08-18
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Big Gums
Overview: This is the story of spending a night in a big old gumtree. Strapped to three builders planks (one of which had a large crack that I thought was spilled paint) I slept with one eye open, which was pleasant because I could see the view. Originally driven by the premise of backyard adventuring, using old climbing equipment, dodgy ladders and 4x4 recovery gear, a simple night out, 30-foot up, ended up being a reflection of how much I like trees, particularly the vulnerable Strzelecki gums I live among. Dinner, breakfast, bad coffee, podcast, and sitting on a park bench I should sit on more often, Big Gums is the story of a man who is no longer a boy, spending time with an endangered, iconic tree.
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 2020-08-08
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