BT-07. Adventure Shorts with Ignite Boulder

Special thanks to Isaac Savitz, BIFF programmer, and Andrew Hyde of Ignite Boulder.
Ignite speakers include Ali Geiser, Max Lowe, Timmy O’Neill, Megan Sullivan, and Ryan Van Duzer.

Denali’s Raven

USA, Short Documentary, 2017, 9 min

Boulder Premiere

For Leighan Falley, Alaska is more than home ├â┬ó├óΓÇÜ┬¼├óΓé¼┬¥ it’s a calling. Leighan spent years as a ski guide and climber on the Alaskan range. But after becoming a mother, she quit guiding and took to the skies as a mountain pilot, bringing her daughter along for the ride.

Directed by Renan Ozturk and Freddie Wilkinson

Johanna

USA, Short Documentary, 2017, 4 min

Colorado Premiere

Finnish free-diver Johanna Nordblad holds the world record for a 50-meter dive under ice. She discovered her love for the sport while recovering from a downhill biking accident that almost took her leg. See her perform in this isolated, dangerous sport.

Directed by Ian Derry

Wild Inheritance

USA, Short Documentary, 2017, 16 min

Colorado Premiere

A recently-widowed grandmother leads three generations of the Vermilye-Phillips clan into Wyoming’s Wind River backcountry. With his deceased grandfather as an invisible guide, Walid, the 12-year-old grandson and the film’s narrator, discovers the reason his family will always return to this granite temple.

Directed by Aly Nicklas

Bob

Germany, Short Animation, 2009, 3 min

Boulder Premiere

A hamster is chasing his true love around the globe. Will he get her?

Directed by Jacob Frey and Harry Fast

Slacker

USA, Short Documentary, 2017, 9 min

Boulder Premiere

What if we told you there was a place, deep in the deserts of Utah, where the lines of progressive sports blur while simultaneously apexing to new, unfathomable realities of what’s possible? Whoa, dude.

Directed by Max Lowe

On the Fence

USA, Short Documentary, 2016, 7 min

Boulder Premiere

Seven years ago, Chris McNamara stood on the edge of the greatest BASE jump that had yet to be attempted in the U.S., the first “wing suit exit” into the Grand Canyon. What happened next caused him to walk away from the sport forever.

Directed by Megan Sullivan

Isaac and the Volcano

USA, Short Documentary, 2018, 9 min

Colorado Premiere

One weekend, one volcano, one guy with two crutches and a deadline.

Directed by Ryan Van Duzer

Stumped

USA, Short Documentary, 2017, 25 min

├â┬ó├óΓÇÜ┬¼├àΓÇ£I don’t want to be known as just a one-armed climber,├â┬ó├óΓÇÜ┬¼├é┬¥ says Maureen Beck. ├â┬ó├óΓÇÜ┬¼├àΓÇ£I just want to be a good climber.├â┬ó├óΓÇÜ┬¼├é┬¥ Beck may have been born missing her lower left arm, but she is not here to be your inspiration.

Directed by Cedar Wright and Taylor Keating

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In person: Ali Geiser, Max Lowe, Timmy O’Neill, Megan Sullivan and Ryan Van Duzer

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Venues: The Boulder Theater; Grace Commons Church, 1820 15th Street; Boulder High; Cinemark Century Boulder 1, 1700 29th St.; Cinemark Century Boulder 2, 1700 29th St.; eTown Hall; Longmont Museum’s Stewart Auditorium