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
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