The Boulder International Film Festival is excited to feature world-class adventure films at the NEW Adventure Film Pavilion.
Saturday, March 7 - Sunday, March 8, 2020
eTown Hall, 1535 Spruce St., Boulder
$16/ticket
Saturday, March 7, 2020
ADVENTURE SHORT FILMS 1
Saturday, March 7, 10am
* This program also shows on
Sunday, March 8, 7:30pm*
THE THOUSAND YEAR JOURNEY
USA/Peru/Bolivia, Short Documentary, 2015, 4 min
Jedidiah Jenkins quit his job to ride his bicycle from Oregon to the southern tip of Patagonia.
Directed by Kenny Laubbacher
8,000+
Germany, Short Documentary, 2018, 22 min
Three weeks above the world in a paraglider pushes the limits of adventure and sanity.
Directed by Antoine Girard and Christian Schmidt
BROKEN
USA, Short Documentary, 2019, 7 min
Jon Wilson lost his leg to cancer. Today, crutching up and skiing down mountains at night allows him to explore the idea of “brokenness.”
Directed by Simon Perkins
PAR FOR THE COURSE
USA, Short Documentary, 2019, 4 min
Mirna Valerio from Brooklyn takes on a 25-kilometre race in Squaw Valley.
Directed by Kody Kohlman (in person)
Produced by Lilah Strauss (in person)
Colorado Premiere
CAMEL FINDS WATER
USA/Canada, Short Documentary, 2019, 9 min
Trevor finds the hull of an abandoned fishing boat and brings it back to life in search of waves.
Directed by Ian Durkin
AZIZA
Morocco, Short Documentary, 2018, 7 min
Aziza overcomes cultural and social challenges to compete in some of the toughest foot races on Earth.
Subtitled
Directed by Ryan Goff & Matt Pycroft
SURFACE
USA, Short Documentary, 2018, 7 min
Ben Thouard captures a stunning new perspective of the underwater world through waves.
Directed by John Rodosky (in person)
TENAYA CREEK KAYAK RUN
USA, Short Documentary, 2018, 2 min
The Tenaya slide in California is one of the steepest and fastest slides you can do in a kayak.
Directed by GoPro and Dane Jackson
REEL ROCK 14: UNITED STATES OF JOE’S
USA, Short Documentary, 2019, 22 min
In rural Utah, Mormons, cowboys, coal miners and a ragged band of climbers build a harmonious future.
Directed by Peter Mortimer (in person)
Saturday, March 7, 12:30pm
HOME
UK/Canada, Feature Documentary, 2019, 90 min
UK adventurer Sarah Outen traversed the globe by bike, kayak and rowing boat, traveling over 20,000 miles by human power alone. But traveling solo, the trip took its toll and a violent storm on the Pacific took Sarah to the physical and mental brink. An intimate journey of heart and soul, of struggle and joy, and one woman’s trek towards true emotional acceptance.
Directed by Jen Randall
Preceded By:
HORS PISTE
France, Short Animation, 2018, 6 min
The two best rescue workers of the region are ready for their new mission. It will not go as planned.
Directed by Léo Brunel, Loris Cavalier, Camille Jalabert, and Oscar Malet
ADVENTURE SHORT FILMS 2
Saturday, March 7, 3pm
* This program also shows on
Sunday, March 8, 10:30am*
CHASING MONSTERS
USA, Short Documentary, 2019, 5 min
To behold a monster storm up close is to taste the infinite.
Directed by Krystle Wright & Toby Pike
THE LADAKH PROJECT
Austria/France, Short Documentary, 2019, 14 min
Kayaker Nouria Newman embarks on a solo multiday descent on the raging waters of the Indus river in the Himalayas.
Directed by David Arnaud
LIMITLESS
Australia, Short Documentary, 2019, 10 min
Tetraplegic Jezza Williams has been to some dark, wild places, yet it seems the journey is just beginning. Directed by Hayden Griffith
GRIZZLY COUNTRY
USA, Short Documentary, 2018, 12 min
After serving in the Vietnam War, author Doug Peacock spent years alone in the wilderness observing grizzly bears and their habitat.
Directed by Ben Moon
SKIER VS DRONE
Canada/USA, Short Film, 2018, 4 min
What’s faster: an Olympic ski racer or a drone?
Directed by Mike Douglas
THE LONG RIVER HOME
USA, Short Documentary, 2019, 20 min
Combat veterans injured in war come together on a trip kayaking the Grand Canyon. The threesome battles more than 80 powerful rapids and relates finding their lines to navigating the chaos of life.
Directed by Seth Dahl
Produced by Timmy O’Neill & Sarah Leone (both in person)
THE FLIP
Mexico, Short Documentary, 2019, 3 min
French skydiver Remi Angeli must face his fears to explore new expressions of movement while BASE jumping in Mexico.
Directed by Reed Rickert
LIFE OF PIE
USA, Short Documentary, 2019, 12 min
BMX rider Jen Zeuner and Bike magazine photographer Anne Keller moved to the tiny conservative town of Fruita, CO, and weren’t shy about using their lesbian innuendos to sell pizza, even when Fruita wasn’t quite ready for it.
Directed by Ben Knight & Travis Rummel
Jen Zeuner and Anne Keller In Person
DANNY DAYCARE
Scotland, Short Film, 2019, 4 min
Danny Macaskill takes on childcare the only way he knows how… by taking them for a wee bike ride around Scotland …Danny style!
Directed by Stu Thompson, Cut Media
ADVENTURE SHORT FILMS 3
Saturday, March 7, 5:15pm
GONE TOMORROW - THE STORY OF KENTUCKY ICE CLIMBING
USA, Short Documentary, 2019, 20 min
A bourbon-fueled ride deep into the bushy hollers of Appalachia. Yes, ice climbing in Kentucky.
Directed by Mike Wilkinson
SAFE HAVEN
USA, Short Documentary, 2018, 8 min
A climbing gym in Memphis is changing the lives of many youth.
Directed by Tim Kressin
BLUE
USA, Short Film, 2018, 4 min
A young girl growing up in Valdez, Alaska, imagines a crew of boundary-pushing female athletes riding the icy playground on fat bikes.
Directed by Aly Nicklas
SKI PHOTOGRAPHER
Switzerland, Short Documentary, 2019, 9 min
Ski photographer Oskar Enander has an iconic and unique perspective due to color blindness.
Directed by Frank Pickell (in person)
SPECTRE EXPEDITION: TO THE END OF THE EARTH
UK/USA, Short Documentary, 2019, 36 min
An unsupported ski and climbing adventure to the most remote mountain range on earth, traversing the Antarctic continent assisted by kite, sweat and tears.
Directed by Leo Houlding, Alastair Lee, and Zachary Barr / By Sender Films
THE RUNNING PASTOR
Faroe Islands, Short Documentary, 2019, 8 min
Sverri Steinholm, a Faroese trail-running pastor, explores the relationship of his spirituality through his experiences in the outdoors.
Directed by Tim Kemple
Saturday, March 7, 7:30pm
LOST TEMPLE OF THE INCA
USA, Feature Documentary, 2019, 52 min
Environmental scientist Preston Sowell believes he has found a lost temple of the Inca Empire in Peru at the headwaters of the Amazon River. Follow Sowell’s journey of discovery, loss and adventure as he seeks to protect this sacred place from environmental devastation.
Directed by Jim Aikman
Presentation to follow with Preston Sowell in person
Sunday, March 8, 2020
ADVENTURE SHORT FILMS 2
Sunday, March 8, 10:30am
* First showing is on
Saturday, March 7, 3pm*
Replay of Adventure Short Films
WOMEN’S ADVENTURE SHORT FILMS & TALKS
Sunday, March 8, 12:45pm
Celebrate International Women’s
Day with films and short talks
by inspiring women filmmakers,
speakers and adventurers.
DREAM JOB
Canada, Short Film, 2019, 15 min
Comedienne Katie Burrell follows “days in the life” with three of the skiing industry’s biggest female names. They go up, they go down… how hard can it be?
Directed by Katie Burrell
WOMEN IN FIRE
USA, Short Documentary, 2018, 8 min
Less than 10 percent of firefighters are women. But what these women lack in numbers, they make up for in guts and inspiration.
Directed by Tim Kressin
SPEAK TO ME SOFTLY
USA, Short Documentary, 2019, 6 min
Take an honest and intimate peek into the battle with fear, expectations and self—the headspace of a climber having a not-so-sendy day.
Directed by Henna Taylor (in person)
CHASING THE SUBLIME
UK, Short Documentary, 2018, 7 min
Why do we put ourselves into the path of discomfort, fear and risk? Follow Kate Rew and Kari Furre in this hauntingly beautiful glimpse at the physicality of UK cold-water swimming.
Directed by Amanda Bluglass
REEL ROCK 14: THE HIGH ROAD
USA, Short Documentary, 2019, 18 min
Nina Williams is among the only women who climb elite-level problems that are 30, 40, even 50 feet tall—with no rope.
Directed by Peter Mortimer & Josh Lowell
A Conversation with Cheryl Strayed
Sunday, March 8, 3pm
$20 + SERVICE FEE
Best-selling author, filmmaker and popular podcaster Cheryl Strayed joins us to help celebrate the first BIFF Adventure Film Pavilion as well as International Women’s Day. Cheryl is the author of Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail, and associate producer of the film Wild starring Reese Witherspoon. Expect a lively Q&A about Cheryl’s life and work, conducted by Scott Jurek. Scott is an author, speaker, runner, and recently broke a record thru-hiking the Appalachian Trail.
The event will be live-streamed in the Sponsor Lounge downstairs at eTown, as well as in the BIFF Filmmaker Lounge at The Post. Space limited.
Sunday, March 8, 5pm
CLIMBING BLIND
UK, Feature Documentary, 2019, 57 min
Jesse Dufton was born with 20 percent central vision. By the time he was 30, his vision was reduced to just light perception and 1 or 2 percent field of view. As a life-long climber, Jesse flies in the face of adversity with his sight guide and fiancée, Molly. Despite his devastating condition, Jesse only takes on bigger challenges by attempting to be the first blind person to make a gripping “non-sight” lead of the iconic Old Man of Hoy sea stack in Scotland.
Directed by Alastair Lee
Preceded By:
DRAWN FROM HERE
USA, Short Documentary, 2019, 20 min
Eric Pollard, a professional skier, artist and designer, is incredibly lucky, but also incredibly determined after an injury that would sideline and retire most athletes.
Directed by Eric Pollard
QUEEN MAUD LAND
USA, Short Documentary, 2019, 30 min
A dream team of six elite climbers, including Jimmy Chin, Conrad Anker, Savannah Cummins, Anna Pfaff, Alex Honnold and Cedar Wright, mount an expedition to one of the world’s last great climbing frontiers: the remote frozen towers of Antarctica.
Directed by Cedar Wright
ADVENTURE SHORT FILMS 1
Sunday, March 8, 7:30pm
* First showing is on
Saturday, March 7, 10am*
Replay of Adventure Short Films
BIFF 2020 Adventure Film Pavilion Sponsors
Sponsor Opportunities
Be among the first to partner with BIFF 2020 on our
inaugural Adventure Film Pavilion
Contact Us
Chris Northrup
Sponsorship Director
(303)449-2289
chris@BIFF1.com
Beverly Silva
Sponsor/Development Manager
(303)449-2289
beverly@BIFF1.com