BIFF Adventure Shorts 1
BIFF Adventure Shorts 1
4 Adventure Shorts 85minutes: After You’ve Gone | US/Argentina2022; Keepers of the Land | Canada 2023; Janwar | US/India 2022; Earthside | US 2022
$18 General Admission | $16 Students & Seniors | $14 Museum Members
Adventure Shorts Descriptions
After You’ve Gone US/Argentina, Short Documentary, 12 minutes, 2022 An older, cigar-chewing fishing guide honors her late husband by taking a thrilling and healing expedition to the trout-fishing paradise of Patagonia.
Directed by Max Erickson
Keepers of the Land Canada, Short Documentary, 29 minutes, 2023
One small First Nation on British Columbia’s West Coast is taking big steps to claim rightful power over its forests, rivers and shores in a land still rich with fish, bears, old-growth trees and kelp forests by reviving their stories and the laws within them. But after immense loss, and with ever-dwindling resources, will the Kitasoo Xai’xais people be able to assert their laws in time to protect what they have left?
Directed and produced by Deirdre Leowinata, Douglas Neasloss
Colorado Premiere
Janwaar US/India, Short Documentary, 11 minutes, 2022, Subtitled
Janwaar celebrates a wild bunch of kids whose lives are transformed when a skatepark is built in their small village in India. Raw talent, creativity and childhood fun without limits manage to break down generations of caste and gender barriers.
Directed and produced by Danny Schmidt
Boulder Premiere
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Earthside US, Short Documentary, 33 minutes, 2023, Partially Subtitled
In 2022, famed extreme-skiing champion Hilaree Nelson had great fun leading 3 other strong women to climb and ski first descents on the primeval, 7,000-foot mountains of Baffin Island, Nunavut. Sadly, just a few months later, she lost her life skiing down Everest.
In loving memory of the first woman to climb Everest in 24 hours, Hilaree Nelson(1972-2022).
Directed by Rob Wassmer, Kaki Orr
Produced by The North Face, Aidan Haley, Christina Lustenburger
Rob Wassmer in person
Adventure Shorts Films 1 showing on Saturday, March 2, 7:30 PM at Longmont Museum
$18 General Admission | $16 Students & Seniors | $14 Museum Members
Buy Tickets Online, or call 303-651-8374.
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