Hilary Oliver

Juliana Broste: Building Momentum One Travel Video At A Time

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You’d never guess it by watching her now, but there was once a time when Juliana Broste dreamed of wearing a business suit and having a “normal” steady job. “My friends used to get mad at me for not being spontaneous,” she says.…
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Rex Pemberton: How To Make a Living as an Extreme Athlete

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How exactly do extreme adventure athletes make a living? Through sponsors. And how do they get those sponsors? By providing something in return—usually some form of compelling content, like thrilling adventure films, or interesting articles about their trips. “I make a living from extreme sports, so filming is everything these days,” says Rex Pemberton.…
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Dan Wiwczar Shares Healing Found In Mountains

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In the past five years, Daniel Wiwczar has been making choices to follow his dreams—not necessarily doing what everyone else is doing—and his film work shows it. Following eight years of service as an Infantryman in the U.S. Army, he founded Alpine Outdoor Adventures, a small guiding company, in 2012.…
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McKenzie Barney: Beyond the Comfort Zone

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Sometimes an opportunity comes up that might seem difficult or uncomfortable at the time, but just beyond that discomfort or hard work lies a dream come true—at least that’s what McKenzie Barney has found. It took relentless prodding by her good friend and fellow filmmaker Filipe DeAndrade to get her to apply for the Colorado Backcountry Adventure Film School, but it was that step outside her comfort zone that started her down the road to filming her lifelong personal hero: Mia Hamm.…
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This Climbing Prosthetic Might Change The Game: Q&A with designer Kai Lin

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If you re-designed the human foot to be better for rock climbing, wouldn’t you look at mountain goats for inspiration? Kai Lin studied the goats’ hooves and anatomy, and combined their best attributes with the ways humans move to design a rock-climbing-specific prosthetic leg that could change the way amputees approach the sport.…
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When the Going Gets Tough, Filipe DeAndrade Keeps Shooting

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If you love something enough, you’ll suffer for it—that’s what Filipe DeAndrade took away from AFS. But of course, when it’s filmmaking you love, it makes suffering through brutal conditions or lack of sleep simply part of the love affair. “If you don’t love it, you’re not going to be able to do it,” he says.…
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Catching The Storytelling Bug With Alex Williams

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All the expensive equipment in the world can’t make a compelling film without a good story. “You can have the best lighting and sound equipment, but if you don’t have true stories, you just have pretty imagery, and it’s kind of dead in the water,” says Alex Williams, owner of Videotrekker Films.…
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Allison Otto Masters The Art Of Capturing Character

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Anyone who saw the film “Keeper of the Mountains” at a film festival last year knows one thing: A great character can make a great film. Allison Otto, the film’s director—and AFS alumni—featured Elizabeth Hawley, a 90-year-old Himalayan mountaineering archivist in Nepal.…
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