In late May of 2014, Nasa introduced me via email to Dan Ritzman, Northwest and Alaska Regional Director for The Sierra Club. Included in this email was a proposition to do some filming and photography in The Arctic National Wildlife Refuge.…
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Mile…Mile & A Half
A merry band of creatives had a crazy idea to not only hike the entire length of the John Muir Trail, but to document it in a feature length film. From beautiful cinematography, creative art, and a wealth of quality sound, we fell in love with this well crafted story. …
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Dan Wiwczar Shares Healing Found In Mountains
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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Common Ground
We are so inspired by filmmaker Alexandria Bombach whose art & craft fades behind the camera to reveal beautiful stories about real people. Her latest film is our latest pick for Movie Monday.
Follow her journey @ alexandriared.tumblr.com and on instagram @alexandriajb
Several ranching and farming communities living against the stunning landscape of the Rocky Mountain Front in Montana are faced with the decision of what is to become of this unprotected public land.…
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Tiny: A Story About Living Small
When we saw Tiny making the rounds at the film festivals, we were psyched. Not only because it’s a great film, but because the project, in a lot of ways, grew wildy, passionately, and sometimes uncontrollably from an idea — like so many adventures do.…
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McKenzie Barney: Beyond the Comfort Zone
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
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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Finding a Balance Between Creativity & Running a Business – 5 Tips to Keep the Creative Juices Flowing
Recently, there have been a lot of posts about work life balance. From all that I have read, the most thorough and honest one is from a great friend, Philip Bloom who sheds light on how this balance has affected him.…
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When the Going Gets Tough, Filipe DeAndrade Keeps Shooting
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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Moments That Make a Story
Of all the things I learned from noted adventure filmmaker Michael Brown, the thing that has stuck with me the most is to make sure you watch all your footage. It might not sound like a revelation in storytelling, but as I set out to make four films over the course of the GoPro Mountain Games with the Adventure Film School last week it became an essential lesson.…
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