AFS Alumni – Adventure Film School

Nayla Tawa: The Road Back

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While most of her peer’s flocked south in search of warm lazy beach days and dripping umbrella drinks, UCLA student Nayla Tawa’s spring break found her duct taped to her snowboard for 2 days with a broken back in three places, broken sternum and a severe knee injury in the remote backcountry region of Kyrgyzstan.…
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Intern Adventures: 3 Lessons From My First Days on the Job

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The GoPro Mountain Games was my first real test as the new intern. The morning of June 1st, with 6 bags strapped to the top of the car, 5 people strategically placed in seats, 4 pounds of car snacks and 1,258 miles ahead of us, the Ford Explorer rolled reluctantly out of the driveway bound for Vail.…
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Intern Adventures: Finding True North

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January 10th 2015. It had been two years since I had graduated with a BA in Anthropology and Museum Studies and I had spent those last couple of years setting free the pent up travel bugs that had accumulated throughout my college career.…
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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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Intern Adventures: What’d I get myself into?

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Just 30 days ago I was packing my bags and getting on a plane to Seattle for a 6 month internship with the Adventure Film School. I really had no idea what to expect, but I knew that I wanted to learn how to be an adventure filmmaker and I figured that this was the best place to do that.…
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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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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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Moments That Make a Story

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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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