Colorado – Adventure Film School

Intern Adventures: Inspiration at 5Point Film Festival

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Storytelling has the power to take us to a different place and imprint a picture in our minds that stays with us and moves us in ways we didn’t know were possible. There are certain films that have the ability to challenge and motivate us and help us to see things through a new lens.…
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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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Blind Date with the Desert

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“My first few days in Moab’s red rock desert were like a blind date where everything went wrong,” writes Hilary Oliver. “For one, it was August. My metal aviator sunglasses got so hot in the sun that I couldn’t smile or they’d burn my cheeks.”…
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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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Chasing Rivers with Adventure Photographer Pete McBride

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Colorado based Pete McBride, has been on some amazing adventures. As a self-taught, award-winning adventure photographer, filmmaker, writer, and speaker, he’s been to over 65 countries to cover stories for National Geographic Society, Smithsonian, Outside, Esquire, Sports Illustrated and many more.…
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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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Tiny: A Story About Living Small

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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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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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