Boulder International Film Festival: Women's Adventure Short Films & Talks

Dream Job

Canada, Short Documentary, 2019, 15 min

Comedian Katie Burrell follows “days in the life” with three of the skiing industry’s biggest female names. “They go up, they go down, how hard can it be?…”

Directed by Katie Burrell

Boulder Premiere

Women in Fire

USA, Short Documentary, 2018, 8 min

Less than 10% of firefighters are women. But what these women lack in numbers, they make up for in guts and inspiration.

Directed by Tim Kressin

Boulder Premiere

Speak To Me Softly

USA, Short Documentary, 2019, 6 min

Take an honest and intimate peek into the battle with fear, expectations, and self – the headspace of a climber having a not-so-sendy day.

Directed by Henna Taylor

Colorado Premiere

Henna Taylor (in person)

Chasing the Sublime

UK, Short Documentary, 2018, 7 min

Why do we put ourselves into the path of discomfort, fear and risk? Follow Kate Rew and Kari Furre in this hauntingly beautiful glimpse at the physicality of UK cold water swimming.

Directed by Amanda Bluglass

Reel Rock: The High Road

USA, Short Documentary, 2019, 18 min

Nina Williams flexes her muscles and tests her nerves well into the no-fall zone. She is among the only women who climb elite-level problems that are 30-, 40-, even 50-feet tall — with no rope.

Directed by Peter Mortimer, Josh Lowell

Peter Mortimer and Josh Lowell (in person)