Women's Adventure Film Tour, Vol. 2

Women's Adventure Film Tour, Volume 2

Sunday, May 24, 2020 - 12:00am
Monday, May 25, 2020 - 12:00am
Tuesday, May 26, 2020 - 12:00am
Wednesday, May 27, 2020 - 12:00am
Thursday, May 28, 2020 - 12:00am
Friday, May 29, 2020 - 12:00am
Saturday, May 30, 2020 - 12:00am
Sunday, May 31, 2020 - 12:00am
Monday, June 1, 2020 - 12:00am
  • Virtual Event -- Access Info Below
A belated International Women's Day celebration of inspiring women from all walks of life who are doing extraordinary things in the name of adventure

Pre-COVID, the Women's Adventure Film Tour was planning a live show in Library Hall for late March. Thankfully, we have a chance to make up for our lost festival with remote online screenings in May. The traveling film festival features an all-star cast of international athletes including, two-time Appalachian Trail FKT record holder, Jennifer Pharr-Davis (who has twice visited us at the Steamboat library in person!), Red Bull cliff diver Rhiannan Iffland, climber Angie Scarth-Johnson, The North Face Athlete Team Captain Hilaree Nelson, and many more women in snow sports, mountaineering and mountain biking.

Watch the Festival at Home

  • Your Women's Adventure Film Tour virtual pass costs $10 (same as the per-person ticket would have cost at the door).
  • Buy your ticket and access the festival from May 24-June 1 at link above.
  • You'll have 48 hours to view the films after you purchase access.

The Lineup

A GRAND JOURNEY
Born and raised in Jackson, Wyomin, Kira Brazinski has found a great love for the outdoors. Her lifestyle involves hiking, skiing, biking and pursuing her career as a yoga instructor. Kira was born with a rare birth defect resulting in missing most of her left leg. Since being able to walk, she has used a prosthetic leg. While some might see this as a major setback, Kira's fiery passion and athleticism drives her to achieve her goals and amaze those around her with her achievements. Climbing the iconic Grand Teton has been a childhood dream of Kira's. In A Grand Journey  we get an intimate look into Kira’s unique but incredibly relatable journey as she attempts to take on a goal she herself may not believe is possible.

RAINBOW DIVE
How do you continue to push yourself when you’ve already conquered the world? Having won all there is to win in the world of cliff diving, including three Red Bull World Cliff Diving World Series, Rhiannan Iffland is now at a crossroads: was it worth all the sacrifices she made along the way? Was it worth being away from her family, friends, and missing out on big chunks of her youth?

THE DUCK QUEEN OF PLAQUEMINES PARISH
A slight departure from your “normal” adventure story, meet Albertine Kimble. Rugged and quirky, Albertine is the best duck hunter in the parish. As the former coastal plan manager for the parish she knows Plaquemines wetlands better than almost anyone. Through her eyes, this short film explains how human engineering prevented the Mississippi River from flowing its natural course, and how it deprives the wetlands of vital nutrients and sediment. As Albertine take us to her favorite hunting spots, she shares with us how the dying marsh is disrupting the Mississippi Flyway, something she has witnessed through the intimate familiarity she has with over 40 years of avid hunting.

THE LINE BETWEEN GOOD AND EVIL
Captain of The North Face Athlete Team, with a career spanning two decades that includes dozens of first descents through more than 40 expeditions to 16 different countries, Hilaree Nelson is the most prolific ski mountaineer of her generation. The 45-year-old mother of two was the first female to link two 8000m peaks, Everest and Lhotse, in one 24-hour push. In the fall of 2018, she returned to 27,940-foot Lhotse a second time to ski from the summit, linking turns down one of the most prized un-skied lines in the world. In this piece, Nelson takes us to the pinnacle of Papsura, the 21,165 foot “Peak of Evil”, which she has obsessed over for nearly 20 years. Take a “real” look at how a fast-moving team handles the extreme elements, and attempts to summit, and ski down this daunting face.

NARETOI
Naretoi - which means "women helping women" in Maasai - follows a group of Maasai and American women on a unique self supported expedition to the summit of Mt. Kenya, 16,355 ft. The Maasai tribe still live as pastoralists in a deeply traditional, patriarchal, and polygamous culture. Most Maasai women have never left their “boma” or village and few make any decisions without male permission - their focus is on survival. Doing anything solely for themselves is an intangible luxury not afforded to women in Maasai culture, especially something like climbing a mountain without any involvement or assistance by men. This expedition is unique in how the women overcome cultural and language barriers to collectively conquer a large mountain. The mountain symbolizes the challenges that we all face as women fighting an uphill battle to gain equality in our lives. This experience is an opportunity to empower each other and focus on self introspection and discovery.

POSITIVE FORWARD MOTION
There was never a doubt. Those are the words we use when describing the film we chose as the finale to Vol. 2 of our tour. Jennifer Pharr-Davis is a long distance hiker, professional speaker, wife, mother of two, business owner, writer and now film subject. As the two-time holder of the Fastest Known Time on the Appalachian Trail, and with over 14,000 miles of long distance through hiking to her name, JPD explains what adventure means to her today.

Women's Adventure Film Tour, Vol. 2 trailer

Run Time: 

100 minutes

About the festival

The WOMEN’S ADVENTURE FILM TOUR presented by Hydro Flask and Helinox, with additional support from KINeSYS and Explorer Chick, is back in North America for its second season! This is the original Women’s Adventure Film Tour, created by Adventure Entertainment in partnership with national nonprofits, and local, female-led groups, such as Naretoi and Outdoor Women’s Alliance.