Adventure Film Festival

05/01/2019

Behold the most cutting-edge VR Mini-Dog-Umentary ever filmed. A skilled team of scientists and filmmakers followed Gus (), Bernie ( ), and their human pet deep into the frozen tundra of Boulder, Colorado to better understand how these Extreme Mini-Dogs can be so extremely extreme.
Witness in full VR180 how these incredible beasts ultra run, free solo rock climb, and fly a paraglider like dogs that are birds, proving to the world that anything is possible with the love of an always loyal pet.
“​Extreme Mini-Dogs: A VR Nature Dog-Umentary​” was created by Cedar Wright with support from our first-ever VR Adventure Filmmakers Grant, a collaboration with ​ and with support from Daydream.
In​spired?
Submit your VR film to our ​VR Filmmakers Challenge on Campfire​ for weekly gear awards and a chance to ​be featured on Outside TV!

04/30/2019

In this immersive short film, freediver Rose explores various jungle caves and sinkholes (cenotes), in Mexico’s Yucatán.
Mental focus and breathing techniques allow free divers to swim to extraordinary depths without equipment. Where many people experience anxiety, claustrophobia and fear, Rose finds calmness, silence and otherworldly beauty.
Join her on a 100-foot freedive to the bottom of an eerie and alluring underwater cave.
“Jungle Freedive” was created by with support from our first-ever VR Adventure Filmmakers Grant, a collaboration with ​ and with support from Daydream.
In​spired?
Submit your VR film to our ​VR Filmmakers Challenge on Campfire​ for weekly gear awards and a chance to ​be featured on !
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04/29/2019

“Sometimes I feel like there is magma thudding through my veins, burning at 10,000 degrees, my heart ready to explode. So I recruited a friend and went to Guatemala to talk to the volcanoes about the situation; I figured they'd have some insight. We ran from one to the next, climbing as close as we could to their raging mouths, examining old wounds, swimming in calderas, feeling them quiver beneath our feet.
We swung on vines through the cloud forests, studied the flowers that bloom from the fertile ash, drank the coffee that's been seeded into their lush sides, slept to the glow of nature's lava lamp. Fell in love with the brilliant culture, the vivacious locals, the delicious and ubiquitous street food. And ran and ran, seeking the wisdom of the land.
Earth To Ashes: 125 miles, 7 volcanoes, & 27,000 feet of elevation. Put on a headset, and I'll show you what we found.”

“Earth To Ashes: Running the Ring of Fire through Guatemala” is a short film created by with support from our first-ever VR Adventure Filmmakers Grant, a collaboration with an​d with support from Daydream.
Inspired?
Submit your VR film to our ​VR Filmmakers Challenge on Campfire​ for weekly gear awards and a chance to ​be featured on !
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04/28/2019

Yawarani is a film created in collaboration with the indigenous community in Yawarani to preserve their sacred culture and the wisdom of their elders.
The community in Yawarani have set out to immortalize their culture in film and virtual reality to create documentaries to educate their youth, as well as broadcast their beautiful, sustainable lifestyle to the outside world.
Throughout the creation of this piece, we hosted workshops in Yawarani to teach indigenous creators all stages of the VR and film production process, including the screenwriting, camera operation, scene design, post production and editing. The end result is a virtual reality film made by indigenous creators to preserve and share their culture.”
“Yawarani,” was by with support from our first-ever VR Adventure Filmmakers Grant, a collaboration with a​nd with support from Daydream.
Inspired? Submit your VR film to our ​VR Filmmakers Challenge on Campfire​ for weekly gear awards and a chance to ​be featured on !
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04/25/2019

“For figure skater Laura Kottlowski, exploring and skating on wild ice is like returning to gold—a state of innocence, curiosity and humility as well as the roots of figure skating. Through her lens and a poetic narrative you’ll experience the multi-sensory joy and curiosities of untamed ice first-hand.” ​(link in bio)

“To Return,” a #​VR180 short film about wild ice skating was created by during our first-ever VR Adventure Filmmakers Grant, a collaboration with and with support from Daydream. Inspire​d?

Submit your VR film to our ​VR Filmmakers Challenge on Campfire​ for weekly gear awards and a chance to ​be featured at on !



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04/16/2019

For figure skater Laura Kottlowski, exploring and skating on wild ice is like returning to gold - a state of innocence, curiosity and humility as well as the roots of figure skating. Through her lens and a poetic narrative you’ll experience the multi-sensory joy and curiosities of untamed ice first-hand.” http://bit.ly/2returnVR

“To Return,” a short film about wild ice skating was created by Laura Kottlowski during our first-ever VR Adventure Filmmakers Grant, a collaboration with Outside TV and with support from Daydream. Inspired? Submit your VR film to our VR Filmmakers Challenge on Campfire for weekly gear awards and a chance to be featured at the 2019 Adventure Film Festival.

04/15/2019

See the Amazon through the eyes of the indigenous community in Yawarani. Freedive the Yucatán’s cenotes. Run up Guatemala's active volcanoes. Skate the Rockies’ high alpine ice. Experience paragliding as Gus, the flying pug.

For our first-ever VR Adventure Filmmakers grant, we collaborated with Outside TV and with support from Daydream to award five filmmakers with the funding, training, gear and mentorship to turn their adventure dreams into virtual reality. Our grantees— Cedar Wright, Laura Kottlowski, , Alisa May Geiser, John Mans —learned how to tell immersive stories from the ground-up, then took those skills into the field to each create an original, experimental film. Under the close guidance of YouTube experts and experienced VR filmmakers – Abbey Smith, Pete Takeda, Jeffrey Rueppel, Jim Aikman, Graham Zimmerman – they pushed into the possibilities of this emerging medium to produce a collection of groundbreaking films. We’re proud to share them with you. Click here to immerse yourself in their adventures. http://bit.ly/VRAFF2019

04/12/2019

Calling all VR Filmmakers!

We’re partnering with Outside TV and with support from Daydream for a VR Filmmakers Challenge! Submit your best VR180 or 360 film for a chance to be featured on Campfire. We’ll be giving away gear weekly, and one grand prize winner will take home a Lenovo Mirage Headset and VR180 camera. All you have to do is create a channel and upload your film on Campfire.

This week’s winner is GunkClimber, with a 360 climbing experience in the Gunks! Head to Outside TV now to watch their VR playlist and get inspired!


outside.tv/vrfilmmakerschallenge
Adventurefilm.org/vr180/

03/23/2019

Our friends at Elevation Outdoors Magazine are holding a "Go Outside and Play" Film Contest! Submit your short films and adventure videos to determine the best stories that have not yet been told. The last day to enter is March 31 so get on it and good luck!
http://video.elevationoutdoors.com/

What’s the best mountain bike film in the Rockies? Who has created the best ski flick? Who can inspire the next hike of the Rockies? Who caught the best rafting sequence? What race have you captured? And who has caught the best "go out and play outside adventure film of them all? The answers, dear...

03/19/2019

This. Yes! Protect Our Winters, La Sportiva N.A. and The American Alpine Club teaming up, protecting our planet. We love collaboration and especially this one. Please visit https://protectourwinters.org/pow-climb/ to learn more, show your support, and get involved.


Post share from AAC:
“It’s time to give the climbing community a platform to speak up about climate change." -Tommy Caldwell

Today, we’re proud to announce that the AAC is partnering with Protect Our Winters for the launch of , a unique division of the POW Alliance focused on engaging the climbing community in climate action.

Together, we’re putting the climbing community on the sharp end of climate action. Join us: http://bit.ly/2ESLN2i

03/14/2019

One more week before spring officially starts. Share a pic and story of your favorite winter adventure and we'll repost one!
Photo by Jonny Copp.