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The WOMEN’S ADVENTURE FILM TOUR presented by Crumpler is back for its fourth season! 

This is Australia’s original women’s adventure film tour, created by Adventure Entertainment and presented as an official part of WOMEN’S HEALTH WEEK by Jean Hailes for Women’s Health. This short film festival is a celebration of the inspiring women around us who are doing extraordinary things in the name of adventure.

This year’s lineup features a diverse set of films featuring women of all ages and backgrounds including Australian Olympic hopeful Lucy Stirling, New Zealand Olympian Janina Kuzma, World Champion Paraglider Klaudia Bulgakow and many more including women in snow sports, mountaineering, highlining, swimming and mountain biking.

The official WOMEN’S ADVENTURE FILM TOUR lineup features 9 short films across 115 minutes. 

All attendees will enter into the draw and have a chance to win an awesome prize from our partners. Information on how to enter will be available on screen during the show.

The WOMEN’S ADVENTURE FILM TOUR is exempt from classification, but the films are suitable for the entire family and would obtain G/PG ratings.

Bring the family or a group of friends for a fantastic night of fun and inspiration! 

https://www.womensadventurefilmtour.com

2020/21 Playlist & Film Synopsis

LATITUDE

Directed by: Wesley Walker

LATITUDE is a poetic short documentary film that follows four daring young women to the 79th parallel, under 700 miles from the North Pole to rediscover themselves amidst Svalbard’s epic arctic ocean sailing, ice mountain climbs, and ski descents.

Shelby Dyer, Anna Marno, Brittney Ziebell & Jessica Baker are all former competitive skiers & they revisit what skiing means to them to find a new curiosity and love for a sport they’ve known all their lives.

IF I CAN

Directed by: Peter Cadman and Liam White

Anoushé Husain is a well accomplished Paraclimber. She balances a chaotic lifestyle, complicated by medical conditions, with a busy work, training and climbing schedule. She has pushed her climbing in London’s indoor gyms for the last three years, finishing 2nd in her category in the 2016 BMC Paraclimbing Nationals in 2016 and pushing her grade to 6a+ in 2017. In 2018 her Climbing partners may have just set the toughest challenge yet, as they venture into the world of outdoor climbing.

YOU NEVER KNOW

Directed by: Martin Smekal

“You Never Know” is a documentary about Polish paragliding star and 2013 world Champion Klaudia Bulgakow’s journey to the top in paragliding.

Klaudia Bulgakow has been paragliding since 1999. Through persistence, dedication and great passion she became one of the most successful female pilots – she won World Champion title 2013, European podium 2016, World Cup Superfinal Podium 2018 and much more. But it’s not only about the medals and podium places. The journey in pursuit of personal excellence is just as important, as are the friends you meet on the way and those you influence and motivate to pursue their own goals.

SEA BIRDS

Directed by: Ash Ball, Ed Coney

SEA BIRDS is an inspiring story that explores the lives of 25 ladies who swim in the ocean together everyday. No matter how much experience you’ve had in life it can be as unpredictable as the ocean. Pauline and Mina demonstrate that there’s always a hand of friendship that will find you and hold you when you least expect it. Side by side, or bum cheek to bum cheek, the SEA BIRDS have discovered that the cold water is unpleasant, that it’s hard to be pretentious when you’re in the nude and that in the middle of the ocean you just might find the freedom you’re searching for.

LUCY STIRLING: OLYMPIC DREAM

Directed by: Matt Raimondo

Lucy Stirling has climbed things since before she could walk. At age 12 she started in the climbing gym and quickly joined a junior squad.  Since then she has not stopped climbing!  Lucy has gone on to win national championships and compete in multiple World Championships and World Cup events.  Prior to COVID-19, Lucy was training hard to compete in the Tokyo Olympics.

This short film by Australian filmmaker Matt Raimondo follows Lucy as she sets her sights on the Olympic Dream.

JUST BE

Directed by: Susanna Kosa

“Just Be” is a short movie about the art of living wide rather than living long. “Life’s short, they say. But…maybe it’s just long enough, if you live it right.” Yes, it’s two girls mountain biking, but the message is transferable to everyone, no matter which activity you choose outdoors.

A WINTER AFFAIR: EAST WEST

Directed by: Jase Hancox

New Zealand’s Janina Kuzma, Anna Smoothy, and Japan’s Ayako Kuroda, cross New Zealand’s Southern Alps over the Main Divide from East to West starting at the Liebigs. The ladies are confronted with challenging terrain and weather conditions and a last-minute change to their plans prepares the team to exit out on a different route. Disaster strikes when a member of the team falls ill and is airlifted out, leaving the teams remaining two girls to complete the expedition. What is concerning to the ladies is the visible disappearance of snow and ice on the glaciers they cross. The team reflects on the decline of the glaciers in the region as the ice is changing dramatically from year to year.

TRANSENDING

Directed by: Marin Hart

Transending follows the journey of Erin Parisi as she comes into her own identity as a Transgender woman and trains for the Seven Summits to create awareness and visibility for the Trans community. This is a journey of extensive vulnerability, heartbreak and courage.

CONNECTION

Directed by: Jan Zurek

Connection – A highline project organized by passionate women all around the world.

Eight girls from France, Czech and Canada will rig a half-kilometer long line in the desert of Utah, US. They spend five days on the towers and not only connect them with a thin strap, which they then walk on. But they also find connections with the earth, sky and each other.