Learning to Drown

Learning to Drown

Considered one of the most influential athletes in the world and an icon to snowboarders of all generations, Jess Kimura was at the top of her game when tragedy struck. As her world came crashing down, Jess’ greif led her down a path she could never have imagined. Learning to Drown centers the battle with one’s demons in the face of immense loss and the resilience of the human spirit to continue past it.

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Country:
USA

Year:
2020

Run Time:
40 mins

Screens With:
Black Ice, Slim Pickins

Main Film Contact:
Ben Knight (knightphoto@gmail.com)

 

Director: Ben Knight

Meet the Directors:

Ben Knight studied photography at Chapel Hill High School in North Carolina but failed everything else so he dropped out and hoped nobody would ever ask to see a resume. So far, so good. Knight also has a man-husband filmmaking partner named Travis Rummel. Together the pair has won more than 70 film festival awards in the last 16 years and were once nominated for National Geographic’s Adventurers of the Year for their 2006 documentary DamNation – but they lost. Their recent film The Last Honey Hunter qualified for a 2019 Short Documentary Oscar.

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  • Considered one of the most influential athletes in the world and an icon to snowboarders of all generations, Jess Kimura was at the top of her game when tragedy struck. As her world came crashing down, Jess’ greif led her down a path she could never have imagined. Learning to Drown centers the battle with one’s demons in the face of immense loss and the resilience of the human spirit to continue past it.

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