Mina Hochberg is a freelance writer based in Brooklyn.
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McConkey: Doing Justice to 'Saucer Boy'
After freeskier Shane McConkey died in a ski-BASE accident four years ago, a group of his friends created McConkey, a documentary of his adventures that is as thrilling as it is heartfelt. We spoke...
Tribeca Adventure Films
What do rock-climbing heart transplant patients, Somali pirate hunters, and arctic cowboys have in common? All could be found on the big screen at this year’s Tribeca Film Festival. Of this year’s...
'Outside' at Sundance: Going Pro-Nuclear
Robert Stone, the Academy Award-nominated director behind Radio Bikini, has done a complete 180, embracing nuclear power in Pandora's Promise, his latest documentary. What caused him to come around?
'Outside' at Sundance: Building a Better Solar Panel
In his latest documentary, Albert Maysles profiles 13-year-old Aidan Dwyer, who won the Young Naturalist Award from the American Museum of Natural History for applying the Fibonacci number sequence...
'Outside' at Sundance: Tim Hetherington and the Theater of War
Sebastian Junger pays tribute to the late war photographer in Which Way Is the Front Line From Here?, a new documentary that will air on HBO in mid-April.
'Outside' at Sundance: The Deadliest Day on a Dangerous Mountain
We spoke to director Nick Ryan about his new film The Summit, which revisits a 2008 tragedy on K2, a mountain for mountaineers.
'Outside' at Sundance: Kevin Pearce on the Risks of Snowboarding
Three years after his professional snowboarding career ended with a traumatic brain injury on the half-pipe, Pearce is in Park City, Utah, promoting The Crash Reel, a documentary from Lucy Walker...
'Outside' at Sundance: Reindeer Herding in the Lapland Wilderness
A conversation with director Eva Weber, who traveled all the way to Karigasniemi, Finland, for three days to film this three-minute short.
'Outside' at the Toronto Film Festival
The most promising films screened at this year's Toronto Film Festival featured adventure seekers and adventure survivors. We reviewed six of them.
'Outside' at the Toronto Film Festival: Four Hours in Freezing Water
In The Deep, a chubby man survives a shipwreck off the coast of Iceland, only to wash ashore to a field of jagged, volcanic rock.
'Outside' at the Toronto Film Festival: Kon-Tiki 2.0
In Kon-Tiki, directors Joachim Ronning and Espen Sandberg present a fictional look at Thor Heyerdahl's attempt to sail from Peru to Polynesia.
'Outside' at the Toronto Film Festival: The Williams Sisters
In Venus & Serena, filmmakers Maiken Baird and Michelle Major provide a glimpse into the lives of tennis' most dominant siblings.
'Outside' at the Toronto Film Festival: The Not-So-Secret Life of Bees
The role that these tiny insects play in our global ecosystem has never been made more clear than by Swiss director Markus Imhoof in More Than Honey, an extreme close-up documentary.
'Outside' at the Toronto Film Festival: Olympic Disgrace
In 9.79*, documentary filmmaker Daniel Gordon examines the 1988 Summer Olympics race that would set the stage for doping scandals to come.
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