Ready to Fly (2012)

Directed by

William Kerig

Genre

documentary film

Country

United States

Runtime

1h 36m

Rating

7.0 of 10 from 1 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

This documentary follows American women ski jumpers as they fight for the chance to compete in the Olympic Winter Games. It focuses on Lindsey Van and her teammates as they work to overcome obstacles and gain inclusion in the sport.

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What happens

Ready to fly is an American documentary by William A. Kerig following the true story of the fight of American women's ski jumping athletes Lindsey Van, the rest of her U.S. Women's Ski jumping Team members, Jessica Jerome, Alissa Johnson, Abby Hughes, Sarah Hendrickson and many other elite ski jumping athletes around the world to be part of the Olympic Winter Games. It was first screened during the 2013 Banff Mountain Film Festival. Narration of the documentary is made by Diana Nyad, an American author, journalist, motivational speaker, and long-distance swimmer. Nyad first got national attention in 1975 when she swam around Manhattan island and in 1979 from the Bahamas to Florida. In 2013, at age 64, after many long-distance swimming exploits, she became the first person confirmed to swim from Cuba to Florida (180 km). She swam to raise funds for victims of Hurricane Sandy. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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