Sender Films
American film production company based in Boulder, Colorado
Sender Films is an American film production company based in Boulder, Colorado. Productions include outdoor adventure films, television shows, and commercials.
Company
Sender Films integrates action with story-telling to create climbing/mountaineering and adventure sports documentary films. Sender Films goes inside the sport of hard-core climbing, focusing on climbers driven to obscure accomplishments. According to Outside Magazine, Sender Films has "focused on character-driven narratives." Over the past three years, Sender Films has produced the six-part series First Ascent with National Geographic International. They have also been producing adventure film segments for US TV networks such as NBC, The Weather Channel, and Outside TV.
Recent work
On March 9, 2018, The Dawn Wall premieres at South by Southwest in Austin, TX.
Teamed up with the Google Street View team throughout 2015 and 2016 to create the first vertical Street View up the side of El Capitan in Yosemite National Park, as well as Street View of the tallest mountain in Western Europe, Mont Blanc. The Google Treks: El Capitan was nominated for two Webby Awards in 2016.
In 2016, The feature documentary Valley Uprising won a News and Documentary Emmy: Outstanding Graphic Design and Art Direction.
On April 25, 2015, the feature documentary Valley Uprising had its television premiere headlining Discovery Channel's Elevation Weekend.
During Ueli Steck and Simone Moro's attempted ascent of Mount Everest in April 2013, a conflict between climbers and sherpas derailed the expedition and put the climbers in the national spotlight.
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