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She Explores

Ripple Effect: Documentary Filmmaker Biz Young

She Explores

Gale Straub

Road Trips, Sports, Health & Fitness, Fitness, Society & Culture, Creativity, Wilderness, Hiking, Places & Travel, Outdoor Women, Camping, Outdoors

4.6914 Ratings

🗓️ 9 December 2020

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Summary

Filmmaker and climber Biz Young shares her evolution from creating stop-motion music videos in her dorm room to making short documentary films inspired by nature and driven by purpose.

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0:00.0

I'm Gail Strav and you're listening to She Explorers.

0:05.0

I kind of started wanting to shift my documentary more towards the outdoor realm and that all happened so slowly you know I just I just

0:17.4

started building it really like film by film but for years you know I never I didn't really like dive into it immediately I kind of looked back and then realized like oh I'm the films that I really love to make are the ones that involve being outdoors.

0:32.7

And those were the ones that were the best

0:34.3

because I think I was most interested in the imagery

0:39.0

of being in nature.

0:44.0

This is Biz Young.

0:47.0

If you've been listening for a while now, you probably know that I love how when we talk about

0:51.6

progress,

0:52.8

whether it's creative, athletic, or interpersonal,

0:55.8

we don't always see its ripple effects

0:57.5

as it's happening.

0:58.6

But when we look back and reflect,

1:00.4

its accumulation is somehow both a surprise and the only possible outcome.

1:05.0

And as we wrap up an exceptionally challenging year,

1:08.0

I'm excited to share some pieces of business progression

1:11.0

as a documentary filmmaker.

1:15.0

Growing up, she went by busy.

1:16.8

Yeah, you can call me Biz.

1:17.9

That's good.

1:19.5

What is it short for?

1:20.9

Is it short for something?

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