EXCLUSIVE: Netflix has landed the Sundance Movie Pageant buzz title documentary Skywalkers: A Love Story. The movie premiered January 18 at The Ray Theatre.
The movie focuses on the boundary-pushing couple Angela Nikolau and Ivan Beerkus from Moscow, and a determined climb to save lots of their relationship. Directed by Jeff Zimbalist and co-directed by Maria Bukhonina, the movie is harking back to pics just like the Robert Zemeckis-The Stroll and the Jimmy Chin/Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi-directed Free Solo, in you could really feel the dizzying heights and the dangers simply watching.
It took the filmmakers seven years to chronicle all of it, because the climbers scaled a number of the a number of the world’s highest skyscrapers and sharing intimate pictures with their thousands and thousands of followers on social media. The couple’s relationship was at risk of a freefall when their objectives started to vary, as they continued to flee legislation enforcement to dangle off the skyscrapers, captured with drone and GoPro cameras.
A pair variables put additional stress on their relationship: between the Covid pandemic and the Ukraine Battle prompted Russia to close down social media, the Russian couple’s sponsors dropped out. They determined to tackle a serious dangerous stunt: understanding that safety cameras have been going to be put in place, they risked all by scaling the Merdeka 118 in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, and performing a daring acrobatic stunt on the very prime of the spire, making it their final death-defying climb.
Zimbalist and Bukhonina produced with Tamir Ardon and Chris Smith, and Nick Spicer is exec producer.
XYX Movies brokered the deal.
