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Adventure Divas, a PBS documentary series, captures the humor, debacle and discovery inherent in low rent travel and explores culture with divavision - that is through the lens of independent, visionary women around the globe.

 

After years of working behind a desk, Holly Morris had finally had enough. So she quit her job and set out to prove that adventure is not just a vacation style but a philosophy of living and to find like-minded, risk-taking women around the globe.

 

Morris brings to life the remarkable people and places she’s encountered on the road while filming her PBS series Adventure Divas and Globe Trekker. We meet Assata Shakur, a former Black Panther and social activist and now a fugitive living in exile in Cuba; Kiran Bedi, New Delhi’s chief of police, who revolutionized India’s infamously brutal Tijar Jail with her humanitarian ethic; New Zealand pop star Hinewehi Mohi, a Maori who reinvigorates her native culture for a new generation; and Mokarrameh Ghanbari, a septuagenarian painter and rice farmer who lives in the tiny village of Darikandeh on the Caspian plains of Iran, where her creative talents run counter to the government’s strict stance on art.

 

Along the way, Morris herself becomes a certified Adventure Diva, as she hunts for wild boar with Penan tribesmen in the jungles of Borneo, climbs the Matterhorn short-roped to a salty fourth-generation Swiss guide, and memorably becomes the first woman ever to enter the traditional camel race of the Saharan oasis town of Timia.

 

Intelligent, phenomenally funny, and chock-full of rich and telling details of place, Adventure Divas is a pro-woman chronicle for the twenty-first century. In a pilgrimage fueled by curiosity, ideology, and full-on estrogen power, Holly Morris has paved the way for all of us to discover our own diva within and set out on our own adventures

Adventure Divas DVD

$20.00Price
  • PBS documentary series written and directed by Holly Morris

    Running Time: 208 minutes

    4 Episodes: 

    • Iran: Behind Closed Cha-dors

    • Cuba: Paradox Found

    • India: Holy Cow

    • New Zealand: Stroppy Sheilas & Mana Wahines

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