It was a “filmmaker’s dream come true.”
Independent filmmaker, assistant director, and adult figure skater, Wendy Ord, wanted to produce a documentary on adult skaters – ages 46 to 77 – who travel from Kelowna, BC to the ISU Adult Figure Skating Competition in Oberstdorf, Germany.
Including 59-year-old Ord.
Ord, and her partner Glenn, started to shoot the documentary in 2016 – when Germany wasn’t on the radar. Four adult skaters were followed by Ord and her partner, chronicling their lives on and off-ice.
“We were doing it on our own dime,” said Ord, in a phone interview. “Just following these four women. Me, being one of them. Then we had to drop it because we had a paying gig.”
In the fall of 2017, the Kelowna skaters decided to travel to Oberstdorf, Germany for the ISU Adult Figure Skating Competition.
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