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DAREDEVIL IN TRAINING (TBD)

Run Time: TBD
Director & Producer & Still Photographer: Heidi Zumbrun
Director of Photography & Co-Producer: Sean Madden
Editor: Frank Gregory
Line Producer: Rebecca Stern
Key Cast: Jay Lightnin’, Hobo Bill, Ariell Flight, JR Sparks, Miss Corinna

FILM MAKERS

In 2021 Los Angeles photographer & director Heidi Zumbrun packed up her van and drove from California to Tennessee with an invitation from one of the daredevils in training, Corinna Mantlo, to live with and document the American Motor Drome Co. Wall of Death. Heidi traveled with them for 32 days 800 miles and 3 states soon to be joined the following year by the talented cinematographer Sean Madden.  Heidi & Sean then joined up and spent the last few years documenting these trick riders & daredevils in training. This is the first teaser of the film coming out in early 2025.

SUMMARY

“Don’t ask what the world needs. Ask what makes you come alive and go do it. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive.”  Howard Thurman
One of the first films going behind the scenes documenting what it takes to train & become a daredevil with one of the few remaining Walls of Death in the United States. First built in the early 1900’s it’s been common for a line of apprentices to be laborers for years before actually getting a chance to become a motorcycle trick-rider on the Wall of Death – the folklore told is that there would need to be a death, injury or retirement to allow a space to open up for a new daredevil to train. Due to modern times, though, the carnival life as a career has faded somewhat and fewer trainees are coming along – the line is shorter which opens up the opportunity to train sooner, but you still have to leave your life at home, join the “circus” & travel on the road for 6-9 months a year, continuously build and break down a 30,000 pound Wall and have the courage to learn how to ride a motorcycle or go-cart up a perpendicular wooden slatted Wall of Death under 3G’s of force.
Here’s the story of the  American Motordrome Co Wall of Death and three new daredevils in training that decided to take on this challenge.

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