Our Adventure Film School instructors are the best in the industry, specializing in extreme adventure filmmaking and wielding cameras in the world's most intense environments. They share a common interest in telling stories with meaning, and are masters at weaving tales to stir the soul and challenge the body. The crew is led by Michael Brown, who has made films on all seven continents and is hailed by many as America's finest high-altitude filmmaker.

Among the group's accomplishments: over 50 expeditions to all seven continents, winning more than 50 international film festival and industry awards. The team has shot for National Geographic, Discovery Channel, NBC, CBS, ABC, ESPN, OLN, the BBC, Rush HD and many more. They have also produced, directed, shot and edited many of their own films.

Michael Brown

Over the last two decades, Michael Brown has climbed to the top of two of the world's most demanding professions. As a world-class mountaineer, he has summited Mount Everest five times. As a three-time Emmy award-winning filmmaker, he has made over fifty expeditions to all seven continents, all with cameras rolling. Michael has made a habit of going to the world's harshest, most dangerous environments - the South Pole, the North Face of the Eiger, and 1,500 feet underground in Choreadoro cave - and always comes back with incredible footage and compelling stories. Outside Magazine describes the cerebral filmmaker as a "swashbuckling librarian", and Men's Journal calls him "a master of gut-dropping action." As Founder of the Outside Adventure Film School, Michael practices another of his favorite pursuits: teaching.
Full Bio & Credentials

Michael also teaches adventure filmmaking for other organizations and events, including a workshop for the prestigious
Banff Mountain Film Festival.


Arlynn Ilgenfritz

After growing up playing in the Georgia National Forest, her back yard in Marietta, Arlynn moved to Nashville, Tennessee. She studied photography, painting, and French at Vanderbilt University. Once she graduated, Arlynn gave in to her wanderlust ways. She spent the next few years working as the art director of The American School in Switzerland, a ski instructor in Breckenridge, Colorado, a deckhand on a square rig tall ship in the Mediterranean and across the Atlantic, and an adventure guide in Ecuador, Costa Rica and Peru. After finally landing in Boulder, Colorado, Arlynn found her home where she now works with the Outside Adventure Film School.


Kim McKee

Kim is a producer and business manager for Serac Adventure Films and Outside Adventure Film School. She has a diverse background including jobs as Executive Chef, Household Manager, Wildland Firefighter, Marine Mammal Trainer, Women's Professional Football Player, and others. All these positions have lent valuable skills and creativity that Kim brings to her rolls at Serac.


Tyler Jones

Tyler assists with the creative side of web design, writing and cinematography for both Serac Adventure Films and the Outside Adventure Film School. In another life, he is a research assistant and PhD student at the Institute of Arctic and Alpine Research studying paleoclimate from high-latitude ice cores.