| The film Sunshine Superman is first and foremost a story of how one man, Carl Boenish, pioneered, popularized, and died creating BASE jumping, a sport that most people would think of as a death wish.
Carl Boenish embarks on a journey to realize his dream: foot-launched human flight. The journey is filled with incredible achievements and daunting setbacks with the distinct possibility of death at every turn. Suspense exists in almost every jump being illegal, and possibly lethal. Sunshine Superman is also a larger-than-life love story. In 1980, Carl Boenish met and married Jean Katherine Campbell, a nineteen-year-old college student and Christian Scientist who soon was to become the first female BASE jumper. Carl and Jean Boenish are known as the Father and Mother of BASE jumping. They became media personalities and the centre of what was at the time a very small community of BASE jumpers. Sunshine Superman will tell the story of the rise to popularity of the sport. The film will chronicle some of the first jumps, arrests, and triumphs of BASE’s early participants. The milieu of 1980’s Los Angeles and Texas will frame the community that was created by the activity of doing an illegal, death defying sport. A Kreo Films FZ-LLC project. Behind the scenes
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