BEST DAY EVER
2025, USA
Cineaste: Ben Knight, Berne Broudy
Best Day Ever sigue las historias de los ciclistas de montaña adaptados Greg Durso y Allie Bianchi mientras afrontan los incesantes desafíos de sus discapacidades y aprovechan el gran apoyo, la amistad y la alegría que encuentran en su comunidad ciclista rural de Vermont. Allie y Greg superan la discapacidad y recuperan su independencia con humor, actitud y determinación en senderos de montaña que combaten la discriminación por discapacidad, construyen comunidad y se convierten en un modelo para los senderos de cualquier lugar.
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Best Day Ever follows the stories of adaptive mountain bikers Greg Durso and Allie Bianchi as they navigate the relentless challenges of their disabilities and embrace the tremendous support, friendship and joy they find in their rural Vermont riding community. Allie and Greg navigate disability and regain independence with humor, attitude, and grit on mountain bike trails that dismantle ableism, build community, and become a blueprint for trails anywhere.
Film makers: Ben Knight, Berne Broudy
Ben Knight grew up in rural North Carolina and left home at 17. Knight pointed his camera and a reasonably reliable Oldsmobile due west in 1996 and spent 28 years in Colorado. Nineteen of them in Telluride where an annual film festival called Mountainfilm inspired him to leave photojournalism for filmmaking. Now 47, Knight has won more than 70 film festival awards for shorts and features and was nominated for National Geographic’s Adventurer of the Year for his 2014 documentary DamNation. His 2019 film The Last Honey Hunter was qualified for a Short Documentary Oscar and his most recent film Learning to Drown premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival in NYC.
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Berne Broudy is a seasoned journalist turned filmmaker whose work centers on breaking boundaries—physical, cultural, and societal. A lifelong adventurer and storyteller, Broudy brings her deep connection to the outdoors and her unwavering drive for equity and inclusion to every project she undertakes.
Born in New York City and raised in Connecticut, Broudy studied philosophy of religion at Williams College before setting off on a cross-country cycling trip—despite having no experience on a bike. That bold leap set the tone for a career defined by passion, perseverance, and purpose. After working in international development and guiding across South America, Europe, and the U.S., Broudy spent the next 25 years as a globe-trotting outdoor journalist and photographer, capturing stories in places as remote as Mongolia, Greenland, and Ghana.
Now based in Vermont, Broudy co-founded a local trail club in 2017 that went on to create the first-known fully adaptive mountain bike trail network. That grassroots effort sparked a new chapter—filmmaking—driven by the belief that stories have the power to shift culture and expand access.
