'Sunshine Superman' Documentary DVD: Director Marah Strauch Talks BASE jumper Carl Boenish!

On its official release date, Magnolia Home Entertainment gets viewers into an extreme activity with documentary Sunshine Superman on DVD and Blu-Ray. Check out this special clip of documentarian/filmmaker Marah Strauch discussing the history of the sport through founder and BASE jumper Carl Boenish.

According to the official website, this is a heart-racing documentary portrait of Carl Boenish, the father of the BASE jumping movement. Boenish's early passion for skydiving led him to the most spectacular and dangerous feats of foot-launched human flight. Watch from the pinnacle of his achievements when he and wife Jean broke the BASE jumping Guinness World Record in 1984. Watch as the triumph at the Norwegian "Troll Wall" mountain range is followed by disaster in a stunning mix of Carl's 16mm archive footage, well-crafted re-enactments, and state-of-the-art aerial photography.

In an interview with NPR, producer and director Marah Strauch describes the BASE jumping movement, "BASE jumping - there were cliffs that were high enough to jump off of, particularly in Yosemite's national park. So Carl was doing this hang gliding in Yosemite National Park and he realized that if he could jump a parachute out of an airplane, he could also jump a parachute off of a cliff. He also wanted to film it - and I think filmmaking was a big factor in why he did BASE jumping."

Check out this making of clip from the special features:

Strauch adds, "It was a big deal when they went to go do the Guinness Book of World Records jump in Norway. In 1984, they'd been BASE jumping for about four years, so they'd have time to had time to kind of build this activity and promote this activity."

Sunshine Superman arrives on Blu-Ray and DVD on March 1, 2016.

Readers, are you excited to add Sunshine Superman to your movie collection?