Best Day Ever
2025 | Coast Film & Music Festival
Duration: 48 min
Synopisis
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.
Featured at Coast Film & Music Festival 2025
Production Team
Ben Knight is an award-winning filmmaker known for his compelling narratives, meticulously crafted cinematography and poignant commentary on communities, cultures and ecosystems at stake. A former Telluride local, Knight was first inspired to make documentaries as a young man working behind the projector at Mountainfilm, and he's gone on to become one of the festival's most celebrated filmmakers, loved for his gorgeously precise cinematography and his irreverent sense of humor.
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.
Originally from 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.
“We didn’t know exactly how to do it,” she says. “But we knew we had to try. And what we witnessed—communities transformed and ableism dismantled—demanded to be shared.”