Netflix Acquires ‘Skywalkers: A Love Story’ Documentary Out of Sundance

The film is directed by Jeff Zimbalist and Maria Bukhonina

A man and a woman share an intimate moment atop a crane, high above a cityscape with the sun lighting up the sky in the background from the horizon.
A still from "Skywalkers: A Love Story" from writer/director Jeff Zimbalist. (Courtesy of Sundance Institute)

Netflix has acquired the Sundance documentary “Skywalkers: A Love Story.” Terms of the deal weren’t disclosed.

Seven years in the making, “Skywalkers: A Love Story,” stars Angela Nikolau and Ivan Beerkus as a couple who journey across the globe to climb the world’s last super skyscraper and perform a bold acrobatic stunt on the spire. The real-life couple made a surprise appearance at the premiere in Park City last Thursday night.

The deal comes in the wake of several other Sundance deals made as the festival comes to a close this weekend. Warner Bros. is in talks to acquire the Christopher Reeve documentary “Super/Man” for a reported $15 million.

Kristen Lopez

Kristen Lopez joined TheWrap as Film Editor in 2022. She has been a pop culture essayist, critic, and editor whose articles have appeared at Variety, MTV, TCM, and Roger Ebert. She was previously the TV Editor for IndieWire where she was nominated for a SoCal Journalism Award and National Journalism Award by the LA Press…

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