In 1965, legendary climbers TM Herbert and Yvon Chouinard climbed the Muir Wall on El Capitan while facing a brutal storm and not having a chance for a rescue. Fifty-five years later TM Herbert suffers from Alzheimer's disease and struggles to remember his iconic climb. TM's son, Tom Herbert, decides to attempt breaking the Muir Wall speed record to remember his father's astounding legacy.

Legacy On The Muir

Erik Boomer and Sarah McNair-Landry set off on a bold multi-sport 45 day expedition traveling through the remote landscape of Baffin Island in search of stunning cliffs to climb and unexplored rivers to whitewater kayak.

A Baffin Vacation

For Rosalie Fish, Indigenous student-athlete and activist, running isnât just a sport â itâs how she represents the strength and resilience of indigenous women within her tribe and beyond. As we look forward to #IndigenousPeoplesDay, we are honored to share Rosalieâs story in our second episode of âWho is a Runnerâ â a docu-series collaboration with Brooks Running. 
To learn more about the #MMIW crisis and ways to help, visit:
Urban Indian Health Institute | @UrbanIndianHealthInstitute
National Indigenous Womenâs Resource Center | @NIWRC
Sovereign Bodies Institute | @sovereignbodies

Rosalie Fish

A short biopic film highlighting the Utah based mountain biker.

Joe Gothic

Sheri Tingeyâs 60 year career as a woman who has defined the odds by starting a company at age 50 that has revolutionized the outdoor industry. The film is a story about the hurdles she overcame to launch the company, about the ways she hid from view so that people would judge the boats, not her role in creating them. Itâs the story of her son, Thor Tingey, who has built the company alongside his mother, but has only recently begun to fully grasp what she has created not just for him, but for adventurers whoâve used the boats to access remote and wild rivers around the world. 
The story of Sheri Tingey is also an evergreen and widely universal story about missed opportunitiesânot by Sheri, or other womenâbut by outdoor adventurists and the industry as a whole - when we only listen to ideas, celebrate advances, and invite innovations from a select few. At this watershed moment of reckoning around equity and inclusion for the industry, for the lifestyle, Sheriâs life story will both warm audiences, and ask them to grapple with important questions about who belongs.

Sheri

An intimate look behind the scenes of a Colorado hotshot crew battling a wildfire during the summer of 2021.

The Wild Land

Paul has always been running. When his life is turned upside down by profound changes, he sets himself a new challenge: discover mountain trail running. As his training progresses, he will discover that mountain has much more to offer than just a playground!

One Trail to the Peaks

An abstract exploration of the Earthâs striking textures and cyclical rhythms. Unwitnessed lays bare the Earth's imposing elements and mesmerizing patterns, and reminds us that all life is deeply interconnected, and that the Earth herself is a living, breathing organism.

Unwitnessed

Effective communication is a challenge every climber faces. It’s a sport that requires intense focus, dedication, and overcoming fear. For Deaf climber Sonya Wilson, communication and community is of vital importance. Elevated is a non-verbal film sharing Sonya’s experience as a Deaf woman and outdoor advocate working to bridge the gap between the Deaf community and the outdoor industry, one crag at a time.

Elevated

An Ecuadorian mountaineer balances friendship, love, and luck in his quest to climb a new route on one of the tallest and most dangerous mountains in the world.Topo Mena is an Ecuadorian mountain guide and rising star in alpine climbing whose dream is to climb the first ascent of a new route on Mount Everest. He teams up with Cory Richards, a National Geographic photographer and the first American to climb an 8,000-meter peak in winter, and they attempt a never-before-tried climb on the north face of Everest. Though they fail on their first attempt, they vow to return the following season.However, due to the global pandemic, the North side of Everest remains closed, so the ambitious duo turns their attention to a futuristic new route on Dhualagiri, the seventh highest mountain in the world. This route, however, looks far harder and more avalanche-prone than Everest, demanding that they team up with a third climber. They choose the Ecuadorian climber Carla Perez, the first woman ever to successfully summit Everest and K2 without supplemental oxygen in a single year. When the risk of death on Dhualagiri stresses the team to a breaking point, the climbers are forced to confront the question of why they climb—and why it’s all worth it.

Dhaulagiri

In far Northern Arizona on the Navajo Nation lies an archaeologically rich canyon, called Tsegi. Steeped in a rich
cultural history tucked into the alcoves of these steep sandstone walls, this beautiful and remote canyon is home to a number of Navajo ranching families who have, for generations run cattle, sheep and horses on the lush fertile grasses of the canyon floor. Slowly at first, these families began to see the land literally wash
away before their eyes.
Armed with new knowledge and the desire to heal the land, these families recognized that the warning signs are
too important to ignore. In the fall of 2018, the families launched a pilot project to see what could be done. Starting
with 1,000 acres, then growing to many more, the livestock was temporarily removed and native plants planted in strategic locations to bring the watershed back to ecological health. The willows, cottonwoods, and wetland grasses
have returned, and with them the sounds and signs of migrating birds, frogs, and native wildlife that symbolize a
healthy ecosystem.
The families throughout Tsegi were so taken by how quickly the land has begun to heal, they decided to
continue the project on an additional 5,000 acres. Their story is about choosing to make a sacrifice for something
larger than their ranching income. They have chosen to bring the medicine back to the land and heal.
This film quietly reveals the story of restoration of Tsegi Canyon, and inspires a movement to bring the medicine back to the landscape before itâs too late.

Tsegi Canyon

Aaron Blunck is a three-time U.S. Olympic halfpipe skier, X Games gold medalist and FIS Freestyle World Champion. 
After sustaining six broken ribs, a broken pelvis, lacerated kidney and bruised heart and lung while skiing in in Switzerland, the most traumatic injury of Blunckâs career shook his wife and his family, and had him questioning if he could and would continue competing at the level he had become accustomed to.
A naturally gifted freeskier, Blunck has a unique mindset when it comes to preparing for the sportâs biggest competitions. His love of solitude, storm days and skiing with like-minded individuals are often his methods of choice. Although this may seem like a foreign training approach to some, his countless podium appearances over the years are a testament to his inherent ability and pure love for the sport of skiing. In The Bulldog, we hit the road with Blunck on a two-week, cross-country road trip, during which he recounts two-and-a-half years of ups and downs, while we discover the intricate details that make him tick, as told by his wife Morgan.

The Bulldog

What compels a person to run 150 miles through the desert at the height of summer? Is it the need for achievement, the competitive instinct, or something deeper—a spiritual need for hardship, for catharsis, and from it, healing? A LONG WAY FROM NOWHERE is a different sort of extreme sports film—one centered not around winning—but instead one focused upon the human spirit—on why individuals push themselves to, and sometimes beyond, the breaking point.

A Long Way From Nowhere

Inspired by the human-powered enchainments achieved in Europe, in early summer 2021, Alastair McDowell &amp; Hamish Fleming set out on a quest to enchain New Zealand’s 24 highest mountains above 3000 metres in a continuous 31-day push. This would be a transalpine journey, from west coast jungle to high-alpine summits, traversing some of New Zealand’s most dramatic landscapes. But with the clock ticking down, fatigue mounting and storms arriving, would they be able to complete the project before their time, weather &amp; luck ran out?

Enchainment

A short film that explores the history of the land and its shared significance to Indigenous groups and mountain sports enthusiasts.Standing tall over the Revelstoke valley Mount Begbie has inspired an entire community. It is iconicized in the logos and names of local businesses, featured heavily in artists’ works, is photographed by every visiting tourist, and most importantly of all, is explored by the outdoor enthusiast - no matter the season.Climbing Mt Begbie is a “right of passage” for every hiker, climber, sledder, and skier who chooses to make Revelstoke their home.While this peak has created an entire contemporary culture in Revelstoke, its name and story only represent colonial history, with no reference to the Indigenous heritage of this land.Is it the outdoor community’s responsibility to help change this?

Beyond Begbie

A conceptual exploration of the shared feelings between music and mountains â Tempo II. Movements in Jungle is set in the world's largest urban jungle, exploring styles of Brazilian drumming and trail running.

Tempo II. Movements in Jungle

This is the story of a female professional athlete and new mother faced with the challenge of corporate politics coupled with societal norms.&nbsp;On March 12th, four-time U.S. mountain bike champion and professional cyclist Sonya Looney posted an Instagram video of herself manualing rollers and riding berms through a mini pump track in Kelowna, British Columbia. She was 40 weeks pregnant and she gave birth to a healthy baby boy a few days later. This is the inspirational story of how Sonya challenges the norms of motherhood while simultaneously working to redefine the corporate side of athletics.Female athletes shouldn’t have to struggle to keep their pregnancy journeys hidden. Fear of sponsorship loss, failure to maintain results and standings, and societal pressure are all at play.Suppose companies and people think that women can’t recover from pregnancy and be just as good, if not better. How can the athletes believe that themselves?Are female athletes indeed forced to choose between sponsorship and motherhood?&nbsp;

Benched

This adventure documentary follows a blue-collar crew of Appalachian adventure seekers deep into the mountains as they climb, talk shit, fish for their dinner, and try to use their single-pitch skills to summit a 1,300ft rock face. Their main objective is to free an old aid route first established over 30 years ago, but will they succeed? Will they be strong enough? Will they be struck by lightning? One thing is for sure, they've been infected with "the illness!"

The Illness

High Road celebrates the unbreakable bond between Paralympian Meg Fisher and Jack Berry a young para athlete who's cycling career is just beginning to unfold. Together the two navigate life's obstacles with grace and integrity- creating space for the next generation of para cyclists.

High Road

Nestled deep within British Columbia, the Gostlin family finds solace in the spirit of the mountains after an unexpected tragedy changes the family’s dream forever.“Dreaming of a Better Place” co-stars Canadian skier Mark Abma with a sensational soundtrack by Liam Mour, recorded in Berlin’s Funkhaus Cathedral in partnership with Sony Music Europe. 24-year-old Cannes YDA nominee Cameron Thuman directed the film.

Dreaming of a Better Place

Adventurer, competitor, daughter, friend, pioneer, hero, and badass human are all words used to describe French kayaker, Nouria Newman. In Wild Waters, we follow Nouria as she prepares to become the first female to run a 100ft (30m) waterfall; we watch her grow from a young, keen Olympic hopeful to one of the greatest kayakers of all times - male or female. 
However, running some of the worldâs hardest whitewater isn't Nouria's biggest life challenge. Realizing that the expectations placed upon her as both an athlete and as a woman weight heavily on her decisions and ambitions, she pushes back to make her own path. 
It is this central aspect of her lifeâ this refusal to conform to othersâ expectationsâ where Nouria is able to use kayaking as a way to transform into her truest self, and become a once-in-a-generation kayaker.

WILD WATERS

Janwaar celebrates a rambunctious group of kids whose lives are transformed when a skatepark is built in their small village in India. Raw talent, creativity, and unadulterated childhood find a home on four wheels, and manage to break down generations of caste and gender barriers in the process.

Janwaar

The Great Salt Lake is often overlooked and misunderstood. Through her passion for wildlife photography, Mary Anne Karren unexpectedly fell in love with the lake's unique landscape and the 10 million birds that rely on it. She now uses her photography to bring attention to the lake's dire situation in an attempt to save it.

The Beauty Between

Have you ever pondered what the longest climbing route in the world is? 
You may have guessed that it was the great Mt. Thor on Baffin Island, Canada (4,101ft), or perhaps even the Azeem ridge on the Trango Towers, Pakistan (7,400ft), both impressively large in size, but even these are dwarfed in comparison to the unlikely record holder.
Nestled amongst the lush hillsides of upstate New York sits a bluff of quartzite rock known as the Gunks. Regarded as the birthplace of American climbing, its short yet mighty wall stretches more than 9000ft... horizontally. 
Established by Dan Rosanstein and Ken Nichols in 1987, the Great Wall of China route is a masterpiece of esoterica which traverses the entire wall, its greatest crux may be jug rash, bugs, and dog walkers.
One Dream. Two Dirtbags. 9000ft of Climbing.

The Long Wall

Mountain bikers have a long-standing tradition of working with private property owners, land managers and governments, from the local to federal level. Often, these relationships are driven by a dedicated and passionate group of mountain bikers, trailbuilders and advocates, despite a sometimes turbulent and confrontational past. Biketown takes a deep dive into recreational trail development in Chisholm, Minnesota, Bellingham, Washington, Snowshoe, West Virginia and Pacific City, Oregon to explore themes at the heart of the current mountain bike movement—whether that be cooperation between the timber industry and a mountain bike community, federal forest managers and trailbuilders or advocacy organizations and tourism boards.

Biketown // Mountain Bikers, Unlikely Partnerships & The Communities They've Created

What is the source of creation? Whether it’s the grandest cosmos or the smallest human idea, true creation arrives in moments of unexpected convergence— extraordinary synchronicities between space and time, science and art, music and mountains and sea. In Creation Theory, these raw elements converge in the Westfjords of Iceland, taking us on a journey from the interstellar birth of gravity and rhythm, to their ultimate human creative expression: surfer on wave, snowboarder on peak, and musician on stage.

Creation Theory

You may have experienced stoke in your life, but no one can match the stoke master herself, Rachael Burks. In âSharing the Stoke with Rachael Burks,â we follow Rachael as she lives out her dream of getting a group of gals together on the slopes and teaching them to truly ski free!

Sharing the Stoke with Rachael Burks

SOMOS, follows two snowboard mountaineers on a month long expedition as they travel through the shadows of the mountains, deep in the Alaskan backcountry. A journey that narrates the experience of being human in these raw and isolated environments.

SOMOS

Syd grew up in a world of farming, hunting, trapping and logging. While she felt drawn to these activities, her traditionally-minded family viewed them as âmanâs workâ and she wasnât encouraged to follow her heart into the wild. Twenty years later, Syd has carved out a rich life in the Yukon and sheâs done it on her own terms. An avid outdoors person, she is recognized as one of the most successful hunters in the Yukon, gender be damned. 
Then she met Jurgen, an old trapper who would change the course of her life. In Syd, Jurg saw something he just couldnât shake, and someone in which he could entrust eight decades of wisdom, along with the trapline on which to apply it. This is the story of an unusual apprenticeship between an old timer and a young woman, and a disappearing way of life, changing hands.

The Trapline

In April of 2015, Taylor Martin was hit by a school bus during his morning bike commute through the streets of Atlanta. Before his accident, Taylor suffered an ongoing battle with anxiety, depression &amp; suicidal tendencies resulting from a childhood traumatic brain injury. In that moment as he lay in the city streets on the brink of death he wanted nothing more than to be alive. Since that rainy morning in Georgia, Taylor has committed himself to live a life of adventure. His pursuits include but are not limited to — falling in love with the sport of skiing, living in a remote cabin in the San Juan Mountains, and most recently becoming the first person to complete the Hardrock 100 on skis in a single push. Bus Day tells Taylor's story of near-death survival and his resulting outlook on life.

Bus Day

Solo is the account of one woman's mission to run solo and unsupported across mountain ranges on six continentsâovercoming obstacles, conquering fears and finding the joy in achieving her goals absolutely alone.

Solo

A group of friends getting to the bottom of what it really means to be gnarly

The Gnardashians

Faced with a traumatic injury that renders you permanently disabled, how would you reinvent yourself? In 2014, Trevor Kennison's life was forever altered by a broken back- for worse and for better, in equal measures.Full Circle is both an unblinking examination of the challenges of life after spinal cord injury... and a celebration of the opportunity for growth that such a tragedy can present.

Full Circle

Madison Rose Ostergren has been encouraged to fit into certain molds her entire life. Now, as she comes to the stage of professional big mountain skiing, she is determined to show up as her true, authentic self and learn how to embrace her own personality in a world that often convinces individuals to fit into certain boxes.

Fuel

Microsoft, Google, META, and AWS are some of the biggest single-power consumers in the world. Along with other digital infrastructure companies’ consumption, they make up 2.4% of the world's energy use. This film details the digital infrastructure industry's work to reduce their carbon footprint in an effort to lower carbon emissions and help save the world.

Bare Metal

Growing up in a small rural town almost always leads to a life lived in the outdoors. The Campbell brothers were no exception and grew to love the fly fishing lifestyle while facing the opposition of being a minority in the sport. Despite their struggles, they have come to recognize that the one way for everyone to continue to enjoy the outdoors is by keeping nature wild.

Against The Flow

In the heart of Virginia, the Richmond Cycling Corps (RCC) is hard at work connecting with local youth and helping them discover the power of cycling. RCC Director Matt Kuhn has built an incredible community of young cyclists and has helped kids find their way as aspiring engineers, professional racers, and influential community members. Matt's passion for the sport helps create a common ground for these young riders to explore their new talents and connect with other cyclists.The club’s newest program, called “Legacy,” is designed to help foster riders coming up through the RCC program and help turn them into future leaders. One goal of the Legacy program is to one day bring a rider up through the ranks of the program and have them take over and lead the charge into the future.Creating new bonds and building a stronger cycling community in Richmond, the RCC is helping build a better future, one sweet jump at a time. Can’t Stop, Won’t Stop.

Can't Stop, Won't Stop

SYNOPSIS:
As wolves repopulate Washington State, conflict is heating up with rural ranching communities. Range rider Daniel Curry's job is to patrol wild areas on horseback, creating a buffer between wolves and the cattle herds that graze on public lands. When these wild carnivores are suspected of killing livestock, the consequences for wolf packs can be fatal. As illegal poaching and state sponsored kills take their toll, can Daniel prove that coexistence between ranchers and wolves is possible?
FILM STATUS:
-Range Rider premieres February 2023 at SBIFF
-Film will be screening at festivals and unreleased online until 2024

Range Rider

Into the Ice is a journey into Cordillera Darwin – a remote, wild and mostly unexplored mountain range on tip of South America. During March &amp; April, 2022 seven friends sailed, climbed and explored this pristine place to better understand how it’s mountain glaciers are responding to climate change and attempt the first ascent of Roncagli and Cerro Sara.

Into the Ice | An Expedition to the End of the World

Lake Effect is a two-year ski film highlighting the joys of backyard adventure, and the shifting perspective of Mike King a professional skier, who for a decade has only sought adventure from the peaks of mountain tops in the far reaches of the west. In 2020 when Covid encouraged lockdowns & travel restrictions, Mike's life on the road came to a screeching halt. This abrupt change inspired Mike to take the hurdle as an opportunity to reconnect with the unique, untapped terrain, ski culture, and the people that were thriving right here in his home state of Michigan. Over the course of filming Lake Effect Mike realized you donât need to travel far to have an epic adventure. Rather some creativity, curiosity, and the willingness to just walk out the door to the abundance that starts right in our backyards.

Lake Effect

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