DIRT & ROCK

Saturday, 7 PM, High Camp

Sunday, 8:30 PM, Base Camp

PASS IT ON: TAMI KNIGHT

Jen Randall

In Person: Filmmakers

Pass It On celebrates three locals who spread their love of Squamish climbing into the fabric of the broader community. In this short segment, we get meet the charming Tami Knight, a route developer of the late ‘70s and ‘80s.

(Canada, 2022, 4 min.)

Soundscape

Timmy O’Neill

In Person: Filmmaker and Film Subject

Soundscape features Erik Weihenmayer, a global adventure athlete and author who is fully blind, as he ascends a massive alpine rock face deep in the Sierra Nevada. Using expert camera work and emotive, novel animation to bring to life a concept by adaptive climbing pioneer Timmy O’Neill, the film is a surprising and soulful adventure in echolocation, touch and imagination.

(USA, 2023, 14 min.)

Renaissance

Mike McKay

A ballet dancer finds her true expression by rediscovering her passion for movement in the mountains. Through Emily Rudenburg’s transition to climbing, she finds healing and herself.

(Canada, 2022, 5 min.)

World Premiere SOUNDSCAPE

4dwn

Danny Schmidt

In Person: Filmmaker and Film Subject

When Rob Cahill was growing up, skateboarding was a four-wheel freedom machine. As the co-founder of 4DWN, a service-driven organization in South Dallas, he uses skating to highlight the interdependency between people and their environment. 4DWN’s mission is to sustainably foster the health of kids, families, communities and the environment, providing free programs emphasizing recreation, education, cultivation and conservation.

(USA, 2023, 17 min.)

WELL WORN LIFE WITH DANI REYES-ACOSTA

Daniel Mitchell, Trent Sugg

In Person: Filmmakers and Film Subject

Well Worn Life is a short documentary film series that reveals the recipes of outdoor-minded individuals who love life deeply and live it to the fullest extent. Dani Reyes-Acosta is a mountain athlete, land cultivator and storyteller whose path consistently seeks the limits of possibility. Reyes-Acosta is constantly moving through the landscapes of Southwest Colorado — by bike, on foot, on skis and clinging to the side of a boulder — to see where she fits into it.

(USA, 2022, 6 min.)

World Premiere

REEL ROCK: RAYU

Nick Rosen, Erik Osterholm

In-Person: Filmmakers and Film Subjects

Elite sport climbers Sasha DiGiulian and Matilda Söderlund team up with trad specialist Brette Harrington to attempt a free ascent of the 2,000-foot alpine rock route, Rayu — a 5.14 in Spain’s Picos de Europa. Unrepeated since its first ascent by the Basque Pou brothers and Kiko Cerdá in 2020, Rayu combines heady trad climbing with a burly sport crux on a steep headwall 1,000 feet off the deck. Living on the wall for days on end, the team battles stormy weather, loose rock and the tension between personal goals and group success.

(USA, 2023, 30 min.)

World Premiere