Director: Jules Jimreivat

Producers: Jim Aikman + Graham Zimmerman

Cinematographer: Tara Kerzhner

Female Director

Brazilian immigrant and professional climber Maiza Lima confronts the history of racism and misogyny in American culture while developing her own new sport climbing area in rural Montana that celebrates the true diversity of the sport and our world.

Director: Anna Wilder Burns

Female Director

'Sailing Cita’ features young sailors Lauren Topchik and Teagan Tanner as they pursue a life of adventure by sail. Maine natives, local launch drivers, and best friends, the women found their love for the water from an early age, quickly becoming sailing partners with the same goal - to sail around the world after graduating from college. There was only one problem - they didn’t have a boat.

Their distant dream became a reality when a complete stranger overheard them dreaming up routes and gifted them fixer-upper sailboat ‘Cita’. Ever since, they have lived aboard and spent their time lapping the coast of Maine to gain experience for their future voyage. By taking on this journey, the women hope to inspire other young people to pursue their unique dreams, no matter how far they may roam from expectations.

Directors: Ben Tibbetts + Jake Holland

Producer: Ben Tibbetts

Facing some of the most challenging terrain in the world, Valentine Fabre and Hillary Gerardi, two world class athletes, attempt to be the first women to ski the Haute Route non-stop from Chamonix to Zermatt.

For Valentine, the Haute Route has deep personal resonance. Her husband had set the men's record shortly before a fatal mountain climbing accident a decade ago. For Valentine, completing the route is the ultimate tribute to his memory.

When Valentine met Hillary, she found a capable partner for this arduous and emotional journey. Despite being relatively new to ski mountaineering, Hillary has vast reserves of stamina that carry over from her career as a professional mountain runner. Together they set out on this non-stop 100km traverse, climbing 8000m over some the most beautiful high mountain terrain in the world. Will their months of training prove to be enough for these women to establish the record?

Director: Joel Wolpert (the Wolpertinger) + Miki Sawada

Producer: Gather Hear Tour

Female Director

Miki Sawada is a classically trained pianist and a runner. She is also Japanese. Through her project Gather Hear Tour, she is traveling the US with her piano, state by state, playing free concerts to bring classical music to towns that might not otherwise hear it. In summer of 2021, a time of deep division, she chose to travel to Utah.

Director: James “Q” Martin

Producers: Jayme Ditmar, Sheila Smithson, Emily Ledergerber Doig

Female Producers

Produce a 30 minute film highlighting Sheri Tingey’s 60 year career as a woman who has defined the odds by starting a company at age 55 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. It’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 who’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 opportunities—not by Sheri, or other women—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, Sheri’s life story will both warm audiences, and ask them to grapple with important questions about who belongs.

Director: Hayley Stuart

Producers: Hayley Stuart + Shaya Christensen

Female Director + Producers

If built, the Chepete-Bala mega hydroelectric dams would flood over 770 square kilometers of Bolivian Amazon and would force the relocation of 48 indigenous communities within two protected areas. One brave woman, Ruth Alipaz Cuqui, steps forward to voice her peoples' concerns before the United Nations. Consequently, she becomes a target for backlash by the Bolivian government, who claims that her Western education deems her to be no longer indigenous, and therefore unfit to represent her own people. Returning to her ancestral land for guidance, Ruth solidifies her resolve to defend what she loves when she travels for ten days down the river whose tumultuous path and uncertain future mirror her own reality.

Director: Davis Kinville

Producer: Rocketfuel Studios

Cinematographer: Alden Roth

In an effort to test their own physical capabilities, as well as raise funds and awareness for breast cancer and MS research, 6 female climbers partner with the AdventurHER Travel and Jodi's Climb For Hope non-profits to climb Washington's Mt. Adams.

Directors: Anna Wilder Burns + Jordyn Romero

Female Directors

Ability is a short documentary film that shares the story of Team USA Paracyclist Clara Brown, exploring the obstacles she faces in pursuit of athletic greatness as a walking quadriplegic and shifting the narrative around para-athletes.