Trail Running Film Festival 2024

The Trail Running Film Festival is coming back to Lethbridge

When: April 20th, 2024 - 2 pm - 5 pm
Where: Lethbridge College - Fredericks Theatre
Cost: $20/person

What is the Trail Running Film Festival?

The 2024 Festival will celebrate diverse stories that highlight the beauty, the grit, the variety of our trail running community. The festival will be an afternoon celebrating the best films by inspired filmmakers from all over the world.

Who is the Trail Running Film Festival for?

Everyone! The Trail Running Film Festival is running enthusiasts from far and wide. Whether you already have a passion for running, or are thinking about giving it a go, this film festival will be a fun afternoon for all.

THE TRAIL RUNNING FILM FESTIVAL - OFFICIAL 2024 FILM SELECTION

Izta
Rabbitwolf Creative - (10 min)
https://www.instagram.com/rabbitwolfcreative/

Laura Cortez is a trail runner born and raised in San Antonio, Texas. Despite being born into a Mexican-American family, she was never able to fully discover her Mexican cultural identity as her father, Richard Cortez, steered her towards embracing her American roots.

Richard’s passing in 2022 led Laura down a path of self-exploration that included a flurry of trips to Amecameca, the mountain town her father grew up in and home to two of the highest peaks in North America, Iztaccihuatl and Popocatepetl. In an effort to further discover the land and culture that shaped the generations before her, Laura set out to establish an FKT on a route from the city of Amecameca to the summit of Iztaccíhuatl — 17,129-feet above sea level. Her journey towards the peak led her in a direction she had always wanted to go but never knew which path to follow until she immersed herself within her family's history.

Know To Run: Yatika
Jordan Marie Whetstone, Devin Whetstone - (10min)
https://www.instagram.com/rising_hearts/

Know To Run represents the opportunities for gaining knowledge, carrying that knowledge and implementing what you’ve learned and best, respectful practices into our own lives to be a good relative to ourselves, to each other, and with the lands. This film celebrates all the firsts (first land acknowledgement, first Indigenous made poster, first Indigenous runners panel) and continues this kinship into 2024. The Know to Run discussion will hit on themes of “what are land acknowledgements” and what it means to go beyond, their importance, the inclusion of local Indigenous communities being part of the conversations, making the running and outdoor community a more accessible and equitable place, and what the consultation process looks like.

Red Needle
Dom Bush and Simon Sylvester - (6min)
https://www.instagram.com/dombush1/

Ultra-runner Sarah Gerrish lost one ovary to cancer at 15 and the second to surgery at 36, plunging her directly into surgical menopause and a bewildering world of HRT, brain fog and loneliness. Red Needle explores the stigma, trauma and lessons learned from Sarah’s life-changing experience.

Brian Reynolds: The Leadville Trail 100
Michael Grasela - (16min)
https://www.instagram.com/grasela97/

Brian Reynolds is a double amputee below the knee athlete who grew up overcoming many challenges in his life but never had a role model he could look up to. In this doc, Brian attempts the famous Leadville 100 Ultra Trail Marathon out in Colorado in order to advocate for all para athletes that nothing is impossible.

Run Like a Kid
Guy Tucker - (1min)
https://www.instagram.com/handcuffedcreative/

This short film explores what running means to one child and reveals lessons all runners can take to the trail.

Girls Run Ultras
Ellie Windham, Christine Rivera - (15min)
https://www.instagram.com/elliewindham/

A journey that follows the all women's running collective, Girls Run NYC as they push themselves individually and unitedly collectively through The Black Canyon Ultra Marathon in 2022.

Well Worn Life with Dani Reyes-Acosta
Daniel Mitchell and Trent Sugg - (6min)
https://www.instagram.com/livsndesigns

Meet Dani Reyes-Acosta: a mountain athlete, land cultivator, and storyteller whose path consistently seeks the limits of her possibility. Dani is a visceral example of how self-care and self-determination can harmonize via the outdoors.

Now
Steven Mortinson - (20 min)
https://www.instagram.com/stevenmortinson/

Long-time ultrarunner Yassine Diboun confronts the shadows and turmoil of his past while preparing to take on the Hardrock 100.

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