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Stories with Impact

Saturday Mar 1 / 2025

Our Stories with Impact are all varied, but all powerful.

Follow a team revisiting the remarkable life and expeditions of pioneering mountain explorer Mary Schäffer Warren; witness Scottish women retracing a Himalayan first ascent; discover a Canadian downhill racer battling illness; learn from the unexpected adventure of climbers exploring Papua New Guinea’s untouched rainforest.

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Saturday Mar 1
7:00pm
10:00pm
Doors: 6:00pm

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Films

North American Premiere
33 mins |
UK |
2024
DIRECTOR:
Jimmy Hyland
LANGUAGE(S): English
Footsteps follows a team of Scottish women exploring what success in the mountains looks like, environmentally, morally, culturally, and personally.
North American Premiere
51 mins |
UK |
2024
DIRECTORS:
Ross Vernon McDonald, Nick Ogden
LANGUAGE(S): English
An adventure where climbing incredible trees in a unique rainforest becomes secondary to the plight of an indigenous community.
10 mins |
Canada |
2024
DIRECTOR:
Graeme Meiklejohn
LANGUAGE(S): English
Magnus Manson, a rising downhill racer, battles cancer while defying odds, inspiring others with his resilience and love for biking.
37 mins |
Canada |
2024
DIRECTOR:
Trixie Pacis
LANGUAGE(S): English
Writer and historian Meghan J. Ward recruits an all-woman team to revisit Mary Schäffer Warren’s 1908 expedition to Maligne Lake.
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