Tommy Day is an award winning filmmaker based in Portland, Oregon. Raised in the southeast and lured to the pacific northwest by vast canyons and singular mountains, he is driven by the notion that we should all be true to ourselves. He cut his teeth on film at the Northwest Film Center in Portland, Oregon and since then has had work featured in film festivals around the world, the Oregon Museum of Science and Industry (OMSI), the Portland Kids' Film Festival, and the Portland Art Museum. Most recently he is a founding partner of Reel23Films production company.

Nicholas Schrunk is an award-winning Los Angeles based director and cinematographer who specializes in action/adventure sports and high-speed cinematography. He has directed top athletic talent across the board from pro-sports legends Tim Lincecum (MLB), Demarcus Ware (NFL), Devin Hester (NFL) and Anthony Davis (NBA) to top action sports athletes Ryan Sheckler, Travis Pastrana and James Stewart among many others. With a formal education in Biology and Design Nicholas Schrunk combines reason-driven interest in science with the design principles of assembly and arrangement producing an inspiring body of work that is as technical as it is artistic. Other Films (as a producer): 2016 The Fourth Phase (Documentary), 2014 On Any Sunday: The Next Chapter (Documentary), 2014 Webby Award Winner: Online Film & Video / Sports.

Adrian Dmoch is Warsaw based art director, filmmaker and photographer. Co-author of many popular and awarded TV commercials in Poland. His pictures were used in many articles and commercials. Adrian Dmoch is currently working for a Saatchi&Saatchi as a creative/art director. He got Polish Creative Awards: in 2010, 2011, 2014, 2015. In 2016 he finished his first documentary Chasing The Breath. Instagram: www.instagram.com/adriandmoch

Sean Villanueva was raised in Brussels, started climbing at the age of 13 and has been in search of adventure since. He is a professional climber who has traveled to some of the world’s wildest places, including Patagonia, Pakistan, Yosemite, Baffin Island and Greenland. His speciality is big wall free climbing, wet mossy off-widths, runout slabs and making music with his trademark tin whistle whenever he has a spare moment. The previous films by Sean are Dodo's Delight, Asgard Jamming, Vertical Sailing Greenland, Venezuela Jungle Jam.

Renan Ozturk is one of the founders of Camp4 Collective, a member of the The North Face athlete team for the last 10 years and spend his days telling real stories about the connection to the natural world. The films he has made over the years have presence in both the core mountain filmmaking community and mainstream worlds. "Meru"€™ won the Audience Choice Award at Sundance this year, while "Sherpa"€™ premiered at the Telluride Film Festival and Toronto. Renan's expedition short films have a strong following on social, from "El Sendero Luminoso"€™ for The North Face to National Geographic'€™s "€˜Down To Nothing"€™, shot in the Burmese Himalaya and developed into a NatGeoTV special. He is constantly searching for stories that move him and with a strong visual identity combined with deeply human moments, whether it be of professional athletes or a child seeing the mountains for the first time.

GUILLERMO GLASS He was born 1972 in Esquel, Chubut province, in the Argentine Patagonia. In 1999 he graduates with a degree in Image and Sound Design from the University of Buenos Aires. From that moment on, he begins a productive career as a producer, uniting his two great passions: an intense contact with the most indomitable nature and the audiovisual recording of such expeditions. - Inacayal, the denial of our identity of Myriam Angueira and Guillermo Glass. Project Winner of the Contest "The Route of the Heroes" of the INCAA, for the Bicentennial of the Argentine Republic. Documentary film. Director and Producer. 2010. - Tupungato invernal 33 (Andes Series - The Summits) by Guillermo Glass. Documentary. Director and Cameraman. 2007. - Pissis invernal 27 (Andes Series - The Summits) by Guillermo Glass. Documentary. Director and Cameraman. 2006.

CRISTIAN HARBARUK Born in 1974, in the southern suburbs of Buenos Aires. Studied Social Communications at the University of Buenos Aires (UBA). Founded Malcine, a production company with a strong commitment to narrating documentary and fictional films. 2016- Executive Production, Director and Script: "Dhaulagiri, Ascent to the White Mountain" full-length documentary film. Narrates the story of an Argentine director and mountain climber who retraces his experience eight years earlier in the Himalayas, where he lost a friend. To carry this out, he reunites with the two other members of the expedition and together they will finish the original film they had planned. Winner of the 2013 Raymundo Gleyzer National Project Contest, Patagonia region. Winner of the Work in Progress prize at the 2013 Bariloche Audiovisual Festival. 2015- Executive Production: "Mater", Full-length feature film in post production. 2010-11- Co-direction, Production and Screenwriting of "They come for the gold, They come for it all", a full-length documentary. In Esquel, very close to the Andes mountains, an open-pit mine was about to open. The town expressed its opposition to this project by voting in a plebiscite. The film was supported by IDFA, Ibermedia, INCAA and Chubut province’s Culture Secretariat. It won eleven international prizes and was shown in 45 festivals around the world.

Aitor Barez is a spanish filmmaker and climber. He has been filming in many expeditions around the world and many times in the highest peaks (Everest, K2, Annapurna, Manaslu). He has produced many documentaries about mountain and extreme climbing with his production company Avista Multimedia.

Pavol Barabas (1959) is the author of a large-scale of mountain-oriented and adventure films about peoples' survival in extreme conditions. His films were shot in inaccessible wilderness, on wild rivers and glacial peaks, as well as in deep caves far away from civilization. He likes to look for stories the heroes of which go beyond their limits. He is fascinated by encounters with different cultures and he is mostly attracted by the territories of Tibetan Buddhism, as well as the lands of natural people hidden deep in the jungle. His films present the manner in which man should treat the Earth. They emit love and respect for nature, enormous mental power and moral conscience.

Ville Kurru and Tommy Vanska have previously directed the documentary feature Cold Rock - The Story of Finnish Climbing (2015).

Ben Knight and his production company Felt Soul Media has reached tens of millions of viewers between web and television in the past three years alone. They've won more than 60 film festival awards and their film DamNation was screened at more than 600 film festivals across the world.

Born in 1982. Creator of Sports, Nature and Documentary films. Photographer and timelapser.

Montage Production brings together video, music, text and animation in original digital productions, celebrating adventurers, artists and writers. They create trailers to promote new books or artistic events, and films to document great outdoor adventures or impactful human projects. At the root of Montage is a passion for storytelling. Through our trailers and films, they aim to stir excitement about "€œexplorers" of real or fictional worlds and "€œdreamers"€ with inspiring visions.

The film producer BRYAN SMITH is an award winning filmmaker based out of Squamish, British Columbia. His first documentary, 49 Megawatts, received acclaim both for its amazing kayaking footage and insightful exploration of the controversy over British Columbias river based energy production. Bryan has since built on his adventure film roots developing a strong reputation in both TV documentary and commercial cinematography. With a knack for story telling, proven ability to assemble great teams and an insane work ethic his client list has grown to include National Geographic, Discovery, Disney, BBC, Red Bull Media House, Patagonia, New Belgium Brewing, Arc’teryx and more. In the past few years Bryan has directed and produced several feature length documentaries including The Man Who Can Fly for National Geographic and most recently Frozen Titans, The Crystal Labyrinth and The Rockies Traverse for Red Bull Media House.

The film director DAVID PEARSON is a Squamish based filmmaker with a fascination for adventure films. Over the last several years his work as part of Reel Water Productions has been broadcast and featured in festivals around the world, covering a wide variety of adventure sports from ice-climbing and paragliding, to cave-diving and whitewater kayaking. His ideal project is one where the environment is wild, the goal is lofty, and everyone suffers a lot. Capturing stories in difficult and remote locations has become a great way for David to travel the world while actually having a job.

Coldhouse Collective is an independent production company working to produce purposeful media in the world’s most challenging environments. We connect brands with their consumers through stories of adventure and exploration. Made up of individuals each with their own specific skills and specialities, Coldhouse brings together a team with adventure at their core, the technical experience to lead ideas successfully from conception to realisation and the professional knowledge to deliver campaigns that bring consumers closer to their brands.

Wojtek Kozakiewicz is an adventure sports filmmaker. He has been working with the world’s best climbers and highliners. Director and cameraman of TV programs for Canal+ and Discovery Channel. His documentary „Alpine Wall Tour” won the Best Polish Film awards during the major Polish Mountain Film Festivals in Lądek-Zdrój and Kraków in 2016. Based in Krakow, Poland. Sport climber since 2004.

ROBERT ZURAKOWSKI is the producer, originator and creator of documentary series "Tatra's route of Memories". Director of documentary films: "Jerzy Hajdukiewicz, Man of the Mountains" (2015), "Tadeusz Gąsienica Giewont, No But" (2016), "Piotr Malinowski. 33 come in... "(2017). Artist sculptor, musician, music composer for the film about Piotr Malinowski. Linked to Zakopane, passionate about the culture of Tatra Mountains and Podhale.

BARTOSZ SZWAST is the director of films: "Jerzy Hajdukiewicz, Man of the Mountains" (2015), "Tadeusz Gąsienica Giewont, No But" (2016), "Piotr Malinowski. 33 come in... " (2017). Film editor, operator, self-taught inspired by documentary films.

Ben 'Sturge' Sturgulewski grew up on a rugged and remote island in Alaska's Aleutian Chain, inspiring a life dedicated to the exploration of the world's wild side, and the people who call it home. Infused in all aspects of production as a director, cinematographer, editor and writer, he's worked in definitively nasty and awe-inspiring conditions around the world all while bringing a unique and critical cinematic perspective to action sports, documentary, narrative, and commercial pursuits.

Born in Lodz, graduated from the Law and Administration Faculty, National Film School in Lodz and Documentary Programme Dock Pro at Wajda School. His latest documentary film "3 Days of Freedom" won several awards at national and international film festivals, for instance: Short Film Festival in Huesca Jury Prize, Special Jury Prize in Short Film Competition Batumi International , Art House Film Festival Special Award, Padva or Euganea Film Festival , "Visions du Reel" Film Festival. He won such festivals like the International Film Festival "New Horizons" (Best Short Film Documentary Polish). In Poland, "3 Days of Freedom" has been broadcast on Channel 2 and TVP Kultura, TVP and abroad for instance American Indieflix offer. The documentary film "Runners" is the debut full-length of Borowski.

Director and scriptwriter. A FAMU (Prague Film School) graduate, started her film career assisting Andrzej Wajda as her mentor and Krzysztof Zanussi. Her TV film debut was An Evening at Abdon's (1975) and her first feature film was Provincial Actors (1978), one of the flagship pictures of the "cinema of moral disquiet" and the winner of the International Critics Prize at the Cannes Film Festival in 1980. In 1981, after Marshall Law in Poland, Holland emigrated to France.
She collaborated with her friend, Krzysztof Kieslowski, on the screenplay of his trilogy, Three Colors (1993). Her works were produced in Poland, Germany, France, Great Britain, Czech Republic and the USA. Many of them received prestigious awards and nominations, among them: Golden Globe Award, Golden Lion Award, BAFTA, EMMY and others. Three of Agnieszka Holland’s films were nominated to the Oscar Academy Award (Best Foreign Language category): In Darkness (2012), Europa Europa (1990) and Angry Harvest (1985). Directed over 30 feature and TV films including: To Kill a Priest, Olivier Olivier, The Secret Garden, Total Eclipse, Washington Square, Third Miracle, Shot in the Heart, Julia Walking Home, Copying Beethoven.
She formatted and directed several episodes of some of the important TV series both in the US (such as The Wire, Treme, The Killing, House of Cards) and in Poland (Prime Minister). Also directed drama miniseries Burning Bush, Rosemary’s Baby. She has also written or co-written screenplays for films made by other directors. Her latest feature film is Spoor is based on Olga Tokarczuk’s novel Drive Your Plough over the Bones of the Dead.
Agnieszka Holland is a Chairwoman of European Film Academy (EFA).

Using skills and experience acquired from a life lived in the mountains, Sebastien Montaz-Rosset tells stories from a unique perspective. Extraordinary tales of ordinary people recounted from the inside plunge the viewer into the midst of the action.
Sebastien is one of a new generation of filmmakers working mainly with DSLR cameras and distributing films via internet platforms. With no formal film training, growing up in the alps & work as a mountain guide and ski instructor enables him to bring a new and surprising perspective to everything he films.

Renan Ozturk is one of the founders of Camp4 Collective, a member of the The North Face athlete team for the last 10 years and spend his days telling real stories about the connection to the natural world. The films he has made over the years have presence in both the core mountain filmmaking community and mainstream worlds. "Meru"€™ won the Audience Choice Award at Sundance this year, while "Sherpa"€™ premiered at the Telluride Film Festival and Toronto. Renan's expedition short films have a strong following on social, from "El Sendero Luminoso"€™ for The North Face to National Geographic'€™s "€˜Down To Nothing"€™, shot in the Burmese Himalaya and developed into a NatGeoTV special. He is constantly searching for stories that move him and with a strong visual identity combined with deeply human moments, whether it be of professional athletes or a child seeing the mountains for the first time.