Reel Rock Film Tour

About the Film Tour

The REEL ROCK Film Tour screens climbing and adventure films to audiences around the world. Each year, six short films are produced for the film tour ranging in scope from slacklining and highlining to rock climbing and ice climbing. REEL ROCK founders Josh Lowell and Peter Mortimer, after organizing small tours for their individual film releases, collaborated to create the first REEL ROCK Film Tour in 2006. REEL ROCK partners with local outdoor equipment retailers, university outing clubs, and climbing gyms to organize screening events for each year's selections.

REEL ROCK 1 Film Tour 2006

Sender Films' First Ascent was the featured film along with the short Dosage Vol. 4 by Big UP Productions. First Ascent is the film that preceded the similarly titled National Geographic Series that featured in the REEL ROCK Film Tour 2009. This documentary focuses on climbers in pursuit of a first ascent. Featuring Dean Potter, Timmy O'Neill, and Sonnie Trotter; also featuring Didier Berthod on his try for the first ascent of the Cobra Crack.

REEL ROCK 2 Film Tour 2007

In 2007 the tour consisted of just one longer film, King Lines, a joint Sender Films and Big UP Productions feature. The film follows Chris Sharma's travels around the world to climb various routes, or "lines". This included his first ascent of Es Pontas, a still-unrepeated (as of 2016) climb of the Mediterranean deep-sea arch. Sender Films and Big UP Productions received a Sports Emmy for Outstanding Camera Work for a piece on Chris Sharma's first ascent of Es Pontas, in Mallorca, Spain.

REEL ROCK 3 Film Tour 2008

Sender Films' The Sharp End was the featured film along with the shorts, Dosage: South Africa, The Aerialist, Grand Canyon Walls, and On Sight. The Sharp End features Alex Honnold, Dean Potter, Mike Patz, Steph Davis, Tommy Caldwell, Jonny Copp, and Lisa Rands.

REEL ROCK 4 Film Tour 2009

REEL ROCK Film Tour 2009 featured Big UP Productions' film, Progression, and Sender Films' and Nat Geo Adventure Channel's world premiere of the First Ascent Series. Progression features climbers Chris Sharma, Kevin Jorgeson, Patxi Usobiaga, Johanna Ernst, and Tommy Caldwell as they attempt various difficult climbs.

REEL ROCK 5 Film Tour 2010

This edition's compilation of the REEL ROCK Film Tour featured short films, The Hulk, First Round First Minute, Fly Or Die, Down and Out and Under, The Hardest Moves, and the award-winning The Swiss Machine. Athletes featured in this edition include Ueli Steck, Chris Sharma, Daniel Woods, Paul Robinson, Peter Croft, Lisa Rands, Cedar Wright, Matt Segal. The 2010 Tour screened in over 200 locations world-wide, and drew over 55,000 audience members.

REEL ROCK 6 Film Tour 2011

REEL ROCK Film Tour 2011 featured these short films; Origins: Obe and Ashima, Race for the Nose, "Sketchy" Andy, Ice Revolution, Project Dawn Wall, and Cold. The short films featured athletes including Tommy Caldwell, Dean Potter, "Sketchy" Andy Lewis, Ashima Shiraishi, Will Gadd, Kevin Jorgeson, Corey Richards, Obe Carrion, Sean Leary, Tim Emmett, Simone Moro, Denis Urubko, Hans Florine, The Huber Brothers. This tour featured 260 screenings worldwide with an audience of more than 65,000, $20,000 raised for nonprofits, and a screening on the Clipper Adventure marking the tour's screenings to all seven continents.

REEL ROCK 7 Film Tour 2012

The 2012 REEL ROCK Film Tour consisted of four films: Wideboyz, La Dura Dura, Honnold 3.0 and The Shark's Fin. Athletes in these films include Pete Whittaker, Tom Randall, Chris Sharma, Adam Ondra, Sasha Digulian, Daila Ojeda, Alex Honnold, Conrad Anker, Jimmy Chin and Renan Ozturk. The Tour expanded to over 400 screenings that year.

REEL ROCK 8 Film Tour 2013

Award winning new climbing films from Big UP and Sender. Action, Humor, Controversy, and Inspiration in some of the most breathtaking places on Earth, including the mysterious spires of Borneo, the towering faces of Morocco, and the thin air of Mt Everest.

REEL ROCK 9 Film Tour 2014

The feature length Documentury Valley Uprising was shown this year. In the shady campgrounds of Yosemite valley, climbers carved out a counterculture lifestyle of dumpster-diving and wild parties that clashed with the conservative values of the National Park Service. And up on the walls, generation after generation has pushed the limits of climbing, vying amongst each other for supremacy on Yosemite's cliffs. "Valley Uprising" is the riveting, unforgettable tale of this bold rock climbing tradition in Yosemite National Park: half a century of struggle against the laws of gravity—and the laws of the land.

REEL ROCK 10 Film Tour 2015

The 2015 REEL ROCK Film Tour consisted of five films: A Line Across the Sky, Dean Potter Tribute, High and Mighty, 24 Hours of Horseshoe Hell and Dawn Wall Exclusive. Athletes in these films include Alex Honnold, Tommy Caldwell, Jimmy Webb, Daniel Woods, Nik Berry, Mason Earle, Kevin Jorgeson, and Dean Potter.

REEL ROCK 11 Film Tour 2016

Reel Rock 11 features five climbing and adventure films: Young Guns, Boys in the Bugs, Brette, Rad Dad and Dodo's Delight. Featured athletes include Ashima Shiraishi, Kai Lightner, Will Stanhope, Matt Segal, Brette Harrington, Mike Libecki, Sean Villanueva O'Driscoll, Nico Favresse, Ben Ditto, Olivier Favresse and Captain Bob Shepton.

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