HIGH GROUND Total running time: 92 min
SHOWTIMES FRI Nov 9 5:30pm Barrel Room | Yountville SAT Nov 10 10:00am Native Sons | St Helena SUN Nov 11 3:00pm Lincoln | Yountville Director/Producer/ Screenwriter: Michael Brown Producer: Don Hahn Screenwriters: Scott McElroy, Brian Mockenhaupt, Ryan Fenson-Hood, Matthew L. Murray Featuring: Steve Baskis, Chad Butrick, Ashley Crandall, Aaron “Ike” Isaacson, Chad Jukes, Nicolette “Nico” Maroulis, Cody Miranda, Justin Moore, Matt Nyman, Katherine “Rizzo” Ragazzino, Dan Sidles highgroundmovie.com
DIRECTOR BIO As a world-class mountaineer, Michael Brown has summited Mount Everest five times. A three-time Emmy award-winning filmmaker, Brown has made over fifty expeditions to all seven continents, all with cameras rolling. He visits the world’s harshest, most dangerous environments— the South Pole, the North Face of the Eiger, and 1,500 feet underground in Choreadoro cave— and always returns with footage and stories. Outside Magazine describes the cerebral filmmaker as a “swashbuckling librarian,” and Men’s Journal calls him “a master of gut-dropping action.” As founder of the Outside Adventure Film School, Brown practices another of his favorite pursuits: teaching.
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How these wounded soldiers transition is one of the most important repercussions of these wars and an adversity with which we will contend for generations. Representing nearly every branch of the military, the veterans, and the Gold Star Mom who joins their trek, bring humor and deep emotion to these heroes’ journey all captured with breathtaking, vertigo-inducing cinematography by three-time Emmy winner, director Michael Brown.
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Featuring stunning cinematography and powerful emotions, High Ground is an honest and gripping portrayal of eleven wounded veterans returning from Iraq and Afghanistan to join an expedition to climb the 20,000 foot Himalayan giant Mount Lobuche. With blind adventurer Erik Weihenmayer and a team of Everest summiters as their guides, their poignant story unfolds in unexpected ways as they set out on an emotional and gripping climb to reach the top in an attempt to heal the emotional and physical wounds of the longest war in U.S. history.
Generously supported by Robin and John Dunbar
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