Bristlecone Film Collective and Tahoe Art Haus present THE ASCENT, sponsored by Visit Truckee-Tahoe

We're thrilled to share our third and final screening in our inaugural summer screening series, the SXSW Audience Award-winning feature documentary, THE ASCENT, directed by Edward Drake, Scott Veltri and Francis Cronin.

THE ASCENT tells the extraordinary true story of climber Mandy Horvath, a bilateral amputee attempting to crawl to the summit of Mt. Kilimanjaro on her hands and follows an investigation surrounding the night she tragically lost her legs. Years earlier, a night out with friends escalated into tensions at a local bar, and soon after Mandy's world went black. Her next memory: waking in an ambulance surrounded by paramedics, both legs gone. What happened between the bar and the hospital remains a mystery - shattering Mandy's trust in the world around her. As she pushes her body to its limits on Africa's tallest mountain, Mandy must reckon with her past and learn to trust again if she is to succeed.

Event Details

Location: Downtown Park Stage at the Community Center, 10046 Church Street, Truckee, CA 96161

Schedule:

Doors open: 5:45PM
Live music: 6 - 7PM
Film starts: 7:15PM

What to bring: BYOB, BYO Chair

Food: Casa Baeza food truck onsite

With gratitude to our partners:
Thank you to Visit Truckee-Tahoe for their support of this summer outdoor screening series.

And to Truckee Tahoe Community Foundation and Truckee Rotary for their continued support in building film culture in our community. As always, you can check out who we are and what we do at www.bristleconefilm.org and you see the ongoing line up of amazing films that our community partners the Tahoe Art Haus screen in Tahoe City at www.tahoearthauscinema.com

With love from the Northern Sierra,
Nadia, Dom, Tahria & Aaron
Bristlecone Film Collective

THE ASCENT - Free Outdoor Film Screening