Film Screening: 500 Days in the Wild

500 Days in the Wild

This award-winning film documents, 50-year-old Dianne Whelan's journey on the longest trail in the world — the 15,000 mile Trans Canada Trail. Filmmaker Dianne Whelan is the only person to complete the land and water trails of this epic journey.

The film captures the beauty of Canada's wild life and rugged landscapes while taking the audience on an epic six-year hiking, biking, canoeing, snowshoeing and skiing adventure .

500 Days in the Wild is a feature documentary that weaves intimate moments of reflection with adventure and stories of the people and communities that she encountered along the way.

What to Expect!

• A film about a woman's journey hiking, biking and paddling the longest trail in the world.
• Adventure scenes of paddling rapids
• Struggling in storms
• Escaping a bear attempting to destroy her camp
• Perils of being alone in a canoe on one of the biggest inland seas in the world
• And humor -- belly laughs about the absurdity of the situations she finds herself in

Plus! Outdoor Gear Drawings including:

• A Gossamer Gear Tent - The One
• A Bear Vault
• Kula Cloths and more

Plus Stickers, Creepy Cat Tattoos and opportunities to shop at REI in Seattle

Support Independent Filmmakers

500 Days in the Wild is an independent film. Independent art is important, because it gives voice to the human heart.

About the Filmmaker:

Award-winning director and cinematographer Dianne Whelan is the only person to complete this epic journey of discovery. For a woman in her 50s who is not an extreme athlete, it was sometimes gruelling, occasionally harrowing, often exhilarating and always surprising. She started out alone, disillusioned with the state of the world and worried about climate change, to look for different ways of caring for the land and each other. She ended the journey a bit wiser, more hopeful, in love and with a passion to share this story.

In April 2010, Whelan traveled to Nepal and Mount Everest Base Camp to direct and shoot her award-winning documentary film 40 DAYS AT BASE CAMP. Whelan's first book, THIS VANISHING LAND (Caitlin Press), recalls her experience as an embedded media person on a historical sovereignty patrol in the Canadian High Arctic. Her National Film Board documentary, THIS LAND, is based on the same journey.