2014, USA and Brazil, Director: Dominic Gill, Producer: Nadia Boctor; 24 min.
Follow climbing instructor Andrew Lenz in his quest to build a youth outreach program in Brazil’s largest slum, a neighborhood plagued by gang violence and drug addiction. Through weekly climbing expeditions among the cliffs above their favelas, the youth of Centro de Escalada Urbana gain new perspective on where they’ve come from and how high they want to climb.