Reel Movie Mondays: Spring 2024
500 Days in the Wild
Directed by Dianne Whelan | Canada | 2023 | 124 mins | PG | English | Elevation Pictures
Beginning on July 1, 2015, in St. John’s, Newfoundland, award-winning director and cinematographer Dianne Whelan set out on an epic journey of discovery: hiking, biking, paddling, snowshoeing, and skiing across Canada.
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.
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.
$10/ticket MAG members; $15/ticket regular, Screens at Carnival Cinemas