2024-05-15
44 分钟Director Lucy Walker discusses her new film, Mountain Queen: The Summits of Lhakpa Sherpa, with fellow Director Ondi Timoner in a Q&A at the DGA theater in Los Angeles. In the conversation, she discusses comparing and contrasting the act of mountain climbing with the struggle of personal life, exploring Lhakpa’s children’s arcs to add to the stakes of the story, and finding and fighting for the end of her feature. The film follows the true story of Lhakpa Sherpa, the first Nepali woman to summit and survive Mount Everest. Now a single mother living a quiet life in Connecticut, she returns to the mountain in hopes of building a better life for her family. See photos and a summary of this event below: https://dga.org/Events/2024/June2024/DocSeries_MountainQueen-0524
I kind of feel like I know this to be true in real life is that you can be so powerful and invincible in certain aspects, but maybe romantically or maybe in other areas of your life, just absolutely struggling for breath.
For her to feel so vulnerable in her marriage and with her heart, and to feel so betrayed by two men, and yet she's clearly such an unbelievable power.
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In this episode, a single mother returns to Mount Everest in the shadow of her record set in climb in director Lucy Walker's documentary Mountain Queen, the summits of Lakh Pasherpa.
Screened as part of the DGA's documentary series, the film follows the story of Lakh Pasherpa, the first nepali woman to summit and survive Mount Everest.
Now a single mother living a quiet life in Connecticut, she returns to the mountain in hopes of building a better life for her family.
In addition to Mountain Queen, Walker's other directorial credits include the documentary features blind sight and wasteland, episodes of the television documentary series how to change your mind and independent lens, and the documentary miniseries defying the untold story of women's gymnastics.
Following the documentary series screening of the film at the DGA theater in Los Angeles, Walker spoke with director Andy Timonar about filming Mountain, the summits of Lakh Pasherpa.
Listen on for their conversation.
Thank you.
Thank you.
This film will be on Netflix on July 31.
So you guys are a pretty lucky audience to see it.
Are they the first audience in LA?
You know, they.
Are you.
Are they the very first audience in LA?
We screened at Toronto, which was amazing, got acquired by Netflix there, which was like the dream come true.
And we had had a actually, like, you would think you'd have money to make an amazing film like this.
And it had been a real, real struggle.