DOC NYC Selects: Summer 2024 Season
Date: Tuesday, July 2
Time: 7:00pm ET
Venue: IFC Center, 323 Sixth Ave, NYC
TRT: 103 minutes
NYC PREMIERE Lhakpa Sherpa is the first Nepali woman to summit and descend Mount Everest – but how she navigated her life as a single mother and immigrant is an even more heroic tale. Oscar-nominated filmmaker Lucy Walker illuminates the inspiring world of a remarkable woman who continues to venture forth from her new life in Connecticut (where she works as a dishwasher at Whole Foods) to actively scale the Earth’s greatest peaks.
Director: Lucy Walker
Producers: Charlie Corwin, Michael D. Ratner, Miranda Sherman, Dalia Burde, Christopher Newman
The screening will be followed by an on-stage conversation with Lhakpa Sherpa and filmmaker Lucy Walker.