Many thanks to Dianne Whelan for coming to La Chat on 04/12/2024 and speaking of your wonderful experiences as a filmmaker and adventurer.
Dianne Whelan is an award-winning Canadian Documentary filmmaker, and accomplished photographer, artist, storyteller, author and public speaker.
Dianne has written, directed, and produced two award winning films, a three-part series for CBC, a Gemini-nominated interactive website, written two books and has exhibited her photographs in numerous art galleries in her 30-year career as an artist and storyteller. In August 2021 she completed the land and water trails of the 24,000 km Trans Canada Trail and is the first person and woman to do so. The journey is the subject film project 500 Days in the Wild and will be the story of her next book.
Her feature documentary 40 Days at Base Camp was shot on Mt. Everest and is accompanied by her book about her Everest experience called, Base Camp: 40 Days on Everest. Dianne’s book, This Vanishing Land, is based on her experience filming in Canada’s High Arctic called, This Land (NFB).
Interviewers : Ella Edwards, Aimee Kennerly
Filming/editing : Alicia Lejnev