The inspiring true story of free spirit Phil, a man living with Stage 4 cancer and dreaming of walking the 500-mile spiritual pilgrimage Camino de Santiago across Spain. Unable to make the trip, he does the next best thing: he builds a camino in the forest behind his house, starts to walk, and traces his progress on a map. Phil’s journey is one of hope, acceptance, and freedom, and is sure to inspire anyone who has ever dreamed of doing something that sounded impossible. Upon reaching ‘Santiago de Compostela’ — without ever leaving his backyard — Phil gets a clean scan and his doctors grant him a ‘chemo holiday’, with permission to miss one chemo cycle and 28 days to go walk the ancient route in Spain. The result is magical.
Audience Favorite:
Palm Springs Int’l ShortFest
First Prize Humanitarian Award:Flickers Rhode Island Film Festival
Audience Choice Short:
Tacoma Film Festival
Best Short Documentary:
La Costa Film Festival
Jury Award Best Short:
YES FilmFestival
Best Short Documentary:
Middlebury New Filmmakers Festival
Audience Award:
SFDocs Film Festival
Special Jury Short Film:
deadCenter Film Festival
Best Short Documentary:
Black Hills Film Festival
Special Jury Award:
WorldFest Houston Film Festival
People’s Choice Award:
Julien Dubuque Film Festival
Honorable Mention:
Myrtle Beach Film Festival
Nominated Best Doc:
Heart of Gold Int’l Film Festival
NOMINATED FINALIST Best Doc:
SXSW Int’l Film Festival
WORLD PREMIERE:
SXSW International Film Festival
CAMPAIGN HIGHLIGHTS
10 Covid-19 virtual and rescheduled 2020 events; 10 community screenings 2019
Partnerships with nonprofit cancer patient and oncology professional groups, including Cancer Support Community Annual Leadership Conference, Cutaneous Lymphoma Foundation Annual Meeting, American College of Sports Medicine 2019 Annual Meeting: Oncology Workshop, International Conference on Physical Therapy in Oncology
Virtual Screenings for Cutaneous Lymphoma Foundation Institute, Moving Through Cancer, CancerCare Point, May 2020
Virtual Screening for SURVIVORSHIP DAY at Penn State’s ONE (Oncology, Nutrition and Exercise) Group
Opening Night Feature for Legacy Film Festival on Aging, San Francisco
Program Development Partners: Cedars Sinai GRACE Program for Resilience in Cancer; Maple Tree Cancer Center Alliance