Phil's Camino
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
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