Echoes moves away from conventional story telling about an athlete tackling a challenge and instead looks inwards into the mind of an athlete and how they perceive challenges. The film dives into the mind of Celeste Pomerantz as she battles uncertainty and doubt when undertaking challenging bike-packing or longer adventure mountain bike rides. The film itself takes place near Squamish, BC and involved an overnight bike-packing trip and technical scramble. The dialogue is about the doubts, the anxieties, the good and the bad voices that play in the mind when going for trips like this. How big difficult things are so unbelievably addicting but also so painful. It’s a brief and vulnerable look into Celeste’s mind and perhaps the minds of others who no matter the size of adventure or scary thing one does – may also experience these echoes of doubt.

Canada