05/11/2026
📣PROUDLY ANNOUNCING OUR 2026 PITCHFEST WINNERS📣
Genderqueer Pitchfest Grant | Mikah Meyer with “Miss Adventure”
Female Filmmaker Grant | Lou Thaller + Luaine Collar with “Alpi (Anti) Express)
Our Female Filmmaker Grant launched in 2015. Since 2020, we’ve created + funded our Black Female, Indigenous Female, and Genderqueer Filmmaker Grants. We’re being really intentional about widening the lens—
AND making sure we aren’t only centering cisgender women, but actively including trans, nonbinary, and genderqueer voices. Not as an afterthought, but as a core part of the community we’re trying to reflect and support.
This evolution has shaped not just the films we program, but the culture we’re trying to build—one where people feel seen. Do you see yourself in the stories being told? Do you see people who share your identity and your background? That’s often the entry point.
So for us, the work—both at No Man’s Land and in the broader outdoor community—is about shifting that. Expanding the narrative, yes, but also softening the edges of the culture. Making it more invitational, more generous, more curious.
Because when people feel like they belong, they don’t just participate—they lead, they advocate, they protect. And that’s how you build a community that’s not only more inclusive, but more resilient and more powerful overall.
Pitchfest would not be possible without the support of + . If you are interested to join our cohort and help support emerging filmmakers and fund future grants, reach out to us → [email protected]
Congrats to these legends, we can’t wait to premiere these films in Denver in 2027.
Photos courtesy of Elise Giordano + GAF74
