Nicole Amyx: Trail Running and Filmmaking, Making Them Her Own
Dipsea Generations follows the stories of five young San Francisco Bay area runners who take on the historic Dipsea trail race. The Dipsea is the oldest trail race in the United States, started in 1905, and it covers 7.4 miles of incredible terrain between Mill Valley–just north of the Golden Gate Bridge in Marin County–and Stinson Beach. One interesting twist about this race is it has a handicap format determined by age and gender, so it makes for a more level playing field in those regards.
Nicole grew up in Mill Valley, so she's very familiar with the Dipsea, and she studied cinema, with an emphasis on Documentary and Editing at SF State before going over to England to get her master's degree in documentary filmmaking. Nicole now lives back in the San Francisco Bay Area not far from where she grew up. In addition to being a filmmaker, Nicole is the video producer, editor, and a board member for the Trail Running Film Festival. This means that she sees a lot of documentaries about trail running.
In her own filmmaking Nicole has a strong interest in sharing stories about women runners. That is where she focused her master's thesis documentary, which is titled Finding Her Stride. The documentary follows the stories of several women ultra runners, and weaved throughout, Nicole chronicles her first trail marathon, which at the time was the farthest she’d ever run.
Nicole talks about that experience and her film in this episode, in this story of coming into her own.
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Nicole Amyx on Instagram: @nixamyx9
Nicole Amyx's website: nicoleamyxfilm.com
Finding Her Stride documentary: vimeo.com/393933541?fl=pl&fe=vl
Dipsea Generations website: dipseagenerations.com
Trail Running Film Festival: trailfilmfest.com
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