Films
Peak Design supports storytellers
As a brand that designs gear for creatives, it’s no surprise that we believe photography and film are effective and inspiring forms of communication and advocacy. We have sponsored many creatives over the years in telling important stories and catalyzing substantive action through their art. Below is a selection of films we’ve supported.
Directed by Dominic Gill & Nadia Gill, 2024
Planetwalker
After witnessing the 1971 oil spill in San Francisco Bay, John Francis is determined to travel across America on foot—and in silence.
Directed by Peak Design, 2024
At the Expense of Nobody
All of our bags are sourced from Fair Trade Certified factories. Learn how we inspired our new Philippines factory to be the first Fair Trade factory in the country.
Directed by Dominic Gil, 2023
The Messengers
A movement of rebels, problem solvers, and rationalists have come together on the right to move the needle on climate change. They are known loosely as the “Eco-Right.”
Directed By Colin Arisman, 2022
Range Rider
As wolves repopulate Washington State, conflict is heating up with rural ranching communities. Range rider Daniel Curry's job is to patrol wild areas on horseback, creating a buffer between wolves and the cattle herds that graze on public lands.
Directed by Kartiki Gonsalves, 2022
The Elephant Whisperers
What unravels when a tribal couple decides to foster an orphaned baby elephant? Watch how the arrival of the gentle giant Raghu, transforms the lives of his foster parents forever.
Directed by Connor Ryan, 2022
Spirit of the Peaks
Caught between athletic passion and cultural obligation, a Hunkpapa Lakota skier learns to be a better relative to the mountains where he skis and to the people who once called them home.
Directed By Colin Arisman, 2021
Understory
Three women set sail on a 350 mile expedition through Alaska’s massive Tongass National Forest, exploring how clearcut logging in this coastal rainforest could affect wildlife, local communities and our planet’s climate.
Directed by Dominic Gil, 2020
On a Wing and a Prayer
Photographer Ben Depp has set out to chronicle the wetlands in a series of aerial photographs that he captures with the help of a paramotor that he straps to his back.
Directed By Colin Arisman & Connor Gallagher, 2019
Rock-Paper-Fish
A modern day gold rush is underway in the mountains above Southeast Alaska’s Chilkat River’s headwaters, and locals are reckoning with the changes that could come with a hard-rock mine.
Directed By Chelsea Jolly and Whit Hassett, 2019
This Land
Runner and advocate Faith E. Briggs used to run through the streets of Brooklyn every morning. Now, she’s running 150 miles through three U.S. National Monuments that lay in the thick of the controversy around public lands.
Directed By Ben Moon, 2018
Grizzly Country
After serving in the Vietnam War, author and eco-warrior Doug Peacock spent years alone in the Wyoming and Montana wilderness observing grizzly bears. This time in the wild changed the course of his life.
Directed By Colin Arisman and Connor Gallagher, 2018
Irreparable Harm
Contamination from a mine threatens a magnificent marine ecosystem and a Tlingit community's way of life in Southeast Alaska.
Directed By Peak Design, 2017
Eternal Village
The village of Klukwan sits on the banks of the Chilkat River in Southeast Alaska and is home to a culturally and historically important First Nations settlement of the Tlingit people. Klukwan literally means "eternal village."