THE PUSH
Documentary Feature
Santa Barbara International Film Festival, Jury Award for Best Feature Documentary
American Documentary Film Festival, Sonoma International Film Festival
Sonoma International Film Festival, Sonoma International Film Festival
BEST OF SONOMA PROGRAM
EAST COAST PREMIERE
This inspirational Documentary follows the story of Grant Korgan who, just five months after marrying the love of his life, burst-fractured his L1 vertebrae while filming a snowmobiling segment in the Sierra Nevada Back Country.
In an instant, this Lake Tahoe native, nanoscientist, and extreme athlete had added the world of spinal cord injury recovery to his list of pursuits. Despite his prognosis, that he would never walk again, both he and wife Shawna focused on the goal of 120% recovery with extraordinary drive and tenacity.
On January 17, 2012, along with two seasoned explorers, Grant attempted the insurmountable, and became the first spinal cord injured athlete to literally PUSH himself, nearly 100 miles (the final degree of latitude), to the most inhospitable place on the planet – the bottom of the globe, the geographic South Pole. *Filming also took place in Norway!
