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The Nugget Climbing Podcast

EP 238: Girls Gone Hueco — Making the First All-Female Bouldering Film & the Power of a Girl Gang | ft. Midori Buechli & Long Truong

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Steven Dimmitt

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4.0589 Ratings

🗓️ 15 September 2024

⏱️ 82 minutes

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Summary

Girls Gone Hueco is an all-female bouldering film now available on Vimeo. In this episode, I sit down with V11 climber Midori Buechli and filmmaker Long Truong to discuss the making of the film, the power of climbing with a girl gang, hidden costs of making a film, trash can showers, pad-less sends, imposter syndrome, advice for aspiring filmmakers, and more.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Hello, friends, and welcome to the Nugget Climbing Podcast.

0:05.5

This is a really fun episode.

0:06.8

This is kind of a bonus episode today.

0:09.3

My guests are Midori and Long from the Girls Gone Waco film.

0:15.0

Midori was the originator of the film.

0:17.4

It was her brainchild.

0:19.0

Long is the filmmaker.

0:23.6

If you guys haven't seen it, this is a really, really good bouldering film. I believe it's the first all-female feature length bouldering film.

0:29.8

Obviously, there have been some shorter ones on YouTube and things like that, but I believe this is

0:34.2

the first all-female bouldering film ever, I think.

0:38.5

If you guys know differently, then please let me know,

0:41.3

but I've seen just about all the climbing films out there.

0:44.8

I don't think I've ever seen an all-female bouldering film.

0:48.6

I've seen it three times now.

0:50.3

It is excellent.

0:51.4

It is very well-produced.

0:52.8

The cinematography is beautiful. The climbing is

0:55.5

badass. It got me really psyched to go back to Waco. All of these women are incredibly strong and

1:01.7

badass and a lot of fun. So I highly encourage you all going and checking it out. Girls Gone

1:07.1

Waco is available today, September 15th, for purchase or rent on Vimeo on demand.

1:13.3

And I'll be sure to link to it as soon as possible.

1:17.3

I'm recording this on the 14th, so the link is not available to me yet.

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