I kind of feel like I know this to be true in real life is that you can be so powerful and invincible in certain, you know, aspects, but maybe romantically or maybe in other areas of your life, you just absolutely like struggling for breath, you know, for her just feel so vulnerable, you know, as a, in her marriage and with her heart, you know, and to, to feel

so betrayed by two men, you know, and yet she's clearly such an unbelievable power.

Yeah. Hello, and welcome back to the director's cut, brought to you by the Directors Guild of America.

In this episode, a single mother returns to Mount Everest in the shadow of her record set and climb in director Lucy Walker's documentary, Mountain Queen, The Summits of Lakpa Shurpa.

Screened as part of the DGA's documentary series, the film follows the story of Lakpa Sherpa,

the first Nepali woman to summit and survive

Mount Everest. Now a single mother living a quiet life in Connecticut, she returns to the

mountain in hopes of building a better life for her family. In addition to Mountain Queen, Walker's

other directorial credits include the documentary features, blind sight, and

wasteland, episodes of the television documentary series How to Change Your Mind and Independent Lens,

and the documentary miniseries Defying Gravity, the untold story of women's gymnastics.

Following the documentary series screening of the film at the DGA Theater in Los Angeles, Walker spoke with director Andi Timoner about filming Mountain Queen, The Summets of Lakh Pashirpa. Listen on for their conversation.

Thank you. Thank you.

This film will be on Netflix on July 31st. So you guys are a pretty lucky audience to see it.

Are they the first audience in L.A.? You are. You are the very first audience in L.A.

We screened at Toronto, which was

amazing, got acquired by Netflix there, which was like the dream come true. And we had had

actually, like, you would think you'd have money to make an amazing film like this, and it had

been a real, real struggle, and Netflix came in, acquired us, and then we had money to do things

like music and things like that and so we

continued to work and we actually just finished it and had um like our you know we just finished it

like two weeks ago and premiered at san francisco film festival a lot of our team is based there and there's

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