The film tells the life story of Roman Romancini, one of the most important Brazilian mountaineers, in his endeavor to reach his greatest dream: climbing Mount Everest, the highest mountain on the planet. Starting early his athletic career, he passes through several deadly experiences. But it was while a riding a bike that he got hit by a car in an accident that almost put an end to his sport life forever.
Directed by Rafael Duarte (Bambalaio Filmes) and produced by Leonardo Edde (URCA Filmes), “Beyond Dreams” shows how Roman dealt with the chance of never climbing again, how he fought a cancer and how he kept the Everest dream alive as an motivation to overcome the recovery process. Doctors, coaches, family and friends react in different ways to Roman’s determination to still climb Everest.
The documentary shows how he reached, during his preparation years, 4 of the “7 summits” during winter, considered by many an almost impossible mission. Survivor of the avalanche that hit the Khumbu Falls in 2014, a few feet from Everest Base Camp, Roman returned to the Himalayas four years later with Rafael Duarte and Padawa Shepa, who together documented the most challenging expedition of his life.
- Written and Directed by: Rafael Duarte
- Executive Producer: Leonardo Edde
- Production: Bambalaio and URCA Filmes
- Photography: Rafael Duarte, Pasang Dawa Sherpa, Italo Yure
- Editing: João Pedro Diaz
- Color: Vitor Moura
- Music: Music Solution
- Sound editing: Melhor do Mundo Studios
- Four Seasons Film Festival London 2020 – Best of Festival, Fest Feature Documentary
- Freeman Film Festival (Brazil) 2019 – Best Film – Audience Choice
- New York Cinematography Awards (USA) 2019 – Best Documentary Film
- Los Angeles Cinematography Awards (USA) 2019 – Best Cinematography in a Documentary Film
- Rocky Mountain International Film Awards (USA) 2019 – Best Internacional Documentary
- Flathead Lake International Cinemafest (FLIC) 2019 – (USA) – Best Documentary nominee
- The North Europe International Film Festival London (UK) 2020 – Rafael Duarte nominated as Best Director in a Documentary Film, João Pedro Diaz as Best Editor in a Documentary Film
- Wasatch Mountain Film 2020
- IFMF – International Festival of Mountain Films Poprad 2019 (Slovakia)
- IFOF 2019 – International Festival of Outdoor Films (Czech Republic)
- Berlin Flash Film Festival (Germany)
- BEFF Barents Ecology Film Festival (Russia)
- Mountainfilm Graz (Austria)
- KIMFF –Kathmandu International Mountain Film Festival 2019 (Nepal)
- Pakistan International Mountain Film Festival (Pakistan)
- Morocco Adventure Film Festival 2019 (Morocco)
- Mountains and City – International Mountain and Adventure Film Festival 2020 (Slovakia)
