Dani Reyes-Acosta
Filmmaker. Speaker. show host. Activist. Adventurer. Strategist.
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Show Host. Athlete. Speaker.
Dani Reyes-Acosta is an award-winning filmmaker, show host, speaker, outdoor adventurer, cultural strategist, and activist for climate and outdoor equity.
Best known for her work in outdoor filmmaking and cultural strategy, she has inspired audiences through her award-winning narratives of reciprocity and belonging. Best known for the OUTLIER series (COMMON in 2025, TRUST in 2022), DISPATCHES (2024), and WELL WORN LIFE (2022), Reyes-Acosta brings to life stories that challenge convention and highlight voices at the crux of our collective future.
Honored with the “The Thrill of the Mountains” award at Trento Film Festival in 2026, “Most Inspiring Film” at No Man’s Land Film Festival in 2025, the Adán Medrano Film Award from the National Association of Latino Arts and Culture in 2024, and recognized by Protect Our Winters and The North Face for her leadership in climate and outdoor equity advocacy, she crafts stories that call us back to the unbound roots of our human nature.
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The mountains have my heart, but the ocean owns my soul. I started life as a small-town beach girl, but have grown into the person I am today because of my experiences as a multiracial, multilingual woman pursuing growth, outside. Originally from Playa del Rey, California, I came of age in our nation’s agricultural capital, its Central Valley, a place that seeded resilience in the face of near-fatal adolescent trauma.
Flash forward: In 2014, I graduated from corporate life with a one-way ticket to South America, and began traveling through Argentina, Chile, Mexico, Peru, Andorra, Canada, and the USA, building my mountain craft as not just a moving meditation, but a somatic reacculturation practice.
Rooted in rural Colorado, I hope we can connect on this journey of personal and collective actualization.
Documentary director | TV show host | creative strategist | climate advocate | mountain athlete | Documentary director | TV show host | creative strategist | climate x equity advocate | mountain athlete
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