Ride to Resilience Featuring Steve Vanderhoek

When Geoff Livingston approached Steve Vanderhoek with the concept of a film about what pushes him to ride at the edge while balancing a real-world career as a City of North Vancouver firefighter, and what it's like for his wife, Kelsey, to capture it from behind the camera, neither of them could have known how much deeper the story would become.

As Steve began therapy, he started turning the camera on parts of his life none of us had seen before. Years of frontline trauma as a firefighter. The weight he'd been carrying quietly. What actually happens when you finally put it down. And once Steve opened up, it didn't stop with him. One by one, people started telling the truth about what they'd been through. His close friends and colleagues  Matt Saely, Jeff McCutcheon, Alan Easton, Mike Danks, Sam Van Born, fellow professional mountain biker and teammate Yoann Barelli, Dr. Duncan Shields, as well as Steve's father, who decided it was time to share with the world all of the trauma he has kept buried for the last 60 years.

Steve and Kelsey didn't set out to make a film about mental health. They ended up making one anyway, because they realized that they had something that would mean so much more and impact many people dealing with similar challenges around the globe, rather than just another mountain bike film.

To help support future community and mental health-focused projects and get involved, visit: www.RideToResilience.com