Anna Hazelnutt

Anna Hazelnutt is an American rock climber who appears here as both subject and filmmaker; her cataloged pieces emphasize partnerships, technical trad movement, and the logistics of big-wall adventure. The films presented are short, observational, and centered on real moments of ascent rather than artifice or overt promotion.

Her excerpt from Queen Lines, titled Anna Hazelnutt climbs the Walk of Life, records the first female ascent of James Pearson’s sea-cliff slab in Devon and places the move sequences, light, and blank slab climbing front and center. It’s compact but instructive about slab technique and the compositional choices that make slab climbing readable on film. Anna Hazelnutt climbs Third Millennium strips the context down further: no narration, minimal framing, just a sport route in Colorado first climbed by Tommy Caldwell, with clean camera work that lets viewers study movement and sequence. The longer A Big Wall Story — Anna Hazelnutt & Matilda Söderlund documents a remote multi-day limestone wall in Madagascar and shifts the focus to partnership, hauling, and the decisions required on a remote, sustained wall; it explicitly situates the trip alongside conservation and outreach work referenced in the film’s festival notes.

Together these films give a clear sense of Hazelnutt’s interests: careful on-rock technique, the interpersonal work of rope teams, and a documentary sensibility that privileges logistics and relationship as much as grade.