Jeff Lowe - Executive Director
Deanna Byck - Festival Director
Scott Halford - Artistic Director

Deanna Byck, Sc.D., MPH    
Festival Director
Utah’s High Adventure Mountain Film Festival

Deanna Byck, Sc.D., MPH is the Festival Director for Utah’s High Adventure Mountain Film Festival (with foursite). She holds a Doctorate from Harvard University in Health Policy and Communications and a Masters of Public Health Degree from UCLA.  Dr. Byck is an experienced communications specialist with an extensive academic and professional background in film and television production.  She developed, researched, and wrote many health–related stories for television series such as ABC’s Good Morning America and PBS’s Frontline and served as managing series editor for the award-winning national television series The Health Quarterly. Additionally, Dr. Byck worked as editorial supervisor on TimeLife Medical’s widely marketed C. Everett Koop Patient Education Video Series. Some of her other film and television credits include: Lonesome Dove, Young Guns, Home on the Range (Documentary), and Hoxsey: The Quack Who Cured Cancer. Prior to moving to Ogden, UT, Dr. Byck was the Director of Public Health Policy at the American Council for Science and Health and a Senior Communications Specialist at the U.S. Agency for International Development's Center for International Health Information.
Over the last 25 years, Dr. Deanna Byck has traveled extensively through Nepal and the Himalayas.  During 1984 and 1985 she lived in Nepal for two years and was the principal investigator for an original academic study of medical anthropology issues regarding Tibetan and Nepali women.  Since then she has been back to Nepal and other parts of Asia continually to expand her knowledge of culture and health issues in these areas.
Currently, Dr. Byck sits on many local and regional and international boards, including The Weber Morgan County Board of Health, Ogden Climbing Parks, The Harvard Association of Utah, and One Heart Tibet, and she has presented numerous lectures at universities, museums, high schools, rotary clubs, and cultural centers.
She currently resides with her husband, Dann, her two boys Max and Jackson, and her very famous dog, Duke in Northern Utah where she enjoys hiking, cycling, skiing, and reading mountain literature.

Jeff Lowe - Executive Director
Deanna Byck - Festival Director
Scott Halford - Artistic Director