Deanna Byck

Deanna is the Festival Director for Utah’s High Adventure Mountain Film Festival. She holds a Doctorate from Harvard University in Health Policy and Communications and a Masters of Public Health Degree from UCLA. She 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, she has 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’, ‘Hairspray(1985)’, and ‘Home on the Range’.

Over the last 25 years Deanna 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 focusing on 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, Deanna sits on many local and regional and international Boards, including One Heart Tibet, Ogden Climbing Parks, and The Weber Morgan County Board of Health, and she is a Director of The Harvard Association of Utah. She has presented numerous lectures nationwide.

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.

links: www.utahadventurefest.org

Walter Daroshin – Jury Chair

Pat Ament

Deanna Byck

Alan Formánek

Jennifer Jordan

Patrick Lovell

Gary Nate