HAND HOLDS
Climbing after Parenthood
HAND HOLDS
Climbing after Parenthood
— COMING MOTHER’S DAY 2025! —
@WellspringClimbers on YouTube
— COMING MOTHER’S DAY 2025! —
@WellspringClimbers on YouTube
KEY CREW
KEY CREW
Allyson Gunsallus, Director, Producer
In her first few weeks as a new parent, Allyson felt isolated and overwhelmed alongside her feelings of awe at her newborn. She wondered if she would ever get back to climbing, a passion she’s pursued since 2006. When she couldn’t find many realistic resources online, she started this project. Her goal is to create the series she would have liked to have seen in those first few months postpartum. Through leveraging her experience in business, law, and on boards of two notable climbing non-profits, she has lined up interviews with parent athletes to explore the questions that were most critical to her as a new mom.
See Allyson’s bio and exposure in the community.
Samuel Crossley, Cinematographer
Samuel Crossley does whatever it takes to safely document athletes as they push themselves in remote areas and high risk situations.
Samuel's commercial and editorial work has been for National Geographic, Google, Red Bull Media House, The North Face, Arc’teryx, REI, Reel Rock, MasterClass and ABC News, among others.
Samuel lives his professional life openly gay and is passionate about revealing diverse stories from within the climbing and outdoor community.
Taylor Keating, Editor, Consultant
Taylor is a documentary filmmaker with notable credits including The Incredible Lamont (2022), Queen Maud Land (2018), Of Choss and Lions (2017), Stumped (2017), and Safety Third (2017). He also served as Videographer at the Colorado Ballet.
Saraphina Redalieu, Editor
George E. Baker, Jr., Camera Assistant/Grip
George has a BA in Photography from California State University and a studio in Oakland, CA. His clients include: Twentieth Century Fox Television, AbbVie, Bank of America, Bristol Myers-Squibb, Constellation Brands, Fleishman Hillard, WeWork, Plantronics, Suffolk Construction, A.T. Kearney, VOX Global, Cisco Systems, Company20, Jet Blue, Build Group of Companies (Pacific Structures, Pro-Shore, Level 5) NK Interactive, Western Allied Mechanical, Offset Design Partners, Kermit Lynch Wine Merchants, Compass Consulting, PayZen, News & Review Group, Gatto Rivera Design, Velos Mobile, and Touchstone Climbing.
Mary Jeanes, Grip/Gaffer
Hand Holds: Climbing After Parenthood is a sponsored project of The Gotham (www.thegotham.org).