Facing the Falls tells the story of international disability rights advocate Cara Elizabeth Yar Khan. Deep in the throes of an aggressive, fatal muscle-wasting disease and no longer able to walk unassisted, Cara ventures out on a daring, twelve-day expedition through the Grand Canyon. Cara’s journey to live an extraordinary life and shatter stigmas about people living with disabilities unexpectedly becomes a deep dive into fear, trust, and vulnerability. As the entire expedition team grapples with unanticipated dangers in a truly remote wilderness, they also come face to face with their individual demons, insecurities, and internal conflicts.

Producer Liz Yale Marsh and film participant/mustang wrangler West Taylor will join moderator and co-producer Wendy Eley Jackson (Film and Media Studies, UCSB) for a post-screening discussion of Facing the Falls.