Athena Film Festival

March 2 - 5, 2023

Be Relentless

Lehman Auditorium

  • Director: Brad Riley
  • Writers: Norma Bastidas, Jessie Marek, Alexis Rhyner, Brad Riley
  • Type: Documentaries
  • Year: 2018
  • Language: English, Spanish
  • Length: 98 mins
  • Screening: Feb 24 06:00 PM

On May 5, 2014, Norma Bastidas, a fearless survivor of human trafficking, sexual violence, abuse and addiction, shattered the Guinness World Record for longest triathlon—running, biking and swimming 3,762 miles from Cancún, Mexico, to Washington D.C. Join Norma and her team on their 64-day trek and witness her unrelenting endurance, selflessness, and compassion as she takes a stand against human trafficking.

Q&A session to follow with director Brad Riley and writer Jessie Marek

Filmmaker Bio:

Brad Riley is an activist, speaker, producer, director and consultant. A life-long social entrepreneur, he is the founder at iEmpathize and the media director and a founding board member with Truckers Against Trafficking, named by the United Nations as one of the 100 best practices fighting human trafficking in the world.

Jessie Marek is an independent producer and sound mixer living in Los Angeles, CA.  She grew up in Colorado, and received a BA (Film Studies) and a BFA (Film Production) from the University of Colorado at Boulder. She’s passionate about storytelling, travel and using media to make the world a better place.