The Dawn Wall
Point Cinema 7825 Big Sky Drive, Madison, Wisconsin
press release: The feature documentary The Dawn Wall comes to Wisconsin theaters one day only on September 19, 2018. The film documents the most difficult continuous rock climb in history, on the sheer blank Dawn Wall of El Capitan in Yosemite National Park, California. The song "Search and Rescue" by local band SEARCHLIGHTS is featured in the film.
SEARCHLIGHTS (http://www.searchlightsmusic.com) are a Wisconsin-based, innovative, three-piece band with effects-rich guitar, melodic bass, and Japanese taiko-infused drumming. The featured song is from their second self-produced album, Phototrophic. The film earned the Audience Award for Documentary Spotlight at South by Southwest this spring and is being released in 500 theaters nationwide on September 19, 2018, and worldwide later in the fall. A trailer and ticket information are available at http://www.dawnwall-film.com.
Bassist Korey Krause (Neenah, WI) described the song Search and Rescue as “A terrestrial hymn to our mortality.” It’s a fitting accompaniment to the challenge of human endurance documented in the film. The film documents the decade-long saga of climber Tommy Caldwell and his partner Kevin Jorgeson as they worked to complete the hardest continuous rock climb in history on the 3,000 foot sheer rock Dawn Wall on El Capitan in Yosemite National Park, California. The human journey both off and on the wall grabbed worldwide attention in 2015 as the climbers, after years of preparation, struggled for more than two weeks to complete the impossible-seeming climb in a single push from the ground. Drummer Mike Fienen (Madison, WI) attended an early VIP screening in Colorado and recalls, “It was a proud moment, at an emotional climax of this compelling film, to hear music that we composed and produced, providing the soundtrack for a triumph on the big screen.” Guitarist Lane Devereaux (Wisconsin Rapids, WI) is eagerly looking forward to seeing the film, “I always imagined struggle on the ocean when writing this. In the film it’s struggle on an ocean of rock.”
The song "Search and Rescue" can be heard streaming on Spotify at https://tinyurl.com/y932vzhr.