During the 15th annual flagship festival, 5Point Film held the first-ever Adventure Filmmaker Pitch Event, presented by Stio, which saw budding filmmakers pitch their projects to jurors, with one project being awarded $15,000 to support production of the project. The winner of the Pitch Event was filmmaker Ryan Ernstes of Boulder, Colorado, whose project Diagonal, tells the story of connections with nature through travel across the state of Colorado.