Dani Reyes-Acosta is an award-winning Independent FilmMAKER, storyteller, and mountain athlete exploring the meaning of reciprocity and belonging in an individualistic world.
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Dani is a creative strategist and storyteller whose work spans brand, behavioral change, and place-based connection. If you need to root next-generation leaders to themselves and the land, let’s talk.
Her award-winning impact media company, Afuera Productions, works across sectors to shift culture through documentary film, integrated campaigns, and community programming. Whether behind the camera, on a stage, or deep in the backcountry (or a spreadsheet), she tells stories that challenge dominant narratives and build momentum for change.
She draws from 15+ years of experience across Fortune 100s, startups, and creative entrepreneurship — including Nike, Vail Resorts, and The North Face — grounded in integrated marketing, human-centered design, and equitable access. Her practice centers cultural inquiry, community power, and the everyday acts of resilience that define our collective journey.
A bilingual (English/Spanish) Mestiza and Filipina storyteller based in rural Southwest Colorado, she accept both remote and hybrid contracts.
Offerings include strategic advising, film and creative direction, creative strategy campaign consults, and more.
Athlete & Speaker
Dani has built her mountain craft through human-powered adventure—namely splitboarding, climbing, and running—on trips through Andorra, Argentina, Canada, Chile, France, Mexico, Peru, Spain, Switzerland, and the USA. A trilingual (English, Spanish, French) and multicultural (Mestiza and Filipina) athlete, Dani leverages her lived experience to catalyze connection, reflection, and action—inviting others to join her on a journey to unearth the power they carry within.
She holds a hard-won AIARE Pro 1 and has developed various empathy-driven communications curricula, her commitment to expanding access to backcountry education underpinning her mountain mindset.
Experienced operating solo as well as leading teams in high-consequence environments, she strives for equanimity under pressure, an inclusive mentorship practice, and honest risk assessment.
She credits her parents as much as her ancestral lineage for the work ethic, mindset, and boundless energy that put her here today.
Offerings include virtual workshops, public speaking, keynote appearances, photo shoots, and more.
The mountains have my heart, but the ocean owns my soul.
I started life as a small-town beach girl, but have grown into the person I am today because of my experiences as a multiracial, multilingual woman pursuing growth, outside.
Originally from Playa del Rey, California, I came of age in our nation’s agricultural capital, its Central Valley, a place that seeded resilience in the face of near-fatal adolescent trauma. Flash forward: In 2014, I graduated from corporate life with a one-way ticket to South America, and began traveling through Argentina, Chile, Mexico, Peru, Andorra, Canada, and the USA, building my mountain craft as not just a moving meditation, but a somatic reacculturation practice.
Rooted in rural Colorado, I hope we can connect on this journey of personal and collective actualization.
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