Jessica, Levi, Nick and Aneta

Jessica Vandenbush is a first time filmmaker, Founder & Editor In-Chief of Eat Clean Run Dirty Magazine, Podcast Host, writer, photographer, award winning aid station captain and trail and ultra running athlete known for her passion for the sport. Jess started her running career in 2014 with her first 5k and soon after found trail running and with it an amazing community. Jess learned about 100 mile trail races while attending The Trail Running Film Festival. She saw Matt Cecill’s film featuring Rainshadow Running’s 100 mile trail race on Orcas Island and it set a blaze in her heart to one day to be a 100 mile mountain runner herself.

Today Jessica gets most of her miles in the foothills of Boise, Idaho. Jess loves to be in service of others and volunteers at numerous races across the country. Jess is passionate about traveling and exploring new places and actively seeks the struggle and the lessons learned when you reach far beyond your comfort zone.

Levi Watson When I started out in photography, I didn’t know where it would take me. I didn’t know it would take me to different countries, capturing incredible moments in people’s lives, experiencing them first-hand. I didn’t know I would get to be a part, even just a small part, of so many different stories. I didn’t know it would connect me to so many different people in a way that I didn’t understand. I didn’t know I would have the opportunity to impact people around me in a way that other things couldn’t; I was just a kid who liked using his dad’s camera, and spent all of his free time taking pictures. Over the years my passion for photography has changed in many ways, and it’s something that’s always growing and developing as I find my voice in the vast, ever-changing digital world. Recently, I’ve taken it back to where my passion began; video. Video has the power to communicate, inspire, and kindle a passion unlike any other. For me, that’s where my creative journey started, and it’s where I’m headed. This is just the start.

Nick Danielson Seattle born and raised, Nick Danielson spends much of his time adventuring in the mountains of the Cascade range, documenting outdoor athletes and wilderness locations with his camera. With a background in photojournalism and visual design, Nick is always pursuing visually engaging stories in his films and works full-time as a freelance photographer, filmmaker, and designer.

Aneta Zeppettella Aneta “Nettie” Zeppettella grew up in Poland, but has been calling Ohio home for two decades. Nettie wrote simulation software in her previous life, but now she splits her time between substitute teaching, co-directing ultrarunning events with her friend, being a taxi for her teenage swimmer daughter, and training for her next 100-miler.

Nettie has completed several 100 mile or longer events, including HURT 100, Bear 100, Badwater 135, and Potawatomi 200. Growing up, Nettie never showed any significant athletic talent and was often one of the last kids to be picked for a team in gym class. She often says that her talent is that she just doesn’t quit. Nettie is a chapter leader for the Dayton Trail Sisters group and is very passionate about encouraging other women to run trails, especially the 100 mile distances. She truly believes that the growth of female participation in the sport will come from seeing other women with work and family obligations finding a way to fit some training miles in between various commitments.

Nettie thinks that dry shampoo is the greatest invention of all time, and she can often be found running in circles around the pool complex during her daughter’s swim practices. Besides running, she loves reading, eating authentic Polish bread, and learning foreign languages. Nettie speaks Polish, English, Russian, and far from perfect French.