Filmmaker, producer, writer, mountain biker and songwriter
The grandmother of extreme sports videos.
For more than forty years Patty Mooney has told stories on film and on the trail, from the world’s first Mt. Everest Mountain Bike Rally to award-winning documentaries that give voice to women, veterans and people who go unseen.
A career of firsts.
Patty helped invent the special-interest home video, then rode straight into the extreme-sports genre she would help define.
Instructional videos that started new genres
Massage For Relaxation and Common Sense Self Defense for Women, award-winning titles that were the first of their kind.
The Great Mountain Biking Video
Made with Mark Schulze a year after they discovered the sport in Canada.
First Women’s Mountain Bike Dual Slalom
Raced in the inaugural event at Mammoth Mountain, California.
Race winner at Big Bear Lake
A San Diego mountain bike champion, later featured on KUSI News.
The world’s first Mt. Everest Mountain Bike Rally
One of the first riders ever in the rally, and co-producer, writer and on-screen rider of Full Cycle: A World Odyssey.
First female underwater mountain biker
Rode the sea floor off Costa Rica. No coral was harmed.
First woman to ride inside the Turrialba Volcano
Mountain biked into the crater of Costa Rica’s Turrialba Volcano.
From the trail





Honors and recognition.
An internationally award-winning filmmaker, recognized for both her craft and her trailblazing.
Pioneer in Sports & Entertainment
San Diego Magazine, People’s Choice Award (2023)
Silver Hugo
Chicago International Film & Video Festival, for Full Cycle (1995)
Top 100 Producer, twice
Named among the nation’s leading video producers
Top San Diego production company
Clutch honors Crystal Pyramid Productions (2025)
Full Cycle: A World Odyssey
- Silver Hugo, Chicago International Film & Video Festival, 1995
- Silver Award, Charleston International Film Festival, 1995
- Award winner, New York International Festivals, 1995
- Multiple awards, International Cindy Awards, 1996
- Jade Crystal Communicator Award, 1998
- Aegis Award winner, 1998
- Classic Telly Award, 1999
The Invisible Ones
- Platinum Award, Ava Awards, 2008
- Award winner, Accolade Awards, 2008
- Gold Award, Aurora Awards, 2009
- Golden Reel Award, Media Communications Association International, 2010
- Award winner, Communitas Awards, 2011
- Official selection at Riverside, Buffalo Niagara, Fallbrook and Big Bear film festivals
Recent documentaries
- Twelve Black Cannabis Visionaries: Award winner, New York Movie Awards, 2024
- Nectarball: Official selection at Hollywood Gold Awards, Paris Film Awards, FilmHaus and New York Movie Awards, 2024
- My Choice: Winner, Best Documentary Feature; Audience Award; Indie Film Award
Films with something to say.
Her documentaries center women’s voices, confront homelessness, promote peace and celebrate adventure.

Full Cycle: A World Odyssey
A husband-and-wife search for the best singletrack on earth, from the Himalaya and Greece to Tahiti, Costa Rica and Wales.
- Silver Hugo, Chicago International Film & Video Festival
- Telly, Communicator and Aegis awards

Nectarball: The Story of Cannabis
How the world’s most misunderstood plant went from sacred medicine to public enemy, and back again.
- Four official selections at 2024 film festivals

The Invisible Ones: Homeless Combat Veterans
The quiet dignity of veterans living on the street, in their own words.
- Platinum Ava, Gold Aurora and Golden Reel awards

My Choice: March for Women’s Lives
The energy of the 2004 march in Washington, with Gloria Steinem, Sarah Weddington, Holly Near and Amy Brenneman.
- Best Documentary Feature and Audience Award winner

Twelve Black Cannabis Visionaries
Documentary, award winner at the New York Movie Awards, 2024

The Great Mountain Biking Video
1987, followed by Ultimate Mountain Biking and Battle at Durango

Massage For Relaxation
1985, the first of its genre

Co-founder and VP of Crystal Pyramid Productions, San Diego’s longest-serving video production company.
Since 1982 Patty has worked on hundreds of broadcast and corporate shoots, and since 1985 she has run New & Unique Videos, the company’s special-interest label and stock-footage library.
- Producer
- Editor
- Sound mixer
- Boom operator
- Voice over
- Teleprompter operator
- Still photographer
- Writer
- On-camera talent


Stories in words, too.
A longtime Videomaker contributor and a published poet, Patty writes about filmmaking, leadership, travel, relationships and plant medicine.
As seen inVideomaker, Substack, Issuu, ProductionHUB, OB Rag and Mission Times Courier
- True Life Love StoriesHer Substack, with 1,000+ subscribers
- Diary of a San Diego Video CrewBlog and World Traveler Reviews
- Videomaker articlesDocumentary, scripting, editing and sound
- Despite the PyramidsPoetry collection, 1979
- “Finding Love”In Hot Chocolate for the Mystical Lover, 2001
New music from Patty Mooney.
Songwriter, lyricist and singer, now recording albums under her own name.



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