Philadelphia Environmental Film Festival 2020

Program 02 - AMERICAN ADVENTURES

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Five friends venture into the unknown wilds of the Texas borderlands to travel 1,200 miles on horses, mountain bikes, and canoes along the Rio Grande - a two-and-a-half-month journey from El Paso to the Gulf of Mexico. They set out to document the borderlands and explore the potential impacts of a wall on the natural environment, but as the wilderness gives way to the more populated and heavily trafficked Lower Rio Grande Valley, they come face-to-face with the human side of the immigration debate and enter uncharted emotional waters.


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  • Year
    2019
  • Runtime
    97 minutes
  • Language
    English
  • Country
    USA
  • Premiere
    December 31, 2018
  • Note
    Director Biography - Ben Masters: Ben Masters grew up in West Texas, studied wildlife biology at Texas A&M University, and spent four years working on a border ranch near Laredo. Masters is best known for UNBRANDED, a feature documentary on Netflix, in which he and three friends adopted 16 wild mustangs, trained them, and rode 3,000 miles from Mexico to Canada to inspire wild horse adoptions. He is a published author, a National Geographic photographer, cinematographer, and writer, and his work has received dozens of domestic and international awards including the Audience Award at Hot Docs International Film Festival, the People’s Choice Award at Banff Film Festival, and the Audience Award at Telluride Mountainfilm. Masters represents the interests of wildlife on 31.2 Million acres of federal public land as the Wildlife Management Chair of the BLM’s volunteer Wild Horse & Burro Advisory Board.
  • Director
    Ben Masters
  • Producer
    Hillary Pierce
  • Cast
    Austin Alvarado, Jay Kleberg, Heather Mackey, Ben Masters, Filipe DeAndrade, Beto O'Rourke, Will Hurd
  • Editor
    John Aldrich