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Update #18: Gone wild and lovin' it
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Update #17: On the road from Dugway to Delta
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Update #16: We're making a movie folks!
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Update #15: Flying high
Just spent a couple of fantastic days filming with the Boies family in Nevada!
We met Steve Boies at the Shoesole Group meeting- a collaborative, consensus based group that brings diverse stakeholders together to work on natural resource management. Their perspective that dialogue and consensus are what's needed and that the energy needs to go towards solutions rather than the fight is very much in line with the ideas behind Roaming Wild, and we were glad to see it happening on the ground.
The following day brought more adventure as we rode around on hay trucks, flew in a 2 -seater airplane, and pushed through hundreds of head of cattle- all in a day's work! Dana found a new boyfriend in #41, a 500 lb steer who had an immediate crush on her. I got my first flying lesson while shooting aerial footage from a 1950's vintage plane. By the end, we nicknamed their ranch the 'Eat Well Ranch'. We were sad to leave such good people and a place that allows for such connection to the land.
I'm wrapping up filming this month and next, and things are moving and shaking. In New Mexico now and headed out at 5am tomorrow to film part of the bait trapping process. Looking forward to filming the horses in the snow which I haven't gotten to do yet. Then back to Utah in the middle of the week to film the gather of the Onaqui herd that you saw pictures of in August.
Here are a few pics from our adventures, more to come soon.
~Sylvia
Update #14: Return to Nevada
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Posted on February 8
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Born in Bolivia to American parents doing development work abroad, and raised in Latin America and the mountains of Colorado, Sylvia is an independent filmmaker who seeks to share the commonality of the human experience through visual storytelling.
In 2005 she applied for and got a Fulbright grant, sold her car to buy a video camera, and headed off to teach photography and make a film in the ghettos of Brazil. Her film, Alagados, was nominated for an International Documentary Association award and screened at festivals across the globe. Sylvia used the film to launch The Alagados Project, a nonprofit organization that promotes access to education for marginalized Brazilian youth.
Just as comfortable in cowboy boots as in Haviana flipflops on the streets of Brazil, Sylvia is a lifelong equestrian who spent all of her free time as a teenager riding and working on a ranch in Colorado. And what could be better than shooting a film about wild horses? It’s definitely a good conversation starter!
PARTNER IN CRIME:
Joining Sylvia on this adventure is Angelica Das, also known as Angie. In her day job, Angie is associate director at the Center for Social Media where she spends the hours engrossed in social documentary film. Now she’s taking documentary out of the office and into the field. She’s helping produce Roaming Wild and will be Sylvia’s right hand woman on the upcoming film shoot. Angie has Polish and Indian roots, is public radio obsessed and loves winters and her dog. She also has a brief history of riding horses and is thrilled to have them back in her life.
SPECIAL THANK YOU TO: Kari Barber, Silvina Fernandez-Duque, Laura Waters Hinson and River Finlay!
