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Gila Wild

World Premiere
13 mins |
United States |
2021
GENRE(S): 
  • Adventure
  • Environment
DIRECTOR:
Pete McBride
LANGUAGE(S): English

Synopsis

Who is conservation for? Filmmaker Pete McBride attempts to find the answer on a pack raft journey down seventy miles of New Mexico’s longest free-flowing river, which carves through America’s first designated wilderness area. This film explores why the Gila River should be protected — and for whom.

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This film was part of VIMFF 2022 and is no longer available for viewing.

Director

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Pete McBride

Native Coloradan Pete McBride has spent two decades studying the world with a camera. A self-taught photographer, filmmaker, writer, and public speaker, he is a Sony Artisan of Imagery and has traveled on assignment to over 75 countries for organizations like the National Geographic Society, Smithsonian, Google, and The Nature Conservancy. He has also spoken on stages for TEDx, The World Economic Forum, USAID, Nat Geo Live and more. After a decade documenting remote expeditions from Everest to Antarctica, McBride decided to focus his cameras closer to home on a subject closer to his heart—his backyard river, the Colorado. Four years and 1500 river-miles later, McBride produced an acclaimed book, three award-winning documentaries and co-hosted a PBS TV program. Other watersheds soon called, including a source-to-sea look at India’s sacred Ganges River. Upon completing the journey, The National Geographic Society named McBride a “Freshwater Hero.” His latest project replaced rafting with walking—a lot of it. Over the course of a year, McBride hiked the entire length of Grand Canyon National Park — over 750 miles without a trail — to highlight development challenges facing this iconic landscape. After completing the journey, National Geographic named him and his hiking companion, writer Kevin Fedarko, “Adventurers of the Year.” McBride has since released a Rizzoli book, “Grand Canyon: Between River and Rim,” that won a National Outdoor Book Award. He accompanied the book with a feature-length documentary, Into the Canyon, for National Geographic Channel, which earned an Emmy nomination and won Best Feature at the Banff Mountain Film Festival among others. McBride resides in the Rocky Mountains of Colorado.

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