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USA, 2007, 75 Minute Running Time Genre/Subjects: Documentary, Educational, Nature, Political, Social Issues, Western Program: Documentary FilmsLanguage: English
DIRECTOR: Zachary Fink
Cultural anthropologist and ethnographic filmmaker Zachary Fink paints this poignant and lyrical portrait of a changing American West as he chronicles the hardships of rural Coloradans forced to adapt to the conditions brought by the encroaching presence of the natural gas industry. Over the course of a year, amid the transformation of the Rocky Mountain landscape from wide-open ranchland to a patchwork of natural-gas drilling sites, Fink follows three locals to determine how the energy boom has affected their lives and livelihoods. There’s rig worker Nathan Bassetti, a professed roughneck trying to break the addiction to methamphetamine plaguing so many in rural communities like his; he dreams of being reunited with his young daughter and getting back to work in the fields. There’s third-generation rancher Steve Wells, caught in an increasingly common catch-22: the more land he leases to drilling companies in order to keep his business afloat, the less he has for raising cattle. And then there’s vagabond cowboy poet T. Ray Becker. At nearly 60, T. Ray now lives not on a ranch but in a 21-foot RV, and spends his days composing lyrics about finding a home where men still don Stetsons with pride. Cultivating an intimate rapport with his three subjects, Fink is able to present a closely observed, deeply revealing study of the social, environmental and economic impact industrial development has had on the American West – and on its dying breed of mavericks. In person – Zachary Fink Sponsored by Holland & Hart