FILMRISE TO RELEASE
“WILDLAND”
AN INTIMATE LOOK AT THE LIVES OF THE MEN
BATTLING WILDFIRES
“This film
delivers”
– OUTSIDE MAGAZINE
-Available on iTunes, Prime Video, Google Play,
Xbox, and DVD April 30-
Brooklyn,
NY – April 1, 2019 – FilmRise announces the digital release of Alex
Jablonski and Kahlil Hudson’s immersive and cinematic feature-length
documentary “WILDLAND” on DVD and
for sale and rental on iTunes, Prime Video, Google Play and Xbox beginning April 30, 2019. The film takes viewers inside the lives and
experiences of a group of men who spend a summer fighting wildfires.
Hailed by Filmmaker Magazine, “A unique
knockout,” and “A must see” by The San Jose Mercury News, the film is epic and
intimate in the same breath, and tells
the story of a single wildland firefighting crew as they struggle with fear,
loyalty, love and defeat all over the course of a single fire season. What
emerges is a story of a small group of working-class men, their exterior world,
their interior lives, and the fire that lies between.
Every summer the American West burns. As
climate change has increased, average temperatures have risen, resulting in a
swift rise in wildfires in both frequency and intensity. Inside every one of
these fires are small crews who work to contain the fire by hand - using
shovels, pickaxes and methods that haven’t changed in sixty years.
WILDLAND goes
inside the lives and experiences of the men who battle these fires by following
a twenty-man wildland firefighting crew over the course of a single fire
season.
Together these men are tasked with
facing nature’s most elemental force and finding their way through boredom,
fear, and a job that is frequently described as ‘long hours of hard labor
punctuated by moments of sheer terror.’
The men are lead by Crew Boss, Tim
Brewer. A 6th grade dropout and former meth-addict, Tim has spent nineteen
years fighting fire and now credits the job with saving his life. His only
focus during the summer is making sure that ‘nobody gets hurt and everybody
comes home.’
Late in the film, the crew is dispatched
to the largest fire in the country. It’s here that they’ll make a stand and
engage in a hectic final battle that they’ll carry with them forever.
Literary in style and epic in scope,
this film blends an earned lyricism with intimate verité moments to look deeply
at our interior lives and understand how a single summer can change the course
of your life.
A 56-minute version of the film aired on
PBS’s Independent Lens in October 2018 with the full-length feature with 27
minutes of additional footage never broadcast released nationally to movie
theaters in January of 2019.
“WILDLAND” has a running time of 77 minutes and is not rated. Additional details can be found on the
film’s website: www.wildlandfilm.com.
ABOUT THE FILMMAKERS
Alex
Jablonski
Alex produced and edited Low & Clear, which premiered at SXSW
where it won the Audience Award. Previously Alex created the documentary
project Sparrow Songs in which he
made one short documentary a month, every month for a year. The project
developed a worldwide following and he was named to Filmmaker Magazine’s list
of The 25 New Faces of Independent Film.
The series was spotlighted at Sundance and screened at SXSW at IDFA. In 2018, Alex was named as the Sundance
Institute I Discovery Impact Fellow.
Kahlil
Hudson
Kahlil is a Native Tligit Alaskan and
currently a professor of film at Santa Fe’s Institute of American Indian Arts.
His first feature documentary Low &
Clear premiered at SXSW and went on to screen at numerous festivals
including True/False, HotDocs, and IDFA. Kahlil is the co-founder of Finback, a
creative content agency that bring documentary-style storytelling to brands and
whose handled large campaigns for Filson and Ram Trucks amongst others.
ABOUT FILMRISE
FilmRise is a film and TV
distribution company and streaming network founded by veteran
producer/financiers Danny Fisher, Jack Fisher and Alan Klingenstein. With over
15,000 titles in a wide range of genres, the company’s releases include HBO’s
multiple Emmy®-winning “Going Clear: Scientology and the Prison of
Belief”; “Janis: Little Girl Blue,” produced by Oscar®-winner Alex
Gibney; two-time Academy Award®-nominee Julie Delpy’s “Lolo; and the
Sundance hit “White Girl”. Television titles include such classics as
“Roseanne” and “3rd Rock from the Sun”, as well as the iconic
Robert Stack hosted series “Unsolved Mysteries” and Gordon Ramsay’s “Hell’s
Kitchen” and “Kitchen Nightmares.”
FilmRise’s recent releases
include “Manifesto” starring two-time Oscar®-winner Cate Blanchett; sci-fi
drama “Marjorie Prime” starring Jon Hamm and Lois Smith; the box-office hit “My
Friend Dahmer” starring Ross Lynch and Anne Heche; and “The Miseducation of
Cameron Post” starring Chloë Grace Moretz.
For more information, please
visit www.FilmRise.com.
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