Ep. 890: Riding Wild Mustangs from Mexico to Canada - Ben Masters
Adventure Sports Podcast
Curt Linville
4.6 • 579 Ratings
🗓️ 19 December 2022
⏱️ 55 minutes
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Summary
Wildlife filmmaking: Ben Masters' path from Texas A&M wildlife biology to founding Fin and Fur Films, producing Unbranded (riding wild mustangs Mexico to Canada), authoring two books, writing for National Geographic, and creating Deep in the Heart – a stunning celebration of Texas wilderness, wildlife diversity, conservation, and recovery.
Ben Masters is a filmmaker and writer specializing in wildlife and adventure stories. He is most known for producing Unbranded (Mountainfilm 2015 Audience Award Winner), a coming of age film about riding wild mustangs from Mexico to Canada. Masters studied wildlife biology at Texas A&M University and founded Fin and Fur Films in 2015. He is the author of two books published by Texas A&M University Press and has written for National Geographic and Western Horseman. A proud Texan, Masters loves riding a good horse through new country, filming wildlife stories that haven’t been documented before, and using movies to help conserve wildlife and wild places.
His most recent film, Deep in the Heart, is “a love letter to Texas”. It’s a visually stunning film celebrating the vast diversity of wilderness and wildlife in Texas. The story follows the relationship with the natural world and showcases our ability to destroy, conserve, and recover wildlife and the habitat we mutually depend on.
Watch Deep in the Heart: https://deepintheheartwildlife.com/
Fin&Fur Films: https://www.finandfurfilms.com/
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| 0:00.0 | Hey folks, welcome to the adventure sports podcast. I'm your host Mason. Today I am so excited about this because Ben is somebody I've admired from afar for a handful of |
| 0:22.8 | years now. Ever since watching his film unbranded, or the film he was featured in, I have pointed |
| 0:28.9 | people to that film to show them, tell them, this is what the American West looks like. So if you |
| 0:34.9 | haven't been to places like the Grand Canyon, the Rocky Mountains, |
| 0:38.5 | the deserts down in Mexico, Western Texas, all that, New Mexico, watch this film. It's absolutely |
| 0:46.0 | gorgeous. And what it's about, it's about four college friends who all get out of school, |
| 0:52.0 | cowboys essentially from Texas, |
| 1:01.4 | take 16 wild horses and ride them from Mexico all the way to Canada. |
| 1:05.0 | And they're going through the most beautiful places you can imagine. |
| 1:06.5 | The story is unbelievable. |
| 1:18.8 | It's a coming-of-age story, but they're also raising awareness about the wild horses that are all throughout the American West that the government has to frequently round up and do something with. |
| 1:30.1 | And so the effort with this film was to get those horses that they have to round up every year to be adopted and to show that they are useful. They can be useful horses and they don't have to be slaughtered or exterminated in other ways. And so it was an amazing story about |
| 1:35.8 | conservation and about the ethics of certain practices and whatnot. It was awesome. I just love the |
| 1:43.6 | film. I've love the film. |
| 1:46.5 | I've showed it and shared it with so many people. |
| 1:49.5 | And so when I had the chance to interview Ben about this, |
| 1:51.4 | I just jumped on it. |
| 1:53.4 | But what Ben has been doing, |
| 1:55.4 | this story that came out in 2015 has essentially shaped his entire career. |
| 1:59.4 | It launched his film career. |
| 2:00.7 | And now he has made, gosh, |
| 2:02.0 | a dozen or more, dozens of short films all about wildlife and nature and conservation, adventure, |
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