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Texas filmmaker urges for more wildlife conservation in documentary ‘Deep in the Heart’
As a little boy growing up on a ranch in Amarillo, Ben Masters always liked watching when a cheetah would chase down a gazelle on the grassy plains of the Serengeti during a National Geographic wildlife program. The natural world intrigued him so much, Masters earned a degree in wildlife biology at Texas A&M University in 2011. A few years after serving as a ranch manager in South Texas, he founded Fin & Fur Films, a production company that specializes in films about wildlife research, conservation, and activism. Now an Austin-based filmmaker, Masters’ most recent project is Deep in the Heart: A Texas Wildlife Story, a documentary on the diverse…
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BAMcinemaFest Announces 2022 Program | Filmmaker Magazine
Alma’s Rainbow (Photo: Milestone Films) BAMcinemaFest, which is returning with an in-person event June 23 – 30 at the Brooklyn Academy of Music, announced today the complete 2022 edition slate. The film opens with Paula Eiselt and Tonya Lewis Lee’s Aftershock, a documentary about the the ways in which the US maternal health system fails Black women and families, and it closes with Ramin Bahrani’s Sundance premiere, 2nd Chance, a portrait of Richard Davis, who invented the modern bulletproof vest while being something of an independent filmmaker and fabulist. Among the restorations are Ayoka Chenzira’s 1993 first feature film, the coming-of-age dramatic comedy Alma’s Rainbow, about a group of middle-class Black…
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