ABOUT THE FILM

LONG SYNOPSIS

THE RIVER AND THE WALL follows five friends on an immersive adventure through the unknown wilds of the Texas borderlands as they travel 1200 miles from El Paso to the Gulf of Mexico on horses, mountain bikes, and canoes.

Conservation filmmaker Ben Masters realizes the urgency of documenting the last remaining wilderness in Texas as the threat of new border wall construction looms ahead. Masters recruits NatGeo Explorer Filipe DeAndrade, ornithologist Heather Mackey, river guide Austin Alvarado, and conservationist Jay Kleberg to join him on the two-and-a-half-month journey down 1,200 miles of the U.S.-Mexico border.

They set out to document the borderlands and explore the potential impacts of a wall on the natural environment, but as the wilderness gives way to the more populated and heavily trafficked Lower Rio Grande Valley, they come face-to-face with the human side of the immigration debate and enter uncharted emotional waters.

Director Ben Masters

Producer Hillary Pierce

Executive Producers Cindy Meehl, Nancy P. Sanders, Howard G. Buffett

Associate Producers Jay Kleberg, Katy Baldock

Editor John Aldrich

Cinematographers John Aldrich, Dave Adams, Korey Kaczmarek, Phillip Baribeau, Brandon Widener, Collin Baggett

Cast Ben Masters, Jay Kelberg, Filipe Deandrade, Heather Mackey, Austin Alvarado, Beto O'Rourke, Will Hurd

FESTIVALS
2019: SXSW (World Premiere)

AVAILABLE TERRITORIES
The World

EXHIBITION FORMATS
DCP, Blu-Ray