The Western Watersheds Project invites the public to view “Wild Beauty: Mustang Spirit of the West.”
The non-profit organization, which works to conserve public lands and wildlife throughout the American west, will screen Ashley Avis’ film, which traces the history of wild horses in North America and the modern conflicts over their management on public lands, at 6 pm on Tuesday in the Park City Library’s Jim Santy Auditorium.
Auditions are free, but RSVPs are strongly encouraged, said Dagny Signorelli, Western Watersheds Project northern Utah and Wyoming director.
He said: “We have already registered 350, so we are expecting a lot of people.
Visit tinyurl.com/bdstanzn to RSVP.
Released in 2022, “Wild Beauty: Mustang Spirit of the West” won Best Documentary at the Boston Film Festival and the St. Louis International Film Festival. Louis, along with Best Cinematography at DOCLA, while Avis won Best Director.
Avis’ connection to the Western Watersheds project comes from the nonprofit’s executive director Erik Molvar, who appears in the film.
Avis, who wrote, directed and directed Disney’s 2020 remake of Academy Award-winning Kate Winslet’s “Black Beauty,” is the founder and president of the Wild Beauty Foundation, an organization dedicated to protecting wild horses, wolves and wildlife, and through the Western Watersheds Project, she and Erik have developed a working relationship, Signorelli said.
“Our organizations work together, and wild horses are one of those projects,” he said. And we’re doing a lot of work to make that clear. We work with a lot of advocates in and around Park City, and we thought it would be a great place to film.”
Some of the Western Watersheds Project’s wild horse projects include helping to protect the wild horses in Utah’s Onaqui Mountain West Desert and the Muddy Creek horse herd in Emery County, according to Signorelli.
The Bureau of Land Management Price Field Office is currently conducting a 30-day public hearing for the proposed Muddy Creek Wild Horse and Burro Herd Management Area Project and related Environmental Review, according to blm.gov.
The public comment period closes at 11:59 p.m. on April 1, and the BLM invites the public to review the materials and provide comments on including but not limited to environmental concerns, reasonable alternatives and recommended mitigation measures.
Project documents and details as well as feedback are available at tinyurl.com/uud5h65t.
“Since the feedback will be forthcoming, this is timely,” Signorellis said.
The screening of “Wild Beauty” will be followed by an interview with Molvar and, hopefully, Avis, according to Signorelli.
“Erik will be there in person,” he said. “We’re not sure if Ashley will be there in person, but we’re working on finding her.”
The evening will include opportunities for attendees to donate to the cause, Signorelli said.
If people can’t attend, they can still donate online, and we also have QR codes on our social media pages – Facebook, Instagram and Substack,” he said.
Signorelli discovered the Western Watersheds project while completing grad school at the University of Western Colorado.
He said: “I looked for jobs in the field of ecology, and the Western Watersheds Project emphasizes environmental knowledge and background because they bring science to the work they do.” “I felt very connected to that.”
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