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THE LONG RIDER

By Sean CISTERNA

MYTHIC PRODUCTIONS - as SALES All rights, World / PROD / FIN

Action/Adventure - Post-Production 2022

A young immigrant rides a pair of horses from Canada to Brazil when his permanent residency expires and he is forced to leave his home.

- Year of production
- 2022
- Genres
- Action/Adventure, Western, Documentary
- Countries
- CANADA
- Languages
- ENGLISH-UNITED STATES, SPANISH, BRAZILIAN-PORTUGUESE
- Budget
- 0.6 - 1 M$
- Duration
- 94 mn
- Director(s)
- Sean CISTERNA
- Producer(s)
- Aeschylus POULOS (HAWKEYE PICTURES), Sean CISTERNA (MYTHIC PRODUCTIONS), Sonya DIRIENZO (HAWKEYE PICTURES)
- Synopsis
- When Filipe Leite's permanent residency lapses and he is forced to leave his adoptive home of Canada, the aspiring journalism student sets out on an epic quest to ride from Calgary to his family home in Pinhal, Brazil - and later beyond - entirely on donated horses Frenchie and Bruiser. Inspired by Aimé Tschiffley's 1925 equestrian journey, Filipe's 8 year odyssey of over 25,000 kms across 12 international borders, sees the young immigrant battle intense heat, drought, speeding transport trucks, nature's wrath and corrupt border guards on his history-making long ride home. Culled from over 500 hours of inspiring never-before-seen-footage, The Long Rider deals with the issue of chronic loneliness, and the insensitive and restrictive nature of international borders, but is above all else an inspirational and emotional story of the most daring and epic proportions.