Mustangs & Renegades - Airing On Rumble!
Mustangs & Renegades Airing on Rumble! https://rumble.com/v60amse-mustangs-and-renegades-redux-a-modern-day-western.html
Hello Everyone,
For the Holiday Season we are releasing a number of our films on Rumble for Free! On 12/22/24 at 4:44 PM Mountain Time!
Our International Award Winning Documentary Film Mustangs & Renegades Redux will release at this Link: https://rumble.com/v60amse-mustangs-and-renegades-redux-a-modern-day-western.html
Simply click the link above to watch. Please give Mustangs & Renegades a like and feel free to comment in the comments section.
In Addition we will be releasing several others films for Free!
Veterans Healing With Horses is a heart warming view of the Horses For Heroes Program in Santa Fe New Mexico. Cowboy Up! & Wisdom Way For Warriors are unique Pre and Post deployment resilience, wellness and Skill-set restructuring programs for post 9/11 Veterans and active military including this who have sustained PTSD, physical injuries, or have experienced combat trauma. Showing at this link 7:30 PM- 12/22/24:
https://rumble.com/v61ajek-veterans-healing-with-horses.html
To learn more about this program and connect with the creators visit Horses For Heroes.Org.
Spirit Riders . . . Riding To Mend The Sacred Hoop.
Spirit Riders is an international award wining documentary film about the birth of an American Indian peace movement, begun by the Lakota Nation and its growth over the subsequent years. Releasing on 12/22/2024 at 8
View at this Link: https://rumble.com/v61bjhb-spirit-riders-riding-to-mend-the-sacred-hoop..html
This version of Spirit Riders is the short version. We were never able to get final finishing funding for the film. The award winning feature cut of Spirit Riders is sitting on shelve gathering dust. We hope to receive final finishing funding for Spirit Riders and release the full version. For now enjoy the short version of Spirit Riders.
From the stunning images of wilderness landscapes to the dramatic footage of peace and unity horseback rides, this film is a visual delight. With narration by Peter Coyote, interviews with ride-participant Viggo Mortensen and an eclectic soundtrack featuring American Indian Grammy winner Bill Miller, Robert Mirabal, Keith Secola, Rick Allen, Lauren Monroe. Spirit Riders not only entertains, but leads the audience on a profound journey inside a culture and a movement offering ancient traditional visions of peace to a troubled modern world.
Many respected members of the Lakota community, including descendent’s of Sitting Bull and Black Elk are featured in the film, both as participants in the rides and as social/cultural commentators. Charlotte Black Elk, Alex Whiteplume, Birgil Killstraight, Ron His Horse Is Thunder, Russell Means and Mel Lonehill all make appearances in the film.
The film introduces us to the Lakota Indian tradition of ceremonial horseback rides and how in the last twenty years these rides have become a source of inspiration for the Lakota people and a medium for a worldwide message of peace.
We will be announcing further releases of our Award Winning Documentary films on Rumble in the day ahead. This is wonderful educational aesthetic programing for the entire family over the holidays.
Wishing you and your family a wonderful holiday season.
James Anaquad Kleinert - Producer/Director/Cinematographer/Writer.
Mustangs & Renegades is the story America’s wild horses tell us about ourselves, globalization, and the ability of a storyteller to persevere, despite being targeted by the most powerful government in the world.
In Mustangs & Renegades, filmmaker James Anaquad Kleinert (Onondaga) discovers a unique, undisturbed band of wild horses, living free in Disappointment Valley Colorado. James documents his relationship with the majestic herd, led by their iconic stallion, Traveler. This relationship is brutally interrupted by government helicopter roundups; Traveler is injured and separated from his family, the tribe of wild horses is devastated. The event is a turning point for James, who sets out to understand the reasons behind the brutal roundups by the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) that are pushing the herd to the edge of extinction.
Click this link to watch Mustangs & Renegades for free: https://www.jamesanaquadkleinert.com/mustangs-renegades-free
As he fights to get Traveler free, James discovers that the extraction industries have been ignoring and perverting the laws to protect the mustangs, jeopardizing the fate of both wild horses and public lands. The BLM is the agency that is supposedly protecting the wild horses, but the US government’s second-largest source of income is the leasing of Public Lands to extractive industries. Oil and gas fracturing, uranium and other “rare earth” mining, is immanent in Disappointment Valley. Through interviews with the Department of the Interior, politicians, scientists, attorneys, miners, cowboys, Indians, and innocent people telling of their lives destroyed, Mustangs & Renegades shares a revealing look into the modern day American West.
James is tagged as a potential eco-terrorist and put under surveillance by the government; he partners with one of the nation’s leading FOIA (Freedom of Information Act) attorneys to investigate the surveillance. The fear created by the surveillance and the stress of being labeled a terrorist - no habeas corpus, just long-term prison sentences - forces James to relocate to safety in Norway, where he experiences a receptiveness to his work he never experienced in the US. He appeared as a guest on Ole Torp’s investigative talk show “Aktuelt” (Norwegian Rikskringkasting AS) Norways National Broadcaster. Aktuelt received some of its highest viewership ratings when kleinert showed scenes from his film Wild Horses & Renegades & explained the US governments management for extinction policy. The Norwegians were shocked and the State Department was pissed Kleinert was exposing the truth!
James is called back from Norway to Washington D.C., where he brings his case – Kleinert vs. Bureau of Land Management - to federal court and wins a major victory. Federal Judge Bates (also sits on the FISA court) strongly admonishes the BLM for its improper FOIA withholdings; it is clearly revealed that the BLM was working to thwart Kleinert’s investigative documentary. This case has set important precedent for future public records and legal proceedings with the BLM, helping citizens, western public land issues, and upholding the right of the public to full disclosure and Truth! Westlaw published the case - 2015 WL 5675792 – and it is now in legal standing.
James returns to the American West to discover deregulation policies by both political parties and massive land grabs by the extractive industries. James doubles his efforts to educate the public on the plight of Western ecosystems and wild horses, which so clearly mirror our own human quest for freedom. Despite persecution and very little financial support James continues to document and expose the hard truth on the plight of our wild horses, public lands and corporate/government collusion. James has 8 additional rough cut episodes of Mustangs & Renegades & is shopping the series for final post production financing.
Kleinert’s follow up film Native Horse a completed 56 minute feature: “Native Horse” an inspirational documentary film explores the profound relationship between American Indians and the horse from ancient history to modern science. Harnessing the power & beauty of the horse, the film spectacularly illustrates the deep cultural connection that American Indians have and continue to share with Horse Nation.
In addition Kleinert is completing several more episodes of Mustangs & Renegades as he continues to investigate the corruption surrounding America’s Wild Horses and out Public Lands!
“By protecting the rights of these majestic creatures, we are taking a giant leap forward in the protection of the wild spaces that support us, connect us, and that define the “Land of the Free, and the Home of the Brave”.
The Book: No Country For Truth Tellers by James Anaquad Kleinert gives a much deeper account of the story. Available on Amazon: www.amazon.com/Country-Truth-Tellers-globalization-storyteller/dp/173374097X
For more information contact: jameskleinert@me.com
Please support our work and purchase a Fine Art Print from Shop Prints at this Link https://www.jamesanaquadkleinert.com/shop-prints.
Thank you very much for your interest.
James Anaquad Kleinert - Director/Cinematographer/Writer/Horsemen