2019 EFF TRAILER COWBOYS A DOCUMENTARY PORTRAIT

John Langmore is an Austin, Texas, based photographer pursuing long-term personal projects. His recently published book, Open Range: America's Big-Outfit Cowboy (Twin Palms Publishers 2018), is the result of over six years of work photographing on fourteen of the country's largest ranches, all running full crews of horseback cowboys. This work has been widely published and exhibited in galleries and museums. John is also completing a feature-length documentary film on working cowboys set to be released in 2019. Bud Force - director/cinematographer www.ultralitefilms.com www.budforce.com BUD FORCE IS A DIRECTOR AND CINEMATOGRAPHER WHO CRAFTS NON-FICTION FILMS ABOUT THE PEOPLE, CULTURE, AND CONDITION OF THE WORLD WE INHABIT. He is the co-director and cinematographer of the feature film “COWBOYS: A Documentary Portrait,” and author of the book, “Urban Search & Rescue,” published by Tamu Press. He is also the founder and managing partner at Ultralite Films, a commercial production company based in Austin, Texas. Told in the cinematic tradition of classic westerns, “COWBOYS - A Documentary Portrait” is a feature-length film that gives viewers the opportunity to ride alongside modern working cowboys on some of America's largest and most remote cattle ranches. The movie documents the lives of the men and women working on these "big outfit" ranches - some of which are over one million acres - and still require full crews of horseback mounted workers to tend large herds of cattle. Narrated through first-hand accounts from the cowboys themselves, the story is steeped in authenticity and explores the rewards and hardships of a celebrated but misunderstood way of life, including the challenges that lie ahead for the cowboys critical to providing the world's supply of beef. “COWBOYS” was filmed on eight of the nation’s largest cattle ranches across ten states in the American West. www.equusfilmfestival.net