Uncharted States of America
The Call of the Wild
Director
Ron Lamothe
Producer
Ron Lamothe
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2007
United States
108 min
Color
The Call of the wild retraces the travels of Chris McCandless, a 24-year-old “aesthetic voyager” who died in the Alaskan wilderness in 1992. Over the course of his journey, filmmaker Ron Lamothe encounters an entire cast of McCandless-inspired characters, and uncovers new evidence that contradicts both Jon Krakauer’s (Into the Wild) interpretation of McCandless’s death, and that of Sean Penn’s Hollywood docudrama.
Ron Lamothe (born 1968) is a director of documentary films and the founder of Terra Incognita Films. In 2000, Lamothe began pre-production on The Political Dr. Seuss, a documentary on the life and “political” works of Theodor Geisel. In 2004, the documentary aired nationwide on PBS as the season premiere of Independent Lens. It was subsequently nominated for a George Foster Peabody Award in documentary television.
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