Running Wild is a feature documentary which I co-produced and edited for director Suzanne Mitchell.  It premiered at Slamdance 2013.  It won the Audience Award at the 2013 Sarasota Film Festival, Best Feature at the 2013 Prescott Film Festival, and Best Documentary at the 2013 Black Hills Film Festival.

 

About the Film: Running Wild is the inspiring journey of a remarkable cowboy who triumphs in his quest to protect wild horses and the American West.   From rodeos, conservation battles and wild horse rescues to his award-winning books, personal heartbreak and new found love, Running Wild is the self-told tale of a 6’5” cowboy who demonstrates the importance of defending our natural world. More than 25 years ago Dayton founded the 12,000-acre prairieland Black Hills Wild Horse Sanctuary, where almost 600 mustangs rescued from the controversial wild horse roundups, slaughter or misery now run free. The film includes never-before-seen footage of a Lakota Naming Ceremony, held to recognize Hyde as a protector of sacred land. Hyde continues to fight to protect the land and reveals his current effort against a uranium mining company that is poised to pollute the water and contaminate the ecosystems that support the residents, wildlife, and horses of the Black Hills. At 88, Hyde says, "It's going to be my last great battle, but I'm going to win this one.”