Dances with Films Film Festival: Rock Climber Vitek Linhart & Illustrator Anthony Dejesus from the documentary Rewilding
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- [email protected] (Charlene Goto, Erin Lim, Bitch Talk Podcast, Angela Tabora, Go-To Productions, Anthony Dejesus, Vitek Linhart, Rewilding the film, Dances With Films 2022)
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- Fri 10 Jun 2022
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The independent film festival Dances with Films is underway and we had the pleasure of watching one of the festival's feature documentaries Rewilding. Rewilding follows Anthony Dejesus, a 27-year-old budding artist and former Rikers Island inmate, as he leaves New York City for the first time with avid rock climbers and wilderness guides Jesse Spiegel and Vitek Linhart, determined to field test a program to take formerly incarcerated men into the wild.
The documentary pushes all participants in ways they never imagined and also opens them up to hard conversations with each other and themselves as they travel in a van for 7 weeks around the country. We had on one of the rock climbing leaders who also was the planner of much of the road trip - Vitek Linhart as well as the participant, all the way from the Bronx, Anthony Dejesus. We talked with the duo about the word privilege and what it meant to them before and after the film was finished, pet therapy, how the discussion of race is at the forefront of this film, and more.
Rewilding is a thought piece film. Even while you watch the hardest parts of the test program and how it unfolds, we hope this inspires more adventures that push conversations about race and privilege and what it means to be a brown or black person in nature spaces. If you're in the LA area on June 19, head to the world premiere of this special film. We're whole heartedly rooting for these guys.
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