Five years ago, New York-based filmmaker Jason Goldman was researching a possible documentary about animal sanctuaries and heard about Renee King-Sonnen, who had gone vegan a few years earlier, tra…
was researching a possible documentary about animal sanctuaries and heard about Renee King-Sonnen, who had gone vegan a few years earlier, transformed her husband’s Texas beef cattle ranch into Rowdy Girl Sanctuary, and started advocacy work that received regular national media attention.
Goldman, who worked for the legendary Maysles Films during an evolutionary period for the company in the 2000s, wanted to employ an observational style of filmmaking to create a cinematic vision of the animal rights movement that would be accessible to mainstream audiences. When he first spoke to King-Sonnen on the phone, in October 2018, Goldman discovered that she was not only rescuing animals but, as she puts it, rescuing ranchers: “She wanted to change the landscape of agriculture in [the United States], and provide ranchers—and farmers who grow animals for food—an opportunity to do something different.”
After filming approximately 30 days over two-and-a-half years, Goldman turned to documentary editor Pilar Rico, who works between New York and Spain. She was 2018 recipient of the Karen Schmeer Film Editing Fellowship, Diversity in the Edit Room, and her most recent credit is Jared P. Scott’s Venice-premiering feature-length enviro docu “The Great Green Wall” .
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