America's Wild Horses Call to Action featuring Raoul Trujillo.

This powerful 90 second call to actin public service announcement will propel the views to contact their elected officials in Washington D.C.

From the documentary film Wild Horses & Renegades.

Washington DC film premiere of new documentary to highlight brutality and wasted tax dollars of Bureau of Land Management wild horse roundups
Congressmen Raul Grijalva (D-AZ) is honorary host of free July 7th screening

Washington DC, June 29, 2011.... A new full-length documentary by director James Anaquad-Kleinert will premiere in Washington DC on July 7th to draw attention to the horrific mismanagement of wild horse roundups conducted by the Department of the Interior’s Bureau of Land Management. The free screening supports proposed federal action that will reinstate protection of America’s wild horses and our public lands.

With dramatic footage, Wild Horses & Renegades exposes how millions of taxpayer dollars are being used to corral the few remaining American wild horses, which are then underfed, forced into inhumane and diseased living conditions, and sold for adoption or to Mexican slaughterhouses for human consumption. The Bureau of Land Management estimates it has over 40,000 wild horses in holding facilities, costing taxpayers $120,000 a day.

What: Free Washington DC Premiere of Wild Horses & Renegades, with honorary host Congressmen Raul Grijalva (D-AZ).
When: Thursday, July 7th, 2011, 6 PM
Where: U.S. Capitol Visitor Center, Orientation Theater South, beneath the East Front plaza of the U.S. Capitol at First Street and East Capitol Street
Who: Director James Kleinert, Michael Blake (author of Dances with Wolves), Raoul Trujillo (actor in Cowboys & Aliens) and Congressmen Raul Grijalva (D-AZ) will be in attendance.

In Wild Horses & Renegades, Anaquad-Kleinert weaves shocking footage of actual roundups with the story of a horse named Traveler and his journey from a strong stallion on the range to a broken inmate at a Bureau of Land Management processing center in Canon City, Colorado. Shot in high definition, this film’s incredible aesthetics contrast with the mismanagement of our last wild public lands.

In the film, Willie Nelson, Sheryl Crow, Viggo Mortense, Raoul Trujillo, Daryl Hannah and Dances with Wolves author Michael Blake join with former New Mexico Governor Bill Richardson and Rep. Raul Grijalva (D-AZ) to highlight how the great symbol of the American West is being purposefully driven to extinction by a corrupt Bureau of Land Management. The documentary captures the corporate benefits of wild horse roundups, including clearing land for Uranium mining claims, oil and gas pipelines and corporate cattle grazing.

Anaquad-Kleinert is offering the film as a tool to spark support for an executive order ending Bureau of Land Management wild horse roundups and an a congressional investigation into the Department of the Interior. “Whereas most Americans would be shocked that the very symbol of the American West is ending up being sold for human consumption, the Bureau of Land Management shows very little regard for the life of wild horses,” said Director James Anaquad-Kleinert. “The federal attack on the American wild horse is an indicator of what is to come of our public natural resources.”

Wild horse advocates are seeking:
• A moratorium of roundups in all but verifiable emergency situations while the entire BLM wild horse program undergoes objective and scientific review;
• Higher Appropriate Management Levels (AML) for wild horses on rangelands designated for them;
• Implementation of in-the-wild management, which would keep wild horses on the range and save taxpayers millions annually by avoiding the mass removal and stockpiling of wild horses in government holding facilities.

“If the public could view what’s being done to wild horses, the public would stand up and take action. This is not a film just about America’s Wild Horses, this is a film about what is happening to America itself,” states Michael Blake, author of Dances with Wolves, in Wild Horses & Renegades.

Wild Horses & Renegades is available for review on request. More information is available at theamericanwildhorse.com.

About James Anaquad-Kleinert
Always ready to tackle challenges, James Anaquad-Kleinert, the former World Cup
competitor in aerial freestyle skiing, has been hailed for both his high action winter sports films and his in-depth environmental films with a strong Native American element.
Anaquad-Kleinert produces from his company, Moving Cloud Productions based in Santa Fe, New Mexico (movingcloud.com). Other works include The Edge of Telluride and Spirit Riders, an award-winning documentary that showed in part on HBO.com (spiritridersmovie.com).

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