Embankment Launches Outer Banks Doc ‘Born Wild’ From ‘The Truffle Hunters’ Producers — EFM

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EXCLUSIVE: Embankment has launched global sales on director Adam McClelland’s feature documentary Born Wild, about mankind’s connection with animals.Born Wild charts the relationship between two intertwined communities who inhabit North Carolina’s storm-beaten and beautiful Outer Banks coastline: its human population, and its tribes of wild mustang horses.

Descendants of the first colonies, the horses have survived for centuries. But now threatened with extinction, the two dwindling groups of survivors must learn from and support each other if they are to last in this delicately balanced environment between land and sea, already fast disappearing as the effects of climate change take hold.Embankment will show first footage of the film – currently in production – to buyers ahead of the virtual EFM.Debut director Adam McClelland spent much of the past two years embedded in the tight-knit community of The Outer Banks documenting residents, conservationists, and climate change experts alike, and getting to know the varied tribes of horses.

He is shortly to return to these communities to chart how their symbiotic lives continue to rapidly transform in the face of climate change.“Growing up in North Carolina I was always interested in its barrier islands.

Born Wild explores the shifting boundaries of our land, our relationship to nature, the animal instinct to adapt, and the limits of humans to respond to the rising seas.