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TRISTAN BAYER, filmmaker

"I LIVED WITH MASAI TRIBES IN AFRICA when I was nine months old. Half a year later, I followed bighorn sheep in Canada. My father was a wildlife filmmaker, and I spent my youthful summers as my dad's assistant, sitting on his shoulders as he waded into murky waters to photograph the Caiman crocodiles of [Venezuela]. My childhood was a surreal, magical place where I trucked with my family through the mountains of Patagonia to follow llamas or traveled to Australia to do a film on dolphins. When I got older, I decided that I wanted to make wildlife films. When my dad suffered a heart attack and almost died, or family sold the house and set out to make one last film with him. It's about the polar bears, bats, and sperm whales that he loves and it's also about the family that loves him in return. The film is titled Earthling, and we hope we can show it at [a film festival] this year. To me and to my father, nature is absolutely everything."