The Call of the Wild

Synopsis

The Call of the wild retraces the travels of Chris McCandless, a 24-year-old “aesthetic voyager” who died in the Alaskan wilderness in 1992. Over the course of his journey, filmmaker Ron Lamothe encounters an entire cast of McCandless-inspired characters, and uncovers new evidence that contradicts both Jon Krakauer’s (Into the Wild) interpretation of McCandless’s death, and that of Sean Penn’s Hollywood docudrama.

Director Biography

Ron Lamothe (born 1968) is a director of documentary films and the founder of Terra Incognita Films. In 2000, Lamothe began pre-production on The Political Dr. Seuss, a documentary on the life and “political” works of Theodor Geisel. In 2004, the documentary aired nationwide on PBS as the season premiere of Independent Lens. It was subsequently nominated for a George Foster Peabody Award in documentary television.