The Next Best West

The Next, Best West explores our changing relationship with the land that sustains us. The Next, Best West explores our changing relationship with the land that sustains us. It tells the story of how the conventional American concept of progress has steered our exploitation of the Western landscape, and takes you to three places – Colorado’s San Luis Valley, the high plains of eastern Montana and the Elwha River on Washington’s Olympic Peninsula – where a vibrant new understanding of progress presages a better future. Length (mins): 36 Year Completed: 2012 Produced and Directed by Darren Campbell and Hunter Sykes Creative Director and Screenplay by Hal Clifford Edited by Hunter Sykes Narrated by Traci Svensgaard Primary Cinematography by Vladimir Van Maule and Darren Campbell Interviewees San Juan Ranch: George Whitten Julie Sullivan Amber Reed Amiee Danch American Prairie Foundation: Scott Laird Allison Fox Elwha River: Shawn Cantrell Robert Elofson Orville Campbell