Real life in all of its splendor can legitimately look so pristine it could be confused for an AI fabrication. The beauty on display is real. Masters throws out to viewers is that it’s something worth fighting to ensure endures for generations to come.

[Ben Masters] laces the narrative with history to help us figure out that human selfishness will only render these natural resources dry, but it will be us who will suffer the consequences of our actions, while nature keeps growing back.

To watch this film is to be called — softly, insistently — to stand beside the river and choose what kind of ancestor we wish to be.

Award-winning documentary filmmaker Ben Masters writes a love letter to the landscapes and animals that have shaped him in "The American Southwest," but the postscript is an urgent warning ... [Full Review in Spanish]