What a difference a road trip can make!

When Brendan Hall was attending New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts, he was planning on becoming a narrative filmmaker. But then one summer, he and a friend took a road trip visiting national parks in the Southwest. Hall decided he would instead become a film documentarian.

Well, he made the right choice if his film that was screened at the 2023 LIFF is any indication.

Hall decided to make a documentary focusing on our nation’s magnificent national parks and took his best friend along with him for a three-month, almost 10,000-mile road trip…