Running Wild: The Life of Dayton O. Hyde brings to life the story of a Western original.

View the trailer for this wonderful film: http://vimeo.com/31034964

The film begins on a haunting stretch of land in the Black Hills of South Dakota where 500 captured wild mustangs are once again running free. This is one of the last bastions of land where horses can be free and where this cowboy is living out the last part of his life.

Dayton’s journey began in Marquette, Michigan where at the age of 13 he ran away from home to join his uncle on a cattle ranch in Oregon. From there he learned the ways of the west; rodeos, cattle drives and Native American’s formed Hyde’s passion for preserving the prairies and the creatures that inhabit the land.

From saving the Sand Hill Crane, to creating an environment where coyotes and cattle could co-exist, to reestablishing a lost lake, Hyde’s biggest conservation project sits on an 11,000-acre reserve where he continues to save wild horses and the land they inhabit.

Full Motion Pictures is creating this cinematic adventure by examining the life of this man who through prose, poetry, conservation, grace and wisdom has preserved part of American history for generations to come. Running Wild: The Life of Dayton O. Hyde is an exquisite film that will take viewers back to lost times and forgotten places giving each of us pause to reflect on our own contributions to this world.

This will be the finest documentary produced about the life of Dayton O. Hyde made in his lifetime.

Suzanne Mitchell – Director

Suzanne Mitchell has produced numerous long and short form television series and specials as well as feature length documentaries. She has won two Emmys, two Gracie Awards and an Omni Intermedia Award.

Suzanne has collaborated with Academy Award-winning director Barbara Kopple to create several films which include: New Passages, The Hamptons, Woodstock: Now & Then, and Force of Nature, where the team traveled to South Sudan to present the humanitarian work of philanthropist Ellen Ratner.

Mitchell has produced two comprehensive historical documentary programs -- ABC's The Century, with Peter Jennings, which included exclusive interviews with nuclear scientist Hans Bethe, Steve Jobs and others; and A&E's The Millennium Biography Special, which focused on 100 of the most influential people of the last 1000 years.

In 2005, Mitchell was the Executive Producer of Fatal Fathers, a one hour documentary for A&E. She also created six PBS documentaries focused on women’s issues, for which she won two Gracie awards and one Emmy. Suzanne’s experience as an independent producer for The Oprah Winfrey Show includes Oprah’s 2008 Martin Luther King special and the 2011 Freedom Riders special.

Barbara Kopple Executive Producer

Barbara Kopple is a two-time Academy Award winning filmmaker. A director of documentaries, as well as narrative TV and film, her most recent project is the documentary A Force of Nature, which celebrates the life and work of journalist and philanthropist Ellen Ratner, following her from her home base in Washington, DC, to hurricane-ravaged Mississippi to war-torn South Sudan.

Barbara produced and directed Harlan County USA and American Dream, both winners of the Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature. Her other films include The House of Steinbrenner, Woodstock: Now and Then, Shut Up and Sing, which tells the story of the Dixie Chicks and their personal and creative response to the political fallout they faced after making comments critical of President Bush on the eve of the Iraq War; A Conversation with Gregory Peck, a film portrait of the career and family life of the actor, My Generation, Wild Man Blues about the European tour of Woody Allen and his New Orleans-style jazz band, for which she won the National Board of Review Award for Best Documentary. , Fallen Champ: The Untold Story of Mike Tyson for which she was nominated for an Emmy for Outstanding Individual Achievement in Directing, and many more.

In 1991, Harlan County USA was named to the National Film Registry by the Librarian of Congress and designated an American Film Classic. Harlan County USA was recently restored and preserved by the Women’s Preservation Fund and the Academy Film Archive, and was featured as part of the Sundance Collection at the Sundance Film Festival in 2005.

R.A. Fedde Editor

Since escaping a successful Silicon Valley career in 2001, Fedde has edited everyone and everything from two past presidents to the paparazzi. Her work includes 10 Days that Unexpectedly Changed America: Antietam, winner of a 2006 Emmy Award for best non-fiction series, and Combat Diary, nominated for a 2006 Emmy. Her editing on FRONTLINE Growing Up Online garnered another nomination for a 2009 Emmy.

Other projects over the years include an A&E Biography: Sean Penn as well as five episodes of Moviereal, a series providing insight into the real story behind box office blockbusters featuring interviews with Hollywood icons. In 2004 Fedde won the prestigious Gracie Allen Award for her work as editor on Pure Magic: The Mother Daughter Bond.

Fedde’s ability to take hundreds of hours of footage and cull from it the most compelling story is an innate skill. Editing gives Fedde the freedom to tell stories that evoke meaningful messages; her editing style is not only precise but her ability to capture audiences through her talent of intertwining stories is realized through her mix of verité footage, interviews and archival footage.

Trained as a classical musician, Fedde’s sensitive use of music provides a subtle backdrop throughout all her films. R.A. Fedde has spent the past year working on a documentary feature $ellebrity for 2012 release.

Mauro Brattoli Director of Photography

Nominated for multiple Emmy awards and the winner of the Best Promotional campaign for FOX-TV, Mauro Brattoli has also been the recipient of many national Pro-Max Awards taking home both the Gold and Silver for his campaigns on WWOR-TV: Get It On, FOX 5 News at 10, FOX 5: Comedy Stop.

It was in the mid 80’s where Brattoli’s work as a news cameraman turned into a lifelong passion for filming long-form documentaries. Shooting thousands of hours for all the major broadcast networks Mauro has been witness to extraordinary circumstances and unforgettable characters. In 1992 while filming in South Dakota for an ABC Special Brattoli first encountered Dayton Hyde. His camera captured not only the beauty of the landscape but the spirit of Hyde. Mauro’s skillful ability to embed his lens in each scene, allows viewers to go inside very emotional and intimate moments with the characters he follows. This was the case in Hallmark’s one hour special The Way Home where a father and son came to grips with their relationship and reconciled. Mauro’s cinematography on Grab Hold of the Reins shed a light on women and their sexuality after a diagnosis of breast and ovarian cancer. For PBS, Brattoli crafted, Pure Magic: The Mother Daughter Bond winner of a 2006 Gracie Allen Award.

Whether Brattoli is shooting retrospective pieces for celebrated network specials or creating Emmy Award winning programming for PBS, his cinematic approach as a DP relies heavily on the use and control of natural light. Brattoli admits, “lighting is an essential part of my artistic ability to produce cinematic imagery and my goal is always to tell a story through the lens of a camera and allow the characters who I am filming to forget I am in the room”.