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Our film project “Stories of Wolves: The Lobo Returns” is an examination of the Mexican Gray Wolf recovery program in New Mexico. It's a story with many sub-plots because of the dynamic relationship of the wolf to the various communitites who now share its habitat: the ranchers, the conversationists, the Native American cultures, and the other animals who depend upon its presence to maintain a healthy ecological system. Just as much as it's a film about wolves, it's also about the people of New Mexico and their stand in making this program a success or a failure. And ultimately it is about the vanishing wildness inside and outside of us.

 

 

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The Film Team

ElkeElke Duerr, MA: Executive Producer and Director

Ms. Duerr is the founder of Wild Wolf Film and a bi-national teacher, filmmaker, storyteller, writer and conservationist. She is responsible for the documentary script: "Stories of Wolves-The Lobo returns“. Born and raised on an organic farm in Germany she holds a degree in Communicative Disorders from the Policlinic Department of the University of Munich where she got involved in film making.

After graduating she made the US her home and settled in New Mexico where she started teaching in the public schools in the capacity of a Speech and Language Pathologist. She currently teaches at the public schools in Los Lunas, New Mexico. She holds an M.A. in German Studies from the University of New Mexico where she taught German as a foreign language at the Department of Languages and Literature at UNM. During her extensive travels around the globe Ms. Duerr acquired a first-hand impression of the state of our natural world and its vanishing habitats and species. She decided to dedicate her time and skills to raising public awareness in this matter, drawing from her background in biology.

After returning to Berlin she reconnected with the film industry and extensively apprenticed and worked in the art of film making, co-producing high interest pieces for AP, image films and video content and studying the art of documentary filmmaking. Upon her return to the US she combined her skills of teaching, story telling and filmmaking by giving wolf recovery and environmental outreach talks in schools, institutions and public places, and producing a documentary on the reintroduction of the Mexican Gray Wolf.

Elke Duerr is the recipient of a New Mexico Film Office  contract and a Panavision film equipment usage grant to aid in the production of the documentary. Her work has appeared in the “Journal fuer internationale Germanistik”, “The Cradle Project”, “Journeys- A book of worlds” and various professional and travel magazines and online magazines. She is a contributor to the German Wolf Magazine “Rudelnachrichten” and has given wolf outreach and awareness talks in Germany to foster international collaboration in aiding  the preservation of nature and endangered species. When not traveling in wolf country or internationally she dedicates her time to the cultivation of the old skills of knitting, gardening, spinning and story telling, passed down to her by her farmer ancestors.

For more information on having Elke visit your school or organization click here.

To view Ms. Duerr's artist statement, click here.

Lisa Anderson, Editor

Now living in Rio Rancho, New Mexico, Lisa holds a Bachelor of Arts from California State University, Long Beach, in Radio, TV, Film with an emphasis on TV/Editing. She has recently completed the Certificate for Digital Photography and and Digital Film Making levels 1 and 2 concentrating on Videography (Editing) and Motion Graphics. Lisa is a confirmed lover of the wolves.

 

 

 

S. Rose Carp, Videographer

Rose has 8 years of experience working on documentaries. She holds a BAFA from the University of New Mexico, with an emphasis in photography. Rose has chosen to focus her camerawork on documentaries concerning the underdogs of society. Born and raised in Northern New Mexico, Rose has a special appreciation for the wilderness that we have the privilege of stewarding.

 

 

 

Sean Cridland, Webmaster

Sean has been building websites since 1999 and is also involved in photography, videography, and writing. With a long background in ski racing, event promotion, and adventure travel in Nepal, Tibet, India, South America and Europe, he holds a Ph.D. in East-West comparative philosophy from the University of Hawaii at Manoa. Sean brings a varied perspective to the Wild Wolf Films project. His company visionsofpower.com enthusiastically supports the Wild Wolf Film project.