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The Road To Patagonia

The lives of two strangers are changed forever when they cross paths on an incredible voyage from the Alaskan wilderness to the tip of Patagonia.

  • Matty HANNON
    Director
  • Amanda LAVOIE
    Producer
  • Tye MARKEY
    Producer
  • Matty HANNON
    Cinematography
  • Heather HILLIER
    Cinematography
  • Project Type:
    Documentary
  • Runtime:
    1 hour 31 minutes
  • Completion Date:
    May 1, 2024
  • Production Budget:
    500,000 USD
  • Country of Origin:
    Australia
  • Country of Filming:
    United States, Australia, Canada, Mexico
  • Language:
    English, Spanish
  • Shooting Format:
    Digital
  • Aspect Ratio:
    16:9
  • Film Color:
    Color
  • First-time Filmmaker:
    Yes
  • Student Project:
    No
  • Digital Cinema Package:
    Unavailable
  • Byron Bay International F.F.

    Australia
    World Premiere
    Best Film
  • Florida Surf Film Festival

    United States
    Audience Choice Award
  • Melbourne Documentary Film Festival
    Melbourne
    Australia
    Audience Choice Award
  • Honolulu Surf Film Festival
    Honolulu
    United States
    Jury Award
Distribution Information
  • Kaleidoscope Film Distribution
    Sales Agent
    Country: Worldwide
    Rights: All Rights
Director Biography - Matty HANNON

Matty Hannon is a regionally based (Byron Bay, Australia) director with experience producing and directing short documentaries in challenging environments across 6 continents. He runs a small, multi-award winning production company called Thunderbox.

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Director Statement

THE ROAD TO PATAGONIA is a physical and spiritual odyssey to better understand our place in nature.
Not only do I believe in the power of adventure to coax us out of our digital lives - to reconnect ourselves with the Earth and each other - but I believe in the power of an emotive documentary, an immersive experience that inspires the audience into self-reflection and action.
As a verité documentary THE ROAD TO PATAGONIA includes 16 years of footage from my life. Some moments were difficult to include, being so personal and vulnerable. However, overall they were incredibly privileged times to have documented, and despite investigating themes of colonialism and globalisation, the film aims to instil an uplifting sense of hope and positivity in the audience. In a way, I hope it’s a small antidote to the heaviness of the world in recent years.
Some of the interviewees included in the film speak to the harsh consequences of an ancient paradigm conflicting with the dominant modern system. Indeed we live in polarising times; the mainstream west still embedded in a Cartesian philosophy that says humans are separate from and superior to nature, all the while accepting the ideas of dualism; of man vs nature, man vs woman, white vs black, right vs left etc.
THE ROAD TO PATAGONIA investigates a philosophy born epochs before René Descartes or even the Abrahamic religions, a complex web of life and ideas that are still thriving today, and it argues that to truly bring ourselves into harmony with the natural world, we must slow down, and return to seeing humanity as a part of it.
As you’ll see in the third and final act of the film, slowing down will not only help humanity and the more-than-human-world, but it might also be the most beautiful adventure of our lives.