Episode 397: In The Seats With Sean Cisterna and 'The Long Rider'

You always have to marvel at the strength and resolve of the human spirit...On this episode we dive into a story that we can barely wrap our heads around, and we witnessed it happen.  We're talking about 'The Long Rider'.When Filipe Masetti Leite leaves his adoptive home of Canada, he sets out on an epic quest to ridefrom Calgary to his family's home in Brazil - and later beyond - entirely on horseback.Inspired by Aimé Tschiffely's 1925 equestrian journey from Argentina to New York, Filipe's 8-year odyssey of over 25,000 kms across twelve international borders, sees the young immigrant battle intense heat, drought, speeding transport trucks, nature's wrath and corrupt border guards on his history-making long ride home.Culled from over 500 hours of never-before-seen footage, The Long Rider deals with the issue of chronic loneliness, and the insensitive and restrictive nature of international borders, but is above all an inspirational and emotional story of the most daring and epic proportions.It's an amazingly inspirational story that comes to us at a time when we desperately need them.  We had the unique pleasure of sitting down with director Sean Cisterna to find out how he discovered this story, how you can direct something that was mostly shot by his actual subject and so very much more...