In 2016, my family had a crazy idea to make a movie about an obscure relative we had who explored Baja California as a naturalist in the early 1900s. More than five years later, after tons of research, multiple expeditions (the main expedition lasting 5,280 miles), capturing 36 hours of film and spending countless more [...]
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Call for Submissions of Poetry, Short Prose & Art
Humana Obscura is now accepting submissions of poetry, prose/short fiction, and art for its Spring/Summer 2021 issue! Submissions will remain open until end of February 2021. WHAT WE’RE LOOKING FOR While we are open to style, we’re looking for work that is nuanced, raw, and imagistic with strong elements of the natural world or the [...]
NATURE ADVENTURE DOCUMENTARY “THE DEVIL’S ROAD: A BAJA ADVENTURE”
Join us for the red carpet World Premiere of The Devil's Road: A Baja Adventure Saturday April 27th at the Rio Theatre in Santa Cruz!
Desert Moon from “The Weight of Snow”
DESERT MOON Gibbous moon over Sea of Cortez, now black in the night. I wake to sounds of whales surfacing in the calm bay, stirred from dreams of catching the dorado, only to watch the dimming of the impossible colors: indigo, mustard, viridian, crimson. And I, haunted by my selfish guilt, wishing to undo it [...]
“The Devil’s Road: A Baja Documentary,” Main Expedition, Day 39
Excerpt from The Devil's Road Main Expedition, Day 31 There is an acute and undeniable buzz in me--a palpable, electric thrumming. I'm keeping pace of it, all too aware of the nerves, an excitement I feel coursing through me right down to the tips of my fingers. And I know why. Though it's only been [...]
“The Devil’s Road” Episode 1: Isla Raza
"The Devil's Road" Episode 1: Isla Raza Isla Raza is a tiny island in the Gulf of California that serves as the sole breeding ground for several important bird species. Despite being protected by the Mexican government as a wildlife sanctuary in 1964, this unique island is currently threatened by climate change and human activity. [...]
“The Devil’s Road: A Baja Documentary” presented by Broken Wagon Films
In 1905, two American naturalists set out on horseback across the remote deserts of Baja California, Mexico. Their 2,000-mile expedition was the first of its kind to span the entire peninsula and complete a comprehensive survey of Baja's flora and fauna. Zig-zagging from coast to coast across the desolate interior, Edward William Nelson and Edward [...]
Join us on “The Devil’s Road”
“The Devil’s Road: A Baja Documentary” FOLLOWING THE LANDMARK ROUTE TAKEN BY TWO RENOWNED NATURALISTS OVER A HUNDRED YEARS PRIOR, A GROUP OF PRESENT-DAY ADVENTURERS EMBARK ON AN EXPEDITION TO DOCUMENT THE BEAUTIFUL AND UNFORGIVING LANDSCAPE OF TODAY’S BAJA CALIFORNIA. The Devil’s Road is very multifaceted. It is part historical documentary, a re-telling of Baja’s [...]
Help us bring our documentary to the big screen!
"The Devil's Road: A Baja Documentary" FOLLOWING THE LANDMARK ROUTE TAKEN BY TWO RENOWNED NATURALISTS OVER A HUNDRED YEARS PRIOR, A GROUP OF PRESENT-DAY ADVENTURERS EMBARK ON AN EXPEDITION TO DOCUMENT THE BEAUTIFUL AND UNFORGIVING LANDSCAPE OF TODAY’S BAJA CALIFORNIA. The Devil's Road is very multifaceted. It is part historical documentary, a re-telling of Baja's [...]
Letter from the Associate Producer
Dear family, friends, and fellow creatives: I'm writing today to tell you all about my newest venture, and to gain your support. For the last year I have been involved in an incredible project: producing a feature-length documentary film about Baja called "The Devil's Road" as associate producer and marketing manager for Broken Wagon Films, [...]
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