
An extraordinary wolf and her fight for survival in one of America’s last islands of wilderness.




Winner
Best Documentary
Female Eye Film Festival


Winner
Best of Festival
Berkeley Video and Film Festival
Winner
Best Documentary
Sacramento Video & Film Festival

Winner
Special Juror Award
Jackson Hole Wildlife Film Festival




Winner
Gold Remi Award
37th Worldfest Houston
Int Film Festival
Winner
Certificate of Excellence
Key West IndieFest
Winner
Best Documentary
Calypso Award
Moondance Int Film Festival
Winner
Merit for Conservation Advocacy
26th Int Wildlife Film Festival
Panda-in-the-Pocket
Wildscreen Int Wildlife
Film Festival
34th Annual
USA Film Festival
Best People & Animals
Jackson Hole Wildlife
Film Festival
COST OF FREEDOM is the story of a wolf the feds named B36F.
She was one of 66 wolves brought from Canada to the lower 48 states during the Wolf Reintroduction Program of 1995. While other wolves formed packs, B36 roamed the Idaho mountains alone. After several years, she found her mate—a native wolf that biologists called “The Old Man”—and gave birth to a litter of puppies that many people saw as an indication of the reintroduction experiment’s success. What followed would question that theory of success, and expose the complicity of the US government in the subsidized destruction of the American west.
Scenes from the Film



