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

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Winner

Best Documentary

Female Eye Film Festival

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Winner

Best of Festival

Berkeley Video and Film Festival

Winner

Best Documentary

Sacramento Video & Film Festival

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Winner

Special Juror Award

Jackson Hole Wildlife Film Festival

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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
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