Texas Premiere! How Horses Heal is the premiere documentary exploring the profound effects of awe-inspiring relationships people have with horses. Director and Cinematographer Geoffrey Bassett and Producer Kim Roderiques take you on a visual journey throughout New England at local farms and sanctuaries where you will witness how horses heal people unconditionally. Equine therapy and integrative equine therapy are two effective ways to treat people with PTSD, Autism and Multiple Sclerosis among many others challenges. The ability to trust, develop confidence and become more socially comfortable are a few examples how horses heal. Geoffrey Bassett is a Cape Cod Director and Cinematographer. With a background in photography and working at movie theaters, Geoff applies his passion for visuals towards telling important stories in a creative way. Geoff has color graded over 20 films and directed four documentaries as well as being the cinematographer for countless films.
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Texas Premiere! Animal behavior scientists offer new insights into the minds of other animals and grapple with the profound implications for animal welfare. This film investigates the sentient qualities of honeybees, chickens, and wolves. Josie Harris is a documentary filmmaker and freelance videographer with a background in biology and journalism. Her work focuses on science, nature, and the lives of other animals. She made her directorial debut with the short documentary UNCOVERING ANIMAL MINDS, which has screened at film festivals across the U.S. Josie is passionate about visual storytelling that sparks curiosity, challenges preconceptions, and makes complex ideas accessible to broad audiences. Through her work, she invites viewers to reconsider humanity’s place within the web of life—not as separate or superior, but as one species among many, sharing a deeply interconnected world.
Director Statement
I’ve always been fascinated by the inner lives of animals—what they know, feel, and perceive. UNCOVERING ANIMAL MINDS was born from that curiosity and a desire to bridge the gap between scientific research and public understanding. With a background in biology and journalism, I’m drawn to stories that challenge long-held assumptions about nonhuman animals and invite us to see how they experience the world and derive meaning from their lives. This film explores how scientists investigate animal sentience, a field that’s reshaping our understanding of intelligence, emotion, and consciousness across species. My goal was to make this work accessible and compelling without simplifying its complexity. The researchers in the film, who have dedicated their lives to the study of other animals, offer insights and perspectives that engage both the mind and the heart. At its core, this film is an invitation to question our place in the natural world. It asks viewers to consider the possibility that we are not the only minds that matter—and that humility and wonder might be the most honest ways to approach the lives of other animals. Texas Premiere!An anxious single father seeks to protect his teenage daughter from a talking bear that works at a fast food restaurant. A Stressed-out single father and hotel security officer Diller McCasslin’s world is thrown upside down when at his favorite fast-food restaurant encounters a bear that talks. Diller turns to his work nemesis Leon the Wine Guy for advice who insist they must “show that bear who knows best”.  Andrew Bateman is a Denver-based filmmaker who looks to tell stories of the human condition in unique and beautiful ways. Andrew was thrilled to screen his last short film Loose Change: A Memoir of Childhood to festivals around the world. Andrew’s work has thus far been recognized by grants and fellowships received from the Bay Area Video Coalition, California Humanities, Comcast, Philadelphia Independent Film and Video Coalition, and SOMArts Neighborhood News Network. Andrew earned a Master of Fine Arts in Film and Media Arts from Temple University and a Master of Arts in American Studies from the University of New Mexico where he wrote his master’s thesis on the prescient and omnipresent artist Sun Ra. Currently, Andrew serves as a faculty member for the University of Colorado Denver where he teaches film production.
Director Statement
In our main character Diller, we have a representation of the culture of domination. Diller’s job is to be in control. He takes pride in it. Leon’s solution to Diller’s anxiety about losing control is to “kill the bear”—that which Diller blames for his loss of control. However, as the social commentator and poet bell hooks argues: “A culture of domination is anti-love. It requires violence to sustain itself” and it is only through a “ethic of love” we might be guided to turn away from an ethic of domination. This in a nutshell is Diller’s dilemma and why I was inspired to make Go Down, Diller. In this historically fraught moment, I believe it is vital to tell stories of love, and that at the core of this film is a recognition of the healing and revolutionary power of love. Texas Premiere! |
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As a filmmaker his work has screen internationally at Hot Docs Canadian International Documentary Festival, International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam (IDFA), BFI:Flare, DocLisboa and many others.
Queiroga was a Department Chair at New York Film Academy and is currently a Professor and Chair of the Film + Design Minor at Northwestern University in Doha, Qatar.
Queiroga was a Department Chair at New York Film Academy and is currently a Professor and Chair of the Film + Design Minor at Northwestern University in Doha, Qatar.
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