The Road to Patagonia (2024)

  • M
  • 02/14/2024 (AU)
  • Documentary
  • 1h 31m

A love story with a hoof beat

Overview

The Road to Patagonia is a stunning, intimate and unflinching series of love letters within a documentary – firstly, a love between two people, and secondly between humanity and the Earth. Ecologist Matty Hannon begins an incredible solo adventure, to surf the west coast of the Americas by motorbike, from the top of Alaska to the tip of Patagonia. But deep in the wilderness - alone with the wolves and the bears - the journeyer’s plans unexpectedly fall to pieces. After losing everything, and on the cusp of quitting he meets the girl of his dreams, a permaculture farmer named Heather. Shot over 16 years, the result is an adventurous exposé on the more-than-human-world, offering a physical and spiritual odyssey to better understand our place in Nature.

Harriet Clutterbuck

Story

Matty Hannon

Story, Writer, Director

Mike Balson

Story

Cast

Matty Hannon's headshot

Matty Hannon

Self
Heather Hillier's headshot

Heather Hillier

Self

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