Interview:
Ben Masters,
director,
"Deep in the Heart 2:
Texas Rivers"
Narrated by Ethan Hawke, Austin-based director Ben Masters’ new nature documentary Deep in the Heart 2: Texas Rivers spotlights many of the Lone State State’s essentials rivers and the wildlife that depend on these bodies of water. Masters and his crew travel down rivers both healthy or dying, including the Rio Grande, the Neches, the Llano, the Pedernales, and the San Marcos. The sequel to the 2022 documentary Deep in the Heart also captures in their natural environment a small sample of the animal, aquatic, and avian populations that depends on Texas’ river ecosystems, including mountain lions, wild turkeys, otters, the alligator snapping turtle, and the native mussel called the Texas fatmucket. Deep in the Heart 2: Texas Rivers opens Sept. 25 in theaters. Ben Masters will attend the 7:30 p.m. Sept. 25 screening of Deep in the Heart 2: Texas Rivers at the AFS Cinema. Austin-based Ben Masters previously directed the 2025 conservation documentary The American Southwest, the 2022 Texas nature documentary Deep in the Heart, the 2019 border wildlife documentary The River and the Wall, produced the 2017 documentary Charged: The Eduardo Garcia Story, and appeared in the 2015 documentary Unbranded. He also directed two short documentaries released this year, Hope for the Guadalupe and Borderlands Jaguar.
Aired: Sept. 23. 2026. Web sites: https://deepintheheartwildlife.com/pages/deep-in-the-heart-2 https://www.finandfurfilms.com/ |
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