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| The Last Link will play at this year’s Wine Country Film Festival on
August 7th at the Kenwood Depot, located in Kenwood, just north of Sonoma. For more information on the film festival, please call 707-935-3456. For more information on this film, and this event please check the following web sites:
The film, The Last Link, captures the rich and dramatic story of the Basque and Béarnais shepherding cultures. For over 5,000 years, shepherding has been a way of life in the French Pyrénées. Basque emigrants brought this culture to the American West in the early 20th Century. Less than a hundred years later, it is in danger of being absorbed into mainstream culture, both in France and the United States. Traveling with Pete Camino, The Last Link examines the decline of this agricultural lifestyle as it becomes less profitable in a world of high technology and more mechanized practices. A look at both the Old and New Worlds reveals this as a threat to the maintenance of a collective knowledge of values and life lessons acquired through an intimate connection with the land.
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