Hillary Bachelder

THE FLAGMAKERS is a film about the unexpected people who make the American flag and invites us to ask the question: who is America and who is the American flag for?

In the heart of the American Midwest, three women take on entrenched political systems in their fight to reshape local politics on their own terms.

A bizarre local food vendor helps cure two friends of their hunger pain.

Prescribed fire– the practice of setting small burns to clear ecosystems of overgrowth– is a critical tool for climate resiliency and forest restoration. But in 2022, a burn set by the U.S. Forest Service in the mountains of northern New Mexico escaped its firelines and spiraled out of control to become the largest wildfire in the state’s history.