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The Wyoming Film Festival in #Sheridan #Wyoming will screen #BlueZeus on Sun, Oct 5, 2025 at 2:00 pm. #ClareStaples, founder of Skydog Sanctuary, will be there to meet the audience and answer questions. To Buy Passes: wyofilmfest.org/buy-passes/wyofilmfest

For the movie #BlueZeus, #RockyRomano, #MirandaWinters, #AnalisMartin, #ChrisAlstrin combined powerful, authentic, thought-provoking, non-fiction storytelling with stunning cinematography to shine a spotlight on the plight of #wildhorses and the vital work being done at #skydogsanctuary.

Clare Staples accepts the 2025 Humanitarian Award from the #BostonFilmFestival to a standing ovation at the premiere of #BlueZeus. #SkydogSanctuary is a rescue mission and statement of her unwavering devotion to preserving the spirit and bond of America’s #wildhorse and #burro herds.

The MSSPA of Windham, Maine had the honor of presenting #ClareStaples with the #Humanitarian Award at the #BostonFilmFestival 2025. After saving 3 starved, neglected Saylor Creek #wildhorses from a hoarding disaster, they worked with Clare to bring them to #SkydogSanctuary to be rewilded.

A beautiful introduction by executive producer #MatthewRhys to #ClareStaples of #skydogsanctuary, recipient of the #humanitarian award at the 41st #BostonFilmFestival. Presented after the screening of #BlueZeus on 9/20/25 for her dedication & tireless efforts to rescue #wildhorses & #burros.

Thank you #BostonFilmFestival and all who came to see the documentary #BlueZeus this evening. It was a perfect night! #wildhorses #documentary #film

The Bureau of Land Management claims #horses don’t form familial bonds. Many experts who have studied #wildhorses on the range for decades disagree. The reunion of #BlueZeus with his #family is the greatest proof that family matters and those bonds are eternal. Breaking them apart is terribly cruel

Our case with #wildearthguardians, represented by #AdvocatesWest, against Red Rock Lakes National Wildlife Refuge and the #USFWS demands they simply follow the law and assess how livestock grazing impacts a refuge meant for wildlife, not private gain.” www.westernwatersheds.org/2024/05/cons...

Blue Zeus heads to @bostonfilmfestival tomorrow Paramount Theater, Boston, MA Saturday, September 20, 2025 | 5:30 PM. Followed by a live Q&A with Clare from #skydogsanctuary and our team! We would love for you to join us. For tickets: bostonfilmfestival.org/schedule-and...

Clare Staples, founder of #skydogsanctuary, attended the screening of #BlueZeus at the Equus Int’l Film Festival. It was her great honor to meet Temple Grandin, the keynote speaker at the festival! #wildhorses #awardwinningfilm

At the Equus Int’l Film Festival in #Missoula #Montana, #BlueZeus won Best in Festival 2025, Best Documentary Feature, and Best Cinematography, Narration & Music! #awardwinningfilm #wildhorses

“Everywhere we look in the West, the scars are there. Cattle hooves have pounded the riversides, and native grasses once lush and waving have been replaced by invasive weeds that cheat the land of its ecological potential.” @westernwatersheds.bsky.social

Clare Staples is meeting friends and followers of #skydogsanctuary at the Equus Int’l Film Fest. Her fight to save #BlueZeus and his family is shown in the #bluezeusthemovie. The #wildhorse herd now lives on 1200 beautiful acres at Skydog in #Oregon, safe and protected for the rest of their lives.

The EQUUS INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL educates, inspires, and advances #equine welfare and well-being through #media. #BlueZeus kicked off 3 days of #awardwinningfilms, clinic, and presentations to promote and highlight the bond and partnership between #horses and human beings.

The new study rightly warns that cheatgrass could wipe out half of northeast Wyoming’s mule deer habitat, but it leaves out the biggest driver of this invasion: livestock grazing. wyofile.com/mule-deer-co...

The #WyomingFilmFestival will screen #BlueZeus on Sun, Oct 5, 2025 at 2:00 pm. This festival offers an intimate, laid-back atmosphere to showcase new #movies and connect #filmmakers with audiences in celebration of all things film. To Buy Passes: wyofilmfest.org/buy-passes/

Blue Zeus has been announced as an official selection at the Boston Film Festival screening on 9/20/25 right after the EQUUS Film Festival on 9/11 in Missoula, MT. Clare Staples, founder of #skydogsanctuary, will be at the screenings and is looking forward to meeting all who attend. #wildhorses

Family & freedom is everything to #wildhorses. The love story of #BlueZeus and his lead #mare Nike is one for the story books and at the heart of #bluezeusthemovie. The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) refuses to acknowledge family bonds or that separating them is a terrible act of animal cruelty.

"The 41st Boston Film Festival will present Clare Staples, founder of #SkydogSanctuary and star of feature documentary #BlueZeus, with the Humanitarian Award for her dedication and tireless efforts to rescue wild mustangs and burros."

“The New England Premiere of #bluezeusthemovie. The rescue of a #wildmustang & his family shines light on the plight of America’s #wildhorses, exposing a flawed, corrupt government system rampant with animal abuse and paralyzing bureaucracy.” Tickets: bit.ly/4lQgxn8

“This is the result of federally subsidized #livestock grazing on #publiclands - an outdated program that costs American taxpayers hundreds of millions of dollars each year, all while degrading habitat and displacing wildlife.” @westernwatersheds.bsky.social

“Seeing them truly wild and free in their natural habitat, it’s otherworldly. It stays with you. The truth is, I don’t know how much longer we’ll have them. The government is managing #wildhorses toward extinction. Go find a #herd. Stand with them. Let yourself be forever changed.” ~Jamie Baldanza

Handsome guy in the golden light. Today's puzzle jigex.com/JQxTZ

There are several #bluezeus items in the #SkydogSanctuary online #auction, including beautiful smoke-fired #vases with unique patterns created by tail #hair from Blue Zeus & Nike. Commissioned by Michelle Wybenga from artist Vicente Garcia. Each is one of a kind. To bid: bit.ly/45kdyOW

A shocking admission by the Bureau of Land Management’s wild horse & burro specialist Rob Sharpe. This is 1 of many stunning revelations contained in interviews with experts on both sides of the wild horse debate in the award winning film Blue Zeus. #bluezeusthemovie #wildhorses #burros #publiclands

If you're in #Montana, come see the movie #BlueZeus with Clare Staples on September 11, 2025 at the Roxy Theater in #Missoula. Get tickets now: www.theroxytheater.org/show/equus-i...

Part 2 of the awards ceremony where #bluezeusthemovie was a double winner! Thank you to everyone who came to the premiere and contributed to making the documentary to help #wildhorses.

Part 1 of the incredible moment when #bluezeusthemovie won Best Feature Documentary and Best Feature Ensemble at the #jerseyshorefilmfestival awards! All wild horses are winners as more and more people find out about the plight of #wildhorses on our #publiclands.

Peggy Paarmann makes this beautiful #bracelet with beads and a silver charm inspired by #bluezeus. When you buy it from the store, you support #skydog, the #sanctuary that rescued, reunited his family, and tells his story to the world: www.skydogranch.org/skydog-store...

As the horror of the BLM roundups begin again today, please take 10 minutes of your time to call your Rep & 2 Senators via the Capitol Switchboard (202) 224-3121 or their offices. Tell them the FY 2026 Appropriations Bill MUST include a ban against the slaughter and killing of #wildhorses #burros

July 1, 2025 is #callofthewild: a massive nationwide day of action to save America's #wildhorses & #burros. Join us in calling our Rep & Senators to say the FY2026 Appropriations Bill MUST include a ban against the slaughter and killing of wild horses & burros. Tell them: (1/6)

We are so proud that @bluezeusthemovie won Best Documentary & Best Feature Ensemble at the Jersey Shore Film Fest! The story of the capture and rescue of this #reddesert #stallion exposes the inner-workings of the gov’t agencies & contractors that mistreat our #wildhorses year after year.

A full house for the premiere of #bluezeusthemovie at the #jerseyshorefilmfest. #wildhorses #wildmustangs #movies #documentary #stallion #stoptheroundups #protectwildhorses

The Blue Zeus model (@breyerhorses.bsky.social) walked the red carpet at the #jerseyshorefilmfest premiere of #bluezeusthemovie. The story of this #stallion and his family inspired this exposé of the Bureau of Land Management’s failed policies to bring positive change for #wildhorses and #burros.

Strong #women #wildhorse advocates at the premiere of #bluezeusthemovie L-R: Jamie Baldanza (WLWH Fund), Lesley Luckhardt (Bluemont Sanctuary), Clare Staples (Skydog Sanctuary), Grace Kuhn (Western Watersheds Project), Caitlin Cimini (Rancho Relaxo), Allison Bowling (Red Feather Farm).

Such great energy at the Meet & Greet for the premiere of #bluezeusthemovie. Thank you to everyone for coming to the #jerseyshorefilmfestival for #bluezeus and #wildhorses!

The plight of #wildhorses is bringing together some amazing rescues for #bluezeusthemovie! So many amazing rescues are represented: Rosemary Farm Sanctuary, Mustang Valley Sanctuary, Wild Lands Wild Horses, and the remarkable Ann Cunningham. We have worked together to save so many #wildmustangs.

And here we go! #bluezeusthemovie #wildhorses

The movie Blue Zeus includes unprecedented interviews with people like Jim Magagna of the Wyoming Stock Growers Association. He describes the pressure they put on the BLM to do the 2020 roundup in the Red Desert that cost #bluezeus and thousands of #wildhorses their families, homeland & freedom.

Blue Zeus & his family debunk propaganda of the livestock industy & Bureau of Land Management that #wildhorses don’t have feelings or form strong familial bonds. In #bluezeusthemovie, experts reveal the history and #science of #herd behaviors as they dive deep into the secret lives of #wildmustangs.

Grace Kuhn - formerly with #AWHC and now with #WesternWatershedsProject is a powerful voice in the fight for #wildhorses. Throughout the film, she ties the story of the roundup of #BlueZeus in #WY back to public lands mismanagement by the Bureau of Land Management and commercial ranchers.

“Public lands ranching is no different from mining, drilling, or logging: a government-enabled business that privatizes profit while externalizing ecological cost…Corporate land use paid for by us.” (Western Watersheds Project) @westernwatersheds.bsky.social

“Goliath and Blue Zeus are two huge mustang #stallions who lived hardscrabble lives on the #Wyoming range and now enjoy freedom and plentiful forage on a 9,000-acre #horse #sanctuary in #Oregon. Goliath is 33-years-old while Blue Zeus is 24.” bit.ly/4kWTpU2

Madison is a #wild #mare at #skydogsanctuary, where #BlueZeus and his family were reunited. She is named for the character in #Splash played by #DarylHannah (@dhlovelife.bsky.social) who is a passionate advocate for #wildhorses and all animals, as well as an executive producer of #bluezeusthemovie

This photo by Chad Hanson of #bluezeus in the wild captures the power, spirit, and majestic beauty of both the #stallion and his homeland. Chad shares his wealth of experience and expertise on #wildhorses in #bluezeusthemovie. Learn more about his work: www.wyomustangs.org

If you're coming to the Blue Zeus premiere in New Jersey next month and want to attend the "meet and greet" with Clare Staples, please send an email to [email protected] for details and to get on the list so we know how many are coming. #bluezeusthemovie

Coming to film festivals soon!

A beautiful sight and what Clare Staples fights for: #wildhorses, whose families and freedom are stolen by an inhumane and broken US gov’t bureaucracy. Thanks to her, #bluezeus and his family are free and protected at #skydogsanctuary in #Oregon for the rest of their lives.