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We become very precious about the setting and the characters and those don't really change that much.

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And then it's like, what is that arrow shot? …That’s sometimes the hardest to crack and it's the thing we're the least precious about. We’ll know far too much about any given world, but that's kind of where our credibility will come from to feel like we have earned the right to participate in that community and tell that story. First, it’s really uncovering that place, and then who are the people who inhabit it, and what's the relationship to their setting? Are they in harmony or conflict with their setting? Who are they in all of their beauty and warts and how do they relate to each other? Then the story is oftentimes the last thing we're looking for. “Whether, you know, it's an actual place or an institution or a group of people and we want to get behind the curtain we always say that we build our stories from the dirt up. “It’s honestly almost taking a journalistic approach to a world,” Kwedar said. That, and their dedication to the worlds they create. Perhaps that’s why their work feels so refreshingly honest, as well. Bentley and Kwedar know each other well and can confidently speak to their work in a way that’s warm and welcoming, never pretentious. Their collaborative efforts are well-honed through all that writing - even the way they conduct an interview feels effortlessly balanced. “So yeah, we're working on a few different projects at any one time, which is helpful because you're also reminded of just doing the work - just get on to the next thing and start working on the next one, because that’s why we're doing this: to make movies, not just talk about them.”

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And in that time, we were working on two or three other features and a limited series … things come and go you know, as any writer knows you develop things and it sometimes takes time,” Bentley said.

While Jockey was filmed in only 20 days, “it was like, three years just to get to the point from when we started writing to when we started shooting.

So I took Greg to a track in Houston and just seeing the world fresh through his eyes was huge in terms of opening up new avenues of the script and new areas of the world that I didn't know about.” “And then a big part of mine and Greg's process as we write any of our scripts is the research side of things we go and we spend a lot of time with the people in the world. “It was a spark for feeling like I knew a world that we hadn't seen in film before and just wanting to get that across - not having any idea of a story or anything like that,” Bentley said. The world of Jockey came from a very personal place, however: Bentley’s dad was a jockey.

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It took six years to both research it and figure out how to write a script and then figure out how to finance a film and through that whole process was what really deepened our friendship and showed us our process that we carry into the films that we make now.” And so our first project was writing our first film, Transpecos. And in particular, on the more humanitarian side I had been doing a lot of work in a really specific community in Nuevo Laredo, Mexico at a girls orphanage and Clint had traveled the entire length of it making a student documentary. “One of the early conversations they had was you need to meet my friend Greg you both have not only a passion for filmmaking, but in a more specific way, we both had a passion for the border conflict. “We met through a friend of mine from school who Clint ended up marrying,” Kwedar said. Transpecos, which premiered at the 2016 SXSW Film Festival and won an Audience Award. Kwedar directed their first feature - also starring Collins Jr. Bentley and Kwedar began making shorts and documentaries together a decade ago.

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The intimate portrait of an aging athlete faced with transitions in both his personal and professional lives is filmmaker Clint Bentley’s directing debut on a film he wrote with his longtime writing partner, Greg Kwedar. Dramatic Special Jury Award for Best Actor. Jockey premiered at Sundance 2021, where Clifton Collins Jr.’s turn as horse jockey Jackson took the U.S.