God’s Country
God’s Country is a documentary series about four real ranching families fighting to hold onto their land and their way of life.
Awarded a letter of intent from Angel Studios for series distribution.
God’s Country is a documentary series about four real ranching families fighting to hold onto their land and their way of life.
The series
The families
The wolves
Idaho. Wolves are in cattle country. Seven daughters camp with the herd to fight them off.
The feds
Utah. Eight sons losing their grazing land to the federal government.
Big Solar
Arizona. A foreign energy giant wants their land. The state is on its side.
The government
Nevada. The Navy wants 100,000 acres. We were in the room when the government priced their ranch.
And over all four: the monopolies. Four companies set the price of beef.
The scoreboard
Head of cattle
Head of cattle in America today, the same as 1951. Every episode ends with where to buy that family’s beef, and the season counter climbs.
Pounds per acre
How much beef one acre feeds in a year. Lose an acre to the government and that food is gone for good.
Regenerative grazing
Rotate the herd, rest the ground, build the soil. More beef off the same acres while the land gets better.
Faith
Genesis 2:15
The first frame of the pilot
Psalm 50:10
Where the title comes from
Genesis 1:26
Entrusted with the cattle
“You don’t get much closer to God than being out somewhere like this, in the middle of His creation.”Jack Payne
Team
Creator · Director
Producer
Producer
Founder of From The Farm, the regenerative farming projectCinematographer
Academy Award winner. DP on Full Swing and 100 Days to IndyWriter · Director
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