Meet the Pack

  • Children of the Wolves director Barb Kuensting.

    Barb Kuensting

    Director

  • Members of the Children of the Wolves production team, including Director Barb Kuensting and Executive Producers Seth Randal and Matt Podolsky during an interview with George Prentice from KBSU NPR News 91.

    Seth Randal

    Executive Producer

  • Children of the Wolves Executive Producer and Sea of Shadows Co-Director Matt Podolsky.

    Matthew Podolsky

    Executive Producer

About the Director

Barb Kuensting leading a climate rally at the University of Missouri in Columbia, Missouri with her scarlet macaw Luna in September 2019.

I’ve always been interested in the environment, since I was a baby on my parents’ backs as they hiked all over the West, to now as a filmmaker focused on the intersection of people and nature. I’m interested in directing a film about conservation through the lens of the community most impacted, yet least heard. I want to use my voice and platform as a filmmaker to share a youth perspective on western wildlife politics.

Sasha and Ella are just a few out of millions of youth interested in working with wildlife, and CHILDREN OF THE WOLVES will help us understand what it’s like to be a young person participating in wildlife politics. Do kids deserve a seat at the table? And perhaps more importantly, what are the consequences of not including the next generation in today’s wildlife decision-making?

The T.R.E.E. teens have been speaking up since 2021 about the lack of federal protection of gray wolves. Will they be successful in their efforts to get the species relisted as endangered, or will their concerns go ignored again?

And, what does that mean for our future?

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