The Last Colonizer

Directed by Brent Foster · 2016

A portrait of Heraldo Riel, a gaucho in his seventies who has lived by the code of honesty and kindness since age nine in Chile's Patagonia.

Breathtaking Patagonian landscapes frame a quiet portrait of a lifelong gaucho.

To be a gaucho means to be honest and kind to all living creatures. Now in his seventies, Heraldo Riel became a gaucho at the age of nine just like his father before him, and has stayed true to the spirit of his professi

Plays in YouTube's player · Watch on YouTube