Why this film?

Why Muir?

Muir is the first theatrical feature based on the life of naturalist John Muir save *The Boyhood of John Muir (Bullfrog Films, 1998) which has rarely been seen since its debut on PBS in 1998.

Muir is not about the eccentric-looking man with the Rip Van Winkle beard. Nor the beloved icon associated with the Sierra Club and the birth of modern conservation. Rather, our Muir is the young fist fighter from Dunbar, Scotland–the young man who becomes an ingenious inventor and later a self-taught naturalist.

We portray Muir in the following light:  the fearless adventurer who hikes through a South ravaged by the Civil War; the hickory-strong man who climbs the mountains of California to discover the secrets of their glaciers; and a man who on multiple occasions nearly meets his death as he explores the natural world.

Muir epitomizes a real-life hero, the kind of man kids around the
world can and should emulate.”

If Muir could see our world today, what would he say about the climate change that is shrinking the world’s glaciers? Who could measure his outrage about the oil hemorrhaging into the Gulf of Mexico? Where would he begin to try to restore our degraded environment?

Muir is a film for all of us now.