'East of Wall' a South Dakota docudrama to hit the big screen

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Filmmaker Kate Beecroft's debut feature film "East of Wall" documents the life of South Dakota rancher Tabatha Zimiga.

The docu-fiction drama features Zimiga and her daughter playing themselves, with a collaborative script based on their real lives.

The film, premiering nationwide August 15th, explores themes of female resilience in the modern American West.

From taming renegade horses on her dusty ranch in South Dakota to shining her spurs for the red carpet in New York, Tabatha Zimiga never saw it coming.

She brands cattle in Badland Country and coaches wayward teens toward their first belt buckle in competitive rodeo. She slow-cooks a pot roast for the neighbor children then hushes her 40-head of horses to bed each night, with a diapered baby on her hip.

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