Samantha Wishman
Samantha Wishman is a writer, director and producer whose work has been featured on NPR, in The Washington Post and in The New York Times. After starting out as an attorney in New York, she turned her interest from law to storytelling for social change by way of film. Her first feature-length documentary, Free Puppies! brings to light the grass-roots alliance of women who came together in the rural South to rescue countless stray and abandoned dogs, advocate for humane education and reform local ordinances to address animal welfare.
A chronically overlooked crisis in the rural American South is the vast number of stray and abandoned dogs. But in a small town in northwest Georgia, an intrepid group of local women, dubbed “the rescue ladies,” have stepped up to compensate for the lack of animal shelters by rescuing countless numbers of dogs. The group’s dedication to help the animals goes so far as to transport the dogs to cities in the northern part of the country, where the adoption rates are far higher than the South.
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