Wildfire is the most powerful force of nature on earth. It takes a certain kind of crazy to walk into the fire and put it out by hand, and that’s exactly what a hotshot does. Hotshots are the most elite firefighters in the world, and director Gabriel Kirkpatrick Mann spent 6 years on the fireline, shoulder-to-shoulder with them amidst the most devastating wildfires in California history. “Hotshot” showcases the lone female tough enough to make it on her crew, as she battles the rigors of the toughest job on the planet, narrowly escaping death, navigating America’s most remote and unforgiving wildlands, all while trying to hang on to a family back home. It is a raw, relentless, and emotional tale of loss, death, rebirth, and the unfathomable beauty and power of nature in the American west. “Hotshot” gives an authentic first-person perspective from the firefighters, themselves, with unprecedented access yielding the most unique, terrifying, and stunning footage ever captured in the inferno.
