Outta the Muck

Big Sky Documentary Film Festival

The swamp towns of south Florida, where kids chase rabbits through the muck of cut sugar cane fields, produce NFL talent at a rate that's almost unseen anywhere else in the country. When Ira McKinley returned to his hometown of Pahokee, he knew he wanted to make a film about the resilience and excellence that's persevered on the shores of Lake Okeechobee despite poverty and crushing natural disasters. That film is Outta the Muck, and in this episode of the Big Sky Documentary Film Festival podcast, Colter Nuanez talks with McKinley and Bhawin Suchak before its world premeire on Wednesday, February 23.