New Mexico, 1870. A lone rider gallops through the New Mexican terrain as a troubled young woman looks on. She aims her rifle. This shocking scene sets the stage for Jared Moshé’s first feature, a pitch-perfect Western about the bonds of family and the slow, inevitable tide of progress. The young woman, Martha, and her husband find a ticket to a better life in San Francisco when they ready the sale of her family’s land to a mining company. Riding in from the horizon, though, is her oldest brother Wade—whom she had thought killed during the Civil War. The siblings reunite, but tensions, mysteries, and suspicions bubble to the surface.

New York based writer-director Jared Moshé marks his transition from accomplished producer to the director's chair with the debut of his feature film DEAD MAN'S BURDEN. Among Moshé's notable independent production credits, KURK COBAIN ABOUT A SON premiered at the Toronto Film Festival and went on to receive a nomination for Best Documentary at the Independent Spirit Awards. Among the other films produced by Moshé at Sidetrack Films are the Emmy-nominated documentary FAVELA RISING; LOW AND BEHOLD (Sundance Film Festival); BEAUTIFUL LOSERS (SXSW Film Festival, Locarno Film Festival); SILVER TONGUES, nominated for a 2012 Independent Spirit Award; and CORMAN'S WORLD: EXPLOITS OF A HOLLYWOOD REBEL, about the legendary Hollywood filmmaker Roger Corman, which played as part of the official selection at the Cannes Film Festival and the Sundance Film Festival.

New York based writer-director Jared Moshé marks his transition from accomplished producer to the director's chair with the debut of his feature film DEAD MAN'S BURDEN. Among Moshé's notable independent production credits, KURK COBAIN ABOUT A SON premiered at the Toronto Film Festival and went on to receive a nomination for Best Documentary at the Independent Spirit Awards. Among the other films produced by Moshé at Sidetrack Films are the Emmy-nominated documentary FAVELA RISING; LOW AND BEHOLD (Sundance Film Festival); BEAUTIFUL LOSERS (SXSW Film Festival, Locarno Film Festival); SILVER TONGUES, nominated for a 2012 Independent Spirit Award; and CORMAN'S WORLD: EXPLOITS OF A HOLLYWOOD REBEL, about the legendary Hollywood filmmaker Roger Corman, which played as part of the official selection at the Cannes Film Festival and the Sundance Film Festival.