SPECIAL GUESTS: Director Xander Robin and Jimbo McCartney who is featured in the documentary
In an attempt to save the threatened ecosystem, the Florida government hosts an annual competition to remove invasive pythons from the Everglades. For ten grueling nights, python-mania overtakes the ‘glades as an eclectic group of amateur hunters contends with unforgiving terrain, aggressive nocturnal creatures, and their own desires and demons that push them into the swamp, searching for slithering glory.
ACCOLADES
“Outrageously entertaining” —MOVEABLE FEST
“Irresistible cocktail of vigilantism, competition and nature conservation.” —MOVEABLE FEST
“A wild […] journey into the swamp of the American soul.” —THE HOLLYWOOD REPORTER
“Larger-than-life personalities.” —INDIEWIRE
“‘The rare project that’s indescribable enough to break through a saturated niche and become the next ‘Tiger King’.”
Awards won:
2025 SXSW Film Festival – Special Jury Award, Documentary Feature Competition
2025 Miami Film Festival – Made in MIA Award, Feature
2025 Nashville Film Festival – Audience Award, Documentary Feature
2025 Key West Film Festival – Best Florida Feature
2025 Subtropic Film Festival – Best Feature
Director Biography – Xander Robin is a filmmaker from South Florida. His debut feature, Are We Not Cats, premiered at the 73rd Venice Film Festival in Critics’ Week. He later directed episodes of the HBO series Chillin Island for Elara Pictures. His documentary feature, The Python Hunt, produced by Artists Equity, won a Special Jury Award at SXSW 2025 and will be released in theaters by Oscilloscope Laboratories in 2026.