JUANA MESTENA Story & Screenplay by Cathy Smith & Jerry Fahrenthold GENRE: New Mexican romantic Western LOGLINES: A female" Zorro" meets "All the Pretty Horses" A New Mexican Vaquero version of Calamity Jane. A real horse movie for Horse Lovers. THEME: Freedom and courage to live an authentic life as the person you are. A single woman survives in a Man's world during the exciting and turbulent times of Post-civil war New Mexico Territory. A woman before her time STORY: A tale of horsemanship, vaqueros, charreadas, thievery, deceit and romance on the Mexican border in the early 1870's. Juana Mestena a natural horsewoman and exceptional trainer, rides with a gang of vaqueros stealing horses in Mexico and running them across the Rio Grande. She dresses as a vaquero, carries two revolvers and a bull whip and knows how to use them. Harassment from a wealthy hacendado who competes with her horse business, Marauding Apache, and paying off the Border guard are her dilemmas, which only increase when she secretly falls in love. When she competes in a famous horse race and charreada competition in Santa Fe, disguised as a man, she is found out and disqualified - losing the gold prize money to the hacendado & putting herself, her men and rancho at risk. This treatment is registered with the WGA and Copyright protected.