Filipe Masetti Leite(I)

Filipe Masetti Leite is a world-renowned Long Rider, multi award-winning filmmaker and best-selling author. The Brazilian born cowboy is the youngest person in the world to cross the Americas on horseback and a fellow of the Royal Geographical Society. In 2020 he was chosen as the Calgary Stampede's Grand Marshal and 'white-hatted' by Mayor Naheed Nenshi. He is the author of the international best-sellers, Long Ride Home (soon to be a motion picture), Long Ride to the End of the World and Last Long Ride, published in Portuguese (Harper Collins) and English (Exparte Press), soon to be released in Spanish. Filipe is a regular contributor to Canada's largest daily, The Toronto Star, a frequent guest on Rede Globo's Fantastico, Brazil's most watched Sunday night television show, and has just released his feature Documentary, The Long Rider, on Super Channel and Amazon Prime Canada. The film which tells his 8-year ride from Alaska to Ushuaia, Argentina has garnered 14 international awards and received much acclaim from critics! The first pair of boots he wore on his Long Ride are on display at the Bata Shoe Museum in Toronto and two statues, more than five meters tall, have been erected in Brazil to celebrate his feat.