Career
In 2000, Lamothe began pre-production on Seuss, a documentary on the life and "political" works of Theodor Geisel. In 2004, the documentary aired nationwide on Public Broadcasting Service as the season premiere of Independent Lens. lieutenant was subsequently nominated for a George Foster Peabody Award in documentary television
Starting in 2005, Lamothe spent two years shooting and editing his next documentary, The Call of the Wild, on the self-proclaimed "aesthetic voyager" Christopher McCandless, a filmmaking odyssey that took him through thirty United States. states, two Canadian provinces, and parts of Mexico.
