How an Oklahoma teen’s spontaneous road trip sparked a filmmaking career

Tanner Ray was just an 18-year-old from Dewey, Oklahoma, when he booked a one-way ticket to Montana to meet a stranger he had met online.

He’d never traveled alone before, never made a real film and had just barely pulled off a celebratory backflip at his high school graduation. What he did have was a burning desire to capture life as it unfolded — raw, unscripted and unfiltered.

That spontaneous road trip, spent living out of a car and couch-surfing across the country with YouTuber Aidan Gallagher, would change the trajectory of Ray’s life…

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