Telling the stories of the American West

UNWON is a voice for working collar America, the stories behind the folks who build, feed, and clothe a nation. It’s not about blue collar or white collar, it’s about a hardworking traditional ethos and a practical self-reliance rooted in reality, community, and common sense.

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Reported & edited by Keely Brazil Covello

Keely Brazil Covello is a journalist, filmmaker, and entrepreneur from rural Mendocino County in Northern California. She covered national political news for The Washington Times in D.C., but it was her first hometown reporting job at The Ukiah Daily Journal that gave her a passion for telling the stories of rural, working America.

Her debut documentary You Just Can’t See Them From the Road was released late 2023 and is currently being shown in select festivals and screenings across the country. It will be available for streaming in early 2025.

In January 2024 she was selected as a fellow in the Palladium Pictures documentary incubator in Washington, D.C. headed by Michael Pack, appointed by President Donald Trump as CEO for the US Agency for Global Media. She is currently working on a film about the unsolved murder of an elderly cattle rancher on California’s North Coast. High Country Murder is slated for release in November 2024. Learn more about her film work.

When she is not on the road, Keely and her husband Nick live in Orange County, California.

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