“The Python Hunt” is that rare case where an indie film easily raises financing, grabs upbeat response from audiences and critics at a film festival, wins a prize, and launches multiple sales bids.

Xander Robin has been making movies for years. But the director had never filmed anything quite like this: 10 grueling nights hanging out with amateur snake hunters in the Florida Everglades. The Palm ...

The "Python Challenge" is being put on by the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission, which is offering cash prizes to whoever brings in the longest python and whoever bags the most pythons ...

There are many deadly animals in Florida, the Everglades. Facts on dangerous animals in Florida: Alligators, sharks, panthers ...

Filmmaker Lance Oppenheim (“Some Kind of Heaven,” “Ren Faire”) brought an idea to his old Florida buddy Xander Robin (“Are We Not Cats”). They had been trying to make a movie together for years, and ...