A rodeo cowboy plays himself in ‘The Rider’

Chloe Zhao is driving through the Arizona desert just north of Mexico on a research expedition for a film.“I’m keeping an eye on the border,” Zhao, a Chinese-born, U.S.-based filmmaker, says with a chuckle. “I don’t have my passport with me.”In her young and promising career, Zhao has made flirting with boundaries a specialty. She was born in Beijing and attended boarding school in England before studying political science at Massachusetts’ Mount Holyoke