Interview with Buck Brannaman for Yes-They-Did-It !
February 2012. Rose Bowl Riders, Pasadena, California.
Buck Yes They Did It! Interview
February 26, 2012 by
Buck at the Rose Bowl Clinic
February 25, 2012 by
Horse whisperer Buck Brannaman draws a crowd at Pasadena Rose Bowl
Paulick ReportAbout 200 people paid $25 a head to watch horse whisperer Dan “Buck” Brannaman display his unique horse training methods at the Pasadena Rose Bowl equestrian facility on Friday. It was the first day of a four-day clinic in which Brannaman is guiding 25 students, who each paid $600, through the basics of getting to know their horses. Read complete article >
‘BUCK’ teaches hard-learned lessons
Jana J. Monji
Straight from the school of hard-knocks, comes Buck Brannaman. As the youngest son of “Ace” and Carol Brannaman, he first came to national attention as a shy boy, who, with his older brother, had a talent for rope tricks. They were on national cereal commercials, but you might know Buck best as the horse whisperer–the man who inspired a book and later worked with Robert Redford on the movie by the same name, “The Horse Whisperer.” Director Cindy Meehl’s “Buck” is a picturesque documentary that tells a hopeful story about redemption through hard work and humility. Read complete article >
2 BUCK reviews
February 18, 2012 by
February 18, 2012
Rein and shine
theage.comAn abusive childhood is behind one man’s crusade for kindness, writes PAUL BYRNES.
Buck Brannaman is the cowboy who inspired The Horse Whisperer, the best-selling novel by English writer Nicholas Evans. Robert Redford based some of his performance as Tom Booker in the movie on his observation of Brannaman’s style, although Redford’s reaction on meeting him was that the guy was a fake. ”He looks like he’s got a costume on,” Redford said.
Read more: http://www.theage.com.au/entertainment/movies/rein-and-shine-20120216-1t9wa.html#ixzz1nUubrSAx
The real horse whisperer
Canberra TimesA new documentary tells the transformative story of a man who helps horses with people problems, Philip O’Brien writes
‘Often instead of helping people with horse problems, I’m helping horses with people problems.” Dan ”Buck” Brannaman is a 50-year-old American horse trainer from Sheridan, Wyoming. He spends nine months of the year on the road, conducting clinics which teach people to communicate with their horses through empathy rather than intimidation. He was one of several people who inspired the book and film The Horse Whisperer.
Movie Juice: MJ News Ep 306 interview with Renee Brack
February 16, 2012 by
Buck’s video interview starts with the trailer at 17:31 and continues through to 21:10.
We especially like when Buck says “Something I learned that I didn’t expect… doesn’t matter where you live – things that touch you in a spiritual way – we’re all the same”.
Buck Review in Australia’s theage.com
February 15, 2012 by
Buck is about so much more than horses, writes JIM SCHEMBRI
Softly spoken horse trainer Buck Brannaman is the quietly compelling subject of this lyrical, visually beautiful documentary by Cindy Meehl. She spent more than two years following Buck and capturing what goes on his “clinics”, which are as much about training people as they are about horses. Buck is big on seeing animals as reflections of the people who own them, so his attention is often on issues of earning respect and authority through firmness rather than demanding obedience through harshness. His background as an abused child provides a powerful insight into his strength of character and the love he has for the foster mother who helped save him. The extraordinary sequence with the crazy horse illustrates Buck’s belief that animal behaviour tends to reflect the humans who own them.
The Non-Fiction Section talks Oscar
February 15, 2012 by
No More Popcorn
February 15, 2012
Buck: “Buck” actually made the academy’s shortlist, and I was a little shocked to see it didn’t make the nominations, since it’s a total crowd-pleaser in the mold of “Man on Wire.” It’s the kind of film that would make even the least enthusiastic audience member want to check out more films like it. “Buck” is about Buck Brannaman, an acclaimed “Horse Whisperer” (he was the real-life basis for Robert Redford’s character in the 1998 movie). A victim of abuse as a child, Brannaman uses his experience to relate to difficult horses, who are often victims themselves. Director Cindy Meehl brings audiences along with Brannaman in the field as he trains horses, consults with owners, and more often than not offers therapy to animal and owner alike. One of the highlights of last year’s True/False Festival was having Brannaman on site. He was a great guy to be around, and came off exactly the way Meehl portrays him in the film.
What the horse whisperer can teach humans
February 15, 2012 by
Michael Bodey The Australian 2/15/2012
BUCK Brannaman is your typical Hollywood cowboy: he’s unflappable, speaks deliberately and wears his wide-brimmed hat with formal aplomb.
He is typical in appearance anyway. Brannaman, the subject of an affecting new documentary, is a reluctant star.
“I’m not delusional about this,” he notes while promoting the film, Buck, in Melbourne.
TheReelBits.com Review
February 14, 2012 by
Richard Gray, February 14, 2012
In Cindy Meehl‘s debut documentary, her subject Buck Brannaman is a quiet and thoughtful man, teaching horses and humans to cooperate. ”Your horse is a mirror to your soul”, says Buck “and sometimes you may not like what you see. Sometimes, you will.” One wonders what Buck, ostensibly an open book in this documentary, would make of his own tale, which bares (almost) all about his life, philosophy and the way he relates to humans and horses both.
Life lessons
February 8, 2012 by
Life lessons from Buck Brannaman – ‘Horses and life, it’s all the same to me’
By Sharon Furr
Tuesday, February 7, 2012 at 10:23 pm (Updated: February 8, 12:28 am)
I’ve always heard that the outside of a horse can do something wonderful to the inside of a man, and I truly believe it.
Today’s story is all about horses and ourselves as being one, or you could fill in the blank — instead of horses, it could be cows, or dogs, or you get the gist.
I’ve always been in awe of Buck Brannaman, the pure cruelty he came up in and how his life turned out, despite all odds. It’s a lesson in itself that no matter what hand of cards life deals you, you have a choice with what you can do with it. Of course, you can allow yourself to wallow in it or hide in it, that’s the easy way out, never making a difference, that’s the avenue most people take, but it’s all up to you, you have that option, you have the pulse.
Film Forward showing BUCK in China
January 30, 2012 by
Buck Brannaman and Andrea Meditch
March 13-22, 2012
Andrea Meditch, Creative Consultant, and award winning documentary film producer and creative adviser for media companies, will be going to China to show BUCK to Chinese film makers as part of the FILM FORWARD program.
FILM FORWARD is a cultural exchange program designed to enhance cross-cultural understanding, collaboration and dialogue around the globe by engaging audiences through the exhibition of film and conversation with filmmakers. FILM FORWARD is an initiative of Sundance Institute and The President’s committee on the Arts and the Humanities, in partnership with the National Endowment for the Arts, the National Endowment for the Humanities, and the Institute of Museum and Library Services.
