Cedar Creek Productions | BUCK the Film in the Press
By DAVID CARR
New York Times
LAST Sunday evening Buck Brannaman strolled the High Line, two stories above the streets of Manhattan and hundreds of miles from his native habitat, the ranch country where he runs clinics in enlightened horsemanship. The documentary “Buck,” which won a Sundance audience award this year and will open on Friday in New York and Los Angeles, details his shamanlike skills around horses and the people who ride them.
For anyone who has adored horses, even from afar, Buck has landed to enlighten your summer. Buck is a real-life horse whisperer and his magic with the gentle giants is only matched by the majesty of his story as captured in the film Buck and we have an exclusive clip!
In 1998, Robert Redford directed and starred in “The Horse Whisperer,” a film, based on a 1995 novel of the same name, about a group of men who could communicate with horses and help solve their owners’ issues, both equine and personal. Read more & view film clip >
Buck the film reviewed on CBS Morning News. With the help of Los Angeles Times film critic Kenneth Turan, Bill Whitaker looks at what’s in store.
By Kyle Buchanan
The movie won the Documentary Audience Award at Sundance.
By Claudine Zap
Fri, May 06, 2011, 11:48 am PDT
The real-life horse whisperer who inspired the 1998 fictional movie “The Horse Whisperer” is now the star of his own film. Called “Buck,” the documentary follows the life of the cowboy-philosopher Buck Brannaman, as he works his magic with horses and their owners. (And yes, Robert Redford even appears.)
The movie was directed by Cindy Meehl, who shot 300 hours of film to put together the narrative, which won the Documentary Audience Award at Sundance this year. Its first fans seem to be on to something, as the film is starting to pick up buzz. On Yahoo! in the last month alone, searches on the horse trainer have jumped 700%. The true tale follows the horse tamer, who was raised in Idaho and suffered an abusive childhood at the hands of his father. That led him and his brother into foster care. The young Buck found solace in horses, and training them became his calling.
By Sean O’Connell
Hollywoodnews.com: Buck Brannaman, better known in equestrian circles as the horse whisperer, continued to work his magic over crowds.
“Buck,” Cindy Meehl’s documentary on Brannaman’s unique career, took home the Audience Award at the Full Frame Documentary Film Festival, months after it claimed the same prize at the Sundance Film Festival.
BUCK wins award for Best Feature Documentary
Horsing Around With “Buck”Filmmakers from Connecticut made a huge impression at the recent Sundance Film Festival, but no one was a bigger surprise than Cindy Meehl. With zero filmmaking experience, Meehl, a 54-year-old Redding resident, made a movie about a horse trainer that won the festival’s U.S. Documentary Audience Award. “Buck” earned over-the-top reviews and a distribution deal with Sundance Selects/IFC Films. Read complete Courant article