Cedar Creek Productions | BUCK the Film in the Press
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 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.
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.
GRAVENHURST – Students from six Muskoka schools travelled by foot or by bus to the Gravenhurst Opera House on Thursday to watch Buck, an inspiring movie about a man’s miraculous relationship with horses. Three hundred students ranging in age from 10 to 19 were part of the third annual Fine Films Gravenhurst student screening, where students watch a carefully selected Canadian or international film and debrief their movie experience when they return to their classrooms.
Professional animal training – and in particular, horse training – underwent a total rebranding several years ago with the release of a book, and follow-up movie, The Horse Whisperer. Horse whispering describes a method of dealing with an animal that is both sensitive and nuanced by a trainer with a strong affinity for the animal.
The novel’s author Nicholas Evans based that description on the work of Buck Brannaman – a man he describes as the Zen master of the horse world. Buck is the focus of a movie – a documentary – released here in Australian cinemas on February 17th. It was an award winner at last year’s Sundance Film Festival. The movie is about Buck’s work with horses, his attitudes, and background. Cameron Wilson speaks with Buck Brannaman, horse trainer and subject of the movie ‘Buck’
Review: Mark Naglazas, January 25, 2011
You’ll like this if you liked Gorillas in the Midst, The Horse Whisperer, Seabiscuit, Grizzly Man.
It’s commonly assumed that abused children themselves become abusers, imposing the hurt they suffered on the next generation (violence being in the DNA was the subject of last year’s French-Canadian masterpiece Incendies).
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Buck the man interviewed at his ranch by Bill Weir on ABC Nightline.
A cast is good; a character is better.
As Indiewire detailed last month, the success of “Buck” had as much to do with the marketing of its subject as its subject matter. Horse-whispering cowboy Buck Brannaman is an honest-to-god unique character who easily translated the documentary’s concept to millions via in-theater and festival appearances as well as rapturous Today Show slots (where he was described as a “chick, horse, everything magnet”).
Buck. Luminous and uplifting, documentarian Cindy Meehl’s homage to laconic, low-key “horse whisperer” Buck Brannaman is a powerful portrait of leadership, redemption, healing and understanding — a film that’s as much about being a better person as a better horseman. Mild language; references to an abusive childhood; a couple of violent horse moments and a moderately serious injury. Fine for older kids.
Mornings with Steve Austin
19 January 2012 , 11:47 AM by Scott Spark
A new film called Buck won the audience award at Sundance follows the life of Buck Brannaman, a real Horse Whisperer.