{"id":184,"date":"2011-05-06T19:02:43","date_gmt":"2011-05-07T02:02:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/buckthefilm.com\/blog\/?p=184"},"modified":"2011-05-10T19:03:24","modified_gmt":"2011-05-11T02:03:24","slug":"true-tale-of-horse-whisperer-catching-buzz","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/buckthefilm.com\/blog\/?p=184","title":{"rendered":"True Tale of Horse Whisperer Catching Buzz"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Claudine Zap<\/strong><br \/>\nFri, May 06, 2011, 11:48 am PDT<\/p>\n<p><strong> <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong> <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The real-life horse whisperer who inspired the 1998 fictional movie &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/search.yahoo.com\/search?p=The+Horse+Whisperer&amp;cs=bz&amp;fr=buzz&amp;fr=buzz\">The Horse Whisperer<\/a>&#8221; is now the star of his own film. Called &#8220;Buck,&#8221; the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/blogs\/risky-business\/sundance-sundance-selects-buys-buck-74950\">documentary<\/a> follows the life of the cowboy-philosopher <a href=\"http:\/\/search.yahoo.com\/search?p=Buck+Brannaman&amp;cs=bz&amp;fr=buzz&amp;fr=buzz\">Buck Brannaman<\/a>, as he works his magic with horses and their owners. (And yes, <a href=\"http:\/\/search.yahoo.com\/search?p=Robert+Redford&amp;cs=bz&amp;fr=buzz&amp;fr=buzz\">Robert Redford<\/a> even appears.)<\/p>\n<p>The movie was directed by <a href=\"http:\/\/search.yahoo.com\/search?p=Cindy+Meehl&amp;cs=bz&amp;fr=buzz&amp;fr=buzz\">Cindy Meehl<\/a>, who shot 300 hours of film to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.indiewire.com\/article\/meet_the_2011_sundance_filmmakers_buck_director_cindy_meehl\/\">put together the narrative<\/a>, which won the <a href=\"http:\/\/thefilmstage.com\/2011\/05\/03\/trailer-for-sundance-audience-award-winner-buck\/\">Documentary Audience Award<\/a> 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 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sterlingspeakers.com\/brannaman.htm\">true tale<\/a> follows the horse tamer, who was raised in Idaho and suffered an abusive childhood at the hands of his father. That\u00a0led him and his brother into foster care. The young Buck found solace in horses, and training them became his calling.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/buzzlog.yahoo.com\/buzzlog\/94418\/true-tale-of-horse-whisperer-catching-buzz\" target=\"_blank\">Read complete post at buzzlog.yahoo<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Claudine Zap Fri, May 06, 2011, 11:48 am PDT The real-life horse whisperer who inspired the 1998 fictional movie &#8220;The Horse Whisperer&#8221; is now the star of his own film. Called &#8220;Buck,&#8221; the documentary follows the life of the cowboy-philosopher Buck Brannaman, as he works his magic with horses and their owners. (And yes, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-184","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-reviews","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/buckthefilm.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/buckthefilm.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/buckthefilm.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/buckthefilm.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/buckthefilm.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=184"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/buckthefilm.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/buckthefilm.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=184"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/buckthefilm.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=184"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/buckthefilm.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=184"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}