Buck  CTC

Rating CTC

Release DateThursday, 16 February 2012

Length 1hrs 28min

Main Cast Buck Brannaman

Movie DirectorCindy Meehl

Distributor

Winner of the Audience Award (Documentary) at Sundance 2011, about American Buck Braannaman – from his abusive childhood to his life as a successful horse-whisperer. “Brannaman tours the world giving clinics on ‘starting’ colts, using a method of firm but sensitive nonverbal instruction that one rancher admiringly calls ‘voodoo.’ Brannaman’s entire philosophy of how horses mirror the psychology and insecurities of their owners… stems from the merciless brutality that he and his brother experienced in childhood, at the hands of an alcoholic father, an experience that informs his entire ‘feel’ for managing equine fear. It must be admitted: this guy’s instinctively empathic way with animals is uncanny. Filmmaker Cindy Meehl tracks Buck (a former child-celebrity trick roper who made numerous TV appearances after he went pro at age six) from Montana to the Carolinas as he calmly tames one unmountable wild thing after another with nothing more than a lead rope and a couple of flags.” (NZ International Film Festival 2011)