Loosely speaking, Dan “Buck” Brannaman is the real-life inspiration for “The Horse Whisperer,” the 1995 Nicholas Evans novel and subsequent feature film starring and directed by Robert Redford. But, ...

The documentary Audience Award winner at this year’s Sundance festival, Buck follows itinerant horse trainer Buck Brannaman as he applies his uniquely humane and frankly astounding methods in four-day ...

Our therapeutic culture is lousy with stories of people struggling to spin childhood traumas into something positive, something that leaves the world a better place than the one that damaged them; but ...

He was already the inspiration for the best-selling novel and the 1998 film directed by Robert Redford, but now Buck Brannaman -- the man widely known as the real-life “horse whisperer” – is the ...

The director spent two and a half years shooting it. Then she carefully crafted it into an hour and a half journey of one man's life. Brannaman is a world famous horse trainer, who travels nine months ...

First-time filmmaker Cindy Meehl makes an Oscar-shortlisted doc on Buck Brannaman, who inspired Robert Redford's equine classic. By Tim Appelo Cindy Meehl‘s Buck, a Cedar Creek Productions documentary ...

The Nugget: A talented trainer channels the pain from his past into a gentle approach to horsemanship. Robert Redford’s The Horse Whisperer may have faded from collective memory, but Buck Brannaman ...

It was author Nicholas Evans’ research into the ancient riding masters of Scotland and Ireland — horsemen rumored to utter hushed, mystical secrets into the ears of their four-legged charges — that ...

PARK CITY, Utah — Several years ago, I spent time with Gunther Gebel-Williams, the celebrated Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey animal trainer. I watched in awe as this intensely charismatic man ...

Buck Brannaman, the subject of Cindy Meehl’s engaging documentary profile “Buck,” has a warm presence and knows how to tame horses better than anyone else. That’s the simplest encapsulation of the ...

New documentary about Buck Brannaman could get an Oscar nomination. Jan. 23, 2012— -- Buck Brannaman is one of the most respected cowboys in the country, the inspiration for "The Horse Whisperer, ...

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