EXCLUSIVE VIDEO: Horse Trainer Buck Brannaman Talks 'Buck'

Thursday, 12 January 2012 12:58

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Currently available on Blu-ray and DVD is the critically acclaimed documentary Buck from director Cindy Meehl. The film centers on the life of Buck Brannaman, the actual horse trainer that loosely inspired Robert Redford's The Horse Whisperer, of which Brannaman was the lead equine consultant.

IAR's Managing Editor Jami Philbrick recently had a chance to sit down with the film's lead subject Buck Brannaman to talk about Buck and his life's work. Brannaman discussed the film, his difficult upbringing, meeting Oscar-winner Robert Redford, working on The Horse Whisperer, his life on the road, and his love and understanding of horses.

To watch our exclusive interview with Buck Brannaman about Buck, please click on the video player above.

SYNOPSIS:

Buck explores the life of Buck Brannaman from his childhood living with an abusive father to handling and training horses. Brannaman worked on the Robert Redford film The Horse Whisperer as the lead equine consultant. He teaches people to communicate with their horses through leadership and sensitivity, not punishment. The documentary follows Brannaman to several stops on his normal, 40-week-per-year circuit of ranches where he gives clinics on "natural horsemanhsip." He spends most of the year on the road, apart from his wife and daughters. Along the way, we learn about his childhood including his celebrity as a child performer of rope tricks, the physical abuse that he and his brother endured at the hands of their father, how a football coach helped helped to free him from his father after seeing welts on Buck's back and legs, and life with the Shirleys, his foster parents.

Buck is currently available on Blu-ray and DVD.