While COVID-19 has put a temporary halt to the in-person event, BreyerFest 2020 is a virtual go with events, workshops, shows and, yes, films available online. And EQUUS Film Channel...
Like the rest of the world, the equestrian community is grappling with the concept of erasure. Erasure is when those in power promote their viewpoints and icons in the historical...
As the weather warms up and restrictions due to COVID-19 begin to relax, many are itching to climb back in the saddle. Here are three trainer-focused films on EQUUS Film...
The day the author Harper Lee died my grandmother and I talked about race. We were on the phone, she in her house in Colorado, me in my apartment in...
Horse lovers young and old love to fantasize about equine-related travel. For me, I have daydreamed for decades about galloping across a beach on a horse with a big stride,...
I am isolating at a friend’s farm for a few days, and storms rolled in over her back pasture for the past two nights. The night before last, the thunder...
Many of us became horse crazy because of our mothers, aunts, grandmothers, or another female figure who swept in and encouraged us into a saddle. They threw us up on...
Horse lovers tend to be good storytellers. From recounting our first nasty fall to explaining exactly what the horse got into that they were not supposed to, being able to...
To pass time in self-isolation during the COVID-19 crisis, I cleaned my favorite bridle. It belonged to the horse I knew the longest, the one that changed my life. Carabela...
As the days of the pandemic trickle forward like water from a kinked hose, many people are feeling more emotions in 24 hours than they usually do in a month....
The streets have emptied, businesses have closed, and many of the significant spring horse events we wait for all year have been canceled or postponed. COVID-19 may have slowed us...
Every December, I sign up for the best PPO (preferred provider organization) insurance plan I can afford because if I get chucked off a horse and need to go to...
A good redemption narrative isn't the kind with tidy edges. It is the type of film that shows us breathtaking highs and crippling lows. The kind that has the courage...
It might be mud season outside, but spring has already arrived at EQUUS Film Channel. With 40 new films added this month—on therapeutic riding, racing, rescue, horse cultures big and...
I was raised Catholic. My father would put on his Sunday best and pull my brother and me out of bed for 8 am Mass. I was never a model...
Filmmakers and photographers alike know the difficulties of capturing horses on film. Horses are always moving, the wrong angle makes them look like giraffes, and bad lighting in indoor arenas...
I have lived in the Great Lakes region of the United States for five years now. I traded my Colorado clay-covered cowboy boots for the paddock variety. The wind blowing...
At first, Sybil H Mair’s short film The Equestrian seems simple: a young man seeks the lost affection of an emotionally absent father through some great achievement. Yet, as this...
One of the most striking scenes in Ceolchuairt Mongolia doesn’t include a fiddle. Instead, the camera focuses on a little sorrel horse, as wild and fierce as the Mongolian winter....
I was in one of the Wrigley Media Group theaters at the EQUUS Film and Arts Festival over the weekend, watching a set of shorts when from somewhere in the...
