Channel Archives: Lifestyle

Ok, so the kids might like a break from horses. (Missed Part 1? Check it out here.) Let’s unsaddle for a while and take a look at some films and...

With the kids out of school and shuttered inside with the (ugh!) parents for weeks now, this is the perfect time to fill some of those increasingly empty hours with...

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...

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....

Half Broke by Ginger Gaffney documents the first year and a half the author spent working with fifty residents and the horses they care for at a prison re-sentencing facility. **** The men...

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...

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...

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...

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....

Shot over 14 days in April and August of 2018, Tails of Iceland delicately weaves the story of how Icelanders and their unique, multi-gaited horses have shaped the culture of the island....

The Equus Film Festival is best defined by passion. Whether a film is about reining, racing, or hunting for the origins of America's wild horses, dedication, love, devotion, and perhaps...

In 2014, Buzzfeed published a quiz titled “How Privileged Are You?” In the five years since it came out, I often think about that quiz and the strange ways it...

Recently, I was on the receiving end of the news that every rider dreads most. One sunny day in May, I asked my very nice neurosurgeon if he was absolutely,...

Free Spirits: Saving America’s Wild Horses opens with chaos. Short clips and sound bites from Bureau of Land Management officials, animal rights activists, news anchors, ranch owners, and horse trainers...

“Canter around the corner. Then walk!” Kelly called out from the middle of the riding ring, a large sandy area surrounded by a bright white wooden fence. She was teaching...

If there were horses born for a life in front of the camera, it would be the horses of Spain. Andalusians, Lusitanos, and others that hail from this peninsula country...

World-renowned equine expert Linda Tellington-Jones’ healing equine bodywork and innovative training methods have revolutionized the horse training landscape over the last 50 years. Her unique blend of hands-on TTouch (a...

Tom Lloyd’s documentary Romany Rai isn’t really a horse movie. Instead, horses are the film’s lifeblood, flowing in and out of every scene. Stout Cobs pull brightly colored flat carts...