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WELCOME TO MIST Harlem

MIST Harlem is located at 46 West 116th Street, in the heart of central Harlem, steps from the IRT #2 and #3 train. MIST Harlem is guided by the essential philosophy of using select environmentally sustainable materials, which minimize consumption of resources, improve air quality, reduce energy consumption, preserve resources for future generations while providing an inviting and compelling, contemporary space.

Largely hired from the Harlem community and beyond, sta is cross-trained in hospitality, ecient operations, marketing and promotions and technical production services to develop a team that excels in customer service, cultural resonance and community engagement. MIST oers a unique, dining and entertainment experience in an environmentally responsible, inviting and compelling, contemporary setting.

Madiba Harlem Restaurant, Bar & Cafe is a fresh new addition to the Harlem culinary scene. They continue a long tradition of bringing the home cooking of South African kitchens to New York tables. Madiba Harlem is open throughout the festival. Reserve your table today for the special prix fixe menu for the festival and also enjoy a selection of foods from Madiba at the VIP Awards Party on Saturday night following the last film. Complimentary champagne will be provided courtesy of Blackburn Architects. Tickets for the VIP Awards Party are $25 and can purchased online (EquusFilmFestival.com) or at the festival itself.

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SATURDAY

12:00 pm - FILM FESTIVAL OPENS

9:20 p.m. - LAST FILM THEATRE A

9:20 p.m - LAST FILM THEATRE B

9:15 p.m. - LAST FILM THEATRE C

9:30 p.m. - DIRECTORS PANEL DISCUSSION

10:15 p.m - Q&A WITH PANELISTS

10:45 p.m - END OF PANEL

11:00 p.m - WRAP

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10:30 a.m. - SPECIAL CHILDREN & COMMUNITY SCREENINGS, THEATRES A & B

10:30 a.m. - NATIVE AMERICAN HERITAGE MONTH CELEBRATIONS, THEATRE C

12:00 p.m - FILM FESTIVAL OPENS

9:45 p.m. - LAST FILM THEATRE A

8:45 p.m. - LAST FILM THEATRE B

9:15 p.m - LAST FILM THEATRE C

9:30 p.m - VIP AWARDS PARTY BEGINS IN LOBBY

10:00 p.m - AWARDS PRESENTATION

11:45 p.m - WRAP

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A12:00pm Gazelle France J. F.Pignon 112:00 min (visit with the J. F. Pignon after the film) 1:55pm Happy Valentines Day Lil Herc- USA by Jilly Bean Productions 13:52 min 2:10pm Horses Still Helping People - USA - by Wayne Williams 29:57 min

(visit with the Director after the film)

2:45pm Music Videos: 15:00 min

Horsing Around Mary Ann Kennedy USA By Mary Ann Kennedy 3:06 min (music video)

Horses & Harleys - USA - by Ron Vasser 3:59 min (music video)

The Stallion & The Foal USA by Pam Nickoles 4:45 min (music video)

Running Wild - Song For Hawk - USA - music by Steve Poltz 4:00 min (music video)

3:00pm Shorts Collection 60:00 min

Forest Rides - USA - by Ivy Schexnayder 5:20 min

The Joust - USA - Written & Directed by Stewart H. Redwine 9:30 min

Vinnie No Dream Is To Big Sweden by Felx Hemgren & Bill Schumaucher 1:51 min (commercial)

Noel Asmar Equestrian USA by Noel Asmar 2:28 min (commercial)

The Wishing Horse - Ireland - by Alex Darby 13:00 min

Country Saddlery Select Ads USA by Dawn Chaikin 7:22 min (commercial)

To Sleep: Perchance To Dream USA by Sybil Miller 6:39 min

2013 - OPI Commercial France - Dancing Horse 2:26 min (commercial)

Valiant USA by Stuart Henderson & Jeanette Sassoon 6:55 min (trailer)

4:00pm Penny & Red: The Life of Secretariats Owner USA by John Tweedy 60:00 min

FRIDAY5:00pm Shorts Collection 20:00 min

Artist Profile - Dr. Maria Katsamanis - USA - by Skyline Corp 4:00 min (visit with Dr. Maria Katsamanis after the film)

Noel Asmar Equestrian Ad USA by Noel Asmar 2:28 min (commercial)

Equestre Molecular, Dr. Maria Katsamanis - Spain - by Ferran Serra 14:00 min

Festival Of The Horse & Drum USA by Ron Vasser 3:20 min (commercial) (visit with the Director after the film)

5:30pm Free Rein Canada by Stefan Morel 25:03 min (visit with the Director after the film)

6:00pm Riders of McCrae Farm - USA - by Lauren Schultz 29:47 min

6:30pm The Path Of The Horse USA by Stormy May 60:00 min

7:30pm Such Is The Real Nature Of Horses France by Robert Vavra 60:00 min


A Century Of Horses Canada by Stefan Morel 14:33 min (visit with the Director after the film)

Blind Spot Argentina/Canada by Stefan Morel 6:11 min (trailer) (visit with the Director after the film)

Hello From Noah Vail USA by Mary Farr 3:34 min

The Horseman Spain Glen Miller 3:00 min

Harry & Snowman USA Ron Davis 3:00 min (Trailer)

Cheryl & JJ USA by Shelley Paulson 2:48 min

Horses Changing Perspectives UK by Lars Lehmann 6:15 min

Megan & Justin USA by Shelley Paulson 3:13 min

9:15pm 2013 - Pailo Italy - by Riccardo Domenichini 25:00 min

9:45pm 2013 - Path To Glory: The Rise & Rise Of The Polish Arabian Horse USA - by Jen Miller & Sophie Pegrum 99:00 min

Schedule is Subject to Change

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A 4:05pm Born To Die USA by Sue Morrow 10:35 min (visit with the Director of the Last Chance Corral farm after the film)

4:20pm Poisoned Horses USA Dr David Kennedy 30:00 min

(learn about the subject in the Directors Corner after the film)

4:50pm 2013 - The Perfect Horse For Every Adventure USA - The Arabian Horse Association 60:00 min

5:50pm Music Video Collection 12:00 min

Happy Ye-Halidays USA by Templeton Thompson 2:41 min (music video)

Rocking Cowboy Blues - USA - by Ron Vasser 4:03 min (music video)

2013 - When I Get That Pony Rode USA Templeton Thompson by Cindy Meehl 3:34 min music video)

Cotton Eyed Joe - USA - Music Video - Cowgirls 'N Angels - Performed by Amber Hayes 2:33 min (music video)

6:10pm The Classical Series Symposiums: Session Four With Dominique Barbier USA by Jolanda Ellenberger 143:00 min


A Century Of Horses Canada by Stefan Morel 14:33 min


Blind Spot Argentina/Canada by Stefan Morel 6:11 min (trailer)


Cheryl & JJ USA by Shelley Paulson 2:48 min

Horses Changing Perspectives UK by Lars Lehmann 6:15 min

Megan & Justin USA by Shelley Paulson 3:13 min

9:15pm 2013 - Pailo Italy - by Riccardo Domenichini 25:00 min

9:45pm 2013 - Path To Glory: The Rise & Rise Of The Polish Arabian Horse USA - by Jen Miller & Sophie Pegrum 99:00 min


SATURDAY

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10:30am Cowgirls 'N Angels Dakota's Summer - USA - Directed by Timothy Armstrong 91:00 min

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12:00pm Horse Of The Gypsies - USA - a Film by Mark Barrett 26:02 min


Equine Photographers Network USA - by Scott Trees 1:15 min (commercial)

Halsdon Arabians USA by Scott Trees - 5:38 min

Believe, Believe, Believe USA by Tiffany Mac Neil 4:37 min (music video)

(visit with Tiffany MacNeil after the film)

12:45pm Beauty of Horses - USA- by Mark Barrett 22:00 min

1:10pm Andalusian Conformation and Movement 101 - IALHA USA by Francine Dismukes 36:11 min

1:50pm Dont Take My Home USA by Pam Nickoles music by Mary Ann Kennedy 5:41 min (Music

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2:00pm Getting Started In Lightness USA by Lisa Maxwell 95:00 min


Noel Asmar Equestrian Ad USA by Noel Asmar 2:28 min (commercial)

Merry Christmas Golega do Royal USA by Jilly Bean Productions 9:53 min

Mane In Heaven - USA - by Scott Drucker 6:45 min

The Wishing Horse - Ireland - by Alex Darby 13:00 min

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B FREE SCREENING 10:30am 2013 - Black Rodeo USA - by Jeff Kanew 90:00 min Saturday Morning 10:30 am __________________________________________________________________________________________ 12:00pm 2013 - Aaron Baxter, The Windy City Cowboy USA - by Ron Vasser 10:00 min (trailer) - (visit with the Director after the film)

12:10pm On the Muscle Part 1 One For The Dirt USA by Bill Yahraus and Robin Rosenthal 58:00 min

*1:10pm Mil's Life - USA - Directed by - Zach Hauptman 20:53 min World Premier


1:35pm Return Of The Horse USA by Sharon Eliashar & Leo Hubbard 61:00 min

2:35pm Talking To The Air USA by Horsefly Films Jen Miller & Sophie Pegrum (2:30 min trailer)

2:40pm 2013 - The Royal Art Of Riding Denmark - by Bent Branderup 60:00 min

3:40pm The Horses of Fukushima Japan - by MATSUBAYASHI Yoju 74:00 min

5:00pm The Gathering USA by Susan Sember 60:00 min - (visit with the Director after the film)

*6:00pm Tarpan USA by Horsefly Films Jen Miller & Sophie Pegrum 27:00 min **World Premier


We Can Ride USA by Shelley Paulson 4:12 min

Valliant USA by!Stuart Henderson & Jeanette Sassoon 6:55 min (trailer)

The Nap - France - by Jynne 1:10 min

RIP Deputy Broad USA by Sybil Miller 5:33 min

Vinnie No Dream Is To Big Sweden by Felx Herngren & Bill Schumacher 1:51 min (commercial)

6:50pm Riding My Way Back USA by Peter Rosenbaum 28:31 min

7:25pm Lusitano Collection 73:00 min

En Lusitanie Portugal by Beatrice Bulteau 3:00 min (Visit with the Director/Artist after the film)

Tribuna Lusitana 4 Programs Brazil by Andrea Gomes 68:00 min

Coudelaria SASA from Brazil

Breeders Program Coudelaria Torres Vaz Freire from Portugal

Tribuna VIP Program International Riding & Dressage Meeting 2013 in Brazil

A Tribute To Master Nuno Oliveira from Master Luis Valenca - Portugal

Lusitano World Portugal by Pixelage Shaun Media 1:22 min (commercial)

8:45pm 2013 - Of Gods and Kings - The Skryian Horse USA - by Jen Miller & Sophie Pegrum 28:00 min

9:15pm FLUX - France - by Camilled Manolo Theater du Centaure 75:00 min

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12:00pm Horse & Rider a Journey Toward Freedom - India - by Ben Stamper 58:00 min

1:00pm LAFFIT - All About winning - USA - by Jim Wilson - Narrated by Kevin Costner 90:00 min

2:30pm Fork In The Road USA by Cindy Connors 12:51 min (visit with the Director after the film)

2:45pm 2013 - The Horse Boy USA - by Rupert Isaacson 94:00 min - (visit with the Director after the film)

4:30pm 2013 - Herd In Iceland Iceland - by Lindsay Blatt & Paul Taggart 28:00 min

5:00pm 2013 - The Equestrian UK by Sybil Mair 25:00 min

5:30pm 2013 - Exodus III USA - by Francisca Kelly 14:00 min (visit with the Director after the film)

5:45pm Animaglyphes - France - by Camilled Manolo Theater du Centaure 32:02 min

visit with the Director after the film)

6:20pm RIDE USA - Paula Josa-Jones 4:44 min (trailer) - (visit with the Director after the film)

6:26pm Tango - France - by Jynne 1:33 min - (visit with the Director after the film)

6:30pm Hastdans pa Hovdala Sweden by David Fishel & The Equus Project 60:00 min


7:15pm Portrait Of A Champion - France - by Jynne 5:04 min - (visit with the Director after the film)

*7:30pm Reata Men - USA by Susan Sember 60:00 min - *WORLD PREMIERE - (visit with the Director after the film)

8:30pm Save NYC Horse Carriages - USA - by Mary Haverstick- Narrated by Liam Neeson 10:20 min


8:45pm The Black Turf Project USA by Ken Brown !14:48 min (trailer) - (visit with the Director after the film)

9:05pm Warrior Camp - The Horse That Saved Cpl Lopez & Slide Show USA - by Eva Usadi Slide Show 12:00 min


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C12:00pm American Mustang The Movie - USA - (also in 3-D) Directed by Monty Miranda 70:00 min 1:15pm Free Spirits - Saving America's Wild Horses USA by Joseph Piner 81:30 min

2:50pm Hanna Ranch USA by Mitch Dickman 73:00 min

4:10pm Medicine Wheel Model - USA - by Phillip Whiteman, Jr. 40:00 min

4:50pm Running Wild - The Life Of Dayton O Hyde -USA - by - Suzanne Mitchell 93:00 min

(visit with the director after the film)

6:30pm Horse Tribe - Final - USA - by Janet Kern 60:00 min

(visit with the director after the film)

7:30pm Dartagnan Is The Champion USA by Melissa Palmer, Jennifer Bates & Drew Sawyer 74:00 min - (visit with the director after the film)

8:45pm Wild Bosnia Herzegovina by Shawn Convey 20:27 min

9:15pm Nokota Heart USA by Sean Garland 6000 min


FREE SCREENING :

10:30am Dakota 38 USA by Smooth Feather Productions - 78:00 min Saturday Morning 10:30 am

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12:00pm Untamed Legacy: Americas Wild Mustang USA by Jen Noble 60:00 min

1:00pm Roaming Wild - USA - by Sylvia Johnson 66:00 min

2:10pm Strong Women Wild Horses - USA - by Michele Blackwell 3:32 min (trailer)

2:15pm 2013 - Escaramuza - Riding From The Heart - USA - by Robin Rosenthal & Bill Yahraus 89:00 min

3:50pm Four Keeps: Horse USA by Robin Starbuck 16:10 min - (visit with the Director after the film)

4:15pm Indian Relay USA by Charles Dye 60:00 min

5:20pm 2013 - El Caballo USA - by Doug Hawes Davis & Drury Gunn-Carr 54:00 min

6:15pm Wild Caballo The Wild Horses Of Pryor Mountain USA by Sandy Palen Elmore 6:07 min

6:25pm She Had Some Horses USA by Donna Lee Wells 48:00 min

7:30pm 2013 - Silent Thunder USA - by Angelique Midthunder 28:00 min

8:00pm Nokota Project - USA - by Rory Dean Schneider 23:00 min

8:30pm We Are A Horse Nation - USA - by Keith Braveheart & Jim Cortez - 106:00 min

10:15pm Wild Horses & Renegades USA by James Anaquad Kleinert 79:31 min

Schedule is Subject to Changee

DAILY MOVIE TRAILERS & SHORTS

DAILY MUSIC VIDEOS

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YHorsing Around by Mary Ann Kennedy Running Wild by Steve Poltz Cotton Eyed Joe by Amber Hayes

When I Get That Pony Rode by Templeton Thompson

Believe, Believe, Believe by Tiffany MacNeil

Dont Take My Home by Mary Ann Kennedy

Happy Ye-Halidays by Templeton Thompson

Happy Valentines Day Lil Herc

*Assorted Equestrian Commercials*

Harry & Snowman by Ron Davis

Valiant by Jeanette Sassoon

Hello From Noah Vail

En Lusitanie by Beatrice Bulteau

TalkingToTheAir byHorseflyFilms

Blind Spot by Stefan Morel

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DIRECTORS PANEL

Mary's interest in journalistic storytelling started in the 4th grade when she created a newspaper called the Manor Ridge Report. Fast-forward to SAVE NYC HORSE CARRIAGES, narrated by Liam Neeson, and we find Mary is still telling neighborhood stories, this time its one of big money politics clashing with jobs, and the draft horses on 59th street.

After retiring from print in 6th grade Mary became a critically acclaimed filmmaker whose dramatic feature HOME (2009) starring Marcia Gay Harden received Oscar buzz for Hardens performance. HOME enjoyed wide distribution, international festival play, outstanding reviews and was listed Best of Fest alongside the top features on the 2009 festival circuit. That same year Mary directed Cathedrals a music video, which was nominated for LOGOs Music Video of the Year.

Mary has written and directed numerous commercials, docs and shorts as well as three indie features. Mary is a co-founder Haverstick Films a fully operational production company and post studio.

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Rupert Isaacson is an author and activist born in London to a South African mother and a Zimbabwean father. He is the founding director of the Indigenous Land Rights Fund, a nonprofit organization that helps displaced indigenous tribes obtain tenure of their ancestral land, and of the Horse Boy Foundation, which provides the opportunity for children to work with horses and nature. The Healing Land, Isaacsons first book, was a 2004 New York Times Notable Book. His work has appeared in the Daily Telegraph, Esquire, National Geographic, Independent on Sunday, Cond Nast Traveler, Daily Mail, and Field.

He lives in Elgin, Texas, just outside of Austin, with his wife, Kristin, and their son, Rowan. In the summer of 2007, Rupert and his family went to Mongolia, where they journeyed on horseback from shaman to shaman searching for a way to heal their son. The story of this incredible journey is told in Isaacsons bestselling book The Horse Boy, which has also been captured in the documentary film by the same title.

Rupert ISAACSON

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Ken Browne broke into television production as a film editor with Major League Baseball Productions, earning a National Sports Emmy for editing in 1981. His first producing credit, Billy, Tom, and New York: a Baseball Love Aair received the 1984 New York Emmy Award for Outstanding Sports Special. Ken helped launch the Emmy-nominated weekly sports cable show, Yankees Magazine, which he produced from 1986 through 1999.

Founded in 1986, Ken Browne Productions (KBP) diversified its growing client roster. The firm directed the programming of Mitsubishi Diamond Vision Video Billboards in NYC and Chicago, and later directed the Video Information System in the Javits Convention Center of New York. KBP has gone on to specialize in videos to support professional educators, and school populations. Since 2000, institutions that have turned to Ken Browne to tell their success stories in film.

Recently, Mr. Browne, along with Mr. Roscoe Orman, launched Browne/Orman Productions. Under this umbrella, they are developing The Black Turf Project: African Americans in Thoroughbred Racing, a multimedia educational experience that will bring to life one of the least known, yet most important, sports stories in American historythe seminal role played by African Americans in the development and evolution of Thoroughbred Racing in America.

Ken BROWNE

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Sybil made her first short film Honey and Sting (starring Antonio Fargas) in 2006, followed by The Chefs Letter (starring Jonathan Firth) in 2008. Together, these award-winning films have played at numerous festivals world-wide.

The Chefs Letter is distributed by Peccadillo Pictures within the BOYS ON FILM: CRUEL BRITANNIA series. Before starting to make films, Sybil worked as a freelance translator specializing in the social sciences, having studied French and German language and literature.

Her third short film The Equestrian (featuring James Wilby and Olympic gold medallist Carl Hester) was inspired by when she first caught the dressage bug four years ago.

Sybil MAIR

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Robin Starbuck is a New York based filmmaker and animator. Her work in experimental video, installation art, animation and media design for theater has been exhibited in Museums, Cultural Centers, Galleries, and festivals in the United States, Europe and South America. She has received multiple awards and fellowships for artist residencies both nationally and internationally.

Ms. Starbucks studio orientation is in experimental film, animation, and inter-media installation. Her current projects include Iichiilish daik: Going to the Horses, a feature length documentary film on Charlie Real Bird of the Apsaalooke Nation of Montana, several short experimental film projects for installations, and video and animation projections for Theater projects in NYC.

She has produced media projections for the puppeteer, Dan Hurlins play Double Aspects: Bright and Fair, The Pan Asian Repertory Theaters Dojoji, for the experimental operas FROTH: Future Archaeologies of Love and Power performed at NYs Symphony Space and Hole: An Opera in Search of an Opera in Europe, and for New York puppeteer Tom Lees production of Shanks Mare, among others. Starbuck is a full time Professor of experimental film and animation at Sarah Lawrence College in New York. She holds her MFA in multimedia installation and performance art from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and a post-graduate certificate in Post-Production for Film from the NYU, Tisch School of the Arts in New York City.

Robin STARBUCK

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Jynne began her professional career with the study of preverbal interactions between infants and adults at the Collge de France in Paris. In her work today, she embraces the same approach, but has broadened her passion to include mans relationship with horses.

Through her photographs and her films, she strives to capture the extraordinarily subtle and powerful relational capacities of the horse: from recognition sense of smell to contact established through facial expressions, touch, voice, and body movements.

Jynne believes that the artists eye seeks to illuminate a whole repertoire of interactions, which contribute to the harmonious development of a horse and its future relationship with human beings.

JYNNE

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A choreographer and dance educator whose work reaches beyond the boundaries of dance, JoAnna Mendl Shaw has created performance works in collaboration with ice skaters, visual artists, equestrians and their horses.

Her company, The Equus Projects tours throughout the States and Europe, creating large-scale works for dancers and horses with commissioned works created for Bates Dance Festival, the Myrna Loy and Flynn Centers for the Performing Arts, Virginia Commonwealth University, Saratoga Arts Festival, Heifetz International Music Institute, NYC River-to-River Festival and Klinten Kultur, Sweden.

A documentary about The Equus Projects, Hastdans pa Hovdala, premiered at Lincoln Center in 2014. Shaw teaches at Ailey/Fordham and Marymount Manhattan. She is certified in Laban Movement Analysis.

JoAnna MENDL-SHAW

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A Bronx native, Roscoe is most widely known as Gordon on Sesame Street, a role he has portrayed for four decades. Roscoe, an Audelco Award winner and a six-time nominee, played Gabriel in the original Broadway production of Fences. Most recently he starred in the Marin Theatre Company and Round House Theatre Company co-production of Fetch Clay Make Man. Other stage credits include Whose Got His Own, The Duplex, The Fabulous Miss Marie, Claras Ole Man, The Great McDaddy The Sirens, The Last Street Play, Every Night When The Sun Goes Down, Julius Caesar, The Talented Tenth, Jitney, The Confessions of Stepin Fetchit, and Driving Miss Daisy.

Roscoe has been seen on such TV programs as Sanford and Son, Kojak, All My Children, A Man Called Hawk, Law & Order, Cosby, Sex and the City, Law & Order SVU, The Wire, and Alpha House. He has narrated numerous documentaries, including Langston Hughes: The Dreamkeeper on PBS.

Roscoe has hosted numerous child related events and has toured extensively with his Gordon of Sesame Street concerts. As a writer, Orman served as associate editor of Black Theatre Magazine, created and published his memoir, Sesame Street Dad: Evolution of an Actor, as well as his childrens book Ricky & Mobo.

He is co-founder of Browne/Orman Productions along with Ken Browne. Browne/Orman is currently in development of The Black Turf Project: African Americans in Thoroughbred Racing. This important documentary reveals the untold story of African Americans in equestrian sports. RHOrman.com

Roscoe ORMAN

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Susan Sember, of Malibu, California, is an independent film director and producer of high definition, 4K/5K and IMAX/giant screen 3D documentaries. Blending art with highly technical shoots, Susan's style of documentaries is geared towards a cinematic and immersive feel known as docu-features.

Her expertise includes equine, wildlife, nature and ocean related film productions. Her films have been distributed globally and have appeared at many acclaimed film festivals. Susan has further created numerous films for art, history and science museums, in addition to aquarium venues.

Whether its directing from horseback or from inside of a seaworthy submersible, Susan enjoys taking her audiences to locations never documented by any other film maker. Anything horse from Mongolian horsemen to military polo players rounds out her equine film directing/producing portfolio, as well. Add underwater or aerial shoots and shes completely in the zone!

Susans horse related films have traveled to over 50 countries, and through one of her companies, Vaquero Films, Susan fulfills her personal passion of capturing and preserving the romance of the American west and the time tested traditions of the American cowboys in such films as The Gathering and Reata Men.

Susan SEMBER

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Victoria grew up on a Jersey Dairy farm in New Hampshire. Her passion for the care of animals was instilled in her from the beginning. The animals needs always came first on the farm.Since 1968 she has always taken in the horses that everyone else has given up on, trying to turn their lives around by giving them one last chance. One or two at a time, horses have come in and out of her life, inspiring her to firmly believe that there is always a horse out there in need of refuge and always a need for someone to feel responsible and intervene on that animal's behalf.

Establishing the Last Chance Corral was the realization of her vision of creating a much-needed facility to oer at-risk horses asylum. Today the Last Chance Corral proudly oers horses hope, shelter and opportunity regardless of their situation or problems.Be it psychological or physiological, they are committed to addressing the individual diet, treatment regimens and training programs for each horse according to its needs.

When a horse has been suciently rehabilitated, Victoria does the work to find appropriate forever adoptive homes, which suit the horse's needs and abilities as well as those of the new owner.Last Chance Corral serves adult horses year round, but the first 7 months of each year are spent focusing on caring for and adopting out rescued nurse-mare foals. To date, the Last Chance Corral has rescued and found loving forever homes for over 2300 nurse-mare foals.

Victoria GOSS

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British, born in Washington DC, and educated in Cairo, Geneva, and London, Francesca is the Co-Founder of the Indigenous Horse Society of India and Marwari Bloodlines. She is an owner and breeder of Marwari horses in Dundlod ,Rajasthan, and Marthas Vineyard, USA. Both she and partner, Bonnie Singh Dundlod, are credited with the renaissance of the breed in India and its increasing profile worldwide.

Francesca is a Director, performer and choreographer of Dancing with Horses, a theatrical spectacle of dancing horses, folk and classical dancers, and musicians of Rajasthan. Francesca was also the Artistic Director and choreographer of the India-Pakistan equestrian presentation at the Queens Diamond Jubilee in 2012 and the World Equestrian Games, Kentucky 2010.

She published the first Western book on the Marwari breed with photographs by Dale Durfee and has promoted the Marwari breed through international media for over two decades.

She was gifted with her first Marwari in 1995. This was one of those pivotal moments when, without appreciating it at the time, she committed herself to an initiative with no foreseeable end and with many a sacrifice. Yet, this has been the inspiration behind all her creative work with these beautiful bold horses. Francesca is honored to continue to remain their Panna Dai.

Francesca KELLY

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2014 AWARD CATEGORIESBest Music Video- presented by Blackburn Architects

Best Commercial- presented by Blackburn Architects

Best Series- presented by Blackburn Architects

Best Native Film- presented by Muchachas Salsa

Best Student Film- presented by Muchachas Salsa

Best Documentary- presented by Four White Socks

Best Art Film - presented by Four White Socks

Best Film- presented by Kogeto

Best Director Film or Documentary - presented by Kogeto

Best International Film or Documentary - presented by Kogeto

Peoples Choice Award - presented by Manhattan Saddlery

Best of Festival 2014 - presented by Manhattan Saddlery

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