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BUCK Awards

Buck the Film Awards

BUCK premiered at Sundance Film Festival in 2011 where it won the Audience Award and continued to go on to win many awards including the 2011 Academy Award shortlist and recognition by the National Board of Review as one of the year’s top 5 picks.  Other honors and awards include:

  • Zurich International Film Festival – Best International Documentary
  • Crossroads Film Festival – Best Documentary
  • Christopher Awards – Feature Film Winner
  • Bergen International Film Festival – Best Documentary
  • Full Frame Doc Festival – Audience Award
  • Hot Docs Toronto – Top Audience Favorite
  • Seattle International Film Festival – Best Documentary Runner up & Golden Space Needle Award
  • Provincetown International Film Festival – HBO Audience Award for Best Documentary Feature
  • Nantucket Film Festival – Best of Fest
  • DocuWest Film Festival – Best Feature Length Documentary
  • Canberra Film Festival – Audience Award & Best Documentary

Some of Our Favorite BUCK Reviews

Kenneth Turan
Sundance gets real: More memorable documentaries come from this festival than anywhere else. This year’s group included “Buck,” “If a Tree Falls,” “The Interrupters,” “Project Nim,” “The Redemption of General Butt Naked,” “Senna” and “We Were Here.” Mention should also be made of non-Sundance docs “Circo” and “Nostalgia for the Light.”
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NY Times David Carr Review

David Carr
You Can Also Lead a Horse to Nirvana. LAST Sunday evening, Buck Brannaman strolled the High Line, two stories above the streets of Manhattan and hundreds of miles from his native habitat, the ranch country where he runs clinics in enlightened horsemanship. The documentary “Buck,” which won a Sundance audience award this year and will open on Friday in New York and Los Angeles, details his shaman-like skills around horses and the people who ride them.
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Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun Times
The best documentaries of 2011
One of the big documentary hits of the year. Buck Brannaman was the original “horse whisperer,” the character who Nicholas Evans based his novel on and Robert Redford used as the on-set consultant for his film. He has a way with horses, and Cindy Meehl’s documentary is moving as he shows them engaged in dances of understanding.
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BUCK the film - Laurels
2011 Festival Location Award/Acknowledgement
  Sundance Film Festival Park City, UT Audience Award
  True/False Film Festival Columbia, MO Official Selection
  SXSW Austin, TX Official Selection
       
  Sarasota Film Festival Sarasota, FL Official Selection
  Full Frame Doc Film Festival Durham NC Audience Award
  Nashville Film Festival Nashville, TN Official Selection
  Independent Film Festival Boston, MA Official Selection
  HOT DOCS Toronto, ON
CANADA
Official Selection & Top Audience Favorite
  Berkshires Film Festival Pittsfield, MA Official Selection
  Seattle Int’l Film Festival Seattle, WA Official Selection
2nd runner up for Best Documentary
Golden Space Needle Award
  Provincetown Int’l Film Festival Provincetown, MA HBO Audience Award for Best Documentary Feature
  SilverDocs Washington, DC Official Selection
  Nantucket Film Festival Nantucket, MA Official Selection/Best of Fest
  Martha’s Vineyard Film Festival Chilmark, MA Official Selection
  Melbourne Int’l Film Festival Melbourne, Australia Official Selection
  New Zealand Int’l Film Festival   Official Selection
  DocuWest Film Festival Golden, CO Best Feature Length Documentary
  Zurich Int’l Film Festival Switzerland Best International Documentary Film
  Reykjavik Int’l Film Festival Iceland Official Selection
  Rio Film Festival Brazil Official Selection
  Warsaw Film Festival Poland Documentary Feature Competition
Special Mention
  Abu Dhabi Film Festival United Arab Emirates Official Selection
  Bergen Int’l Film Festival Norway Best Documentary
  Bermuda Docs Bermuda Official Selection
  Canberra Film Festival Australia Audience Award
Best Documentary
  Halls Gap Film Festival Halls Gap, Australia Official Selection
  Rosebud Film Festival   Official Selection
  Rocky Mountain Women’s Film Festival Colorado Springs, CO Official Selection
  Stockholm Sweden Official Selection
  Rockport Film Festival Rockport, TX Best Documentary Feature
  Int’l Doc Film Festival Amsterdam The Netherlands Official Selection
  Gotham Independent Film Awards New York, New York Audience Award Nominee
  National Board of Review New York, New York 2011 Top 5 Documentaries  
  True West Magazine   Readers Choice Award
Editors Choice Award
 
2012 Festival Location Award/Acknowledgement
  Perth Arts Festival Perth, Australia Official Selection
  Cinema Eye Honors 2012 New York, New York Audience Choice Award
  Princeton Environmenal Film Festival Princeton, NJ Audience Favorite
  Spur Award Encampment, WY Documentary Script Category
  EcoFocus Film Festival Athens, GA Official Selection
  DocAviv Tel Aviv, Israel Official Selection
  Christopher Awards New York, New York Feature Film Winner
  SAMHSA Voice Awards Hollywood, CA Nominated for Voice Award
  Humanitas Prize Beverly Hills, CA Humanitas Prize Finalist
       

 

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