Dark Horse – this year’s extraordinary new documentary about a pub barmaid from a poor Welsh mining town who takes on the “elite sport of kings” and breeds herself an improbable racehorse champion – crosses the DVD & Digital finish line August 23 from Sony Pictures Home Entertainment. The Sony Pictures Classics release, a 2015 Sundance Film Festival winner directed by Louise Ormond (BAFTA nominated for Richard III: The King In The Car Park), won the Festival’s World Cinema Documentary Audience Award and was also premiered at the Toronto Film Festival. The film received an outstanding reception from audiences and critics alike, capturing a 96% approval rating on Rotten Tomatoes and lauded as “heartwarming,” “irresistible,” “exhilarating,” “stirring,” “moving,” “delightful” and “inspiring.” Screendaily’s Allan Hunter concluded, “A heartwarming true story that has been expertly crafted into an irresistible, emotion-charged documentary.”
Dark Horse begins in 2000 in Cefn Forest, a small town in Wales, when Jan...
Dark Horse begins in 2000 in Cefn Forest, a small town in Wales, when Jan...
- 8/10/2016
- by Tom Stockman
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
Out of the European Film Market, Protagonist Pictures has announced that they've sealed a deal with Sony Pictures Classics for Louise Osmond's Sundance-winning "Dark Horse." Spc has taken all North American rights to the film produced by Judith Dawson. Dark Horse is the inspirational and occasionally heart-stopping story of a group of friends from a working men's club in Wales who decide to take on the elite 'sport of kings' and breed themselves a racehorse. Against all the odds, their young foal, raised on nearby waste-land, goes on to become a champion. Screen International calls this "A heartwarming true story that has been expertly crafted into an irresistible, emotion-charged documentary." "Dark Horse" is a Dsp and World’s End Pictures production for Film4 and BFI in association with Film Agency Wales, and executive produced by Julian Ware, Lizzie Francke, Anna Higgs, Anna Miralis and Adam Partridge. Louise Osmond’s previous work includes the.
- 2/6/2015
- by Ryan Lattanzio
- Thompson on Hollywood
Exclusive: Sony Pictures Classics nabs hit Sundance doc about rags to riches racehorse.
Sony Pictures Classics has snapped up all North American rights to hit Sundance documentary Dark Horse from Protagonist Pictures.
Louise Osmond’s crowd-pleaser about a horse brought up on a South Wales allotment who goes on to win one of racing’s biggest prizes, won the Audience Award in the World Cinema Documentary Competition at Sundance last week.
The deal was negotiated with Spc by Protagonist head of sales Vanessa Saal.
Spc will be hoping to replicate the success of acclaimed feel-good documentary Searching for Sugar Man - also launched at Sundance and also bought from UK outfit Protagonist – which went on to win a Best Documentary Oscar in 2013.
Docu-drama Dark Horse follows the true story of a group of friends from a working men’s club in Wales who decide to take on the racing elite by breeding a race-horse. Against the odds...
Sony Pictures Classics has snapped up all North American rights to hit Sundance documentary Dark Horse from Protagonist Pictures.
Louise Osmond’s crowd-pleaser about a horse brought up on a South Wales allotment who goes on to win one of racing’s biggest prizes, won the Audience Award in the World Cinema Documentary Competition at Sundance last week.
The deal was negotiated with Spc by Protagonist head of sales Vanessa Saal.
Spc will be hoping to replicate the success of acclaimed feel-good documentary Searching for Sugar Man - also launched at Sundance and also bought from UK outfit Protagonist – which went on to win a Best Documentary Oscar in 2013.
Docu-drama Dark Horse follows the true story of a group of friends from a working men’s club in Wales who decide to take on the racing elite by breeding a race-horse. Against the odds...
- 2/6/2015
- by andreas.wiseman@screendaily.com (Andreas Wiseman)
- ScreenDaily
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