OF HORSE & MAN
In 2011 we set out to make a simple documentary about the connection between horse and man.
300 hours of video and over 1000 still images later we have created a 3 part, 3 hour series about our love for horses.
So whether you own a horse, ride or simply admire horses from afar... you will learn a great deal about our relationship with this majestic creature through the centuries.
The horse has forever touched our lives. Our story traces our fascination with and connection to the horse, from prehistoric times to modern day and beyond.
And although this connection is hidden deep within our collective conscious its evidence is ever present. So common is this image it has become overlooked, almost invisible. Yet horses are prominent in our art, literature, colloquialisms, our architecture, fashions, our sports, our celebrations and for some, in their every day lives.
So enamored of the many fine qualities horses possess, man often strives to emulate them.
Perhaps poet, Ronald Duncan, put it best...
Where in this wide world can man find nobility without pride,
friendship without envy, or beauty without vanity?
Here, where grace is laced with muscle and strength
by gentleness confined.
He serves without servility; he has fought without enmity.
There is nothing so powerful, nothing less violent.
There is nothing so quick, nothing more patient.
All our history is in his industry We are his heirs, he our inheritance.
The Horse
by Ronald Duncan
Is the CEO, President and Co-Founder of BroadwayHD and CEO of Theater Venture Inc. Lane is a six-time Tony Award winning producer for "Thoroughly Modern Millie," "The Will Rogers Follies," "La Cage Aux. Folles," and "War Horse." As well as a nine time nominee.
Lane is also the recipient of four Drama Desk Awards, a Drama Critics Circle Award, a Outer Circle Critics Award and a Drama-Lounge Award. Other Broadway producing credits include "Cyrano De Bergerac" starring Kevin Kline, Jennifer Garner and Daniel Sunjata, "Legally Blonde the musical, "Minnelli on Minnelli" starring Liza Minnelli, "Wait Until Dark" staxring Quentin Tarantino and Marina Tomei, and many others.
Expanding into film, Lane has produeed over 25 stage to screen productions as well as movies such as "Brooklyn Rules" starring Alec Baldwin and Freddy Prinze, Jr., "Romeo and Juliet" starring Orlando Bloom and Condola Rashad, and documentary "Show Business: The Road to Broadway." Lane has also produced the Broadway Production of "Company" starring Raul Esperaza and "Cyrano de Bergerac" starring Kevin Kline, for Great Performances on PBS.
For additional information visit mrbroadway.com
Bonnie Comley a three-time Tony Award-winning producer. She has won an Olivier Award and two Drama Desk Awards for her stage productions. She is a member of The Broadway League and serves on their Audience Engagement and Education Committee.
Comley has produced over 40 films, winning four Telly Awards and a W3 Award. She is Co-founder and CEO of BroadwayHD, the world's premier online streaming platform delivering over 300 premium live productions to theater fans globally.
She was selected as an Industry Leader in Cynopsis Women in Media Class of 2020. In 2019, Charlotte St.Martin, Pres. of The Broadway League presented Comley with the Woman of Achievement Award. Comley was elected for her third term as VP of The Drama League and has served on their board since 2009. The theater community has honored Comley for her philanthropic work; she is the recipient of The Actors Fund Medal of Honor, The Drama League Special Contribution to the Theater Award, and The Paul Newman Award from Arts Horizons.
Comley has been a keynote speaker or panelist at BroadwayCon, C2E2 (Chicago ComicCon), Crain’s New York Arts and Culture Webcast and City National Bank Women Entrepreneurs, and taught masterclasses or guest lectured at Columbia University, New York University, Emerson College, NYFA, Five Towns College and UMass, among others.
For additional information visit bonniecomley.com
Diane Dowling has been producing, writing and directing for television for over a decade. While a writer producer at WCVB her year in review promotional spot won an Emmy Award.
Diane has been on staff as a Director, Producer and/or Writer for HBO, WTTG, Showtime, WNEV and WCVB. She directed a 13 part PBS series (for KQED) entitled Psyche & Symbol with myth scholar Joseph Campbell. She received three Emmy nominations for her weekly series Newsbag, a children’s news program at WTTG and was awarded a Matrix Award for best new TV series in CT for her program The Art Of.
Most recently she has been producing special events for charities, doctors and medical groups and commercial real estate agencies. She's also designed and coded websites and other marketing materials for clients. Diane has served as writer, producer on an NHK pilot for a children’s early ESL program entitled Bobby’s New York Club. She also produced and directed an archaeological documentary set in Belgium, entitled Sclayn.
For additional information visit dianedowling.com
| Narrated By: | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Glenn Close | |||
| Executive Producers | Produced By | Written & Directed | Associate Director |
| Stewart F. Lane | Stewart F. Lane | Diane Dowling | Marc Fleisher |
| Bonnie Comley | Bonnie Comley | ||
| Diane Dowling | |||
| Senior Editor | Editors | Production Assistants | Shooters |
| Seth D. Stein | Olivia M. Garrison | Amy Rudisill | Brian McAward |
| Dylan Korn | Sandy Greisbach | Marc Fleisher | |
| PJ Morell | Tifffiny Cole | Diane Dowling | |
| Mary Beth Dole | Jerry Lieblich | Jay Miles | |
| Alix Drawec | |||
| Noelle Hanks | |||
| Richard Erlanger | |||
| Contributing Writers | Art | Animation | Music |
| Jerry Lieblich | Josh Weitzman | Joe Strobino | Michael Damon |
| Marc Fleisher | Lauren Gould | Reetesh Motah | DeWolfe Music |
| Olivia M. Garrison | Joel Feinberg | ||
