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Watch The Trailer For The Remarkable DARK HORSE Documentary

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Horse lovers – there’s a new documentary on the horizon.

Sony Pictures Classics has released the brand new trailer for DARK HORSE.

Set in a former mining village in Wales, DARK HORSE is the inspirational true story of a group of friends from a working men’s club who decide to take on the elite ‘sport of kings’ and breed themselves a racehorse. Raised on a slagheap allotment, their foal grows into an unlikely champion, beating the finest thoroughbreds in the land, before suffering a near fatal accident.

Nursed back to health by the love of his owners – for whom he’s become a source of inspiration and hope – he makes a remarkable recovery.

18 months later, defying all odds and judgement, Dream makes a heart-stopping comeback in the Welsh National. His fantastic victory makes the national news – NAGS TO RICHES! SLUMNAG MILLIONAIRE! CHAMPION THE WONDER HORSE! – and in all the excitement Dream is entered for the biggest race of all: the Grand National. If he won he’d go down in history, but the Grand National is run at Aintree and that meant returning to the scene of the accident that nearly killed him…

DARK HORSE is directed by Louise Osmond. Of her film and theme, she said, “It was funny and moving, full of life and life-affirming with big universal themes and a great dramatic sweep and shape to the story. It was also a wonderful mash of film genres, part classic British Billy Elliot/Full Monty underdog tale, part Lavender Hill Mob Ealing Comedy caper, plus of course Rocky… with a horse.”

She started her career at ITN on their news journalism graduate trainee scheme, covering stories in Europe and Africa before moving into documentaries. Her most recent feature length documentary was the BAFTA nominated, RTS award-winning RICHARD III: THE KING IN THE CAR PARK. Other work includes the theatrical documentaries DEEP WATER – selected for the Telluride Film Festival, winner of a Grierson Award and Best Documentary at Rome Film Festival, and THE BECKONING SILENCE – winner of an Emmy, Special Jury Award at the Banff Mountain Film Festival and Grand Prize at New Zealand Mountain Film Festival; KILLER IN A SMALL TOWN, selected for the Sheffield International Documentary Festival and McQUEEN & I, a film about the relationship between the fashion designer Alexander McQueen and his muse, Isabella Blow.

DARK HORSE opens in NY & LA May 6, 2016, followed by a nationwide release.

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