Uploaded by CalmingDunes9 on Jan 14, 2010
CLIP 1 from the feature film biopic of Leo Kuntz, NOKOTAHEART.
NokotaHeart is the true story of Leo Kuntz, Vietnam vet turned North Dakota horse rancher and his fight to save the equine legacy of Sitting Bull.
Told in Leo's inimitable campfire tone this is a unfussy, straight-from-the-gut tale of personal woe and hard-won passion, a Neo-Western biopic of private tragedy and spiritual triumph, as much about the man himself and the spiritual imprint of the land on his person as it is about the legendary horses of the great Indian chief.
Leo's humbling nature and plaintive, maverick soul is a world removed from the new equine laws and State bills passed by U.S. government. In the cold, unyielding onslaught of the 21st Century his virtual 19th Century existence has been blindsided by punishing economic climes and a vanishing American frontier.
Intimate and raw, elegiac and ardent, NokotaHeart dares to tell it like it is, burnished heart in hardscrabble soil. Suffused through the prism of an Irish filmmaker thousands of miles from home in North Dakota it's no wonder this feels like W.B. Yeats meets Sam Shepard, Samuel Beckett meets John Ford.
NokotaHeart is also scored by award winning composer Patrick O'Hearn.
~ North Dakota. Present day.
Haunted prairies and shimmering badlands.
Ghost towns and grazing buffalo.
Lakota, Sioux, Chippewa. This is Indian country.
Buried under Wal-Mart and strip malls.
Leo Kuntz, Vietnam vet turned horse rancher, feels the quiet storm of change.
He has fought to preserve the legendary lineage of Sitting Bull's Nokota horses for decades.
It has impacted his life, his loves, the very beating heart and soul of him.
But the 21st Century is upon us now.
America's frontier is vanishing hard and fast.
So too are the old ways, horse people and horse cultures.
In the face of such stark transition Leo Kuntz may be the last of his kind.
His fight to save the equine legacy of the Greatest American Indian of them all is running out of time.
This may be the last American Western.
NokotaHeart is his story. ~
CONTACT ~ eventide72@gmail.com
Director's website ~ www.longislandbridiepictures.com
www.wix.com/TATONKA9/Sean-Garland
'Nokota Heart' on FaceBook, Become a fan.
NokotaHeart on IMDB
'Nokota Heart' on Twitter
Composer's website ~ www.patrickohearn.com
Post Production ~ www.yard.ie
NokotaHeart is the true story of Leo Kuntz, Vietnam vet turned North Dakota horse rancher and his fight to save the equine legacy of Sitting Bull.
Told in Leo's inimitable campfire tone this is a unfussy, straight-from-the-gut tale of personal woe and hard-won passion, a Neo-Western biopic of private tragedy and spiritual triumph, as much about the man himself and the spiritual imprint of the land on his person as it is about the legendary horses of the great Indian chief.
Leo's humbling nature and plaintive, maverick soul is a world removed from the new equine laws and State bills passed by U.S. government. In the cold, unyielding onslaught of the 21st Century his virtual 19th Century existence has been blindsided by punishing economic climes and a vanishing American frontier.
Intimate and raw, elegiac and ardent, NokotaHeart dares to tell it like it is, burnished heart in hardscrabble soil. Suffused through the prism of an Irish filmmaker thousands of miles from home in North Dakota it's no wonder this feels like W.B. Yeats meets Sam Shepard, Samuel Beckett meets John Ford.
NokotaHeart is also scored by award winning composer Patrick O'Hearn.
~ North Dakota. Present day.
Haunted prairies and shimmering badlands.
Ghost towns and grazing buffalo.
Lakota, Sioux, Chippewa. This is Indian country.
Buried under Wal-Mart and strip malls.
Leo Kuntz, Vietnam vet turned horse rancher, feels the quiet storm of change.
He has fought to preserve the legendary lineage of Sitting Bull's Nokota horses for decades.
It has impacted his life, his loves, the very beating heart and soul of him.
But the 21st Century is upon us now.
America's frontier is vanishing hard and fast.
So too are the old ways, horse people and horse cultures.
In the face of such stark transition Leo Kuntz may be the last of his kind.
His fight to save the equine legacy of the Greatest American Indian of them all is running out of time.
This may be the last American Western.
NokotaHeart is his story. ~
CONTACT ~ eventide72@gmail.com
Director's website ~ www.longislandbridiepictures.com
www.wix.com/TATONKA9/Sean-Garland
'Nokota Heart' on FaceBook, Become a fan.
NokotaHeart on IMDB
'Nokota Heart' on Twitter
Composer's website ~ www.patrickohearn.com
Post Production ~ www.yard.ie
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