DOCNYC is the largest documentary film festival in the United States. The Cowboy and The Queen made its world premiere among the festival’s closing night films at IFC Center in Manhattan’s Greenwich Village, November 16th at 6:45. Monty Roberts headed to NYC NOVEMBER 16 for the premiere of The Cowboy and The Queen. Their 30 year friendship is chronicled beautifully by Director Andrea Nevins. Sally Bedell Smith will join Monty for a question and answer session after the screening.

Royal Biographer Sally Bedell Smith called the film “…powerful, moving, and enlightening.”

SYNOPSIS 

When an old-time California rodeo cowboy discovers a way to train horses non-violently, he is rejected by the traditional horse industry, nearly losing his livelihood, until he meets a most unlikely fairy godmother, Queen Elizabeth II. She challenges him to prove his methods, and by winning her endorsement, she catapults him to world-wide fame. Monty Roberts’ reflections about why their experiences of World War II as children might have fomented a meeting of the minds at mid-life becomes a rumination on authoritarian norms, as well as on the cumulative effects of small acts of kindness on the greater world. Weaving present day footage, exquisite archival, and never-before-seen moments of Her Majesty found in Monty’s cluttered garage, The Cowboy and The Queen is the inspiring, cinematic origin story of a true horse whisperer and his magical, 30-year relationship with the longest reigning monarch.

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