Director Liz Mermin knows her way around horses, as she used to ride them while growing up in New York. But when approached to make a documentary about them, she had reservations. Realscreen spoke with Mermin about her initial reticence to work on a horse doc and the elements that led her to create a film with equine athletes as the main characters.

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