Copper Boyz: Sharing the Saddle
The Copper Boyz are mentors, fathers and community leaders turning personal histories of incarceration and adversity into a mission: preventing violence and empowering the next generation through horsemanship, leadership and self-expression. Guided by an ethos to transform adversity into opportunity, they fundamentally reimagine what it means to be a cowboy and invite us to do the same.
Copper Boyz, a new Kansas City PBS documentary from director Collin Riggins, follows their efforts to transform harm into healing and legacy. The film weaves together intentionally poetic verité footage shot on digital and 16mm formats, psychological sound-design, intimate interviews and first-person POV footage from the Copper Boyz themselves.
Premieres Thursday, Aug. 6, at 7 p.m. on Kansas City PBS Channel 19.1
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Meet the Filmmaker
Collin Riggins is a photographer and filmmaker from Kansas City, Missouri, working primarily with traditional B/W analog processes. Collin earned a BA in African American Studies and Visual Arts from Princeton University. His work is often inspired by his family’s histories across the Carolinas, Missouri and New York, as well as his ever-evolving sense of found family in these regions. In his work, Collin ultimately seeks to create a diasporic archive of his heritage that honors complexity, intimacy and ongoingness.
Collin is currently a Film Fellow at Kansas City PBS.
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