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PAINTED HORSE

By Rowdy HERRINGTON

ARTAFFECTS ENTERTAINMENT - as DISTR Theatrical, USA / PROD

Historical - Development 2025

A Cheyenne girl kidnapped by the Comanche sets out on an epic adventure to harness the power of the Horse, newly introduced to North America, and the Native Americans of the Great Plains.

- Year of production
- 2025
- Genres
- Historical, Action/Adventure, Western
- Countries
- USA
- Languages
- ENGLISH
- Budget
- 10 - 25 M$
- Duration
- 100 mn
- Director(s)
- Rowdy HERRINGTON
- Writer(s)
- Rowdy HERRINGTON
- Synopsis
- Told as a story passed down through generations, PAINTED HORSE is a coming-of-age story set on the Great Plains in the late 17th century before white settlers arrived. It is an origin story of the introduction of the horse to the Plains Indians. The heroine of the story is a 13-year-old Cheyenne named Cloud Girl.
  Upon announcing to her surprised family that she wants to go on a vision quest, this precocious girl is kidnapped and enslaved by the brutal Comanche. While a prisoner Cloud Girl sees a herd of wild horses for the first time and is in awe of their beauty and grandeur. Witness to the Comanche’s attempt to capture the horses Cloud Girl sees the powerful and clever stallion, a Painted Horse, avoid every trap set for his herd.
  Black Hand, chief of the Comanche, shoots the stallion with arrows so that he may capture the stallion’s mares. Cloud Girl escapes, finds the wounded horse, and nurses it to health. She is the first of her kind to ride a horse. But the stallion will not take her home. He wants his mares, and they have been captured by the Comanche...Cloud Girl must free them!