Horses and Heroes: Coping with the Physical and Emotional Challenges of War

 

Horse and Heroes will be filmed at Charity Hill Ranch in Rapid City, Michigan. This semi-scripted documentary will provide dual benefits for military personnel and veterans. Not only will it share personal stories and raise awareness about the effectiveness of Equine Therapy, but it will also be give job preference to veterans. 

Animal Assisted Therapy is extremely effective for those who are physically and emotionally challenged. It has become widely used in cases of Post Traumatic Stress Disorder and Closed Brain Injuries. Although almost any animal can be a healer, dogs and horses are the ones that are most commonly partnered with veterans. Dogs have the advantage of being accepted in both cities and rural areas. However, horses more accurately reflect the mood of the person handling them. This ability is helpful for the PSTD patient to learn how to recognize their own feelings. In this way, they learn how to retrain their mind and body reacts to stressers.

Founded in 2001, Charity Hill Ranch specializes in Traumatic Brain injury and PTSD. Christine O'Connell, the owner and manager, has been a PATH International Certified Instructor of 10 Years, and specializes in Traumatic Brain Injury as well as being a Certified Brain Injury Specialist. Sarah Wilson is a Mental Health Specialist with Degrees in Psychology and Education. Charity Hill Ranch has been certifed as a Premier Accredited Center of Professional Association of Therapeutic Horsemanship International (P.A.T.H.). It is also a member of Horses 4 Heroes Inc.

Horses and Heroes will be hosted by veteran, Barbara (Bobby) Kilgore and will be directed by Vietnam Veteran, Larry Wilcox. These are only two of the veterans, who will be part of the production team. Horses and Heroes LLC will be hiring veterans, who are already in the entertainment industry as well as opening the door for those who are looking for a new career. 

A semi-scripted documentary, Horses and Heroes will create a greater awareness of Animal Assisted Therapy for civilians, military personnel, veterans, and their families. The goal is to create an understanding of how and why the therapy works, thereby giving those suffering from PTSD another therapeutic option. To learn more about goals of Horses and Heroes and watch the video presentation go to Horses and Heroes' website at http://cproduction5.wix.com/cosmos-productions-#!page3/cee5.

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Coping with PTSD

Horses and Heroes focuses on the human element  It  gives  an alternative option, which can heal the whole person instead of just focusing on symptoms.  It is a non addictive way to get their lives back.  Horses and Heroes fills a void and need, because it helps those grappling with situations brought into their lives due to traumatic events find new ways to cope with them.   It puts emotions back into documentaries and will leave  the audience  with alternative answers to their physical and emotional challenges.

This is a short pitch presentation.  Horses and Heroes will be full length documentary. To learn more please visit our site at http://cproduction5.wix.com/cosmos-productions-





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Interview with Larry Wilcox

We had a miscommunication for the show so Larry Wilcox and I will be chatting on April 19 at 1 pm eastern the new link is at http://www.blogtalkradio.com/theresachaze/2013/04/19/until-you-walk-the-path-you-wont-know-where-it-goes

Until You Walk The Path, You Won’t Know Where it Goes will be chatting with the veteran, actor, producer, and director Larry Wilcox April 18, 2013 at 1 pm eastern as he talks about what's next for himself and the industry.

Larry Wilcox has seen show business from all sides - as an actor, producer, writer and director. He notonly survived his fame as co-star of one of the most popular television shows of the early 1980s, but he has turned his five year stint on CHiP's into an enduring professional career on both sides of the camera, finding solutions both in and out of show business.

 

 Nearly thirty years after CHiP's debuted on NBC, Wilcox is still an articulate, intelligent talent with a gravelly Wyoming accent. Wilcox's portrayal of CHP Officer Jon Baker drew from his own background;like Wilcox, Jon was a quiet but driven country boy making good in the big city. In fact, Wilcox was born in California but moved to Wyoming as an infant. Raised by a single mother (along with two brothers and a sister), he remembers that the family had to work hard to make ends meet.

Moving out to California after his freshman year of college, Wilcox contemplated a career in music until an acting coach encouraged him to try performing. Soon, however, Wilcox joined the best, the Marines (like his older brother). Although he was offered a stint as a Marine Officer it required a 6-year additional enlistment and Wilcox decided not to accept Marine Officer Training School and to pursue foreign languages and embassy duty as an enlisted man. The day of his departure, his orders were fouled up and he was sent to Vietnam during the Tet Offensive, where he was part of a recon team inserted with a T-16 survey piece of equipment mapping the mountain tops and jungle for future fire bases where he also worked his math and slide rule magic in a Fire Direction Control Center.

Wilcox is presently is working on multiple TV projects including a documentary on at-risk youth titled Flowers and Gardeners. He just completed shooting for Mitsubishi in April of 2012 and began shooting immediately a documentary about Land Grabs and Civil Liberties. He also just shot a Pilot and Sizzle Reel (wrote, produced and Directed) called GOLD DIGGERS and is in discussions with Networks. He is also producing and directing a CHIPS Special in September 2012. 

 

He is also on the fore front of providing a very unique cross platform digital distribution management solution for all verticals including the entertainment business. Wilcox states that ingesting all protocols and then selecting the screen they will be delivered to, and then optimizing the content for that screen is where distribution is going. Video production is taking up the majority of all online business and will continue to grow in sales in double digits. Retail, Medical, Education, Manufacturing and Entertainment are primed to utilize cross platform solutions. Creating a content marketing strategy and distributing that content will define longevity for most businesses in the next five years.

Wilcox, a solid family man indulges in a myriad of hobbies, including basketball, rodeo, WW II aircraft, reading philosophy, psychology, guitar, and biographies of American business icons while being a life long student of parenting and psychology.

Wilcox's websites:

http://www.saratogaentertainment.com

www.larrywilcox.net

Tune into http://www.blogtalkradio.com/theresachaze on April 18, 2013 at 1 pm eastern to learn more about the entrainment industry from Larry Wilcox. The phone lines and chat will be available for those who wish to ask questions. The phone number is (347) 838-9927.


The interview will be available in the archives at http://www.blogtalkradio.com/theresachaze/2013/04/18/until-you-walk-the-path-you-wont-know-where-it