PONY BOYS

US | 24 min. (Festival Version) 22 min. (NYT Op-Docs version) | 2022 | English

DIRECTOR: Eric Stange

SYNOPSIS:
Summer, 1967. Two Massachusetts boys – 9 and 11 – set off on an improbable journey with their family pet, a Shetland pony named King. Tony and Jeff Whittemore are desperate to visit Expo ’67 in Montreal – the largest World’s Fair ever. But their parents can’t take them. Then Mom comes up with the solution: hitch King to a pony cart and drive 350 miles to Expo 67 – on their own – at 5 m.p.h.

FESTIVALS: Independent Film Festival Boston (World Premiere), Mountainfilm, Flicker’s Rhode Island International Film Festival, Breckenridge Film Festival, Crested Butte, Monadock International Film Festival, Port Townsend Film Festival, Newburyport Documentary Film Festival, Woodstock Film Festival, Chagrin Film Festival, Mystic Film Festival, Fresh Coat Film Festival, Boston Kids International Film Festival.

AWARDS:
Best Documentary Short, Special Jury Award at the Independent Film Festival Boston
Best Documentary Short at Monadock International Film Festival
Best Documentary Short at the Boston Shorts Film Festival
Grand Jury Prize Documentary Short at the Mystic Film Festival