Winning Ponies

Our first guest will be Clint Bentley, the co-writer and director of “JOCKEY” which is scheduled for limited release at theatres over the Holiday Season. Filmmakers Bentley and GREG KWEDAR began their careers together in the early 2010s, having met after graduating from college and finding they had similar interests in telling stories. They began making shorts and documentaries, always having the goal of one day making narrative features together. Bentley’s father was a jockey. While he was born and raised in Florida, his father raced all over. “So I was raised behind the barns at horse tracks.” After his father’s passing, countless colleagues told Bentley stories of his dad’s career – how he had been kicked out of the house at age 17 and, with no money, became a jockey, living in barrack-like dorms on the backside of racetracks. Bentley himself recalled, while in college, helping his father, who by that time had become a trainer. “I remember, even then thinking, ‘This world of horse racing is so interesting