"The Gray: The Kim Walnes Story"

“All of life is sentient, and all of life communicates all the time. We have separated ourselves from it. We deny it. But the capacity to hear is there as well as the capacity to send. As adults, we need to get back to that place of awareness. Of intuition.”

Kim Walnes has spent a lifetime listening to and communicating with horses. In this documentary of her life and career, filmmakers John Welsh and Caleb Doranz, along with writer / creative director Shanyn Fiske and co-producer Kat Hash follow Kim’s journey both outward to the world of international-level eventing on the United States Equestrian Team and inward back to an intuitive understanding of animals that began in her partnership with the legendary, Irish-bred gelding The Gray Goose, with whom Kim won Rolex in 1982 as well as the individual and team bronze medals at the World Championships in Luhmuhlen, Germany.

Kim’s relationship with horses entered another dimension after the tragic death of her daughter Andrea in 1991. In recovering from the devastation of that loss, she transmuted grief into compassion and, since that time, has worked with her equine partners – particularly Gideon Goodheart – as a healer, coach, mentor, and friend to help numerous other people and animals cope with trauma.

Through archival images as well as new footage – including interviews with those who knew Kim and her family best – THE GRAY: THE KIM WALNES STORY – seeks not only to recount the life of a remarkable and resilient woman who has impacted so many in the horse world but to inspire all those who have sought the healing power of animals.