Horse Teeth and Heartache
Two Oklahoma equine dentists deliver care and compassion straight from the horse's mouth.
- Editorial Photographer / Photojournalist
- Reporter / Journalist
Oklahoma, USA
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Request QuoteSheilah Bright is a native Oklahoman whose journalism career spans 40 years. A member of the National Press Photographers Association and Society of Professional Journalists, she is a frequent contributor at This Land Press, Tulsa Voice and Oklahoma Today magazine. Her work has appeared in People, TIME, Lonely Planet, AFAR, and numerous regional magazines and newspapers. From 1990-1993, she was part of the scriptwriting team that earned both an Emmy and Golden Georgi awards for Narrative Television Network. She recently wrote and co-directed the documentary Lone Man’s Land, based on her 2012 story “The Last of Kenton” which appeared in This Land Press. She is currently in production as writer/director of a second documentary, "If Wishes Were Horses," based on her 2015 story "Horse teeth and Heartbreak," published by This Land Press http://thislandpress.com/2015/04/16/horse-teeth-and-heartbreak/. Bright is an avid traveler who has visited and reported from every continent and many remote countries. She lives in Sand Springs on a farm with a herd of hairy cows, a few goats and one crazy dog.
Two Oklahoma equine dentists deliver care and compassion straight from the horse's mouth.
In the aftermath of the Creek County fires—during another triple-digit stretch in an already parched Oklahoma—This Land contributing editor Sheilah Bright went to work. With her camera and her pen, and with the insight that only a longtime Creek County correspondent could bring, she captured a land on fire and a life torn asunder.
Lone Man’s Land takes viewers on a visual road trip to Kenton, Oklahoma, population 20, and follows the Apple family through a decade of hardship including 2014 when a family crisis creates a major change. Six miles from Colorado and three miles from New Mexico, Kenton is a quiet retirement community that’s proved to be a perfect home to cattle ranchers for five generations. Until now.
If Wishes Were Horses is currently in production. It is an Oklahoma-based documentary based on a story "Horse Teeth and Heartbreak" that I wrote in 2015 for This Land Press. I am working as creative director/writer on the project with Wendy Garrett and Ben Arrendondo
A chance encounter with a town of 20 people evolved into an obsession that kept me driving the backroads of Oklahoma as Dust Bowl survivors opened their lives for a story about loss, hope and dirt.
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