Beyond Black Beauty


Beyond Black Beauty is a Canadian-Belgian youth drama series, which premiered in 2024. Inspired by the influential novel Black Beauty, the series stars Kaya Coleman as Jolie Dumont, a young woman with a passion for horses and a dream of competing in equestrian events at the Olympic Games.

Premise

After growing up in Liège as the daughter of wealthy Belgian industrialist Cédric and his American wife Janelle, who trained her in the English riding style, her life is upended when her parents split up and her mother takes her back to her own more modest family roots in Baltimore.
Initially unhappy, she finds new meaning and opportunity in the situation when she connects with Beauty, the seemingly untrainable wild horse at the family ranch run by Janelle's sister Yvonne, and begins to learn more about rodeo culture and Western riding.

Production

The series was produced by Sinking Ship Entertainment, Leif Films and Saga Film, and was filmed principally in and around North Bay, Ontario.
The series has been noted for highlighting the Black cowboy culture that has gained prominence in the 2020s.

Distribution

It premiered March 15, 2024, on Family Channel, and launched in October 2024 on Amazon Prime Video in the United States.

Cast