Is Concrete Cowboy a true story?

Is Concrete Cowboy a true story?

While Concrete Cowboy itself is fiction—it’s based on Greg Neri’s YA novel Ghetto Cowboy—the film is heavily inspired by the real-life riders of North Philly. Both the novel and film took inspiration from the Fletcher Street Riders, a community of Black horse-riders throughout North Philadelphia.

Is Paris from Concrete Cowboy in a wheelchair?

Paris (Jamil Prattis) is a paraplegic cowboy who shares true accounts of his life including his story on how he ended up in the wheelchair and lost his brother.

Where did they film Concrete Cowboy?

These are scenes from “Concrete Cowboy,” a new Netflix movie starring Idris Elba and Caleb McLaughlin. But they’re also the reality in parts of north Philly, where the movie was filmed and a subculture of urban Black cowboys has existed for more than a century.

Do the Fletcher Street stables still exist?

The Fletcher Street Riding Club is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization devoted to inner-city horsemanship in north Philadelphia. Part of a century-long tradition of black cowboys and horsemanship in Philadelphia, local horsemen maintain and care for horses and teach neighborhood youth to do so.