Trick Rider Productions was incorporated in June, 2001 by three filmmakers: Theresa Wynnyk, Lorna Thomas, and Lisa Miller. The purpose of the corporation was to produce a documentary that focused on female ranchers, cowgirls, trick riders, and rodeo riders.

Theresa Wynnyk is a filmmaker and producer who has worked with ACCESS TV, the National Film Board (NFB), ITV, and CBC among others. She has directed documentaries that include Amanda Rising: The Amanda Forsyth Story, Clean Points, and Breaking Joan. Wynnyk also directed two half-hour NFB documentaries on sexual harassment in schools that won numerous awards, including an Alberta Motion Picture Industry Award (AMPIA) for Best Educational Documentary and a Bronze Plaque from the 1998 Columbus International Film and Video Festival. She has also served as vice-president of Women in Film and Television, Alberta.

Lorna Thomas has a background in Alberta's ranching industry and is an award-winning documentary producer and director. Her productions include Phyllis' Miracle (2001 AMPIA winner for Best Documentary Under 30 Minutes and a Bronze Plaque at the Columbus International Film and Video Festival), Beating the Streets (Best Picture at the 1998 Dreamspeaker's International Film Festival), and Going Back to Katmandu. Thomas has also engaged in tutoring teenagers in film production. In 2001, she worked with young Sudanese immigrants to produce a short documentary, Drop It Like It's Hot.

Lisa Miller worked at CFRN Edmonton for twenty-one years as a sportscaster and reporter and was inducted in the Alberta Sports Hall of Fame in 1991 for this work. During her tenure at CFRN she produced, directed, and wrote several documentaries, including Decade of Champions (1990 finalist for the Can Pro Award). In 1999 she formed Miller Sports Productions, which produced the one-hour documentary City of Champions - Century of Excellence. Miller's other productions include the 2000-2001 Sportsnet program, Northlands Horse Show.

Trick Rider Productions completed the documentary, Pretty Ladies, Fast Horses: Cowgirls of the 21st Century, in 2002. The production was co-written, co-produced, and co-directed by Wynnyk, Thomas, and Miller and focused on various roles played by individual women in the Alberta ranching industry and rodeo circuit. Pretty Ladies, Fast Horses debuted on Global Television on August 21, 2002.

Trick Rider Productions unincorporated in 2008.

The fonds consists of production files, raw footage, and master tapes related to the production of Pretty Ladies, Fast Horses. The textual records include contracts, release forms, correspondence, scripts, budgets, financial information, shot lists, interview transcripts, and shooting schedules.

The audiovisual records include interviews with several subjects, footage of ranch work/life, footage of rodeos, and footage of the specific subjects of the documentary. The video footage is comprehensive in documenting ranch and rodeo life and extends beyond the immediate subject of the production. Subjects included in the footage include trick riding, cattle roping, cattle branding, barrel racing, bronco riding, rodeo culture, day-to-day work on cattle ranches, rodeo practice, among others.