Local movie hits the indy big time

[dazie]

http://www2.ljworld.com/news/2008/dec/05/Moving-pictures-Local-cinematic-features-enjoy-su/

The Sundance Film Festival received more than 9,000 entries this year. It was the highest number of submissions since the event began 25 years ago.

Lawrence production "The Only Good Indian" was announced Thursday as one of just 118 features chosen to showcase at the country's most prestigious film festival.

My friend Wheatley plays "Mean Joe" in this movie.  I think he's some sort of sheriff or deputy or something. 

Set in Kansas during the early 1900s, a teenaged Native American boy (newcomer Winter Fox Frank) is taken from his family and forced to attend a distant Indian "training" school to assimilate into White society. When he escapes to return his family, Sam Franklin (Wes Studi), a bounty hunter of Cherokee descent, is hired to find and return him to the institution. Franklin, a former Indian scout for the U.S. Army, has renounced his Native heritage and has adopted the White Man's way of life, believing it's the only way for Indians to survive. Along the way, a tragic incident spurs Franklins longtime nemesis, the famous Indian Fighter Sheriff Henry McCoy (J. Kenneth Campbell), to pursue both Franklin and the boy.

Wes Studi is a badass.  I can't wait to see this film.

[Beefy]

Wes Studi is a total badass.

[dazie]

http://www.theonlygoodindian.com/trailer.html

Wheatley's the one on the paint horse.