having its World Premiere today. The film focuses on two young Native Americans coming of age and trying to get by in a story set on the Pine Ridge Reservation in South Dakota. It is a location that has intrigued other filmmakers like Chloe Zhao in order to tell an authentic and unique contemporary tale of Native American youth brought to life by an impressive group of first-time actors, mostly locals the directors cast in order to give this as fresh and real a feel as possible.
Really this is a tale of two young people in particular, the lively and good natured 23 year old Bill , an Oglala Lakota native who has impregnated a couple of “Baby Mamas” along the way, is trying to be a decent dad if not quite succeeding , and coming up with ideas to breed poodles in order to make a living, the idea sparked when he adopts his faithful poodle Beast, a welcome cast member herself.
In a parallel story we follow 12 year old Matho and his friends as he struggles with less than an ideal family situation, essentially left by his father to his own devices which become increasingly dangerous for the young boy. The structure of the screenplay by Bill Reddy and Frank Sioux Bob, two extras Keough met on the set of the film in which she co-starred, is based on actual incidents and situations they have lived themselves at Pine Ridge or observed. As they told Keough these stories a creative partnership evolved and the long seven year process of actually getting a script and financing finally came to fruition.
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