DVDs now available for THE ONLY GOOD INDIAN, starring Wes Studi
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Willmott (CSA: Confederate States of America) and starring Wes Studi
(Last of the Mohicans, Avatar), may now be ordered at www.TheOnlyGoodIndian.com.
THE ONLY GOOD INDIAN premiered at the 2009 Sundance Film Festival in
January, and has screened at The Berlinale European Film Market in
Berlin, The Indie Spirit Film Festival in Colorado Springs, The
Newport Beach Film Festival in California, Michael Moore’s Traverse
City Film Festival in Michigan, Tallgrass Film Festival in Wichita,
The Cherokee International Film Festival in Tulsa, the KC Film Fest in
Missouri, The St. Louis International Film Festival, The Santa Fe
Film Festival and The American Indian Film Festival in San Francisco,
where it was awarded Best Feature Film, Best Actor (Wes Studi) and
Best Supporting Actor (Winter Fox Frank).
THE ONLY GOOD INDIAN, written and produced by Thomas L. Carmody, also
stars J. Kenneth Campbell (Bulworth, Yulee’s Gold) and newcomer Winter
Fox Frank. In the film, Wes Studi portrays an early 1900’s Cherokee
bounty hunter hired to return an escapee from an Indian boarding
school. Winter Fox Frank plays the teenaged student who is trying to
get back to his family on the Kickapoo of Kansas reservation and J.
Kenneth Campbell plays a legendary “Indian fighter”-turned-sheriff who
is after both of them.
The cast also features Paul Butler (Reign Over Me), Thirza Defoe (Pow
Wow Dreams), Laura Kirk (Lisa Picard is Famous, The Battle for Bunker
Hill), Blake Robbins (Oz, The Office), Kevin Geer (American Gangster),
Christopher Wheatley (Raising Jeffrey Dahmer), Scott Allegrucci (The
Feud), Kip Niven (Magnum Force), Delanna Studi (Edge of America),
Queen Bey (Ninth Street) and David Midthunder (Hidalgo).
THE ONLY GOOD INDIAN was shot in various Kansas locations. Matthew
Jacobson (CSA: Confederate States of America, Bukowski: Born Into
This) and Jeremy Osbern (Air: A Musical) are the directors of
photography. Thomas L. Carmody, Kevin Willmott, Matt Cullen, Greg
Hurd, Rick Cowan and Scott Richardson are the producers. Wes Studi is
executive producer. Hanay Geiogamah, J. T. O’Neal and Dan Wildcat,
Vice President of Haskell Indian Nations University, are co-executive
producers and Stan Herd is the co-producer.
“We were delighted at the positive response THE ONLY GOOD INDIAN has
received at Sundance and other festivals,” said Kevin Willmott. “We
look forward to giving audiences around the world an opportunity to
enjoy the film.”
Kevin Willmott wrote and directed the highly acclaimed independent
feature CSA: Confederate States of America, which premiered at The
Sundance Film Festival, and Ninth Street, which starred Martin Sheen
and Isaac Hayes. He has written scripts for Oliver Stone, NBC, 20th
Century Fox and Columbia Tri-Star. Willmott recently completed The
Battle for Bunker Hill, a feature action-thriller starring James
McDaniel (NYPD Blue), Saeed Jaffrey (Gandhi) and Laura Kirk
( www.bunkerhillthemovie.com ).
Wes Studi’s celebrated acting career includes lead roles in Geronimo:
An American Legend, Dances With Wolves, Last of the Mohicans, Bury My
Heart at Wounded Knee, Into the West, Seraphim Falls, The New World,
Edge of America and Mystery Men. Studi starred as Lt. Joe Leaphorn in
a PBS television series based on novels by Tony Hillerman and as
General Linus Abner in the NBC series Kings. His upcoming films
include James Cameron’s Avatar.
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