{"id":188,"date":"2016-05-10T13:51:04","date_gmt":"2016-05-10T13:51:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lakotagirlsmovie.com\/?p=188"},"modified":"2016-05-10T13:51:04","modified_gmt":"2016-05-10T13:51:04","slug":"custer-family-awarded-peoples-choice-for-lakota-girls-at-black-hills-film-festival","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lakotagirlsmovie.com\/index.php\/2016\/05\/10\/custer-family-awarded-peoples-choice-for-lakota-girls-at-black-hills-film-festival\/","title":{"rendered":"CUSTER FAMILY AWARDED \u201cPEOPLES CHOICE\u201d FOR \u201cLAKOTA GIRLS\u201d AT BLACK HILLS FILM FESTIVAL"},"content":{"rendered":"

CUSTER FAMILY AWARDED \u201cPEOPLES CHOICE\u201d FOR \u201cLAKOTA GIRLS\u201d AT BLACK HILLS FILM FESTIVAL<\/a><\/p>\n

CUSTER FAMILY AWARDED \u201cPEOPLES CHOICE\u201d FOR \u201cLAKOTA GIRLS\u201d AT BLACK HILLS FILM FESTIVAL
\nMay 8, 2016 \u00b7 by Herb Ryan \u00b7 in Hill City, The Arts. \u00b7<\/p>\n

The Black Hills Film Festival Awards, Hill City, South Dakota
\nBest Feature Film
\nMisfortune: Desmond Devenish, producer, Director, Writer, Star. Roger Stelien Producer, Scott Lautanen Producer, Locations provided film cars. Corey Trolley provided film cars<\/p>\n

Best Short Film
\nBird Dog: Katrina Whalen, Writer, Director. Producer, Jack Parlaute Producer, Charlie Koss, Carolyn Eperspecher.<\/p>\n

Best Documentary \u2013 Feature
\nThe Legend of Swee\u2019 Pee: Benjamin May, Director. Anne Marie Lawless Writer, Karl Holland and Daniel Levin Producers.<\/p>\n

Best Documentary \u2013 Short
\nPhil\u2019s Camino: Jessica Lewis and Annie Oneil . Director, Annie Oneil Producer.<\/p>\n

Peoples Choice
\nLakota Girl\u2019s: Molli Cameron Director, Russell Cameron, Producer<\/p>\n

By Herb Ryan<\/p>\n

Russell Cameron. producer, director of photography and actor, and Molli Cameron, director, writer, producer and costumes, were awarded the \u201d Peoples Choice\u201d Award for the full length movie Lakota Girls Saturday evening at the Hill City Film Festival in Hill City, South Dakota.<\/p>\n

Lakota Girls is a historical drama about Mato Win, an eight-year-old Native American girl who lives at Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in South Dakota. She is sent to live with a white family at a horse ranch in the Black Hills. She stays with Clara, an eight-year-old white girl and her family, but Mato Win is determined to get back to the reservation. She runs away to the mountainous forest, but is found. Mato Win is afraid she will be kept from her parents and does not trust Clara\u2019s older brother Cavan. Mato Win questions Clara about an old photo of two Indian men in her home. Clara tells the story of her great-great grandma, Emylon, who rode the train from Indiana to teach there, a hundred years ago. The girls discover they have more in common than they knew. See Lakota Girls Movie Web Site<\/p>\n

When I talked to Molli and Russell at the premiere of Lakota Girls Thursday at the Journey Museum in Rapid City, the film had not been shown yet. First time jitters and nervous energy were flowing around them and their children Cavan and Clara who both have parts in the movie. This was a new venture, Molli had written the story and Russell has a background in photography, but., there was zero experience in making a movie. Molli and Russel decided to commit and do what every was necessary to understand the film making process..Russell confessed that he had spent close to forty thousand dollars on camera equipment, he said. \u201cThat was a very expensive purchase, we also attended an accelerated film school in Chicago and the whole family was enrolled in an acting class as prep for the production. All our actors were paid, plus travel expense and production time, script adjustments and editing all add up\u201d. Molli added: \u201cThere was all that on top of the fact, this was a family oriented movie, we wanted to take a chance and do something that relied more on the story line than the current cinema trend, something that is sensitive and informative and again suitable for a general audience, now we will wait and see how the audience will react to the movie\u201d.<\/p>\n

In a conversation with Avatar actor Stephen Lang at the Warrior\u2019s Work Gallery in Hill City Saturday evening, we discussed the advances in movie technology. Stephen Lang said:\u201d Yes, the technology really adds to the visual impact of a movie and I\u2019m all for that, as actors, we all learn how to tell the story standing in front of a green screen which by the way can be difficult at times\u201d. Lang continued: The green screens, 3-d modeling and other special effects are really not the soul of the movie, it needs a great story and actors that can perform their craft with conviction, that my friend is what makes a memorable movie, a movie that does not leave you feeling ,unfulfilled or hollow inside\u201d. Lang\u2019s submission to the Hill City Film Festival was \u201cBeyond Glory\u201d based on journalist Larry Smith\u2019s best-selling war chronicle, Beyond Glory combines the art or theatre and cinema to tell the graphic conflicts of WWII, Korea and the Vietnam war. Screenplay by Stephen Lang, \"mollicameronawardno1opti\"<\/a> \"lakotagirls557016\"<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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