Directors David France and Jesse Short Bull describe the Indigenous activist's ongoing fight for Native American rights after ...
It’s an elusive dream for so many docmakers: to impact legislation, to find justice, to make a difference. To change the ...
Clark Peltier wore a red Free Leonard Peltier T-shirt under his Carhartt jacket. While he waited for his distant cousin to come home, he drew a “d” on his shirt after the word free.
BELCOURT, N.D. (AP) — More than 50 years after a shootout on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation landed him in federal prison, Leonard Peltier remains defiant ... “Their ability to say that he is free ...
You would have been hard-pressed to find a timelier film at this year’s Sundance Film Festival than “Free Leonard Peltier,” directors Jesse Short Bull and David France’s documentary about ...
To change the world. With Free Leonard Peltier, filmmakers Jesse Short Bull (Lakota Nation vs. United States) and David France (How To Survive a Plague) achieved their eponymous goal: Seven days ...
While “Free Leonard Peltier” uses interviews, archival footage and A.I.-generated reenactments to recreate the events that transpired that day at Wounded Knee, the film also situates Peltier ...