2015 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Robinson Devor’s Pow Wow

With 2007’s off-kilter Zoo, Sundance Film Fest habitual Robinson Devor showed his true colors. His unrestricted creativity in storytelling means that his future slate includes mutations in both the fiction and the non-fiction field. With a recent installation showing at MoMA, a docu-portrait on Sarah Jane (the woman who came within inches of assassinating President Gerald R. Ford) in the works, and a feature film that saw the passing of the seasons (a book to film adaptation of 1920’s Americana in You Can’t Win) Robinson with help from oft creative collaborator Charles Mudede have been working on a new docu-project that stitches dual narratives that are a century apart in Pow Wow. The docu, which received successful rounds of crowdfunding earlier in the year, appears to eerily underline a strong set of similarities despite an obvious gap in time.

Gist: This uses modern day desert characters to echo and illuminate an infamous 1908 desert manhunt for Willie Boy, a native American youth who outran a mounted posse on foot across 500 miles of desert. Like Willie Boy, the film’s present-day characters have, in many ways, utilized the desert to survive and run free.

Production Co./Producers: Victoria Nevinny

Prediction: Documentary Premieres category or a slim chance to fit in the New Frontiers section.

U.S. Distributor: Rights Available. TBD (domestic). TBD (international)

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