DIRECTED BY JEFF PALMER

WRITTEN BY AUSTIN BUNN

PRODUCED BY JEFF PALMER, AUSTIN BUNN, and ADAM ROPP

Watch at the PBS Online Film Festival

Three Kiowa boys' daring escape from a government boarding school in Oklahoma in 1891 to attend a ghost dance ceremony. After being whipped for insubordination, Charles plans to escape with an unlikely group of partners.

Film Festival Screenings

PBS Short Film Festival

Skábmagovat Indigenous Film Festival (Inari, Finland), 2023

Maoriland Film Festival (Otaki, New Zealand)

Finger Lakes Environmental Film Festival (Ithaca, NY)

First Americans Museum (Oklahoma City, OK.)

University of Central Oklahoma. Edmond, OK.

Ouray International Film Festival (Ouray, CO) (Winner: Film in Action Award) 

Asinabka Film & Media Arts Festival (Ottawa, CA)

Festival International Présence Autochtone | The Montreal First Peoples’ Festival (Montreal, CA) 

PBS TVFilm. WMHT (Albany, NY) 

Festival International Du Film De Fiction Historique. Plaisance-du-Touch, France

Circle Cinema Film Festival (Tulsa, OK)

Centre Film Festival (State College, PA) (Winner: Gratitude Award)

Arena Theatre Short Film Festival (Pt. Arena CA)

Marquette University (Milwaukee WI)

Center for the Futures of Native Peoples (CFNP) at Dickinson College (Carlisle, PA)

Cornell University Biennial (Ithaca, NY)