Julia Jones, Gil Brimingham's Film California Indian to be Screened in DC 6/15

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Gil Birmingham's Crooked Arrows Reviews

NY Times-
By DANIEL M. GOLD
Published: May 31, 2012
A reluctant new coach faces the challenge of leading a team of unhappy youths to a championship. On the way, setbacks are encountered and eventually overcome, and everyone, from the coach to the star to the last guy on the bench, learns something. Wouldn’t it be great if “Crooked Arrows,” a new movie about a Native American lacrosse team that takes on the prep school snobs, upended sports movie convention?
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Vancouver Sun-
By Katherine Monk, Postmedia News  
May 31, 2012
The actors bear their narrative fate with a brave face and a patient smile, with Routh providing some sharp comic punctuation with artfully delivered sarcasm. The rest of the cast doesn't get enough dialogue to work around the hackneyed sentiments and cliched moments, but you can tell it's not their fault.
Even the most painful moments, including the scenes featuring a Yoda-like granny – complete with wooden walking stick and backward syntax – were obviously scripted with noble intent.
And in the end, it's these intangible forces that rescue the movie from a puddle of propagandist impulse and leaden drama. There is something fundamentally moving about people using sport to recreate themselves, their culture or their community.
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 Created on Sunday, 27 May 2012 16:12 Written by George Rother
After a succession of crappy early summer movies, it's like a breath of fresh air watching something as genuinely entertaining as Crooked Arrows, a sports drama about a Native American lacrosse team and the new coach who takes them out of last place and puts them on the path to the championship game. Yep, it's the ever popular underdog scenario that has defined countless sports dramas (Remember the Titans) and comedies (The Bad News Bears)! But in this case, director Steve Rash (Under the Rainbow) brings a little something different to the table, he combines a routine sports drama with a history lesson about the game of lacrosse. If this sounds slightly familiar, then you must be one of the ten people who saw last year's forgettable A Warrior's Heart which addresses this very same subject. To summarize, the game originated among the six nations of the Iroquois confederacy and it dates back about 1000 years. Now it's one of the most popular sports in the country. Undoubtedly, this means that we're bound to see many lacrosse-themed movies hit the multiplexes in the near future. After all, you can only make so many movies about baseball, football and hockey, right?
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Chaske Spencer's Shouting Secrets Wins Award!

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The 7th Annual Big Island Film Festival announced winners in 12 categories Monday at The Fairmont Orchid.
Chosen from 57 official selections from Hawaii and around the world, the bi-lingual comedy “French Immersion” took top honors for Best Feature, “Irvine Welsh’s Ecstasy” received the Best Foreign Film award and “Beatrice” won Best Short.

Audience Choice short film “Hi Honey,” created by Big Island residents Kelly Winsa and Peter Henderson, screened Monday night at the “Best of the Fest” event, followed by Audience-Choice feature “Shouting Secrets,” directed by Korinna Sehringer.
“Shouting Secrets” stars Chaske Spencer as a bestselling Native American novelist who draws from his own family drama on the reservation. 

Costarring Q‘oriana Kilcher (“Princess Kaiulani”), “Shouting Secrets” resonated with the Hawaii audience at Sunday’s screening, and was acclaimed by Hollywood story consultant Jen Grisanti as “one of the best films I’ve seen in a long, long time.” also stars Gil Birmingham (article didnt mention him!)


2012 Big Island Film Festival Awards:
Best Student Short: “Faceless”
Best Student Feature: “Anos Despues”
Best Hawaii Short: “Flat”
Best Family Short: “Swoosh!”
Best Animated Short: “Cadaver”
Best Foreign Short: “Scenen”
Barbara Award: “Mr. Babbo”
Best Foreign Feature: “Irvine Welsh’s Ecstasy”
Best Short: “Beatrice”
Best Feature: “French Immersion”
Audience Choice Short: “Hi, Honey”
Audience Choice Feature: “Shouting Secrets”

An annual celebration of narrative films and filmmaking, the Big Island Film Festival would like to thank its anchor sponsors: The Fairmont Orchid, Hawaii, The Shops at Mauna Lani, Hawaii Tourism Authority/Hawaii County Department of Research and Development CPEP, Kenwood Vineyards, Redeeming Light International Inc. and many other generous sponsors and supporters.
— Find out more: www.BigIslandFilmFestival.com
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Gil Birmingham's Crooked Arrow Premiere

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Gil Birmingham 3 New Stills from Crooked Arrow

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Gil Birmingham's Standing ovation!

SEATTLE—At the March 25 sneak preview of Crooked Arrows, former college and pro lacrosse player Neal Powless spoke reverently of lacrosse as more than just a sport. “Everyone has their own skill—strength, speed, agility, size,” he said. “Those are gifts from the Creator, and that’s what lacrosse is—a celebration of your gifts and bringing them together as a group and using those gifts for the betterment of the whole. That’s a Native value—coming together as a group, working together as a community, as you did today.”

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Chaske Spencer, Gil Birmingham: Shouting Secrets

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