In one of the final moments of Reservation Dogs’ first season on FX, a spirit guide appears at the bedroom window of Bear Smallhill (D’Pharaoh Woon-a-Tai) to share a story about the young man’s ancestors. But the f-bomb-dropping, meat pie-eating guide with two feathers jutting from his head doesn’t wax on about the fierce warriors in Bear’s past; he’s there to reveal how the youth’s “great grandma Susie liked to smash white guys like hot cakes.”
“I don’t have the answers, only questions,” admits William ‘Spirit’ Knifeman (Dallas Goldtooth), before realizing he’s overstayed his welcome at Bear’s bedside.
“I think I should be going,” he utters awkwardly as he looks toward the horizon. “I’ve got another vision.”
In many ways, this nonsensical moment between Bear and his spirit guide speaks to the heart of Reservation Dogs, a single-camera comedy that follows...
“I don’t have the answers, only questions,” admits William ‘Spirit’ Knifeman (Dallas Goldtooth), before realizing he’s overstayed his welcome at Bear’s bedside.
“I think I should be going,” he utters awkwardly as he looks toward the horizon. “I’ve got another vision.”
In many ways, this nonsensical moment between Bear and his spirit guide speaks to the heart of Reservation Dogs, a single-camera comedy that follows...
- 6/9/2022
- by Lynette Rice
- Deadline Film + TV
Most first failures stop careers in their tracks, and many early successes lead to nothing for lack of financing. But there are success stories of another kind we rarely hear about. Journeys through back alleys and down long treacherous roads that lead to a sustainable career.
I am a producer specializing in micro-budget production. I first met writer-director Henry Barrial in 2000 when I was an executive at Next Wave Films. We were giving finishing funds to exceptional low-budget features, which included Chris Nolan’s “Following.” We invested in Henry’s feature film debut, “Some Body,” a $3,000 drama shot on Canon Xl-1’s with a two-man crew and no script. When it was accepted into Dramatic Competition at the 2001 Sundance Film Festival, we repped its sale to Lot 47 Films, which ultimately released it theatrically in over 15 cities. A remarkable result for an improvised no-budgeter made out of necessity, several years before...
I am a producer specializing in micro-budget production. I first met writer-director Henry Barrial in 2000 when I was an executive at Next Wave Films. We were giving finishing funds to exceptional low-budget features, which included Chris Nolan’s “Following.” We invested in Henry’s feature film debut, “Some Body,” a $3,000 drama shot on Canon Xl-1’s with a two-man crew and no script. When it was accepted into Dramatic Competition at the 2001 Sundance Film Festival, we repped its sale to Lot 47 Films, which ultimately released it theatrically in over 15 cities. A remarkable result for an improvised no-budgeter made out of necessity, several years before...
- 11/26/2018
- by Mark Stolaroff
- Indiewire
Relaxed and genteel with a disarming smile and quick wit that strike you immediately upon meeting him, James Ponsoldt, the Athens, GA native who made a big impression at Sundance 06' with his tragically underseen Nick Nolte high school baseball umpire drama Off The Black, is a well-rounded guy. He has a masters degree from Columbia, was the president of his class at Yale, edited the student paper, was a receiver on the varsity football team and reads modernist literature with regularity. Perhaps more importantly, the Filmmaker Magazine contributor and Sundance Institute Lynn Auerbach Screenwriting Fellow for his adaptation of Benjamin Percy's Iraqi war short story Refresh, Refresh was also one of t ...
- 8/18/2008
- by Brandon Harris
- Spout
- James Ponsoldt is the lucky recipient of this year's Lynn Auerbach Screenwriting Fellowship - a cash award handed out by the Sundance Institute and as THR reports comes screenplay reading and the advisory services of scribes John August and Ron Nyswaner throughout his fellowship year.No stranger to the joys of Sundance, Ponsoldt was in Park City in 06' with the coming-of-age story starring Trevor Morgan and Nick Nolte entitled Off the Black will be bringing one more drama relating to Iraq war in Refresh, Refresh. This follows three teenage boys struggling to deal with their fathers' service in the Iraq. ...
- 10/9/2007
- IONCINEMA.com
Sundance Institute has awarded the the 2007 Lynn Auerbach Screenwriting Fellowship to "Refresh, Refresh" writer James Ponsoldt. The unproduced feature follows three teenage boys struggling to deal with their fathers' service in the Iraq War. Ponsoldt will receive a cash stipend, a Sundance screenplay reading and the advisory services of scribes John August and Ron Nyswaner throughout his fellowship year. Ponsoldt developed his work at the Institute's Screenwriters Lab in Utah this summer.
- 10/9/2007
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
NEW YORK -- The Sundance Institute has announced the three emerging filmmakers who will receive its 2007 Feature Film Program fellowships and grants.
Producer Chad Burris has been awarded the Mark Silverman Fellowship for New Producers for writer/director Blackhorse Lowe's "The Left-Handed Path", a 2006 Sundance Screenwriters Lab project. For the story of a Navajo teenage girl's struggles with her culture and devil-worshipping, Burris will receive a $5,000 pre-production grant and a year of mentorship from independent producers Meg LeFauve and Ed Saxon, production executive Matthew Greenfield, agent Graham Taylor, and music supervisor Tracy McKnight.
Writer/director Victoria Mahoney has received the Lynn Auerbach Screenwriting Fellowship for her project "Yelling at the Sky", the story of a young sister in a tough New York neighborhood facing difficult life choices. Mahoney will receive a $2,500 grant for her 2006 Screenwriters and Directors Labs project and mentorship from screenwriters Walter Bernstein and John Gatins.
Mahoney also received this year's Maryland Film Fellowship along with writer/director Tanya Hamilton, whose period film "Stringbean and Marcus" chronicles a 10-year-old girl who grapples with the death of her Black Panther father.
Producer Chad Burris has been awarded the Mark Silverman Fellowship for New Producers for writer/director Blackhorse Lowe's "The Left-Handed Path", a 2006 Sundance Screenwriters Lab project. For the story of a Navajo teenage girl's struggles with her culture and devil-worshipping, Burris will receive a $5,000 pre-production grant and a year of mentorship from independent producers Meg LeFauve and Ed Saxon, production executive Matthew Greenfield, agent Graham Taylor, and music supervisor Tracy McKnight.
Writer/director Victoria Mahoney has received the Lynn Auerbach Screenwriting Fellowship for her project "Yelling at the Sky", the story of a young sister in a tough New York neighborhood facing difficult life choices. Mahoney will receive a $2,500 grant for her 2006 Screenwriters and Directors Labs project and mentorship from screenwriters Walter Bernstein and John Gatins.
Mahoney also received this year's Maryland Film Fellowship along with writer/director Tanya Hamilton, whose period film "Stringbean and Marcus" chronicles a 10-year-old girl who grapples with the death of her Black Panther father.
- 2/15/2007
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
NEW YORK -- Sundance Institute announced the recipients of three awards, including the inaugural Lynn Auerbach Screenwriting Fellowship. The Auerbach award, created in memory of a longtime institute staffer, provides development support to a screenwriter after his or her participation in an Institute Screenwriters Lab. Jake Mahaffy will be awarded $2,500 for his drama Free in Deed, along with a year of support from two screenwriter advisors, Howard Rodman and Doug Wright.
- 4/12/2006
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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