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We are delighted to announce that we are in post-production of our latest documentary film entitled “A Wing and a Prayer: .” This film highlights the amazing journey of This film features spiritual leader Ricky Gray Grass and his Tiospaye (extended family) as they Ricky was extremely helpful during the production of Holy Man. The…

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We are delighted to announce that Holy Man was an Official Selection at the Native Vision Film Festival in Göteborg, Sweden on April 12, 2014. See the program details here.

Holy Man was an Official Selection of the San Diego Film Festival on October 5, 2013.  The Red Carpet started at 1:45 with a traditional honoring drum group. A Q & A with the filmmakers followed the screening.

Wopila! Thank you to everyone who supported our Kickstarter project and campaign effort!! We are so grateful to have had so many people rooting for the project! Thank you for making a difference and for helping to get this important story out into the world!

Filmmakers Jennifer Jessum and Simon Joseph were interviewed by director Ondi Timoner on Bring Your Own Doc (BYOD) for a special series for DocuWeeks. Watch the full episode here.

Fred Alan Wolf, Ph.D. is a theoretical physicist who specializes in quantum physics and the relationship between physics and consciousness. He is the author of a number of books, including Taking the Quantum Leap, The Dreaming Universe, but is probably best known for his appearances in What the #$*! Do We Know? and The Secret, two New Age documentaries about…

The Mitakupi Foundation was created to address the teen suicide epidemic on Pine Ridge and neighboring Indian reservations. The word “Mitakupi” is Lakota for “my people” and symbolizes the Lakota philosophy that We Are All Related: all of creation is sacred, and all are children of the one Creator. The mission of the Mitakupi Foundation…

Our friend Tee Iron Cloud is a super-talented traditional singer and rapper from Pine Ridge. Check out Tee Iron Cloud’s new video, “Good Voice Wolf” here. https://www.facebook.com/pages/Tee-Iron-Cloud/577580748962201?hc_location=stream Tee Iron Cloud’s “Good Voice Wolf” – our music video for Tee Iron Cloud will have its World Premiere at the Native American Indian Film and Video Festival of…

“‘Holy Man’ explores complex issues of racial bias: Using effective reenactments, director Jennifer Jessum turns one man’s story into an indictment of U.S. judicial system in its treatment of Native Americans. The exceptional documentary ‘Holy Man: The USA vs. Douglas White’ tells the haunting tale of White, a Lakota Sioux medicine man from South Dakota’s…

“Documentaries that revolve around trials often pose problems of presentation, particularly if they involve larger issues. ‘Holy Man,’ Jennifer Jessum and Simon Joseph’s film about a revered Lakota medicine man wrongfully sentenced to almost 25 years without parole for allegedly molesting his grandchildren, builds very slowly, as the full extent of this miscarriage of justice…

“Director Jennifer Jessum’s Holy Man: The USA vs. Douglas White illustrates complex issues through the story of an individual. White—a revered medicine man on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in South Dakota—is falsely accused of child molestation, and even when mountains of evidence attest to his innocence, the court system refuses to release him. Narrated…