Screening at Michael Moore's Traverse City Film Festival

THE ONLY GOOD INDIAN, a new feature film directed by Kevin Willmott (CSA: Confederate States of America) and starring Wes Studi (Last of the Mohicans, Avatar), will be screened as an official selection of The Traverse City Film Festival on Sunday, August 2, 2009. The Michigan festival, founded in 2004 by independent filmmaker Michael Moore, runs July 28 through August 2, 2009.

THE ONLY GOOD INDIAN premiered at the 2009 Sundance Film Festival in January, and has screened at The Berlinale European Film Market in Berlin, The Indie Spirit Film Festival in Colorado Springs, The Newport Beach Film Festival in California and the KC Film Fest in Missouri.

THE ONLY GOOD INDIAN, written and produced by Thomas L. Carmody, also stars J. Kenneth Campbell (Bulworth, Yulee’s Gold) and newcomer Winter Fox Frank. In the film, Wes Studi portrays an early 1900’s Cherokee bounty hunter hired to return an escapee from an Indian boarding school. Winter Fox Frank plays the teenaged student who is trying to get back to his family on the Kickapoo of Kansas reservation and J. Kenneth Campbell plays a legendary “Indian fighter”-turned-sheriff who is after both of them.

The cast also features Paul Butler (Reign Over Me), Thirza Defoe (Pow Wow Dreams), Laura Kirk (Lisa Picard is Famous, The Battle for Bunker Hill), Blake Robbins (Oz, The Office), Kevin Geer (American Gangster), Christopher Wheatley (Raising Jeffrey Dahmer), Scott Allegrucci (The Feud), Kip Niven (Magnum Force), Delanna Studi (Edge of America), Queen Bey (Ninth Street) and David Midthunder (Hidalgo).

THE ONLY GOOD INDIAN was shot in various Kansas locations. Matthew Jacobson (CSA: Confederate States of America, Bukowski: Born Into This) and Jeremy Osbern (Air: A Musical) are the directors of photography. Thomas L. Carmody, Kevin Willmott, Matt Cullen, Greg Hurd, Rick Cowan and Scott Richardson are the producers. Wes Studi is executive producer. Hanay Geiogamah, J. T. O’Neal and Dan Wildcat are co-executive producers and Stan Herd is the co-producer.

“We were delighted at the positive response THE ONLY GOOD INDIAN received at Sundance,” said Kevin Willmott. “We look forward to giving audiences around the world an opportunity to enjoy the film.”

Kevin Willmott wrote and directed the highly acclaimed independent feature CSA: Confederate States of America, which premiered at The Sundance Film Festival, and Ninth Street, which starred Martin Sheen and Isaac Hayes. He has written scripts for Oliver Stone, NBC, 20th Century Fox and Columbia Tri-Star. Willmott recently completed The Battle for Bunker Hill, a feature action-thriller starring James McDaniel (NYPD Blue), Saeed Jaffrey (Gandhi) and Laura Kirk ( www.bunkerhillthemovie.com ).

Wes Studi’s celebrated acting career includes lead roles in Geronimo: An American Legend, Dances With Wolves, Last of the Mohicans, Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee, Into the West, Seraphim Falls, The New World, Edge of America and Mystery Men. Studi starred as Lt. Joe Leaphorn in a PBS television series based on novels by Tony Hillerman and as General Linus Abner in the NBC series Kings. His upcoming films include James Cameron’s Avatar.

The Traverse City Film Festival Festival is a charitable, educational, nonprofit organization committed to showing "Just Great Movies" and helping to save one of America's few indigenous art forms -- the cinema. The festival brings films and filmmakers from around the world to northern Michigan for the annual film festival in late July to early August, and also owns and operates a year-round, community-based, mission-driven art house movie theater, the State Theatre. The festival was founded by Academy Award-winning filmmaker Michael Moore, who runs the festival and serves as the President of the Board of Directors. The other board members are photographer John Robert Williams and New York Times best-selling author Doug Stanton, both Traverse Citians, and filmmakers Larry Charles (director, "Borat"), Terry George (director, "Hotel Rwanda"), Sabina Guzzanti (director, "Viva Zapatero!"), and Christine Lahti (actor, "Running on Empty").

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CONTACT: Scott Richardson 785-865-3439 [email protected]
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