Bravo!!

Just came back from seeing this movie at the Yavapai College Performing Arts Center this evening and I'm hoping and praying that this movie gets distributed. It's a typical dysfunctional family drama; it could be in a Jewish house in Beverly Hills, an Irish home in Belfast, etc; you get the idea. It happens to take place in a Native American family living in the Apache Reservation in Globe, Arizona. From the website of Yavapai College:

"Shouting Secrets is the tale of a fractured family brought together by tragedy. A richly realized portrait of kin repairing bonds once thought irretrievably broken. Wesley(Chaske Spencer of the Twilight series), a young, successful novelist, long ago left Arizona and the San Carlos Apache Reservation in his rear view mirror. He remains close to his mother but alienated the rest of the family with his autobiographical bestseller. He has no intention of returning for his parents anniversary fete but finds himself pulled back into the fold. Coming home only underlines what a mess Wesley’s life has become, but he’s not alone in that. The entire clan is in flux in a story that is at once about the constancy and the fragility of love, as well as the importance of family. The film showcases an incredible performance by General Hospital’s Tyler Christopher".

While all dramas suffer from some degree of sappiness, sacharine-sweetness or are just plain maudlin, this movie is so well done that you forget you are watching an independent film and get absorbed with the characters and the story.
This movie rated a "five-kleenex" on my scale. During the entire movie I wondered how much "Smoke Signals" influenced the director, it turns out that it didn't, as she stated in a Q&A session following the movie. However, I was very gratified to see that she paid homage to Smoke Signals in the last five minutes of the movie.
Well done, Korrina, bravo!