Native American filmmaker Blake Pickens (Chickasaw) has joined the documentary film “Reservation Redemption” from first-time director Brenda Fisher (Yakama).
Fisher and Pickens, who produced “Wild Indian,” will co-direct and co-produce the project. Brice Fisher (Siletz), son of Brenda Fisher, is associate producer.
“Reservation Redemption” offers a unique and personal lens into the most incarcerated race in the state of Washington: Native Americans. The logline reads: The film explores the transformation of “Chief” Marchand Rice (Colville) from a teenager guilty of murder sentenced to life in prison without parole, to a respected leader throughout Washington State prisons. As a teen in prison, Chief met Francis Cullooyah,
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