Special Aboriginal film at Monarch this week
By Medicine Hat News on October 26, 2017.
Lethbridge Herald A landmark Aboriginal film, “Neither Wolf Nor Dog,” based on the award-winning novel by Kent Nerburn, will screen at the Monarch Theatre on Oct. 27-29 and Nov. 1 at 7:30 p.m. The movie, which is expected to run for at least a week, stars Alberta-born-and-raised actress Roseanne Supernault, who plays two roles in the film, and Lakota elder, Dave Bald Eagle, who was 95 years old at the time of filming. He passed away last year. The film comes to Lethbridge following a successful run in Vancouver, and its U.S. release has been doing exceptionally well, particularly in Washington state. This small, self-distributed independent film has not only been competing with Hollywood blockbusters, it has been outperforming many of them. The film, with a running time of 110 minutes, is about a white author who is asked by a Lakota elder to write a book about his people, leading to an eye-opening road trip through the contemporary Native American landscape. From Roaring Fire Films, this movie is directed by Steven Lewis Simpson and also stars Christopher Sweeney and Richard Ray Whitman. 7-6
