Jesse Short Bull and David France's documentary tells Peltier's story all the way through President Joe Biden's commutation.
The warning comes after the joyous twist of clemency for the Indigenous activist, as shown in a Sundance film premiering ...
Sundance: Jesse Short Bull and David France's documentary about the American Indian Movement member who was imprisoned since ...
There haven’t been nearly as many movies during Sundance where I’ve felt that. One of them is here in this dispatch, along ...
Free Leonard Peltier' will debut at Sundance next Monday, and filmmakers David France and Jesse Short Bull are back in the ...
It’s not even past.’ It’s the sort of twist no screenwriter would dare invent: “Free Leonard Peltier,” a persuasively well-researched and often infuriating documentary about the American ...
With just moments left before he leaves office, President Joe Biden commuted the life sentence of indigenous activist Leonard ...
Days later, he would learn those activists — including a Turtle Mountain Chippewa man named Leonard Peltier — were involved in a shootout that left Joe Stuntz, a Coeur d'Alene activist, and two FBI ...
Once the order came, the movie changed, too — literally. As recently as a week ago, Free Leonard Peltier ended with its now 80-year-old subject simply plaintively hoping he’d be released one day.
Late in Jesse Short Bull and David France’s new documentary Free Leonard Peltier, Native activist Nick Tilsen sings the praises of Leonard Peltier’s sense of humor but expresses a note of concern.