EXCLUSIVE: Shout! Studios has acquired North American rights to Concourse Media’s drama On Sacred Floor, starring William Mapother (Misplaced), David Arquette (Scream franchise) and Amy Sensible (Stargirl), with plans for a strategic launch of the pic throughout all main leisure platforms, starting with a theatrical day-and-date debut within the first quarter of 2023. The multi-platform leisure distribution and manufacturing arm of Shout! Manufacturing unit can even display the movie on over 1,000 faculty campuses, as a way of selling its underlying message of equality and the significance of upholding indigenous rights.
On Sacred Floor follows Daniel (Mapother), a journalist and Afghanistan Struggle army veteran, and Elliot (Arquette), an oil firm government, who discover themselves on reverse sides of the battle throughout the 2016 development of the contentious Dakota Entry Pipeline, which runs via the Standing Rock Indian Reservation in North Dakota, land that’s owned by the Lakota “Sioux” Tribe. Because the story unfolds, Daniel begins to align himself extra with the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe than the oil firm he was employed to jot down about favorably, and the 2 characters go down separate paths because the occasions unfold throughout one of the crucial heated protests and confrontation with Native American tribes in fashionable U.S. historical past.
Protests of the Dakota Entry Pipeline occurred at a number of locations due to issues about its influence on the surroundings and to websites sacred to Native People. Indigenous nations across the nation opposed its development, together with the Sioux tribal nations. In North Dakota, subsequent to and on the Standing Rock Indian Reservation, practically 15,000 folks from around the globe protested, staging a sit-in for months. The movie from administrators Josh Tickell and Rebecca Tickell attracts on their private experiences and precise footage shot throughout the protests. The pair additionally consulted with Lakota tribal members to make sure the depiction of occasions within the movie precisely instructed their story.
Josh Tickell, Rebecca Tickell and Mapother wrote On Sacred Floor, which additionally stars Kerry Knuppe (Pachinko), Frances Fisher (Watchmen), Irene Bedard (The Stand) and Mariel Hemingway (Grace & Grit). Rebecca Tickell, Josh Tickell, Mapother and Wesley Hartshorn served because the movie’s producers. Concourse Media holds worldwide gross sales proper and will likely be presenting the pic to potential consumers on the 2022 Cannes Movie Market.
“On Sacred Floor is a potent drama a couple of battle as previous as America itself,” stated Shout! Studios’ Vice President of Acquisitions, Jordan Fields. “Josh and Rebecca Tickell have crafted an engrossing and eye-opening movie that calls for a reckoning with how our indigenous populations have been handled for generations. Spoiler alert: their battle continues.”
“We’re hopeful that On Sacred Floor can awaken audiences to the intersection of indigenous points and the local weather disaster,” added Large Image Ranch’s Rebecca Tickell. “One factor we realized making this film is that, to heal our planet, we might first need to heal the errors of our previous.”
Different upcoming releases from Shout Studios! embrace the drama I’m Charlie Walker, starring Mike Colter and Dylan Baker; the medieval action-adventure pic Kingslayer, starring Ryan Gage, David Hayman and John Rhys-Davies; and the animated options Gulliver Returns and Ainbo: Spirit of the Amazon.
Shout’s Fields and Steven Katz, Vice President of Enterprise Affairs, negotiated the deal for On Sacred Floor, with Concourse Media CEO Matthew Shreder on behalf of the filmmakers.
