Filmmaker Kevin Willmott, a Kansas film professor, gives us a history lesson in this fictional distillation of the U.S. government's attempt to assimilate American Indians into white culture.
Honored and later despised for the cases he took on, attorney William Kunstler became a misunderstood and controversial figure. Now his daughters try to sort out his legacy in this documentary.
When your characters get a bad idea in the first act, the challenge for a filmmaker is how to get as much mileage -- in this case, comic mileage -- out of that bad idea without the bad idea taking over.
The opening-night selection for the 2009 Sundance Film Festival is defiantly independent and rigorously avoids even the slightest condescension to commercial considerations.