MSPIFF44 Opening Night Film

Directors Jesse Short Bull and David France, Producer Jhane Myers, and Holly Cook Macarro Attending

Opening Night tickets include the film screening and Opening Party featuring tastes from Owamni.

In Free Leonard Peltier, acclaimed directors Jesse Short Bull and David France revisit one of the most discredited convictions in modern America—the double life sentences handed down to Indian rights activist Leonard Peltier for the 1975 murder of two FBI agents on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation of South Dakota. Using a mix of contemporary interviews, archival footage, and AI recreations, Short Bull and France bring alive the energy of the times, when the American Indian Movement (AIM) was rising up to protest centuries of injustice and oppression, and the US government was pushing back hard. Half a century ago, the US government put Leonard Peltier in prison for murder. This year, he’s now home – but not yet pardoned, and still innocent.

MSPIFF44 Opening Night Sponsored by Minnesota Star Tribune

Additional Support from Minnesota Humanities Center