Before the Beast Returns
TFI Suppport
Tribeca All Access® 2006
Logline
A lifelong loser’s failed attempt at suicide leads him on a quixotic journey toward self-awareness—and the true identity of Bigfoot.
Sterlin Harjo
Director/ Writer
Sterlin Harjo belongs to the Creek and Seminole Nations, and is a native of Holdenville, Oklahoma. Interested from an early age in visual art and film, Harjo studied painting at the University of Oklahoma before writing his first feature-length script, An Indian on the Moon. He has since studied screenwriting under Andrew Horton in the University of Oklahoma's Film and Video Studies Program.
Chad Burris
Producer
Chad Burris belongs to the Chickasaw Nation and is a native of Oklahoma. Mr. Burris returned from Los Angeles in 2002, where he appeared in an Aaron Spelling Production and had a role in a feature film. In 2001, he wrote, co-directed and produced a short film in New York City.
Ted Kroeber
Producer
Ted Kroeber is the producer, along with Forest Whitaker, of the feature film American Gun which is currently in post-production with his company, Spirit Dance Entertainment. With his partner, writer/director Aric Avelino, Kroeber assembled a cast that includes Marcia Gay Harden, Whitaker, Donald Sutherland, Tony Goldwyn, Linda Cardellini, and Nikki Reed. A look at the effects of guns on three communities across the nation, the film will make its theatrical debut from IFC Films in the spring of 2006 after its world premiere at the 2005 Toronto Film Festival.
A producer of six short films, Mr. Kroeber worked for Jerry Bruckheimer Films during the production of Enemy of the State and Armageddon and later at Marty Katz Productions and for Paramount Pictures at Cruise/Wagner Productions. Additionally, he has worked on commercials, shorts, and features in a variety of roles including first assistant director, production manager, and line producer.