Plastic Indian

TFI Suppport

Tribeca All Access® 2010

Logline

Calf Roper dirfts restlessly between dead end jobs, honky-tonks and hard drinking. Badger lives suspended between Cherokee traditions and the modern world. Intertwined by fate, both men seek a meaingful existence.

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Chris Eyre

Director

Chris Eyre's first feature, (Sundance) won numerous awards and he was the first Native American director to receive a national theatrical release. His directing credits also include and the PBS documentary, We Shall Remain.

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Gro Katrine Engelstoft

Screenwriter

A native of Denmark, Gro spent her grade school years in Nuuk, Greenland, growing up among the Inuit in a small town of 10,000 people; an experience which she drew heavily upon for the script of 'Plastic Indian'. At the tender age of thirteen she became part of a writing/producing /broadcast team producing live weekly after-school programming for the Greenlandic National Radio (KNR). Straight out of High School she started interning and working as a production assistant in the Danish film industry, which led to jobs as editor’s assistant on a few feature films. Returning to school she obtained college credits in film studies, photography, and psychology, before switching to Drama School. She moved to New York a few years later and took her American training at HB Studio with the legendary Uta Hagen, and later with the great American director and theater icon, Wynn Handman (American Place Theater). She spent a decade doing NYC theater before writing her first screenplay, and divides her time between Denmark and NYC, writing and acting. 

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Wes Studi

Co-Producer/ Actor

Wes Studi's acting credits include such legendary characters as Magua in, the fealess Pawnee warrior in, Lt. Joe Leaphorn in Tony Hillerman's PBS series, and Eytukan in James Cameron's Avatar.

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T.J. Morehouse

Co-Producer

T.J. Morehouse, a member of the Producers Guild of America (PGA) and an enrolled member of the Cherokee Nation, is a 4th generation native Oklahoman now based in NYC. He has over 15 years of experience in Film and Television, Touring, Live Act, Live Event, Music Video, and Commercial production. He wrote, produced, and directed the critically acclaimed documentary Pavarotti of the Plains, which details the life and history of Texas music legend, Don Walser.