The Space Between All Things
TFI Suppport
Tribeca All Access® 2005
Logline
Fleeing the questionable circumstances surrounding the recent tragic death of his wife, a rebellious Nevada miner seeks spiritual redemption on his journey to California. Writer B. Russell Friedenberg, Producers Heather Rae and Yvonne Russo. Drama.
Randy Redroad
Director
Randy’s feature debut THE DOE BOY premiered at the Sundance Film Festival where it won the Sundance/NHK International Filmmaker’s Award. The film went on to win fourteen other festival awards in 2001 including Best First Time Director at Taos Talking Pictures Film Festival and a near sweep of this year’s American Indian Film Festival in San Francisco. Randy was a finalist for the IFP/Gotham Open Palm Award for Outstanding Directorial Debut and the 2001 Perrier Bubbling Under Award. His latest film, MOCCASIN FLATS, a collaboration with Toronto-based Big Soul Productions, premiered at the 2003 Sundance Film Festival. Last summer MOCCASIN FLATS became the first all-native television series in history. Redroad is an alumnus of Sundance Institute’s Filmmaker’s and Producer’s labs and has been the recipient of the prestigious Rockefeller Fellowship. His award winning short films HIGH HORSE and HAIRCUTS HURT also screened at Sundance. Randy is currently developing his second feature THE SPACE BETWEEN ALL THINGS. Randy is also an accomplished musician/songwriter and is in the midst of recording his second CD.
B. Russell Friedenberg
Writer
Native New Yorker Russell Friedenberg wrote Trudell, which will be screened at this year’s Festival. Mostly recently, he wrote and starred in the mountain gothic thriller American Monster. His first screenplay, A Thousand Guns, was selected for the 1999 Sundance Screenwriting Lab and was recently optioned by Barnstorm Entertainment and The Goatsingers to be produced by Harvey Keitel, Michael Robinson and Heather Rae. In Spring 2005 he went into production on digital feature Ibid. Friedenberg aided the creation of New York Performance Alliance, an Off-Broadway theatrical school and performance center. In Los Angeles, he founded Blue Sphere Alliance, a successful theatre company.
Heather Rae
Producer
Heather Rae has produced such films as Academy Award nominated Frozen River, Netflix Originals Tallulah and Dude, festival darling, I Believe in Unicorns and the award-winning The Dry Land and Bull which premiered in Cannes. Rae directed and produced feature documentary Trudell which has played more than 100 festivals world-wide including Sundance and Berlin, and First Circle, a Showtime Premiere documentary about the foster care system in the American West. Her short doc Paulette tells the story of Paulette Jordan and her run for Governor in Rae’s home state of Idaho. As a narrative change activist Rae has worked to deepen the dialogue of reconciliation and responsibility in the Americas.
Yvonne Russo
Producer
Originally from the Rosebud Reservation in South Dakota, Yvonne Russo has been a producer since 1996, working on narrative and documentary features as well as short films. She gained industry notice by producing the highly acclaimed feature film Naturally Native, which premiered at the Sundance Film Festival and received multiple festival awards around the world. Russo then gained industry admiration when she took on a self-distribution campaign, which lead a national theatrical release with major exhibitors across the country for the film. Russo received the producer of the year award from American Indian Film Institute as well as Outstanding Achievement in Producing by First Americans in the Arts. Russo also received a nomination for Movie Guide’s Epiphany Award for producing Naturally Native, which received the Prism Award for Best Film. Russo serves on the Diversity Committee for the Producers Guild of America, is an active member of Women in Film, Independent Feature Project West, and The Screen Actors Guild.