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"Trudell"

"Trudell"Trudell
(2004, 80 min.) US
Director: Heather Rae (Cherokee)
Executive Producers: B. Russell Friedenberg, Rob Ganger
Cinematographers: Gilbert Salas (Tarahumara), Heather Rae (Cherokee)
In English with Spanish subtitles.

Poet, musician, orator, actor, activist, and American hero, John Trudell has been fearless in confronting difficult realities that exist in our history and culture. Trudell was a leader of the American Indian Movement, and, more recently, one of rock-and-roll's most distinctive talents. Filmmaker Heather Rae (Cherokee) skillfully weaves together archival footage, impressionistic scenes, a deeply affecting soundtrack, and interviews with Kris Kristofferson, Robert Redford, Jackson Browne, and Gary Farmer, who calls Trudell "our Socrates."

Image credit: Trudell - photograph by Gregory Bayne; Trudell

Heather Rae

John Trudell

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