WithoutConsent_Pitch406.mov

Roberta Pieczenik's six minute pitch to the Montana Film Office's 2011 Pitch 406 contest to film in Montana. She is competing for a $20,000 prize of film services to create a film trailer for her award-winning screenplay "Without Consent." Based on a true story; Martin Old Dog Cross, a 20th century tribal leader, battles a land-greedy Congress that wants to take his tribe's land to build a dam that would submerge 6 towns, hundreds of thousands of acres of great farmland, and basically "terminate" his tribe.

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People & Blogs

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• Montana
• Without Consent
• 406Pitch
• Indians
• Native Americans
• Film
• Fort Berthold
• Garrison Dam
• North Dakota
• Mandan
• Hidatsa
• Three Affiliated Tribes
• Coyote Warrior
• Martin Cross

[MrSteveo0088]

Good luck, I love true stories. I think they are always more powerful then any fiction no matter now good of a script. Good luck and God Bless

[equiknox99]

So happy to see this project moving along!! Bravo Birdie!

[GaleRuth]

Your project is very very similar to the Polish Brothers film, NORTH FORK, done in 2003,

except it is about families being displaced by the big-bad government building a dam. Polish Brothers already filmed it in Montana. It is surreal, austere and well done.

[DavidSovulewski]

Very nice pitch Birdie. This is a very compelling story and should be funded and made into a film so we all can learn more about our government's treatment of Native Americans.

[cagee1958]

Good luck. If the winner is to be determined by number of views, the key is social media: Facebook, Twitter, etc.

[carlimills]

very important story to be told.

[cmpriestat37]

Brilliant. I really hope you manage to make the film. Am spreading the word too. Clare

[shmuller2]

Looking Forward to Seeing the movie. I'll spread the word.

[nichomoff]

This is excellent. Hope I can help w/getting the word out.

[artjewelsz]

I'm really looking forward to seeing this film.